University Professor Loses Admin Job For Stating That “Men Cannot Get Pregnant”
by Vigilant Citizen | Jun 12, 2020 |
Vigilant Citizen – June 11, 2020
A professor at the University of Alberta was fired from her administration role because her views on gender (based on the fact that one’s biological sex is real) made some students to “feel unsafe”.
Kathleen Lowrey is an associate professor of anthropology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Alberta, in Canada. She is also serving as the chair of the undergraduate program – an administrative role which includes duties such as chairing a committee about courses, approving transfer credits, and running a special seminar for honors students in the department.
She’s also a feminist. However, according to some anonymous students and the higher-ups of her University, she is not the right kind of feminist. Because she believes that women are … women. Even worse, she believes that men cannot be women because they don’t have a vagina
These extreme and radical views caused her to become “problematic” as she was pressured to leave her administrative role. When she refused to do so, she was fired.
Lowrey says she was told in meetings that complaints, made to the dean of students and the university’s Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights, were that her views on feminism were making students feel unsafe and there were concerns this was driving students away from choosing anthropology as a major. She doesn’t know exactly the nature of the complaints — or who made them — because they were made informally and anonymously, she said.
“My chair was hoping that for the good of the department I would resign from my position.”
She said she was also told she had been discouraging students from organizing Pride events, which she denies. It was this claim which led her to conclude the complaints centred around her views on gender.
Following a subsequent meeting with the dean of the faculty, she received a letter saying she couldn’t effectively continue in the role and her leaving would be in the best interests of the department. Lowrey said the letter didn’t expound upon the reasons for her dismissal, and she maintains she has never been given proper reasons for her dismissal in writing.
– National Post, University of Alberta prof loses admin role over views on gender that made students feel ‘unsafe’
Lowrey is not a conservative that is looking to “own the libs”. She actually ascribes her intellectual formation to Marxism and radical feminism. While this kind of background should receive an enthusiastic thumbs-up from the social justice crowd, it is not enough anymore.
That’s because Lowrey describes herself as a “gender-critical feminist” which considers biological sex of primordial importance in fighting for women’s rights. While, only a few years ago, this precept was the norm in feminist circles, it is now deemed bad and “transphobic”.
Until what seems like a few minutes ago, there was nothing controversial about this opinion. But now there is. The only “correct” opinion to hold is that gender expression trumps biology in any rights-based claims. And in academic circles, Lowrey’s views, which she is at no pains to hide on campus and off, are a form of apostasy that cries out for punishment.
– National Post, Barbara Kay: U of A professor holds the line on free expression
Lowrey boils her views on feminism down to a few key ideas: Men cannot get pregnant, lesbians don’t have penises, and biological sex is real. These views apparently made students feel “unsafe” and “caused them harm”.
We are talking about a University (a place of the highest learning possible) being “harmed” by the pre-school teaching that “boys have weewees”.
In an interview with the Edmonton Journal, Lowrey explained the rationale behind her views:
“People should be able to express their gender in whatever manner they wish (but) I don’t agree with biological sex being irrelevant. I think treating biological sex as irrelevant has some really serious policy implications. As an example, housing trans-identified men in women’s prisons is not fair to women prisoners and I think it puts women at risk.”
“I said on the first day of class we’re going to read material in this class that are currently out of fashion in academia. You certainly don’t have to agree with me. Since this is a university, I think it’s important to be exposed to — this is important literature they should be aware of.
The university has said it’s perfectly OK to fire people for doubting that men can get pregnant, for doubting lesbians can have penises. The implications are very dangerous because this is a live issue in our contemporary Canadian democracy.”
She is also worried about students who agree with her but are afraid to voice their opinion due to the current climate of intimidation.
“They’re not paranoid. Because this is not an abstruse problem, it’s a live debate in our current society and for the university to take the position that if you’re on the wrong side of this, we’re going to fire you, is terrifying for students.”
