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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
I would think feminists would be the first to raise the alert and challenge those societies where women are lower rated than some man's goats and sheep. Where women are murdered in what is called honor killing and women are systematically mutilated. They call themselves feminists?
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There are alot of idiots who do not live in the same world the rest of us live in.
That is not to say all academic institutions function in that manner. NPS is full of civilian academics, but as a DOD facility, the Professors where very in tune to the fact that after our 16 months at school we would be headed back into the "real world" and they tried their darndest to give us an education that we could use in that world.
Yes there were plenty of "academic" discussions. But there were many more where we discussed whether the academics of what we learned were in any way relevant to what our "real" jobs were.
I guess what upsets me about not "challenging the way people feel" is if that is the way we all acted, racial issues would be still as they were in the 50's and 60s. If we didn't challenge the way people feel, I may be chained to my husband's stove barefoot and pregnant, rather than chained to my computer at work.
Challenging the way people feel is how we grow as adults. It is how we get out of the myopic view of our childhood into the world of reality as adults. I for one am certainly glad that we all don't have the same views, and that people often challenge the way I think. It keeps life interesting.