Students in Boston U. ‘Medieval Trans Studies’ Course Learn About ‘Gender Fluid Angels’
“Medieval studies resisted the woke turn in the humanities but eventually succumbed to it.”
The left has been going after Medieval studies for a long time, trying to find a way to make it fit their woke worldview.
The College Fix reports:
Boston U. students to study ‘gender fluid angels’ in ‘Medieval Trans Studies’ class
Boston University is offering a graduate-level “Medieval Trans Studies” course for the upcoming spring semester that explores how “medieval texts speak to the historical, theoretical, and political concerns that animate contemporary trans studies.”
The course has drawn criticism from scholars who argue that it reflects modern ideological biases rather than historical accuracy.
It considers “the deep histories of transgender embodiment” through an examination of texts stemming from the Middle Ages, according to the course description.
Students will read about “alchemical hermaphrodites, genderfluid angels, Ethiopian eunuchs, trans saints, sex workers, and genderqueer monks,” according to the university.
Adam Kissel, a fellow with the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, told The College Fix via email, “It is a mistake for the course to misinterpret Medieval texts by indulging modern obsessions.”
He said it is permissible for universities to study how Medieval writers understood their fantasies regarding gender. However, BU’s course is “a distraction from better emphases.”
“In the Middle Ages there was no rational doubt that humans were created only male and female. The people knew that freaks of nature were abnormal,” Kissel said.
“Medieval studies resisted the woke turn in the humanities but eventually succumbed to it. The academic humanities need to be rebuilt from the ground up” as they “are largely self-indulgent activism,” he said.
Offering similar criticism, University of Chicago history Professor Rachel Fulton Brown told The College Fix she is not surprised that Boston University would implement a course of this nature. Brown explained the course’s title is likely “intended to get people’s attention.”
“[Sexuality is] degraded to the point…that we don’t take its intense power as seriously,” Brown said.
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What a useless course. For this, the students will encumber themselves with debt they’ll never be able to pay off.
The most important lesson students learned this year: You won’t encumber yourself with debt, our government will pay off your loans.
The course has drawn criticism from scholars who argue that it reflects modern ideological biases rather than historical accuracy.
Ya think?
Was the Taylor Swift course full?
It’s well accepted as dogma that angels are sexless (not trendily “gender-fluid”). It doesn’t affirm or refute anything, since they are a completely different species (that term is not even strong enough), not just “fancy humans.” You may as well talk about gender-fluid oaks.
Exactly this….angels do not reproduce sexually in all accounts of their alleged existence.
Except for one origin story of the Nephilim, which is a fringe belief.
This reminds me of a true story from a few decades ago.
A woman attempted suicide by leaping from the Golden Gate Bridge. However, she survived the fall. Afterwards, she was asked if she remembered what she was thinking when she realized she’d reached the point of no return. Her response: “Well, it occurred to me that maybe this wasn’t a great idea.”
How can anybody take you seriously if you’ve got a degree from this place?
A place that would approve such a course.
What else do they allow
Why is it that these New England institutions have gone completely off the rails? Good Lord…I had no time for this superfluous nonsense when I was a premed at Hillsdale, up to my ears in chemistry, physics, biology, etc.
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