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Message: [QUOTE="shinobimono, post: 3114641, member: 4963"] I hesitate to enter the fray here, but I add this in response to your post. I'd say her view is progressivism. It is also critical theory (a tool of progressivism), which seeks to politicize social problems, moving off the college campus and into the mainstream. With critical theory, you look at any social issue and ask, for example, why are the vast majority of coaches male, why is there a gender imbalance? The answer is then "sexism." To change "sexism" you have to change the incorrect thinking (a potential "thought crime") of "sexists." Gender then becomes a tool in the culture war. Muffet mentioned the dearth of female CEOs in companies to support her argument. However, she omits the fact that many companies are run by their founders (who happen to mostly be male, though women have long been able to start their own companies, and do), so her criticism (and critical theory) paints with an excessively broad brush and asks why there isn't 100% equality now? There should definitely be push back against ideas like this that draw inaccurate conclusions, but people are afraid of the labels that get thrown at them if they do. This is progressivism, and it is meant to reorder society in line with progressive ideology, which the majority of American's do not adhere to. Thus the top-down hectoring and attempted reeducation of non-complying American's who are not "progressive" by setting the parameters of acceptable thought and speech by labeling certain views (even if inaccurately labeled) as "sexist," "racist," "transphobic," etc. Looking at a social issue in a particular field and asking why there isn't complete gender equality is not going to effect immediate change, but it will lead to lots of name-calling, such as "old boy network," "bully," and "sexism," and in my view, create even greater social division and conflict. In college, you do not question the progressive view, for example on "sexism," just ask Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University, who resigned after the "furor" he created by suggesting there were differences between the sexes. I think we would be better off to honestly discuss gender differences and how they affect women's basketball, coaching, and other areas, rather than suffer a barrage of name-calling. [/QUOTE]

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