If the requirements for a particular academic position include a narrowly-defined political outlook and exclude anyone with a Y chromosome, it might be a good idea to rethink the whole idea of that academic field. The University of Washington has named David Allen to run its women's studies program. This will make Allen the only male running a Ph.D.-granting department in women's studies in the United States. Though Allen's biology is deficient, his views are right for the job. Allen counsels other males to "have a positive commitment toward feminism." One of Allen's colleagues admits to harboring "mixed views" of the appointment, and although Allen himself overcame his own misgivings about a male running a women's studies department, doesn't his language seem to imply that he would object to a non-feminist running what he characterizes as "a faculty of feminist scholars"?

David Allen has an alias. He goes by Reader.

I'm still trying to figure out what exactly you DO with a degree in women's studies!

You get a job in the "Office of diversity" or "Women's Resource Center" at your local university. Ultimeately, after achieving your PHD in "Women's Studies" you become a professor of same.

Alternatively, you will be well qualified for work in the food services or cleanliness management industries.

Miss America pageant judge.

What do you do with someone with a degree in Women's Studies?

Pay her for the pizza!

You can always be an understudy for a part in the "Vagina Monologues".

David Allen is secretly longing to be a woman. The male species still does not understand women, so why the hell else are they putting a man in charge.