Remind me never to apply for a job at Buckingham University (as if I would)

[strange_complex]

Because its vice-chancellor thinks it is OK to publish an article like this one (scroll down to the 'LUST' section) about sexual relationships between (female) students and (male) staff at Universities, which includes such choice phrases as these:

"Equally, the universities are where the male scholars and the female acolytes are."

So, no female scholars, then? All the women at University are there purely to enable men, and possibly drink admiringly from the founts of male knowledge?

"The fault lies with the females"

Like everything, of course!

And, worst of all in my view:

"Normal girls - more interested in abs than in labs, more interested in pecs than specs, more interested in triceps than tripos - will abjure their lecturers for the company of their peers"

I think I would like to go and vomit now. What a wanker!

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Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I think with all of these Controvershul Articles, whether they're Liz Jones in the Mail or this guy, there's a deliberate editorly calculation that the author will take the hit (people always write, "Who does this guy think he is!", never "Who is the editor who commissioned this?"), and that the paper will get the advantage. I think the newspaper policy of publishing hilariously sexist articles which spread very quickly through the blogosphere and get tons of page hits is a much, much bigger problem than one idiot wanker's inability to tell the difference between "sexism" and "joke".

If it is actually a deliberate attempt to keep Buckingham University in its place, then there are ways of doing that which aren't about promoting sexism! And why blame Buckingham - I'm sure this guy has colleagues who are doing some great work, why should they suffer for his tosserosity?

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Biascut, Do you feel these editorial decisions are actionable ?
A. Leverkuhn

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Actionable in what sense?

[(Anonymous)]

well ... worthy of a formal complaint, for starters. By that I mean more than just a letter to the
THE expressing your outrage --- maybe suggesting resignation and censure ?
A. Leverkuhn