Re: Bait and switch

Thanks for your response. I'm not sure I actually understand what you mean, so I am likely to get the wrong end of the stick here. But anyway, when you say "mass scale institutionalization of masculinity and femininity" I assume you mean my advocacy of same sex classes and schools, since I don't think I proposed any other policy that could be interpreted in those terms. And when you say "constraining women in general" I'm not sure which bit of my argument you're referring to, unless it is my proposal to sweep women out of boys' classrooms, which will certainly restrict them if they particularly wanted to teach boys. For these proposals, I can only say that I am unapologetic. I have always assumed that teaching was not a "right" of women - or of men for that matter - but a sacred privilege, whose primary object should be the well-being of the pupils. And if a group of pupils are best served by a male teacher than a female one, then sucks to the female one. I'm glad that most women are not feminist campaigners or activists, but, as Etenne's example showed, the activists can cause harm out of all proportion to their numbers if their ideology goes unquestioned.