How to survive the wacky gender politics on campus | FACTUAL FEMINIST

[@hughjass963]

"As for trigger warnings and safe spaces-these are infantile. They are the opposite of empowerment" BOOM! That just happened.

[@_Somsnosa_]

Isn't your home a safe space?

[@grahammikkelson1516]

One of my old professors informed the class that, as a rule, he'd call on women before he'd call on men. He justified this by saying something along the lines of "women have been denied a voice throughout history."

[@JoViljarHaugstulen]

Andrew Mushel Well that is because... While women have often been "denied" rights and responsibilities... it has often been denied women because of the desire of men to protect and shelter women.. not oppress them or deny them any rights

[@POTO_Phan]

***** There are a lot of professors like that. what is university and collage without professors doing things to become memorable. though I do hope that he is not the kind to take sides just from someone's gender

[@JoViljarHaugstulen]

Andrew Mushel Well that's also why there was women who was fighting against getting the right to vote... as they were afraid of getting the responsibility of the draft (one would usually assume to get the responsibility that comes with the privilege... though I guess not anymore as feminist just want more rights and less responsibilities for women or so it seems)

[@Belindagirl13]

Graham Mikkelson Lol no way.. that's fucking crazy. I'm going to college right now, will be my second year, and if a professor says such a thing I as the woman that I am... will break out in hysterical laughter at him/her. I am very pro woman and study all things women and women in history. Yes women in many moments through out history around the world have faced discrimination because of our gender, but what the hell does that have to do with allowing women to get away with ANYTHING today? If anything when we study about women who have overcome obstacles through out history we should feel humbled instead of getting some ego rush trip that makes us feel entitled to wreck hell over the earth in the name of '' OMG WOMEN WERE TOLD THEY WERE STUPID BECAUSE OF PHRENOLOGY IN THE VICTORIAN ERA! WE SHOULD APPLY THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY TO TODAYS MODERN AMERICA AND ACT LIKE WE ARE BEING EQUALLY OPPRESSED TO THE WOMEN CHARGED AS WITCHES FOR HAVING A MOLE ON THEIR NOSE!" Oh god... that's what people learned from reading womens history? What a fucking shame.

[@Andybaby]

Graham Mikkelson Translation : "I'm here to get laid"

[@hybridnerd1904]

I remember getting a bad grad for a fictional writing assignment because it wasn't diverse enough. I wish this wasn't true.

[@kebiwoni]

Hybrid Nerd What?!

[@hybridnerd1904]

kebiwoni Yep. My English Comp one class.

[@TJskillz169]

+Hybrid Nerd and that is why i got my english classes out of the way in highschool.

[@Bobby_Corwen]

+Hybrid Nerd I don't think your bad grad had anything to do with a lack of diversity.

[@lesscringeymapperdude]

@@Bobby_Corwen ah yes we check yt comments as much as essays

[@Nazrat84]

"Let me tell you how oppressed you are, regardless of the fact you got in this ivy league school at all" - College campuses to women, 2015

[@cAkasha]

Nazrat84 Is that mansplaining I see? :^)

[@neonoir77]

Nazrat84 My rule of thumb is that if you can afford the internet - enough to bitch about how oppressed you are - you're not oppressed.

[@sarahr3167]

+neonoir77 I get your point of view, but, as Christina Hoff Sommers once mentioned, a girl was jailed for posting a feminist cartoon on Facebook. I'd say that that is oppression, even though she obviously has access to the Internet.

[@neonoir77]

MissLoremasterSarah Well, that's true. But most people who spend all their time bitching about oppression on the internet probably aren't oppressed. :P

[@jakkuhl6223]

Nazrat84 Marxism 2015

[@gunniteclan]

I just had my orientation for the University of California on Wednesday where I had to attend a MANDATORY presentation on consent. Let that little bit of irony sink in.

[@Katrik3571]

+Jarl Snaekoll My campus has billboards of micro-aggressions posted around the place. And yes, they even have the one that says, "I believe the most qualified person should get the job" listed.... Kill me now.

[@ThePinksparkle101]

You should have screamed "NO MEANS NO"

[@airiakizuki5592]

+Achizzie69 I'd attend the class with my headphones on so I can't listen too the stupidity

[@bookguitarguy]

+babby Unless you're attending the same university as the poster, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, and have no right to accuse him of "bullshitting". Stick to what you know-like your own experience at YOUR university, and don't call other people liars!!

[@Davpe357]

+Jarl Snaekoll Was it just obvious bullshit or did you learn something? I seriously want to know :)

[@karmakanji9838]

I've never found a feminist who agrees and believes so closely to my thoughts, I've hated "feminists " for a while due to their exaggerated views and this KZbin channel has me genuinely excited and makes me feel more justified in what I've always believed. Thank you so much.

[@jasonbrown4526]

More campus survival tips: 1) If you encounter a woman and her hair is dyed red, you need to run in the other direction. 2) If you encounter a woman and her hair is dyed green, you need to put on a hazmat suit and run in the other direction.

[@johngalt5572]

Jason Brown you forgot a couple. Acid green Aero Aero blue African violet Air Force blue Air superiority blue Alabama crimson Alice blue Alizarin crimson Alloy orange Amaranth Amaranth deep purple Amaranth pink Amaranth purple Amaranth red Amazon American rose Amethyst Android green Anti-flash white Antique brass Antique bronze Antique fuchsia Antique ruby Antique white Ao Apple green Apricot Aqua Aquamarine ... nevermind there isn't enough space to add them all.

