Fraternities and men’s only clubs are a thing of the past at Harvard. The impetus for this is the toxic masculinity narrative. (Like the one being pushed by Gillette.) Men in exclusive groups become misogynistic bastards who mistreat women. To put an end to this Harvard said no more. So, beginning with the 2017 Freshman Class, anyone who joined a single-gender club could face restrictions.
Members wouldn’t be able to hold leadership positions on campus, serve as captains of athletic teams, or receive Harvard’s endorsement for postgraduate scholarships like the Rhodes and the Marshall. The groups could avoid the sanctions only if they went coed.
Mandated diversity. Coed or No-Ed, so to speak.
But in the name of equality that meant women’s groups had to comply as well. No more women-only sororities. Everything had to be coed. Which, as it turns out, has had an interesting side-effect. Off-campus gender-only groups of women around Harvard are disappearing too. And that wasn’t what they were after.
The women, … say that the administration’s approach to halting gender discrimination has endangered gender-exclusive spaces that weren’t part of the problem.
Harvard’s four sororities shut down. One reopened, but it is coed. All the women’s final groups – private off-campus groups – have gone coed. Kind of like the women’s bathrooms in New Hampshire. But women at Harvard say, “such groups remain necessary on a campus where issues like sexual misconduct persist.”
So, the goal wasn’t diversity it was gender-exclusive privilege. For real women. But Harvard messed it up.
Real women hit hardest.
|Chronicle of Higher Ed
|Legal Insurrection
