Dartmouth Students Enraged Over Op-Ed Criticizing Student Life Board Being 80% Female By Tom Knighton
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College progressives these days are obsessed with gender parity: they say there aren’t enough women seeking STEM degrees, for example.
But they do say they want “parity.” So it must be progressive to criticize a lack of gender parity when men are underrepresented, right?
A Dartmouth op-ed recently criticized the school’s hiring of primarily women to fill roles on the student life executive board at the school. Student Ryan Spencer made a bid to be part of the board, a bid that ultimately failed. Of the 19 current members, only four are male. In other words, 80 percent of those hired for the board are female.
Spencer took to the pages of The Dartmouth to take issue with the disparity. He stated his disbelief in claims that merit was the deciding factor, not gender.
Spencer has a valid point, of course. If the numbers were flipped, wouldn’t feminists be outraged? Wouldn’t people be demanding a change? Of course they would. They’d launch protests over the exclusion of so many women — and maybe with good cause.
However, there are no protests planned in Spencer’s defense. Instead, the outrage is all directed at him.
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