Hillary Clinton recently elicited sympathy for deserving youths whose parent(s) considered mortgaging the family home to send a bright youngster to college. Clinton wants taxpayers to pay more subsidies for college education. I think $52,000 is quite a bit to shell out in order for a kid to be lectured on things like toilets, sex and gender.

Why is there not more emphasis by politicians on decreasing costs of of college education? Seems to me that this would be a simpler matter than decreasing costs of medical care, given the availability of educational materials on the internet today, as well as other technological advances which increase access to information. This would be especially applicable in the liberal arts and social sciences, which generally do not require much specialized equipment other than, say, special toilets.

I would even be so egalitarian as to suggest that publicly-funded institutions provide such educational materials on-line where the information could be judged for useful content by the public at large. And I rather imagine that an on-line conference on toilets, sex and gender would be far cheaper than a big in-person conference.

It’s interesting to me that the conference organizers pointedly include both sex and gender in the title of the conference. I foresee special new restroom rights for people who feel like they don’t fit in when visiting regular restrooms. So this conference may cost taxpayers a lot even after it is over.