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After yet another meeting of the Womens Studies History Class of Doom, I have gotten to the root of the problem...

There are too many damn liberals in this place.

Seriously. I have no objection to a general progressive attitude towards social issues, but when the entire class is saying generally the same thing and arguing about tiny variations about economics and foreign policy, it's completely stagnant no matter which viewpoint is being represented. One of the people there summed it up succinctly when he said "You know, it seems like everyone in this class comes from a mainly Marxist background. Maybe we should all read The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism to get an idea how the other side thinks." Meanwhile, I, seemingly the only person in the class to tentatively hold views belonging to "the other side," had been notably silent the entire class because any attempt to speak my mind would have been met with a wall of shoot-downs about class warfare and exploitation. Argh. Dammit, we need a few conservatives so we can actually argue important stuff instead of nitpicking over whether military force represents a failure of policy all the time or just most of the time.

(no subject)

After yet another meeting of the Womens Studies History Class of Doom, I have gotten to the root of the problem...

There are too many damn liberals in this place.

Seriously. I have no objection to a general progressive attitude towards social issues, but when the entire class is saying generally the same thing and arguing about tiny variations about economics and foreign policy, it's completely stagnant no matter which viewpoint is being represented. One of the people there summed it up succinctly when he said "You know, it seems like everyone in this class comes from a mainly Marxist background. Maybe we should all read The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism to get an idea how the other side thinks." Meanwhile, I, seemingly the only person in the class to tentatively hold views belonging to "the other side," had been notably silent the entire class because any attempt to speak my mind would have been met with a wall of shoot-downs about class warfare and exploitation. Argh. Dammit, we need a few conservatives so we can actually argue important stuff instead of nitpicking over whether military force represents a failure of policy all the time or just most of the time.