Gender equality is a multifaceted area of study

In response to Mat Miracle’s opinion piece on women published in the April 15 edition of the Equinox: It’s funny that you asked where the men’s studies courses are because if you’ve been educated at all (which we’re not sure if you have) you would know that men’s studies are embedded in every subject from American History to Political Science, and almost everything in between.

Also when you take Women’s Studies courses the discussion of equality is never limited to only women. Gender equality is a huge part of the women’s studies curriculum and of feminism. Colleges don’t offer Women’s Studies because they believe women are a minority; they have Women’s Studies to offer another perspective on politics, society, and history through a feminist lens. Women’s Studies focuses on gender, race class, sexuality, and many other areas that you are too close minded to understand.

It’s not the case that women have never gotten what they wanted throughout history. How would you explain the suffrage movement, or Roe v. Wade? Also your quote about Indecisiveness being a female trait is flawed, last time we checked indecisiveness was a human trait. It’s not that we don’t know what we want; that couldn’t be farther from the truth. The issue is that we want everything. We want and expect equal rights across the board, and we also want to see the sexist and ignorant people like yourself become educated before you open your mouth or write a degrading and ridiculous article based on a few bad dates. It’s a shame that because you’ve had unpleasant experiences with some women that you think its okay to degrade and diminish the women’s movement as a whole. We feel sorry for you that your life is so empty, and that you get off from putting others down. We would like to thank you for your input, because in reality it’s people like you who make our movement even stronger.

Written with love from The Feminist Collective