Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ora!daemon
From: RA04@Lehigh.UCAR.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Feminism's ill effects on men?
Message-ID: <25109003:39:34RA04@lehigh.bitnet>
Date: 30 Oct 90 18:27:38 GMT
Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz)
Organization: O'Reilly and Associates Inc., Cambridge MA
Lines: 13
Approved: ambar@ora.com

The Ontario College of Art's women-only hiring criteria mentioned here
sounds suspiciously like an "affirmative action" taken chiefly so that
it can be thrown out as obviously unfair.  I know of such a situation
in an American university; several departments were all men, and the
university had a bunch of federal dollars coming in, so some kind of
AA had to be instituted, so the guys in dept ---- were unfairly beat
on because their field was kind of wimpy, y'know, not EE or CE, and so
the top men in that dept made a point of hiring some very mediocre
women as new asst profs, with the intention of terminating them for
not meeting department standards before the tenure decision rolled
around.  And ya wonder why some feminists feel paranoid?

                              r.a.