Feminist Censorship at Knox College – And How Students Can End It
May 18, 2005
by David R. Usher
In my previous MND article, Harvard need not end up like Knox College, the issue of feminist censorship on college campuses and control over campus thought was discussed.
In the case of Harvard, the situation involved a university president who does not quite cow-tow to the pink dicta of campus feminist activists.
At Knox College, the situation is reversed. Feminists own Knox’s president, Roger L. Taylor, and he subscribes to their ideas of censorship of campus thought and academia.
Over the past eighteen years I have waged many battles for equal rights between men and women. Some think this means I am one of those “father’s rights activists”. Wrong.
Equal rights are about equal rights, free speech is about free speech, and censorship is still censorship. When feminists simultaneously oppose equal rights, free speech, and promote censorship, then everyone has a stake in the matter.
I received an email from a Knox student who found the above “Harvard” article on the internet. He sent me a most interesting response – describing some fairly sick organized campus activities that are clearly sexist and demeaning of men. His message proves the point of the Harvard article: feminism is out of control at Knox (and it is certainly not the only campus where this is a major problem).
Knox is censoring my emails, and so I cannot communicate with this student. I would like to find out more details about the situation and hear about it from other Knox students as well. But since Knox is living behind a self-made “iron curtain”, the best way to communicate with Knox students is to do it publicly.
Here is the email from the student at Knox. I have withheld his to protect him from retribution:
I know this is months late, but I just now read your article on Knox College's sexism problem
( http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/usher/2005/usher022205.htm ) and want to thank you for writing it. As a freshman here, I've gone from finding the anti-male brand of feminism that permeates campus humorous (like how I'm a "first year" not a freshman) to obnoxious (our recent "Passion Party," where we celebrated feminism by selling vibrators) to just plain unacceptable (our "Take Back The Night" celebration, where men were vilified as rapists and thugs).
I've been told that I hate women on numerous occasions, and my girlfriend - a member of SASS - has had fellow club members shocked at her for dating such an anti-woman pig such as myself. In FP, we discussed the woman's plight in society, and when I tried to present a view that wasn't quite so morose as the rest of the class', I was told that I was "ignorant" and "sexist". When the "Vagina Monologues" came to town and I mentioned how I thought it was obnoxious, I was told again that I either didn't understand it or hated women. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. What was taking place in 2002 is continuing to this day, and from what I can tell, getting much worse.
I've long considered myself a feminist, but never have I viewed feminism as hating men. It sickens me that these anti-male bigots are adulterating a word that is supposed to represent equality and using it to push their corrupt ideology.
Thank you again for writing that article,
(Name withheld)
Here is my response to this student. I’ll call him “Jim”.
Dear Jim,
I would like to hear more about what goes on at Knox. Please send me your phone number so Knox cannot censor us.
Why are you dating a hard-core radical feminist? Would a mouse date a cat? There are plenty of good women out there who are not training themselves to steal the family and half your paycheck after a couple of children are born.
The lesson to be learned is this: Study these feminists. Learn how they behave and the language they use. But do it from a distance – you are risking rape allegations and a paternity suit otherwise.
Remember that women who behave and act like this are the last people on earth you want to date, no matter how good looking they might be. Radical feminists study men so they can learn how to take advantage of them. They are being trained to use their femininity to take advantage of men (this is the mission of the V-Day celebration). To them, dating is a military exercise, not a search for a lifetime marital partner. This is probably the real reason why she is dating you. It is a “sting” waiting to happen…..
Perhaps you are dating her to study feminism. Here’s a clue: living geological researchers will tell you there are better ways to study volcanos than to jump into one.
Feminism is a sword kept behind the back and used at the convenient time to end your rights to be a father, a husband, and a part of society. That the sword has not been lowered on your neck yet does not mean a thing.
A feminist will never respect you. You are an object for pleasure, manipulation, and ridicule; the bottom half of a perennial one-up one-down relationship to be held at-fault for everything regardless of whether you were in the vicinity at the time or not.
To a feminist, femininity is a control tool for manipulating men. Rules are more important than the relationship. Feelings are valid only if held by the woman. Men are not to trust other men, but are only allowed to trust women and must do their bidding under all circumstances.
Women who are not feminists will be your friend and your partner. Normal women do not hang out at SASS, sell vibrators, pretend that all men are rapists and wife abusers, or that the midnight sky must be conquered for feminism.
The heart of a normal women will be constant, not a heart calling for a revolving-door relationship.
She will be responsible for her feelings and not make you “walk on eggshells” around them. By that I mean that when she is crabby, she will let you know she is crabby, but she won’t try to project her misery onto you by holding you responsible for her feelings (unless of course you actually did something wrong). When she is having a hard time, she won’t demand that you get on the emotional roller coaster and ride it around with her (usually in the form of picking a fight with you for no good reason).
She wants to love as much as she wants to be loved. She is both able to give, and able to receive. She will not stand on your foot and demand you tell her that you love her. She will let you love her in your own way. She will always treat you better than she treats a common stranger. Her accent is on the positive, with gratitude for the good things in her life, and not on the negative and all the things she doesn’t like about life.
She will not expect you to be a mind reader, or think or believe everything she thinks oand believes. Humans don’t have Ethernet ports for transplanting thought connectivity. She will let you know what she needs, and not set up hidden love tests. She is willing to “agree to disagree” on things.
She is not a lost princess waiting for a white knight to come save her. She is not overly dependent (I can’t survive without you) or anti-dependent (I don’t need you). She does not abuse drugs, alcohol, or pharmaceuticals. She knows she is not perfect, and know you aren’t either.
She is not addicted to excitement, which includes drinking, drugging, gambling, fighting, and always having to be “going places”. Home is a place where you live, not just throw your dirty clothes and sleep.
She treats her father and mother well. If she fights with either one of them constantly, this could mean an inability to maintain close personal relationships, and when you could be next. How does she treat prior boyfriend(s)? Are they really the jerks she says they are?
She believes in the Lord, or at least a spiritual power higher than herself, follows this guidance on a daily basis, and does not merely practice “foxhole spirituality”.
And finally, she is honest enough with herself to apply the above to herself, and apologize for mistakes when she makes them. This will happen occasionally, but if it becomes a repetitive round-robin cycle, that is unhealthy.
Now, reverse the above, and apply it to yourself. If you can’t do this, you are not ready for a serious girlfriend yet. If you do, you will pick the sick chick every time and end up in a mess.
I urge you to work with like-minded men and women on campus – those who have the brains to understand what is really going on at Knox and the guts to do something about it, to organize a campus movement to call for an end to the feminist dictatorship at Knox. Feminism is in big trouble now. You should have no trouble finding a core group of students who really dislike it, and a much larger group who know something is wrong with it and will participate in protests and events.
I will help you and work with you to achieve this goal. This effort will teach you more about politics and debate than you could ever learn in any political science, debate, or philosophy class.
Women stepped forward to demand equal voting and workplace rights many years ago. They also demanded their “gender rights”, which we now know were never meant to be equalitarian in nature. Many men helped them get these rights, rightly and wrongly.
Now, it is your turn to step forward to call for equal rights for men to be in family and society. This begins with calling for an end organized misandry on campus and in larger society, and organizing students to make it happen. Knox might be able to censor me, but they cannot shut down an organized group of students seeking an honest goal.
All young men have a tremendous stake in this. All major social change starts on college campuses, and it doesn’t take long to filter into the real world. Your rights as an adult depend decisively on what you do now.
“We must now grant to fathers the same right to be in the family as we have granted to women in the workplace.”
Regards,
David R. Usher
David R. Usher is a Legislative Analyst for the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition.
