Feminism – The College Fix

Find community, keep your faith: new guide tells conservative women to stay strong

Colleen Dean - Franciscan University of Steubenville — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 05:02:37 +0000

In ‘You’re Not Alone,’ conservative leader offers alternatives to liberal feminism The Network of enlightened Women recently launched a book on thriving as a conservative woman on campus, including tips on choosing a college, finding a mentor, and dating with an eye toward marriage. “You’re Not Alone: The Conservative Woman’s Guide to College,” published Jan. 1, was written by Karin Lips…

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Trans athlete offered women’s Division 1 scholarship, would be first male recipient

College Fix Staff — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:16:58 +0000

UPDATED University of Washington ‘should rescind the scholarship if they really care about women,’ Riley Gaines wrote A transgender volleyball player and high school junior from California verbally committed to play for the University of Washington, which could make him the first known male recipient of a women’s Division 1 athletic scholarship. If the university signs athlete Tate Drageset’…

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Scholars exploring gender disparities forget about biology, free will

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:15:51 +0000

Time to get back to basics: Men and women are different Two recent studies set out to discover why huge gender disparities exist among students who play chess and choose to study philosophy. Although they were separate studies by different researchers, both concluded that misconceptions about “brilliance” are what keep women from participating. But there is another factor that neither set…

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‘Let’s Talk About Sex’: Free speech group hosts canceled all-female panel affirming biology

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 05:02:22 +0000

Two professional anthropology associations had canceled the panel, accusing scholars of ‘transphobia’ An all-women panel on biological sex as a basic research category, canceled by the anthropology academic establishment, drew hundreds of viewers when an educational freedom association recently hosted it online. “Let’s Talk About Sex Baby: Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic…

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College protesters stage unsuccessful sit-in against trans-critical book launch

Georgia Lucas - UNC Pembroke — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:02:06 +0000

‘Strange, screaming people outside did their best to prevent us getting in,’ women’s organization wrote Academic writers critical of transgender ideology and their supporters overcame a sit-in and shouts of “shame” by rowdy protesters to launch their book recently at a Scottish university. For Women Scotland, a feminist organization supporting rights based on biological sex, not gender…

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Activist professor, DEI officer build ‘sexist objects’ campus collection inspired by racism museum

Tate Miller - Liberty University — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:02:49 +0000

‘We also developed new themes, such as Silencing Women and LGBTQ+, that were designed by Ferris students,’ museum lead faculty said A feminist historian and a DEI vice president at a public university in Big Rapids, Michigan, have assembled a “museum of sexist objects” inspired by a preexisting museum focused on racism. The Museum of Sexist Objects at Ferris State University “began when David…

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UVA students protest author of book on teen transgender phenomenon

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:02:43 +0000

Abigail Shrier previously spoke to Princeton students at an event held off-campus due to safety concerns Dozens protested an event at University of Virginia featuring journalist Abigail Shrier, author of the 2020 book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” invited to campus by conservative student groups. “More than a hundred students, faculty and locals”…

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Men claiming to be ‘non-binary’ invade women’s tech conference

College Fix Staff — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 23:24:41 +0000

Some men ‘lied about their gender,’ organizers said A recent technology career conference hosted by a mentorship organization for “women and non-binary technologists” was overwhelmed by men, some of whom claimed to be non-men. Female conference attendees in Atlanta “report[ed] standing in hours-long lines to talk to recruiters, being shoved and harassed, and watching men jump over escalators…

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Media puffs up study on spears to claim female hunters were ‘equal’ to males

Aidan Mays - Franciscan University of Steubenville — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:06:30 +0000

Study authors suggested their findings warranted future inquiry, while media went much further Some media outlets were quick to trumpet a Kent State University study which suggested a possibility that primitive female hunters may have been able to kill as well as males if they used a specific weapon. “Ancient spear find proves cave women had more ‘equal’ role in hunting,” Yahoo News wrote in…

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Biologist criticizes anthropologists’ cancellation of panel on biological sex

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:17:00 +0000

The anthropologists made the ‘absurd’ claim that sex can change, Colin Wright wrote Biologist Colin Wright posted to X on Thursday criticizing the American Anthropological Association’s decision to cancel a female scholars’ panel on the importance of sex as a category. The Sept. 28 letter, titled “No Place for Transphobia in Anthropology: Session pulled from the Annual Meeting Program,”…

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