Phallologocentrism and Queer Musicology

Do you have kids in college? Do you know what they are learning? Take a look and you might be appalled.

Southern California seems to have assumed the mantle of the politically correct nonsense curriculum, formerly the domain of the Ivy Leagues, with courses in “The Phallus” (Occidental College -- examines phallologocentrism and the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus) and “Queer Musicology” (UCLA -- an “unruly discourse explores how sexual difference and complex gender identities among musicians have incited productive consternation”) understood through the works of Cole Porter, Holly Near and Pussy Tourette.

The Young America’s Foundation (see pic above) has published “The Dirty Dozen: America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses.” The Occidental and UCLA courses mentioned above took the top two spots on the infamous list demonstrating that “professors still have an obsession with dividing people on the basis of their skin color, sexuality, and gender.” The Dirty Dozen are the “most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting traditional scholarship.”

Occidental College makes the list twice with “Blackness,” which elaborates on a “new blackness, critical blackness, post-blackness, and an unforgivable blackness,” which all combine to create a “feminist New Black Man.” This must be one lonely fellow.

In case you feel that blacks are being picked on at Oxy, never fear as there is also a course in “Whiteness” that examines “the construction of whiteness in the historic, legal and economic contexts which have allowed it to function as an enabling condition for privilege and race-based prejudice.” A passing grade in “Whiteness” is a prerequisite for taking “Blackness,” which is clearly a higher level course.

Even the Shakespeare course at Occidental focuses on “cultural anxieties over authority, race, colonialism and religion.”

Not to be outdone by the left coast, the Elite East offers “Taking Marx Seriously: Should Marx be given another chance?” (Amherst College -- inquires “if societies can gain new insights by returning to Marx’s texts.”) Students learn that Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot merely misapplied the concepts of Marxism and it deserves to be rescued from the “ash heap of history.”

In “The Adultery Novel” (U. Pennsylvania -- read adultery novels and watch adultery films) students learn to “place adultery into its aesthetic, social and cultural context, including: sociological descriptions of modernity, Marxist examinations of family as a social and economic institution and feminist work on the construction of gender.” They really like Marx and feminism.

Duke’s history course “American Dreams/American Realities” seeks to unearth “such myths as rags to riches, beacon to the world, and the frontier in defining the American character.” So much for the vision of America as “a city on a hill.” It’s the death of patriotism.

Charlotte Allen an editor at Beliefnet notes that “American higher education has lost any notion of what its students ought to know about the ideas and people and movements that created the civilization in which they live: Who Plato was or what happened at Appomattox.”

Occidental professor Jeffrey Tobin (“The Phallus”) reports that his course is sold out and there is a long waiting list.

How many Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment? (25%) How many can name at least two family members of “The Simpsons.” (over 50%) The Washington Post reports that only 31% of college grads could read and comprehend complex books, while The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that 40% of college students need remedial work in math and English.

But the vast majority of college grads are indoctrinated in political correctness and a whole variety of nonsense - “isms.” We need to put our educational resources to better use!