Three Ohio State University professors have filed sexual harrassment charges against Scott Savage in response to the reference librarian's book suggestions for a freshman reading list. The university is investigating. Savage, a committee member of OSU's "First Year Reading Experience" program, suggested David Horowitz's The Professors, Bat Ye'or's Eurabia, David Kupelian's The Marketing of Evil, and Rick Santorum's It Takes a Family, after members of the committee recommended a series of liberal books. The complaining professors report feeling "unsafe" as a result of Savage's book suggestions.

These folks are clearly confusing liberal education with liberal
jacka$$es. Again, write your representatives Ohio citizens. I see no reason why public dollars should support somebody's feminist club. No damn wonder colleges are producing greater and greater shares of blithering idiots.

What a bunch of sissies!

"unsafe"....seriously...this had me laughing for quite a while.

Man, if it weren't such a travesty, it would be even funnier.

Is this another incident that points to the feminization of our society? "Unsafe"? Please.

Like it or not, it would behoove these tools to understand that a 'liberal' education doesn't mean a leftist education but one that includes all points of views. Even ones they don't agree with.

Anything else, and you're talking about indoctrination. Which, it seems clear, they are setting up an agenda for.

They are sissies; if they have book recommendations, they are free to distribute them to their students. That someone should feel unsafe because of different ideas is not just cowardice but also ignorance. I feel sorry for them.

I know what you mean asdf but in defense of women I wouldn't call this an aspect of the "feminization" of our society. I don't think femininity is reducible to being a "ninny" or a "sissy" like apparently the entire faculty of OSU Mansfield is being by voting to file charges against this guy. Courage is a virtue equally necessary to man and woman. So this is a sign of the "feministization" of society but leftists shouldn't be allowed to define how we use terms like "masculine" and "feminine."

I would attribute a dramatic connotation to being feminine. And I would consider this statement: 'The complaining professors report feeling "unsafe" as a result of Savage's book suggestions.' to smack of the dramatic. Anyone “feeling” unsafe due the contents of a reading list needs a reality check and if they happen to be male, they need to check what’s going on in the lower regions of their anatomy. Additionally, there has developed this sense among men to be sensitive. And that has nothing to with how men develop on their own. Women are smart, strong and tough. But, they are still women (thank you very much) and when men start acting like and adopting their emotional responses, I call that feminization.

I know what you mean asdf,

I am fighting against the wind but the postmodern political strategy of constantly redefining terms has long annoyed me. Take, for example, the use of "feminine" to descibe homosexual men in manner and speech. I think that is a complete insult to women, I mean have you ever heard a woman lisp like that? They mock femininity, and are pathologically mysoginist. "Effeminate" makes sense since it means "make a woman out of" and is pejorative, or "demasculate" is useful too.