The Consequences of Title IX

Dr. Helenpoints us to a "tragic" story of a young woman who applied to five colleges, was accepted at four and got waitlisted at the fifth. Now unless the waitlist college was her dream college-I offer no sympathy and my response is for the girl to quit whining.

But Dr. Helen brings up another very valid point:

Okay, so the "you go girl!" program is now backfiring--instead of Prince Charming coming to rescue their little Princesses, some mothers such as the author, have just rewritten the script. It now goes like this: "if you are a girl, the world owes you, nothing can stop you and you will be given everything you want--while pushing all others (e.g. boys) out of the way."

snip

If you fall down, you get back up. The world does not owe you and life isn't always fair, especially if feminists are in power.

But now the tides are turning and the very affirmative action rules and regulations that were to be used to promote their little girls (as well as other select groups) are backfiring. Maybe if we selected students based on their actual qualifications, rather than gender or skin color, their daughters would be back in the running. But if you are going to play the affirmative action card, you have to live with the results and play by the rules, and that may mean the very "minority" you are trying to promote may become the very ones who lose out. Watch out what you wish for, it may come back to bite you in the ass.

I have long felt that affirmative action will eventually come back to haunt those who have been advantaged by the programs and efforts to achieve diversity in any location, whether it be the work force or the college campus. Instead of working to improve their own lot, favored groups have resorted to perpetual victimhood and their collective drive to equalize their standing has atrophied.

Now that white men are increasingly becoming a minority on college campuses, it does not surprise me that otherwise qualified young women are no longer getting the prefential treatment they once enjoyed in the admissions process. What surprises me is the knee-jerk reaction that it must be white men who are at fault. What rubbish!!