SEXUALLY SEGREGATED EDUCATION: NOT!

As the mother of two daughters I must admit that there was a time when I was intrigued by the idea of separating boys and girls in our school classrooms. The idea, at the time, was that our first daughter would receive a high quality education without the unruly influence of high-spirited young men in the classroom, who might interfere with the educational process. In November, my husband (Enlightenment, PraetorOne’s father) and I had a beautiful menopause baby, a girl who we named Allison and the topic of Sexually Segregated Education was again brought to the front burner. Only this time I was dead set against it.Why?

Because for all intents and purposes Sexually Segregated Education is just that, a form of segregation and it is not being proposed because the people who created and who are currently promoting this movement think a great deal of women. Indeed I see a lot of self-hating women, and woman-hating men who are using pseudo science and over-generalizations to promote a very misogynistic agenda.

One proponent of segregation is Charlotte Allen of the Independent Women’s Form, who writes;

“The theory that women are the dumber sex…is amply supported by neurological and standardized testing. Men’s and women’s brains not only look different, but men’s brains are bigger than women’s ( even after adjusting for men’s generally bigger body size). The important difference is in the parietal cortex, which is associated with space perception. Visuoptical skills, the capacity to rotate three dimensional objects in the mind, at which men tend to excel over women, are in turn related to a capacity for abstract thinking and reasoning, the grounding for mathematics, science and philosophy.”

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Segregation still exists..

It’s in Iraq. At a military base as witnessed by this writeup by McClatchy writer Mike Drummond:

Here at this searing, dusty U.S. military base about four miles west of Baqouba, Iraqis - including interpreters who walk the same foot patrols and sleep in the same tents as U.S. troops - must use segregated bathrooms.

Another sign, in a dining hall, warns Iraqis and “third-cou ntry nationals” that they have just one hour for breakfast, lunch or dinner. American troops get three hours. Iraqis say they sometimes wait as long as 45 minutes in hot lines to get inside the chow hall, leaving just 15 minutes to get their food and eat it.

It’s been nearly 60 years since President Harry Truman ended racial segregation in the U.S. military. But at Forward Operating Base Warhorse it’s alive and well, perhaps the only U.S. military facility with such rules, Iraqi interpreters here say.

It’s unclear precisely who ordered the rules. “The rule separating local national latrines from soldiers was enacted about two to three rotations ago,” Maj. Raul Marquez, a spokesman for the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division, from Fort Hood, Texas, wrote in an e-mail. That was before his brigade or the 3rd Stryker Combat Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., the other major combat force here, was based at Warhorse.

As noted at the end of the article: “It seems to go against everything that the United States stands for.” Amen to that. Segregation is never right, and it never sends a good message to those we are segregating against.

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