The Great Feminization of the American University

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My associate Heather Mac Donald has published a provocative brand-new essay in City Journal, entitled “The Great Feminization of the American University.” Mac Donald mentions that women now make up the judgment majority on school: 75 percent of Ivy League presidents, 66 percent of college administrators, and 58 percent of current graduates are now female.

And the consequences, Mac Donald argues, are uncomfortable. “Female students and administrators typically exist in a co-dependent relationship, unified by the principles of victim identity and of injury,” she composes. “For university women, there is not, apparently, strength in numbers. The more women’ ranks increase, the more we hear about a mass nervous breakdown on campus.”

In my new video essay, I evaluate this cultural shift and explain how the contemporary university has ended up being a “therapeutic institution,” identified by the following patterns:

– The left-wing victim story has actually moved from an economic axis to a mental axis, with “traumatizer” and “shocked” replacing “oppressed” and “oppressed.”.
– Individual pathology is valorized as a type of marginalized identity.
– This brand-new social system incentivizes trauma, disorder, and emotional displays.
– The university has created a healing administration that runs on political ideology.

This video is sponsored by Manhattan Institute.

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“Female students and administrators frequently exist in a co-dependent relationship, united by the principles of victim identity and of injury,” she writes. “For university women, there is not, obviously, strength in numbers. The more females’ ranks increase, the more we hear about a mass nervous breakdown on school.”