{"id":38541,"date":"2017-04-15T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T01:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=38541"},"modified":"2017-04-15T18:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T01:31:51","slug":"petition-reduce-female-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/petition-reduce-female-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition to reduce female tuition?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every few years, some prankster passes around a petition and tries to get fools to sign it. My favorite is when there\u2019s a petition to remove \u201cdihydrogen monoxide\u201d from our lakes and rivers, as \u201cthese sources are just full of this chemical, which can kill you if you inhale enough of it.\u201d There\u2019s even a whole website devoted to discussing the dangers of this chemical<\/a>. Even the semi-competent (at best) chemistry professor at a fake school I taught at signed it (unwittingly?). Way too many people fall for this kind of stunt\u2026but not everyone knows the chemical name for water, after all.<\/p>\n

On a college campus, however, people should be a tad more educated, a little less willing to put their signature on a petition they don\u2019t fully understand. I\u2019m not even sure the following is a joke, but it should be:<\/p>\n

Students, faculty sign petition to reduce female tuition<\/a><\/p>\n

This is just so\u2026ignorant. Already our institutions of higher education do a great deal to attract female students; my own discipline in particular has endless programs to attract female math majors.<\/p>\n

Complementing all the female favoritism is a distinct anti-male bias on campus<\/a>, again with whole classes where a male would feel distinctly uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

The end result of this is males, of the two \u201ccommon\u201d genders, are the minority gender on campus by far. There are nearly 3 females for every 2 males<\/a>. While such a ratio would be pretty good for a retirement home (where the somewhat shorter lifespan of a human male becomes readily visible), it\u2019s pretty atrocious for the college age set (where the shorter lifespan of males is not nearly so much of a concern).<\/p>\n

Government always does things backwards. When the public transit systems aren\u2019t making enough money\u2026they raise prices. When commercial transit systems don\u2019t make money, they lower fares\u2014that\u2019s how a real business gets more sales, you see, although government does the opposite, causing even less people to use the transit system.<\/p>\n

Perhaps another example will emphasize how devastatingly backward government planning is.<\/p>\n

The reason elephants are going extinct is because their ivory is very valuable\u2014poachers are willing to risk their lives against armed gamekeepers to kill the beasts and get that precious ivory. The government seizes all the ivory it can, taking it off the market\u2014driving the price still higher! When government has confiscated enough, the government burns the ivory<\/a>! It\u2019s insane, because if they just dumped a colossal amount of ivory onto the market, the price would fall\u2026and nobody would be willing to risk death for a tiny sum of money.<\/p>\n

And so I present as evidence that there\u2019s too much government in our higher education system: in the face of an obvious disparity in the sex of students, we keep slapping down more programs to make the problem worse.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t expect students to know about this disparity, but surely most faculty know\u2026how did they end up signing this petition? In the culture of fear that defines academic life, faculty should be reluctant to identify themselves for anything. Even in the case of \u201cvirtue signaling\u201d like this, it must have been tough to find and trick faculty into signing such a hoax petition, right?<\/p>\n

The petition garnered 40 signatures in just over an hour, including those of several faculty members, and just two students declined to sign.<\/em><\/h2>\n

That\u2019s not exactly a flood of signatures, and I totally respect that a student will sign any petition that in any way has a slight chance of reducing tuition. The hoax was performed to mock the Women\u2019s Day stuff that was going on:<\/p>\n

To find out how far college students are willing to go for gender equity,\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

It is funny how lost we are now, that \u201cequity\u201d can actually mean the same thing as \u201cone gender should pay 77% for the same thing another gender pays.\u201d Part of the pitch was the ol\u2019 \u201cwomen are paid less than men\u201d canard, even though this has been heavily debunked<\/a>, and is quite obviously rubbish (as the linked video points out, if this were really the case, we\u2019d see most businesses hiring only women, because it would give a huge increase to profits, something every business wants).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rather like that \u201c97% of climate scientists agree\u201d rubbish\u2014again, heavily debunked<\/a>, and still repeated over and over again. Admittedly, it\u2019s less obviously a lie than the gender wage gap\u2026unless you\u2019re an actual scientist and know that real scientists are deeply reluctant to swear an unproven conjecture is absolutely true.<\/p>\n

Anyway, clearly students and some faculty still fall for that gap myth, and still think we can solve a possible problem by actively trying to make it worse.<\/p>\n

While \u201cgive females a tuition discount\u201d sounds good, we really need to think things through here. What do you do about the males who identify as female? I suspect their numbers would jump quite a bit, eh? I know I\u2019ve considered it myself, as I\u2019m up against the glass ceiling in higher ed.<\/p>\n

What about the females who identify as male? They\u2019d probably get special dispensation to classify as both genders, just so they can win both ways\u2026but if you do that, then you now open the door for the males identifying as females to get the same double-dip treatment.<\/p>\n

Or, we could, you know, actually think about petitions before we sign them. Just sayin\u2019.<\/p>\n

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