First of all why does anyone need college level education in running a home? That should be required of both sexes in high school.

Or just taught at home…

I for one would appreciate it if a few more young women (I’m assuming most of these women students are on the younger side) knew how to cook. This is a dying art in urban America and could use a little boost. I have fond memories of family socializing around good food.

Fear not. Women are receiving more college degrees today than their male counterparts at a 3 to 2 ratio. I doubt this class at the seminary is going to put a dent in that trend.

Richard Wade said

We really fought hard to get society to respect women as equals, won a few yards of turf, but the next generation didn’t take ownership of it and it seems to have all fallen back

That would have been my generation – and so true. Once individual opportunities in the private sector presented themselves we lost solidarity.

Still, I don’t get that angry at this stuff.

It makes me sad to think that someone regards me as an enemy, as Christianity regards women. But if they do, let them grant me the greatest gift an opponent can bestow…the gift of underestimation.

John Fariss

I sense sarcasm Richard. Don’t make me put down my whisk!

No, really! Honest! Me? Sarcastic? Moi?

Seriously, this sexist crap is infuriating, but even worse it’s disappointing. I consider this issue one of the saddest failures of my generation. We really fought hard to get society to respect women as equals, won a few yards of turf, but the next generation didn’t take ownership of it and it seems to have all fallen back. The sex object culture, the youth and beauty culture; it’s all stronger than before.

First of all why does anyone need college level education in running a home? That should be required of both sexes in high school. I wish I had been able to take it back then. (in Sumeria) Unfortunately a boy taking Home Economics would have been stoned to death.

The article contains even more outrageous things than what is in Hemant’s overview, including a lawsuit where the college apparently fired a female professor simply because she was female. But then check this out:

Patterson took a leading role in the 1980s in a successful campaign to oust moderates from leadership posts in the Southern Baptist convention. While he was president of the convention from 1998 to 2000, Southern Baptists issued a statement that women should not be pastors and that wives should “graciously submit” to their husbands.

If the phrase “graciously submit” doesn’t make your blood boil, male or female there is something seriously wrong with you. Stop sacrificing goats and wake up. You’re two millinnea behind the times. Humanity can no longer afford to waste half its brain power exclusively on cooking and sewing. The more rigidly sexist a country is, the more economically impoverished it tends to be. Maybe those two factors aren’t just correlated; I think the first helps to cause the second.

Every day institutions like this absurd college become more anachronistic and more useless to the real-world needs of society. May they dry up and blow away with the dust of time.

Whatever you want it’s yours!

I sense sarcasm Richard. Don’t make me put down my whisk!