Chip Chick
His speech also criticized the current American social landscape, which evidently fails to meet his standards, favoring men as the superior gender.
“Our culture is steeped with feminism; it teaches young boys and girls that they are motivated by much the same things and want much the same things.”
It’s almost humorous to unpack this language since I would agree that we are teaching the next generation that they can work toward any goal with enough dedication and preparation.
However, though feminism has risen in popularity as recently as the 2010s, we are still far from a good “steeping” since there are apparently still misogynistic meccas in existence, such as this conference.
Yenor went as far as to say that women should be discouraged from even pursuing a career in engineering, even if they would be higher performers than the men currently occupying the field.
He stated, “Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school, and the law, and every trade.”
He seems to acknowledge that there are apparent gaps in the accomplishments in engineering without the skills and knowledge that women have contributed to the field in recent years.
If he is worried about women out-competing men, perhaps they should all remain in the same playing field, so motivation doesn’t decrease.
After all, what are a bunch of complacent engineers going to do if no one is even allowed to challenge their entirely unjustified dominance?
In addition, the fact that he rates “every trade” as beyond women’s reach betrays his ignorance of the leaders in so many American industries, including astronautics, physics, and mathematics.
It seems that in making his argument, this professor has essentially implied that he wishes every American sector to decrease in productivity, the competence of its workforce, and the competitive pressure which produces innovation and creativity.
