Thursday, January 12, 2012

Yale's new shack-up policy explained

I had a very difficult time explaining to my friend why Yale's new shack-up policy is woman-friendly: go read it at A Voice for Men.

2 comments:

ZimbaZumba said...

Co-ed Dorms do actually work quite well. The "other" is no longer a mysterious breed housed else where on campus. Though they are not for everyone.

Hieronymus Braintree said...

Great piece.

What's taking place at Yale is, of course, outrageously hypocritical. However, that doesn't mean that the same colleges who are endorsing co-ed dorms are necessarily aware that they're implicitly invalidating the rape culture myth. Human beings have a terrifying/infuriating habit of not recognizing their own irreconcilable beliefs--the whole we-had-to-destroy-the-village-in-order-to-save-it bit from the Vietnam war is a well-known case in point.

Orwell had a term for this: He called it doublethink.

In any case, with a little push the Cognitive Dissonance Express should be heading into the station at any moment now.