Annie Jacobsen’s excellent article about the new religious segregation at the Harvard gym on PJM today raises a lot of interesting questions, but she missed what may be the most important one: Are they smoking Alaweed? [Bad pun. Seven demerits.-ed]
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LOL–yep, that’s definitely a reminder that puns are as they say the ‘lowest form of humor’–
What’s just as bad in its own way is how a columnist for one of the nation’s newspapers can applaud the coming of sharia to Harvard as progress.
Where’s the ACLU on this one? That is obviously a rhetorical question. They’re only interested in the rights of illegal alien eco-anarchist post-op transexual chimney sweeps in public facilities. Ordinary college students who pay tuition? Psshaw!
This cries out for a male Harvard Law student to show up during the segregated hours to work out, preferably in a Jack Daniel’s t-shirt, with bonus points for snacking on some pork rinds between laps. If faculty and administrators find that suggestion offensive perhaps these multiculturalist boot-lickers should consider how their spineless appeasement offends all free-thinking Americans.
Damn fools. These people possess less sense than God gave a duck, with a profound disdain for liberty to boot. 1938 is here! Better still, make that 1984.
As an Orthodox Jew, I think the separate women only hours are great – as long as ALL WOMEN are allowed to come WITHOUT ANY HARASSMENT during those times and not just those in the Islamic Fold – and that the same courtesy be extended to a MEN ONLY period.
Orthodox Jews appreciate it when public swimming pools are made available only for women during certain hours as there are Halachic (Religious Laws for lack of better term) issues with parts of a woman’s body being exposed to a non-spouse. But it works both ways, as Orthodox Jewish men need a men only time so they can go themselves and not be exposed to certain parts of other woman’s bodies.
But the religion of the gender makes no difference, Orthodox Jewish men and women have no issues in mingling with others of the same gender.
seePea: a pox on both your houses. May you both have to choose between starving and eating pork. How can you all cleave to such archaic and outdone micromanagement codes of conduct? There has not been a case of trichinosis in the US for a generation.
I am much more interested in whether sexes should be educationally segregated, but to see an ankle is banned by God??? Give me a break.