Jessica Gavora (a.k.a. Jonah’s Fair Jessica) knows how to celebrate Title IX’s birthday (33 this month) right. From a review in the NYSun today:
All totalitarian systems make liars of those trying to coexist with their orthodoxies, and contemporary feminism is no exception. Witness the tragic case of Harvard President Larry Summers. Mr. Summers was presumably telling what he thought was the truth when he suggested that innate sex differences might be one of the reasons for the dearth of women in the hard sciences. It was his subsequent attempts to tamp down feminist outrage that have made him a liar. He has been forced to say repeatedly what he and virtually all serious social scientists believe to be a lie: that there are no inherent differences between men and women that contribute to their different interests and abilities.
The same kabuki dance corrupts the debate about Title IX, the law banning discrimination on the basis of sex in collegiate sports. As universities continue to ax men’s teams in order to comply with women’s athletic-participation quotas under the law, politicians nonetheless speak in glowing terms about Title IX and all the good it has brought to girls, women, and other defenseless creatures. When the Bush administration created a task force to look into the enforcement of Title IX, the commission heard nine months of testimony about how the law is systematically discriminating against men in college sports. Then the Bush administration turned around and did … absolutely nothing. Bowing to the protests of gender feminists, they rejected the commission’s modest proposals for reform….
You can read the review here.





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