The East Marches II wrote:Dakini wrote:Arts and humanities are useful to help people learn how to express themselves in writing, which is rather important in life, even if you intend on having a career in a STEM field. Critical analysis of cultural works can also help students develop critical thinking skills which are sorely lacking in the general population.
If you're going to cut anything, you should cut business classes. Those are fuck all useless.
If the goal is critical thinking, I'm not sure we as a society want the places bringing about kangaroo courts for men teaching that sort of thing. They themselves are clearly incapable of it.
Sadly this is the case.
There’s also plenty of gender discrimination, up to and including schools expelling victims of rape and sexual assault based on their gender. Even going so far as asserting that rape against male students doesn’t matter because they could just leave or would have liked it anyway.
Unironically.