[@mhcmhco]

Jason Brown The colored hair Randi Harper jokes are funny, don't get me wrong... But I can't help being a little annoyed (maybe I should direct it towars the feminists for stealing it, however) that outrageous fashion choices and alternative subcultures have been conflated with SJW. Because I enjoy coloring my hair as well as CHS... And if you run away from this girl with radioactive colored hair, you'll be running away from your ally.

[@POTO_Phan]

Charles Belton I have to agree with this, if you run they will go into hunting mode and kill you

[@jodgee2374]

Jason Brown I actually find women with dyed hair attractive. It bothers me that it's becoming increasingly associated with SJWism.

[@observasaurusrex2099]

Jodgee Deep down though I'd bet if you could take the hot girl with blue hair and double tattoo sleeves and wipe her down to her natural hair colour and unblemished skin, you'd be all for it. A hot girl in a garbage bag dress is still a hot girl. A pig with lipstick is still a pig.

[@petty8286]

Spot on! I was a TA at a California university. A student overheard me asking the question "why does everyone keeps posting the #handsupdontshoot when the evidence doesn't substantiate the claim?" The student later wrote an e-mail to my professor claiming that she didn't feel safe in our classroom because she was afraid that, because I was a white male, I would grade her unfairly. She was taken out of my class and I was asked not to talk about controversial subjects in class (even among other TAs, I was not using my position as a TA to preach any ideology).

[@CJCroen1393]

"You shouldn't take _anyone's_ word for it! _Think for yourself._" I think this is my favorite of CHS' work!

[@wangbot47]

Took gender studies freshman year in college. I hid in STEM courses and video games for the rest of college after being introduced to Critical Theory-based SocJus. Not much room for identity politics with transport proteins and ganked n00bs.

[@erkdoc5]

Mark Samenfink I also took STEM, but I made a point to avoid any general education coursed which included the words "women," "black," and "african." Since I knew those were the types of courses that attracted the sjw types. Instead I took asian culture courses for those credits.

[@Panboy2k]

erkdoc5 From what i hear those courses make sjws not just draw them.

[@deadwolf1227]

erkdoc5 ...hey that is exactly what I am doing :o

[@bluespirit0786]

Mark Samenfink Same here. Studying Mathematics... and well, there's no possible way to insert gender/identity politics anywhere. It's a good strategy.

[@MadMaximus31]

erkdoc5 I am an english lit major, and one ethic literature class is required for my degree. I might take an Asian American literature course if it is offered. Asian American is actually quite inspiring since many authors focus on the great things Asian American achieved in the U.S. Almost every story has that rags-to-riches feel.

[@kellyclarke9978]

I failed my first college "critical thinking" course, because it was taught by a feminist who did not actually want us to practice critical thinking. This video makes me feel glad that I held my ground and was the only one to constantly question the premises being presented by our teacher. I proudly earned that F.

[@EmperorNero]

As "that guy" in colleges who won't bend who will stand up for what he believes in you are the activist worst enemy and I have advice.Keep it up. Stand by your right to think the way you do. And by doing that you'd find so many others that agree with you they just needed someone vocal to get behind.

[@SpartanWolf222]

Very informative and helpful information, Sommers. I had a news internship that made me aware of SJWs from a group called R.A.G.E. (Radical Alliance for Gender Equality) that spewed tons of statistical nonsense, opressions and microagressions, and everyone nodded their head and always cited "some important work" to echo the speaker. Didn't help my fears of self-independence that the LGBT hangout tried to bait-and-switch us with a pizza party to join a democratic activism group. I've noticed especially in the education department (future teachers for all ages) the students adhere to a lot of identity politics ideas. Things like "sex is not gender" and sexism in the classroom. I am skeptical of both ideas, especially from the articles we read that had some paltry sources. Someone asked me why I thought otherwise in the middle of a week-long discussion of sexism in the classroom and i simply said I will take a biologist's perspective of gender over a sociologist's interpretation. To be far, we did read an article about how the inequity of female early grade teachers affects boys' early education problems and groups like MenTeach. But I did learn why a lot of people think education is feminine. The rhetoric used to talk about education is full of nurturing and/or nebulous words: Caring guidelines, values of critical-thinking, concerns over the future students' livelihood (food, home, etc.), "listening to the children's perceptions", adolescent individualism, etc.

[@OMEGATHENIETZCHIAN]

I studied sociology from 2005-2009 ish including taking Women's studies courses such as "Women and Representation" where I actively questioned the stats I was told as they contradicted my other soc courses. Apparently if I'd done this just a few years later I'd have been lynched.

[@filthydaemonspawn1206]

Wow... I think we all gonna be logic'less... Or... We can all point a gun at our head (or if your smart in your mouth upwards) and shoot... It would be less painful... ;-;

[@TheGreatIndoors1979]

Shawn McRoberts So, what was their rebuttal to these contradictions?

[@OMEGATHENIETZCHIAN]

A literal dismissal. *Raise hand* (from front row center in a class with 500 people in which I was one of only 6 males) "My Canadian sociology class sited stats that showed the opposite, can you explain the contradiction?" Response: "They're wrong" *moves on with lecture*

[@BobTheTrueCactus]

Shawn McRoberts It's nice when they put so much effort and research into it to give you an elaborate answer.

