Students at Williams College in Massachusetts were so opposed to hearing an anti-feminist speech the school cancelled the event.
Williams was hosting a speaker series called ‘Uncomfortable Learning,’ intended to expose students to new and controversial ideas.
Apparently, hearing a critique of feminism would be a little bit too uncomfortable for some students.
Suzanne Venker, author of The Two Income Trap, The War on Men, and The Flipside of Feminism, said she had been preparing her remarks for two months, but was informed just a few days before that the program was cancelled.
Venker wrote in a Fox News post that she was planning to discuss feminism from a different perspective than students are used to hearing.
“I was going to tell them why feminism fails. (Hint: because it denies the existence of biology and teaches that equality means sameness, which is a losing proposition when it comes to planning a life — particularly if that life includes marriage and family,)” she wrote.
The ‘Uncomfortable Learning’ series is part of an effort started last year by three Williams students.
“We created ‘Uncomfortable Learning’ out of a desire to push our Williams education further and to challenge ourselves and the Williams community,” student Ben Fischberg told The College Fix. “We aimed to expand the dialogue at Williams on certain issues that were restrained.”
The day before Venker was officially uninvited, she received an email from a member of the group giving her a ‘heads up’ that her upcoming appearance had caused some angry reactions among Williams students.
“That I was passed over is not the concern,” Venker wrote. “What is of concern, what should be of concern to all of us, is a new kind of progressive climate that pervades America’s campuses.”