Another worrying aspect of this story is the underhanded (and cowardly) way her situation was handled. Complaints were “informally” made by anonymous students, whom Lowrey doubts ever attended her class. Also, she was falsely accused of discouraging a Pride parade. When she was pressured to resign, Lowrey refused to do so, arguing that the onus was on the university to dismiss her and to explain its reasons in writing. The Dean of arts then dismissed her in writing with the vague reason:
“It is not in the best interests of the students or the university for Lowrey to continue sitting.”
In other words, Lowrey wanted the university to justify in writing the basic principle behind her dismissal. There was none. The sad fact is that Lowrey was probably targeted by the radical groups that are turning universities into indoctrination camps. And the university caved into the pressure. This is happening all over the world.
J.K. Rowling Also Under Attack
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I read about the JK Rowling thing the other day when Harry Potter himself, and one of the other little warthogs was wheeled out to push the trans agenda. This Common Purpose bullshit is embarrassingly easy to spot.
He emerged from his show-biz bubble and the Twittersphere to lecture the plebs, with a Hey Presto! or whatever he uses, I’ve never read the shite. Using all his Hogwarts wizardry, he proclaimed it possible that a man can biologically become a woman!
Now, I’m no wizard but even I know, that no matter how many bat wings, cat claws and silicone you put into your magic potion, a man born a man stays a man biologically.
This is further proof of the Orwellian doublethink that is rife throughout academia, media and state institutions. Man is woman. Woman is man. Love Big Brother.
The madness continues to get worse.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! They are of those that rebel against the Light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and WORSE, deceiving, and being deceived.” (Isaiah 5:20,23; Job 24:13; 2Peter 3:3; 2Timothy 3:13)
The university has said it’s perfectly OK to FIRE people for doubting that men can get pregnant, for doubting lesbians can have penises.
Does anyone, even the imbeciles who said this, and fired this woman, believe that a man can get pregnant and a lesbian (ie. woman) can have a penis?
This should not be a thing which is up for debate. No man has ever got pregnant, they don’t have wombs, and no woman has ever had a penis, as this would make that person a man and not a woman.
To all loonies; Please don’t try to correct me by saying “Some women think they are men and live as men but still have their wombs so they can get pregnant” That argument is self defeating because they are of course just deluded women. Or “Some women have a penis because a doctor turned her vagina inside out” That isn’t a penis, its an inside out vagina, and something which would never satisfy or kid a real woman. Will the people of this world get any more crazy or have we reached the limit?
we go back to these deviants issues in the middle of corona and riots , zog must be still comfortable not shocked
I am now fully convinced that we fully entered into Bizzaro World.
While of course its easy to sympathise with this woman, the vast body of academics even while probably not accepting the whole Cultural Marxist programme still refuse to call out that the emperor has no clothes. Throughout academia,medicine, the law, and the civil service etc there is a culture of cowardice where eternal truths come second to immediate career and monetary concerns. Ultimately though, those who think they are safe could well end up hanging separately. It is possibly the case that lady in the news item had to spew out the cultural marxist crap in order to get her job anyway.
If this teacher was actually discouraging a “pride” parade, i would praise her. But seeing as how she is described: “She actually ascribes her intellectual formation to Marxism and radical feminism”, I doubt very much she was discouraging it. With her background, which is the norm for teachers today, disgustingly, I’m sure she is truthful when she denies discouraging it. But for the snowflake cultural Marxist university crowd, also the norm today, she didn’t go far enough. What an amazingly screwed up society it has degenerated into. Thanks Zio supremacists.
JR Rowling did not write those crap books they were stolen and passed to the jewess rowling to put out same as Einstein and Bob Dylan
their work was stolen from Goys.
the world has gone totally mad
It is a pity most people are so dim they cannot see what the “Game-Plan” is.
Here is a quote which basically says what our Puppet-Masters are trying to do:
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“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” — Dr George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953
’nuff said!
The University of Alberta, eh? A glorified community college and clearly run by f***ing retards and shameful cowards. Time to lay the wood to that idiotic institution – boycott, mock vigorously, defund, slam in reviews, pelt the administration with rotting fruits and vegetables, etc., etc…. Enough is enough of this toxic virus and the outrageous lies of political correctness.