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Boston Globe Signals Importance of Prof. Gilligan and Jane Fonda's Money

Those colleges which are attacking boys across the country, according to Prof. Christina Hoff Sommers, are Wellesley, Tufts, the Graduate School of Education at Harvard and the psychiatric department at Harvard Medical School.

She quoted a professor at Tufts, "We've deconstructed the old version of manhood, but we've not [yet] constructed a new version."

The "research" which shows that boys are favored and are causing serious problems was performed at those institutions. But that research is non-existent or "riddled with errors," Prof. Sommers reports. She says it is totally unsupported in its alarmist, hysterical claims. "Almost none of it has been published in professional peer-reviewed journals. Some of the data are mysteriously missing. Yet the false picture remains and is dutifully passed along."

Two of those she was writing about were Carol Gilligan at Harvard's School of Education and William Pollack at Harvard's McLean Hospital, its psychiatric unit in Belmont.
Since that time, Prof. Gilligan has moved down to New York without ever producing any research for her claims, and Prof. Pollack has gone into hibernation after MassNews raised serious questions about his lack of research.

Only Wellesley continues on its extreme path without any apparent interruption. But it must have concerns if it feels compelled to produce a fatuous article like it did this month for its alumnae.

Dishonest Report Led to Federal Law - and Power

Wellesley and Harvard reported dishonestly in the early 1990s that the public schools of the country were "shortchanging girls," according to Prof. Sommers. As a result, Congress passed a new law, the "Gender Equity in Education Act," which categorized girls as an "under-served population," on a par with other discriminated-against minorities.

Even the game of tag is being eliminated from public schools across the country because of material from Wellesley's "Center for Research on Women."

They produced a teacher's guide, with money received from the U.S. Department of Education, which, according to Prof. Sommers, "shows teachers how to counteract the subtle influences of tag that encourage aggressiveness: 'Before going outside to play, talk about how students feel when playing a game of tag. Do they like to be chased? Do they like to do the chasing? How does it feel to be tagged out?...Should students become overexcited ... the guide suggests that once back in the classroom the teacher use 'stress relief [exercises] to help the transition from active play to focused work.'"

Incredible as it sounds, even recess is being dropped says Sommers. "Recess - the one time during the school day when boys can legitimately engage in rowdy play - is now under siege and may soon be a thing of the past." It has been totally eliminated in Atlanta, which has built a school without any playground at all. The superintendent there says that many parents still don't understand and ask when they'll be getting the new playground. He replies, "There's not going to be a new playground."

The move to eliminate recess has aroused little notice from parents or anyone else, according to Sommers. "[I]t betrays a shocking indifference to boys' natural proclivities, play preferences, and elemental needs. Girls benefit from recess - but boys absolutely need it....Needless to say, school officials today would never act in a manner equally dismissive of girls' characteristic desires and needs, for they know they would immediately face a storm of justified protests from women advocates. Boys have no such protectors."

Even day-care centers are receiving material from the federal government on how to avoid sex-role "stereotypes."

Millions of dollars have gone to Wellesley, Prof. Gilligan and other feminists in order to change men by making their sons more like girls through public schools across the nation.

Jane Fonda gave $12.5 million to Gilligan in March 2001 to further spread the feminist concepts. Even the Globe reported that many thought it strange that Gilligan was leaving Harvard and going to New York just when many legitimate sources were demanding the research data about her remarkable claims.

Dr. William Pollack, Harvard Medical School, also became famous and wealthy by joining Gilligan's feminist attack on men and boys with his many books.

The belief of the feminists is that no woman will be "free" until we eliminate the institution of marriage and child-rearing. This has been stated many times, but most women still do not know or believe that the feminists are serious about eliminating marriage.

Sidebar:
Boston Globe Signals Importance of Prof. Gilligan and Jane Fonda's Money

The Boston Globe signaled the importance to feminists of Prof. Gilligan and the money from Jane Fonda when it ran a story on its front page on June 6 that Fonda was "miffed" because her $12.5 million hadn't been spent yet.

The story was apparently an Alex Beam column changed to a front page news story because of its unusual importance to them.

Earlier this year, the Globe brought Harvard to its knees when it successfully blackmailed the new President of the University, Lawrence H. Summers, into endorsing quotas and affirmative action by publishing nine major pieces about Harvard in two weeks. It is apparently flexing its power again.

The newspaper revealed in its June story that, "[Gilligan] has never been popular on the Harvard campus, and the field of gender studies is regarded with suspicion by some academics."

It reported last year that observers thought it strange that Gilligan was leaving Harvard and going to New York just when many legitimate sources were demanding to see the research data about her many remarkable claims.

But Harvard's acting Education School Dean has assured the Globe not to worry. "The search is quite alive, and we are pleased at how it is proceeding. We wouldn't take the money if we weren't committed to the idea of a gender center."

Jane Fonda is the woman who became famous by posing naked to attract men when few women would do so.

She now says that if she could, she would change her strip-tease which opened a movie in 1968 when she was 31-years-old. She says she did the tease only as a result of what the Globe called, her "low self-esteem and an ingrained belief that she should please the men in her life."

This caused many to wonder at what age does Fonda take full responsibility for her acts? She wasn't responsible at age 31? Now that she is too old to play a sex-kitten, she blames it all on someone else - men. But didn't she enjoy it when she could still play the role?

What of her traitorous trip to Vietnam when teen-age boys, much younger than she, were dying in order to protect the mothers and children of America? They had been ordered there by the politicians supported by Fonda and her rich father. It was not Eisenhower, Nixon or Reagan that sent them there. Their average age was only 19 as compared to 26 in World War II. It was truly a war of boys. Is she saying that 19-year-old boys are more responsible than she was?