[@BlueEyedSexyPants]

+Shawn McRoberts I wish everyone was like you. I had a friend who got her masters in sociology, and she fell down the rabbit hole of gender studies. The last time we spoke, she said that people denying that America is a rape culture is solid proof that America is rape culture.

[@Gooshnads]

I am glad I recently graduated from the University of Toronto, early there enough not to have this shit being what it is right now and with a prof that taught me how to actually be critical and skeptical. And this whole safe space thing is going on with real world politics, and religious politics too. So much for discussing ideas but instead snuffing them out.

[@ThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan]

I love this woman. Any higher intellectual who calls out the bullshit and encourages people, especially impressionable people, to think for themselves is awesome in my book!

[@iamimiPod]

I'm glad I finished Uni awhile ago. Still had feminists on campus whinging about stupid things. I remember reading about a women's only room, for "Safety," was going to be moved. Not removed, but moved to a different space. The article listed reasons why they needed a women's room and why it shouldn't move. One reason that I still remember is that they need a women's room to withdraw from all the phallic symbols. I read that and looked around. I saw no such symbols. Then I looked harder: almost everything could be seen as a phallic symbol! From the poles that held up the hand rails to the pylons that prevented cars from driving onto the grounds.

[@webdesignerguy]

I attended a Scottish university, where I took Film Studies for a semester. It turned out that not only had my lecturer written an entire book about women in film, but she also decided to dedicate a week of the course to the subject. I chose the module because I wanted to learn about the technical side of film-making, not so I could be a captive subject for feminist proselytizing. The social sciences/soft subjects really are in a sorry state at Western universities.

[@Lowkooky]

My Eng Lit prof puts all the extreme feminist agenda in fairy tales instead of talking about psychoanalysis of the characters and the history and environment on when the stories were written

[@lordbrobert1884]

This is literally the very first respectful and intelligent feminist I've ever seen in my life. Mad respect for her.

[@aaronmizzou]

I know that this is off the topic a bit, but worth discussing. I've been watching a lot of these Factual Feminist videos lately and appreciate the focus on the facts. It has changed my position or opened my mind on some of the issues discussed in feminism. I know this is a conservative institute and I haven't found any video series yet where they discuss the facts of evolution or climate change for instance. These would make some cool series...Factual Evolutionist and Factual Environmentalist.

[@FanDidlyTastic]

Completely correct. I graduated 6 months ago, kept my critical thinking thank you very much. Thankfully it was a community college so the foolishness wasn't too bad and was _Sometimes_ correct. But overall, all one needs to do is take anything they hear with a grain of salt.

[@BricMayco]

She is good cop, Milo is bad cop.

[@chengliu8793]

Ladderadder Mcglitternips: Wouldn't make sense considering that Milo doesn't swing that way.

[@TheBlightDroid]

that's a very good way to put it, actually. I'm gonna keep that analogy.

[@poncevelasco]

That's just right. Milo is poisonous, Christina is enlightening

[@lasithadamruwan928]

but milo WAS unstoppable and loud !!

[@BrotherAzrael]

But they're both necessary.

[@RedmoonStudiosYT]

I absolutely love this series! Thank you for creating it, and for this video in particular. I am going for the second year of my four year college and this video was scarily similar to the experiences I had. I knew what real feminism is and that these radical feminists existed and saw the many flaws in their logic before they could attempt their brainwashing recruitment. My friends were not so lucky and they became caught up in an almost cultish group. At first they joined because it seemed appealing, but they soon realized what it was, but were actually scared to leave for fear of harassment, and labeling by this group. They did manage to, as a group, leave, finding strength in numbers. I am said to say though that one of my friends, who was slightly off base from the start in her views, just found reinforcement and it almost seems I lost her because of it. I hope I can get her back from her Tumblr blog, and cult group, but I doubt it. *sigh*

[@cuckoophendula8211]

Hearing this is actually really scary. And this is coming from someone who once considered himself to be a feminist (using the simple definition of the ideology in equal rights). While it's been almost 10 years since I graduated from college, I feel like I know myself well enough to admit that my younger self would have fallen into that mob mentality and become another Arthur Chu if this whole trigger culture existed back then. It may be a bit embarrassing to admit that, but I've since come to learn that inciting anger in others really has a way of making people not think logically or for themselves at all.

[@BlookerG]

Based as usual, Christina. Thanks for the video

[@TexKimball]

Oh wow, that Arthur Chu tweet LMAO

[@pdc4930]

Arthur Chu I believe has recanted many of his statements. He is now neutral, but these tweets will stay forever.

[@Jaramide]

Patrick Cox Are you sure you're not thinking about Ian Miles Cheong?

[@Checkmate1138]

Vault Boy® What did he say this time? EDIT: Never mind, you meant the one from the video.

[@naterivers6107]

+Vault Boy® He should lead by example. Maybe with a swan dive.

[@TagSpamCop]

"Have some dignity. Don't be the guy who sends tweets like _this_." This delivery was beautiful. P.S. I love how Arthur Chu used "affect" for his username instead of "effect."

