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

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Unless, of course, you want to defend it as satire (http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2009/09/sex-with-students-is-terence-kealey-as-misunderstood-as-juvenal.html). There might be something in this (I certainly don't want to dismiss Mary's opinions out of hand). But if it is satire, it's not terribly good. The thing with Juvenal and Till Death Do Us Part is that both texts include something that undermines and exposes the views of the protagonist. I'm not sure that Kealey's text does that.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm a little disappointed with Mary there. Obviously the whole piece (not just Kealey's bit) was meant to be light-hearted and satirical. But, as you suggest, his part of it is seriously ham-fisted. The whole piece is shot through with misogyny, and there's nothing at all to signal that he, Terence Kealey, doesn't actually believe that 'normal' women are more interested in sex than studying. The subject could have been handled light-heartedly and satirically without such crass insensitivity.