This is not the pursuit of knowledge; it is the coddling of adult babies. What an utter waste of time and money.
The College Fix reports:
Oregon State U. students to explore gender, race, sexuality in animated Disney filmsOregon State University is offering a course in which students will explore “the construction of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation in the animated films of Walt Disney.”“Disney: Gender, Race, Empire” also “introduces concepts in film theory and criticism” and “develops analyses of the politics of representation,” according to its course description.The course satisfies part of OSU’s foundational core requirement in the “Difference, Power, and Discrimination” category, for which students must complete three to four credits. It also counts toward the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major.The College Fix reached out to the School of Language, Culture, and Society and OSU media relations for more information about the course. Neither has responded.Chance Layton, director of communications for the National Association of Scholars, said it’s unlikely this class would offer a balanced cultural analysis.NAS is a conservative non-profit that advocates against diversity policies.“I can’t imagine a WGSS department providing a balanced cultural critique on a good day,” Layton said. “All of these departments are born in an entirely ideologically captured field.”Further, he said “the department, title, and description would lead me to assume that this course will rely heavily on some form of CRT or a heavily deconstructionist perspective.”Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative public policy research think tank, is also skeptical of the course.“It is impossible to overstate the decadence of ‘Disney: Gender, Race, Empire.’ Sadly, such betrayals of learning, in almost identical form, have become standard over the last four decades,” she told The Fix via email.She added that “There is no scholarly grounding to such High Theory-pop culture courses; they consist of a rote recycling of a mannered academic discourse that refers to almost nothing outside of itself.”
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