[@JmaJeremy514]

I wish I had gotten this advice before starting university...for my first two years I wasted a lot of time trying to make myself seem acceptable to feminists, and even wrote an essay on how terribly privileged I am.

[@CrizzyEyes]

I graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas just a year and two-and-a-half months ago. Here's a piece of advice that will ensure none of these gender politics ever enter your studies. Unfortunately it is guaranteed to not work for everyone: Take a STEM major and go to a college that specializes in engineering. Any STEM, it doesn't matter. As long as it actually requires effort, you're pretty good to go. Another good idea is to stay away from generalized universities and try to find a vocational school or similar. Demonstrations of your skills like projects are a lot more impressive than a college name on a resume anyways. If your recruiter disagrees, their company probably wasn't worth working for. I'm very glad to say that none of these politics ever entered the campus culture while I was studying there, as far as I'm aware. I wasn't even aware of any feminism groups on campus; the closest thing was the LGBT group.

[@rma2110]

You are a lot more optimistic about the future of college campuses than I am, and I love you for it. This is what many young people go into debt for? This is what parents save their money for? If I had to go to college then I advice STEM fields only.

[@bensegneff9624]

thanks based mom when I get to collage I am changing my IP because of the gender study fanaticsthanks for all you do, you are pretty much the only reason I don't think feminism is complaining and shouting at straight white males for simply existing good luck in the future and keep doing what your doing

[@gregstickler3798]

Thank you, you prove that discussion and disagreement can be held and spoken without the need of profanity so many sites can't go a sentence without the F word plus others

[@thundersheep001]

As a Psychology major with Sociology minor I faced many challenges as I went head to head with progressive professors and students due to my political persuasion, independent conservative. I watched how young people where indoctrinated into these designer classes of gender studies and found it sad as I knew , as soon as they graduated they would be eaten alive by the world.

[@SEVENTEENPOINT1]

As a University student I see a lot of this, not in my school but my girlfriend's. I go to an online University so the student interaction is mostly school related and our professors encourage in depth discussion. Everyone is respectful to each other and it works as a way to expand your way of thinking. My school is not the norm but the example other institutions should strive to be.

[@alfredpardoe3795]

I was raised and went to HS in the USA (washington DC) but ended up going to New Zealand for university. I don't personally know the university campus experience of america but from what i learned about americans growing up in the states while not being from there...I am happy I went to NZ for university. They r far more relaxed and normal down here.

[@notesfromthemancave]

Thank you Christina for what you do. I work in academia and though I'm at a state run university in a fairly conservative state, we still have our feminist social justice warriors playing their victim game. As a father of three well educated adult women I applaud you for the example you set and values you promote. TRUE feminism may yet reemerge from this long dark night of the intellectual vacuum that is 3rd wave feminism.

[@TheTlay101]

Based mom's declassified school survival guide

[@Checkmate1138]

Ben 'One Man Klan' Garrison *Results may vary.

[@Purianite]

Ben 'One Man Klan' Garrison You won.

[@PauperoftheFishies]

rreeeeaaaaalllll quick question whaz base mom mean?

[@FarNoGaming]

How have I not found your series earlier? Seriously 10/10 content.

[@cominatrix]

i went to a fairly working class state college as a commuter, 4 different ones at one point or another actually, between 2006 and 2011. this stuff was starting to boil up then, but i never imagined it would get here. i had a friend or two who went to very em...womens studies colleges. and their behaviors would make the suffragettes weep, im sure of it. the most important thing that you did in this video so far as im concerned, is that you, over and over, said this MIGHT happen, and you must think for yourself and you dont have to listen to the video even! and i appreciate that you were respectfully cautioned to all major sides of the argument. and i really do hope that this cools off and soon, but i have a feeling its got some more boiling to do first unfortunately.

[@grant9589]

I just want to say that you are the most wonderful human being alive, and the problem with universities these days is that they simply don't have enough people like you.

[@canisrah]

It's been 8 years since I was at uni - and I still have an involuntary twitch from the horrors of 'women's writing' and other feminist units I was forced to take in order to rack up enough credits to graduate. Between the embittered middle aged women, the vicious young recruits, the lesbian poetry and general hatred for straight white males... I'm surprised I came out reasonably well adjusted in spite of their relentless attempts to get me to hate myself. Chu took to the easy way out.

[@jabble__]

Thank you so much for this video. I felt freer, safer, and more intellectually challenged as a homosexual female at a Russian university than at an "open-minded" American university, simply because I think for myself and question the paranoid feminist narrative. You speak the truth in a culture where truth is considered "oppressive."

[@eddierobles5137]

I just found your channel and I am so delighted to hear a person who is objective and sticks to the facts instead of just reporting what it seems to be popular with the masses. Thank you for your channel and comments . 🙏🙏

[@Doc92IDH]

"Trigger warnings, safe spaces. These are infantile. These are the opposite of empowerment." Great video. Always good to hear someone so eloquent and knowledgeable sum everything up in a straightforward, concise way.

[@shannonnolan1555]

I graduated a 2 year diploma program in 2014. It was a great experience, but odd and sometimes off-putting as well. I was a mature straight white male in a class of 20 plus (mostly) young women. A number of times, when speaking of violence against women figures, my female instructors would sometimes look at me and apologize, to which I would good-naturedly say, "You don't have to apologize to me, I don't represent them, (the victimizers), and they don't represent me". I know the instructors were trying to be considerate of my feelings, but saying it out loud made me feel like I was suspect for merely being male, like I could conceivably be a problem, or at least be part of a larger systemic problem or imbalance. It made me feel like even more of an outsider than I already did, like even the curriculum itself was designating me as an oddity.

