Neo-Con Bullshit Is Still With Us

Self-referential paper is self-referential.

If the reports are to be believed, Women's Studies programs are disappearing at many Canadian universities. Forgive us for being skeptical. We would wave good-bye without shedding a tear, but we are pretty sure these angry, divisive and dubious programs are simply being renamed to make them appear less controversial.

(CC's note: I have condensed the middle several paragraphs, to save your eyes* some strain:

MRA BULLSHIT, MRA BULLSHIT, MRA BULLSHIT; ALSO, BTW, MRA BULLSHIT, DID YOU KNOW? AND THEN MRA BULLSHIT. NO, REALLY. ALSO, WHAT ABOUT THE MENZ? NO, REALLY!)

While we'd like to cheer and say "Good riddance," we're certain such celebration would be premature.

Also, pestilential, inconsequential, sewer-sedimential.

It occurred to me while writing this that simply taking the article and search-and-replacing every occurrence of "Women's Studies departments" with "neo-con birdcage liner", and "(radical) feminism" with "morally bankrupt neofascist marketworship" would turn it into a pretty good piece, although the latter cries out for a good hearty acronymming.

Tip of the CaitieCap to Shaker Sara.

* My apologies for this. I'm leaving it in because I don't like erasing my mistakes, and as an example of how even those of us who do this on the public stage get it wrong sometimes, but I shouldn't have said this. It would be better as:

"...to save you some time."

Why? Because I othered visually-impaired people there. Not everyone peruses Shakesville with their eyes. Some probably use readers, or other assistive tech, to get their daily dose.

So, my apologies to those Shakers whom I othered, and I'll try to do better in future.