[@Lymandog]

You were in the recommended section so I play one of your videos. I'm glad I did because you speak facts not feelings. I'm now a fan.

[@frankiepepe2574]

As a progressive male entering college this upcoming fall I must say this was very helpful information. Thank you so much!

[@righthere27]

Wow. I'm taking a gender studies course now and this is exactly what they preach consistently. I'm just glad I never had to go to any meetings about accountability and sensitivity, though the teachers are very much like that.

[@e.manuelgoldstein5034]

I have a son in university, he is in engineering, I have asked him about feminism on campus. My son is very quiet and reserved, but he has admitted to me that it is a problem, and he just keeps his head down, just to get through.

[@FlameRiflex]

I pray he survives

[@GoA7250]

Thank you.

[@TwoCrappyGamers]

It'll get worse if your son has a student guild with elections. On my campus, they get pretty crazy with their campaigning, yelling at people who reject their ideas by openly yelling in public and calling them racist/sexist, etc... All for a spot at the guild-president position...

[@GoA7250]

My boy has stopped posting on all his social media profiles telling me he wants to change the theme, what does that even mean. A few weeks back he got into an argument on snapchat that was a continuation of a face to face from school, it looked like he attacked without cause and was asked to apologies and take the posts down.. I spoke with him and he was very upset telling me he didn't start it, this is how they manipulate the situation. He tells me he can't trust anybody, this is time in life when people should be able to talk about anything, I know we did as kids, school was a place to explore ideas and now it nothing more than an echo chamber.. I worry for my Son, my Daughter simply caused through all this, this is telling.

[@demonpaw11]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if your son didn't start it. In today's victim-hood society everyone looks for something to be offended over in everything. In all likelihood, your son posted something normal, someone got offended for no reason, and they tried to bully your son into joining the hive mind but he's staying strong and refuses to give in. This is all of course conjecture and I could be completely wrong, but if the other kid is an SJW in any way, shape, or form I'm probably pretty right.

[@garrettharriman6333]

Fortunately, I went to a campus that didn't have a lot of gender activism. We were far more concerned with international politics.

[@TurkeyProphet]

My advice would be that, while in college, if you ever find yourself feeling like as a woman that you have been oppressed and denied opportunities, imagine you are telling this to a working class man without 1/10th the privileges you've had. Which isn't to say women don't face a unique set of issues that need to be confronted and examined - just that sometimes you can forget which society you actually live in when you're white and middle class.

[@CyberChud2020]

I sincerely hope Sommers is right when she says that traditional virtues of higher education like freedom of speech and competition of ideas will reassert themselves. I really hope that is true, but to be honest I can't think of any reason why they would. The aspects of feminism and social liberalism that make them appealing to both genders are unlikely to go away or become less attractive for any reason I can think of. It's still a powerful set of ideas, and perhaps more importantly it's a powerful "network" so to speak, a network of people who also fervently believe in those ideas and who will accept those who are "with them" and work against those who are "not with them." This kind of social pressure (which doesn't just come from within the student body but is also encouraged and supported by the institution itself in many places) has a very potent ability to sway people who do not already have strong political convictions. The "network" is powerful precisely because of how many people support it; so it sways neutral people, and the more neutral people it sways, the more powerful it becomes, and more more potential it has to sway people, and the cycle keeps building on itself. I would be very, very interested to see a video where Sommers explains her predictions for the future of higher education in America.

[@ScottStevenErickson]

I think your characterization is spot on! I was fortunate enough to graduate in 2009 before a lot of these ideologies went rampant, though I did experience much of them in their early stages. After graduating, I also worked on the campus of the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, which is the epitome of the indoctrination you described. It's only been recently that I realized this has become a nation-wide trend, and not just a quirk of Evergreen.

[@user-xw1yh2py4j]

I am required to sake a social science for my engineering degree (upcoming freshman), and as sociology was the only one available during the summer, I ended up taking that one. Literally, whenever a study is listed or a statistic stated, I research it to check the validity of the claim. However, all of the statistics and claims were either found on studies which contained heavy bias, they misrepresented the information, and/or the statistic was a correlation, not a causation. This class victimizes women so much, and the ironic part, is that over half of the women in the class are in STEM fields and engineering.

[@omp199]

I am offended by the fact that you didn't round up the last digit of your approximation to pi.

[@MorryOnTheFence]

I ain't going anywhere arm-in-arm with Arthur Chu.

[@johngalt5572]

***** lol, toss his ass... didn't think of that, hopefully it wasn't a freudian slip.

[@MorryOnTheFence]

MGTOW FTW "I prefer syrup"

[@thewhatorwhy]

+Morry On The Fence He has the kind of face that demands punching. But with a mask on his mug.

[@regulardude7961]

Arthur Chu is just mad he's still a virgin and resentful at dudes who actually get laid.

[@danhiebert0001]

I'm left leaning person on most subjects. Even though this channel AEI, I generally find that Sommers does a good job identifying problems with SJWs some crazy lies they spin.

[@chengliu8793]

I am really glad that I went to college just before all this trigger warning safe space b.s. was a thing (I graduated in 2010). That plus I went to a more working class college, I would never have gotten involved with any of that b.s. because I had to work and go to school full time, as did many of my friends.

[@Unakanon]

I dropped out of 3 different colleges, usually after 3 semesters, when I realized I was accruing an exorbitant amount of debt for outright misinformation.

[@neonoir77]

I graduated university before I knew about all this. Now I'm going back to college and I'm genuinely frightened. Thankfully it's in Canada, which I *think* is more reasonable than the U.S. when it comes to this stuff; at least, there aren't all these institutional policies that deny a man's right to a fair trial and do battle with an imaginary rape culture. At least I hope there aren't.

[@rafoca100]

I can't believe I lived enough to see a feminist woman with this point of view! awesome! I'm glad! there is hope! =)

[@quintessenceSL]

I'd add go through your campus's policies with a fine-tooth comb. Make sure you understand the nuance of the rules. Too many places play fast and loose with the rules, usually to your detriment. Don't let ignorance of policy be your downfall. Hold them accountable, even going so far as asking for a copy of the student handbook before you select a uni to go to, and asking for clarification of anything you find odd.

[@jeb31415]

I have worked at three universities over the past 15 years, and I never hear any discussion of this type except on YT.

[@Jastro88]

"...you shouldn't take my word on these matters. You shouldn't take anybody's word! You should think for yourself." My kind of lady. Thank you, Christina. You are like a voice of reason in a crowd full of shouting maniacs.

[@KristaStreams]

Luckily I haven't seen too much of this happen on my campus, but it does happen. Recruitment for any university groups are always going on - whether it be clubs, classes, etc. Though one thing I certainly can confirm is people citing the "facts" of campuses and politics. I don't vote one way, but I already tend to side with democrats more so than republicans, and I can tell you most of them don't believe the 1 in 5 statistic, just the extremists do. Unfortunately I was at the beach which is a hot spot for university students and was approached by some guy trying to get my vote for somebody on the city council (democratic party). Normally I invite people like this because I don't mind talking about issues. Unfortunately one of the first things he does is open a book that lists our current senators and says "the population of women in the United States is 50%, yet less than 10% of these people are women." Basically he was trying to use discrimination against women (that doesn't actually exist) to get my vote which immediately turned me away from it. You don't even need to know facts to understand that it's not discrimination, yet the vote of the people / how much funding you have for your campaign. The first woman to be elected in the senate was in 1932 (83 years ago). If you really expect it to be 50/50 from that time, then I don't know what to say. More women are rising in power, which is great, but pushing for a vote based off of gender is just insulting.

[@peace-yv4qd]

I took a psychology class beck in the 70's and the first thing the instructor said was nobody cares about your feelings and very often about you either. Funniest thing I have ever heard. His message basically was, toughen up buttercup, the world is a rough place.

[@Darkaran1]

This was excellent. Fast, concise and fairly well covered!

[@BETAmosquito]

I am planning on attending University as an adult learner. The coddled young adults I will be sharing classes with, frighten me much more than the usual course load and money woes

[@okami4683]

Thank you for your video. Your message about feminists of the past fought hard for the status they have today strikes a cord. Today's feminists are destroying what past feminists fought so hard for.

[@AstonWave007]

If you come across women that dye their hair an unnatural color of the rainbow? FUCKING RUN.

[@kebiwoni]

Charles Belton Clever tactic.

[@rainy7106]

Matthew Dolby I don't know about you guys but I like Neon Blue hair... On hot girls... Not on land whales... I like nothing on land whales.

[@nathanielcava4128]

The amount of rape talks I had to sit through and constantly be reminded that “men are bad” my freshman year was ridiculous. Yet some of these women are off the charts and happen to take more advantage of men then men taking advantage of women. Had a girl tell me she was trying to hit her goal of 20 bodies in a year and taking advantage of men..... yet if I did that I’d be in cuffs.

[@rayezx]

This is what to expect in American colleges these days?? Sometimes I really worry how my generation will turn out, especially those born in the late 90s/early 2000s.

[@headbangben1]

i have always been fairly liberal. when i started studying i went to a place with a lot of conservatives. it was the best time of my life. they challenged my ideas and i challenged theirs. we reached understandings or had heated debates, before we agreed to disagree. something tells me such things are not possible anymore.

[@d19xx]

Thank you for this video. It's good to know that there's a lot of people who are not obnoxious or has not gone insane.

[@Happilymarrieddad]

I graduated last year and I didn't encounter any of this. That being said, I was an engineering student and I spent almost all of my time in the lab and/or at home studying. These people are wasting their lives and our tax dollars. Free speech / the right to say whatever the hell you want no matter how offensive it is is the most important principle in a place that's supposed to be associated with learning.

[@jamesuberman5856]

Your experience is typical for STEM students. You are too busy getting an actual education and so are you faculty to be involved in political social crap. It is the soft areas of academia; sociology, psychology, art, women, ethnic studies and others where this stuff is rampant. These areas of "study" attract the lowest quality students who have usually flunked Algebra 121. These "studies" are more about your feelings rather than logic, reason, facts and science. Everything is opinion based, sometimes just brainwashing. Congrats on your degree and good luck.

[@MsJLOVEZ]

Oh yeah? There is a physics prof.in University of Toronto who also happens to be a trans activist LMAO.

[@oliverjia1014]

This is something I have particularly been afraid of. I am going to college in a month and am concerned that I'll be interacting with these kinds of uber-SJW gender activists. It's frankly quite worrying given the fact that I'm sick and tired of this behavior. Hopefully I'll survive.

[@elcadejo1722]

I'd like to hear more about that half of my millennial generation that didn't and won't go to college. They're the forgotten half no one talks about. But they remember us. With one half so decadent and the other half so resentful, I can't help but hope someone eventually does something. It's dry season on the prairie and we're waiting for the spark that will send it all up in flames.

[@AKSBSU]

Back in late 90s and early 2000s when I was an undergraduate (have a Ph.D. now), I had a few lunatics here and there scream at me about "rape culture" and this type of stuff, and I just thought they were a bit crazy but didn't consider them any more of a threat to anyone than the crazy fundamentalist preacher men who held signs and yelled about the evils of "premarital kissing." And no, I'm not making the premarital kissing thing up. Someone actually brought that up. But now these same SJW fanatics are somehow gaining political power and getting into laws and popular culture. Invading academics. It's horrible. I'm so glad I'm not a student now.

[@harmbry]

I graduated in 2014, so I suppose this is reasonably current: my program (math & stats) started with 52 people in my year, of whom I believe 8 or 9 were women. By the time we graduated, there were 9 of us, including 2 women. By then, we were hearing a lot about how our department wasn't working hard enough to recruit female students, but the most vicious opponents to that message were the two women left in the cohort. They argued - and I agree completely - that they deserved as much credit as the rest of us for entering and surviving this program only because the department hadn't made any special effort to recruit them; if it had, then they would never have known for certain that they could have hacked it on their own.

[@rachelshaskin2584]

Wait. If the working-class colleges continue to focus on more practical subjects, and the upper-class colleges focus on underwater oppression-weaving, would the working-class colleges eventually become the prestigious colleges?

[@taywil64A]

Great advice thank you. One must always think for oneself and examine any claim with integrity and using official statistics and definitions of crime, not any other methodology.

[@Steel_Manning2]

I am a student at Columbia College Chicago. That place is all of the things you have just explained and I find myself constantly having to fact check people and give them a dose of perspective. My favorite is about how women can't be sexist and people of color can't be racist. It's excusing your own bigotry while labeling anything you don't like as offensive and unfit for public discussion. I really wish I could get Ms. Sommers to speak at my school.

[@RyzaJunior]

Thanks for another video geared towards college students. Although I'm not very strongly opinionated or political, I will keep these tips in mind. Luckily, my campus doesn't seem to be one of those "prestigious" universities that are experiencing this, but there have been signs of it a bit when I went to orientation. Here's hoping it stays minimal.

[@chrisjackson8151]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and find it quite informative. Thank you!

[@fredhubbard7210]

I love the idea implied here, feminists of old fought for equality because women were as tough, and rigorous as men. They claimed that they didn't need special protection, because they could handle themselves as well as any man. As soon is equality achieved, feminists are fighting to re-establish that women are tender, fragile and in need of special encouragement, protection, shelter, etc. Maybe you Christina, and your good friend Camille Paglia are just wrong? Sure some women (you and Camille) deserve equality, because you indeed have "the right stuff," but maybe most women should remain in the shelter of the their safe places... Though, it seems to me that these special tender women are actually among the most violent and aggressive people that you are likely to meet outside of prison walls.

[@whatmatters4990]

As a sixty three year old white man I watch the foolishness on college campuses with a blend of thought. Contempt for professors that propagate such garbage. Contempt for students that attend their classes. And of course, the question. How does this college experience advance the human condition. I am so happy that Carlin isn’t alive to witness this farce. Do better! Love

[@sequorroxx]

It would be interesting to see some discussion regarding why this is happening. Why do both men and women find it appealing to demonize men and infantalize women in this society? Why are we blind to female violence and so hyper aware of male violence? Why do many think that male rulers is proof of patriarchy when those very same rulers overwhelmingly protect and privilege women?

[@iCareSoVeryDeeply]

5. Keep your mouth shut. Get your degree. GTFO. 6. Date off campus (or better yet, don't date, focus on your studies). 7. Try to take advantage of online schools whenever it makes sense. 8. Study hard, make lots of money. 9. Laugh (quietly) at the Women's Studies graduates making your coffee.

[@sgt7]

All I can say is thank you for these videos Prof Sommers.

[@randallscott4581]

This is why I don't plan on going to college, this and I like finding answers my own way.

[@Omegaknucklesaltenan]

I live in a town with 4 colleges in Illinois and I attended a local, relatively new Community College for 3 years (Switched degrees after the first 2 semesters) and I thankfully had only encountered a very small minority of individuals who I know for sure subscribed to the safe spaces/trigger warning ideology. I don't know for certain if there were any radical activists causing trouble on campus because I honestly stayed in relatively secluded locations on campus (such as the Workforce Development Center's Electronics Lab for soldering work). I steered away from sociology/philosophy electives in favor of political science so I can't really offer any input there (There was no strong political biasing in the class other than focusing on state and local politics, which was incidentally the course's title). Though this sort of problem along with the ludicrously high cost of tuition for Universities of which my town's was no exception (ISU/IWU) is what drove me to seek an AAS level education as opposed to a bachelors degree from any of the local universities. Don't be like Arthur Chu, indeed. This kind of self destructive behavior to society cannot be tolerated.

[@ssholum]

Thankfully, as an engineering student at a school with a lot of practically minded students (higher average age than most colleges). I only saw a little slice of what is going on in other schools. I had to take a second literature class (the school I transferred to likes well read students), so since I'd already taken an English literature class, I thought I'd take world literature instead... Some of the authors we read (and some of the students) seemed to hold an underlying distaste for Western civilization; these were usually somewhat understandable, as they came from times where cultures were clashing, but the scary thing came from some of the things I read from other students (it was an online class for some reason). It had the stink of misinformation and SJW influence (though none of them seem to be SJWs, considering I didn't get any nasty responses for my views on certain essays). Then, I had a horrifying encounter with a whiteboard (that's racist! They should use blackboards! Except the chalk shouldn't be white, cause that represents the Southern white minority using the blacks as the foundation of their creations, but not giving them any credit!) Anyway, when the class was unlocked and we went inside, I saw the tell-tale signs of a gender-studies course on the board! I can't say if it was a particularly nasty class or not, but considering the fact that 'gender studies' should often be read 'identity politics' and how few of the studies in them are worth reading, I think it's safe to assume that it's at least slightly poisoning a college that's meant to provide cheap, quality education for people to get jobs.

[@AHSears]

"You shouldn't take anybody's word. Think for yourself!" Let's hope this kind of common sense wins the hearts of the newer generations to come. Because if it doesn't .... "Sooner or later, the age-old virtues of higher education will re-assert themselves." So long as this new movement toward intersectionality and the under-mining of the gender sciences is either put to rest or to a better use. I know, I sound like a bit of an alarmist. I'm actually not. I just try to balance my idealistic views with realistic ones.

[@aporiac1960]

CHS' advice to take some history courses is excellent, where you will learn that progress is not inevitable. That which was gained falteringly, and with great difficulty and at very great cost is being thrown away as though it was trash, and you will observe this every day.

[@jasonbrown4526]

aporiac My history class was one of my best classes.

[@YouTubeGetsWorseAndWorse]

ARTHUR CHU ON FULL BLAST RIGHT NOW!!!

[@jasonfrank_photography]

Since my move-in day is in a couple of weeks, I've got to thank you for this video, Based Mom!

[@qatestbrian1]

I love your even-tempered, thoughtful approach to the subjects you cover. it is more of this kind of considered, calm thought that removes the rage.

[@aguirrechronicles]

Like about 10 years ago when I was a college student my anthropology teacher told us that women will take over the world, ok that's cool but imagine if it were the other way around, that teacher would lost his job

[@soapman8644]

Wow...I wish I could've watched this before I went on a trial run through college. This was incredibly helpful for me even post-entry. I offended the wrong people on my campus and almost got in trouble with the school for making a minor reference to something "distasteful" (with no intent to hurt anyone, I was still blissfully ignorant about the current condition of college campuses) in a poem I wrote for a poetry class. Of course a few other women took offense to what I said and called me out, and of course the professor let them. For the rest of the time, I was ostracized by most of the class (mainly composed of what would be called "Tumblr Feminists"), and no one would talk to me. I dropped that class very soon after that and never kept in contact with any of my fellow students. It was just an overall horrible experience, but this video made me feel slightly better about my reflections on the incident, so thank you (if by some strange chance someone will read this).

[@hypermonkey200]

Jay Ratliff No words can be said other than that's horrifying :(

[@soapman8644]

+hypermonkey200 Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment. They weren't necessarily "bad" people either, its just that their views were so warped and I had no idea how to defend my beliefs or even if they were "wrong" and I should change them. With research though, thankfully I've become more aware about the current debacle of gender issues and I must say... the whole current situation is pretty fucked up.

[@neonoir77]

Let me try my hand at a "Sarcastic Wonka" meme: "OH, SO YOU PRACTICE GENDER PROFILING?" "TELL ME AGAIN HOW THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM RACIAL PROFILING."

[@Ouvii]

"Think for myself?? But that conflicts with muh authoritarian social justice politics." In all seriousness though, I'm lucky I never had to deal with this stuff; when I started college, my community college didn't have any sort of extra class or lecture to teach me gender politics. When I transferred to TTU, there was good discussion of racism and sexism in my speech/ethics class, but it was largely unaffected by the wacky gender politics (as well as other wacky identity politics) Sommers talks about. Another thing I like is that a Fraternity had a sign at one point reading "No means yes and yes means anal." The charter for their chapter was promptly revoked by the university and then by the national fraternity they were apart of IIRC. I also like that a Sorority who took racist photos of themselves dressing up as border police and "Mexicans" and arresting the Mexicans; IIRC they got in trouble with the university as well. I like it because bigots are getting what they deserve, and, at least to me, it seems like Texas Tech University is an ideal place where gender and race discrimination is negligible and punished, but at the same time, doesn't seem to suffer from the crap that Sommers is talking about. IDK maybe I'm wrong though. If you are going to Texas Tech, be wary of dogmatic "social justice" propaganda in the housing department. It probably won't affect you too much unless you work for TTU housing as a Community Advisor or something though.