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Some people simply don’t understand that a degree in Liberal Arts technically means that person is an actor or actress. "Liberating The Arts". They are majoring in theatre, acting, media, mass communications. Their minds are in the clouds.

Liberal Arts = L.A.

Understand?

Um, no.

Theater and music are often in a separate college. Liberal Arts has nothing to do with being an actor/actress.

While Liberal Arts includes the humanities such as literature and poetry, it also includes philosophy, the social sciences such as history, economics and politics, as well as science, and much more.

A degree in Liberal Arts requires the student to have a more rounded education process, studying a bit from different disciplines and not just focusing on, say, math, math and more math like an engineering student. Liberal Arts students are required to learn some history, some literature, learn a foreign language and by extension, learn about other cultures. Learning about philosophy leads to logic which is a big component of advanced mathematics and of course, the entire scientific method.

A degree in Liberal Arts is "learning about learning".

I double majored in college, ending up with both an Engineering and Liberal Arts degree. My engineering classmates all derided the Liberal Arts majors, saying they were just wasting their time, would never get a job, etc. They didn’t get it. When it came time for us to find our first jobs senior year, they realized, too late, the benefit of having a broader education beyond simply having taken the same math and engineering classes along with the other 5000 graduating students from our class.

Since I know a lot of feminists out there will call me stupid, close-minded and ignorant for this, and even people who aren’t and support the movement, I’m adding some legit leading feminists quotes. Btw, I’m a woman, anti-feminism ftw.

"Feminism is built on believing women’s accounts of sexual use and abuse by men."Catharine MacKinnon

"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."Catherine MacKinnon

"All men are rapists and that’s all they are" Marilyn French Author, "The Women’s Room" (quoted again in People Magazine) "All men are rapists and that’s all they are …" –Feminist Marilyn French, People Magazine (Percent of reported rape or near-rape incidents = .07% [The FBI's Uniform Crime Report lists for the year 1996])

"[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which ALL MEN KEEP ALL WOMEN IN A STATE OF FEAR" [emphasis added] — Susan Brownmiller (Against Our Will p. 6)

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership." — Andrea Dworkin.

"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies." — Andrea Dworkin

"Romance is rape embellished with meaningful looks." Andrea Dworkin in the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1995..

"Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman," Andrea Dworkin, Liberty, p.58..

"One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible." Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 21..

"In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them."–Gloria Steinem

"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual [male], it may be mainly a quantitative difference." — Susan Griffin "Rape: The All-American Crime"
(p. 86)

"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression…" — Sheila Jeffrys

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire." — Robin Morgan, "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" in "Going to Far," 1974.

"Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don’t like it, bad luck – and if you get in my way I’ll run you down." — Letter to the Editor: "Women’s Turn to Dominate" — Signed: Liberated Women, Boronia — Herald-Sun, Melbourne, Australia – 9 February 1996

"It is not only men convicted of rape who believe that the only thing they did that was different from what men do all the time is get caught."

"If sexuality is central to women’s definition and forced sex is central to sexuality, rape is indigenous, not exceptional, to women’s social condition."

"Under law, rape is a sex crime that is not regarded as a crime when it looks like sex. The law, speaking generally, defines rape as intercourse with force or coercion and without consent., Like sexuality under male supremacy, this definition assumes the sadomasochistic definition of sex: intercourse with force or coercion can be or become consensual."

"Compare victims’ reports of rape with women’s reports of sex. They look a lot alike….[T]he major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it." Catherine MacKinnon, quoted in Christina Hoff Sommers, "Hard-Line Feminists Guilty of Ms.-Representation," Wall Street Journal, November 7, 1991.

"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist" — Ti-Grace Atkinson "Amazon Odyssey" (p. 86)

"In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent." Catherine MacKinnon in Professing Feminism: Cautionary

You should also look into sex-positive feminism, which is the response to the feminist ideology you’ve typed out here.

Try searching out Carol Queen, Nina Hartley, Tristan Taormino, Pat Califia, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Susie Bright, Betty Dodson, Diana Cage, and Annie Sprinkle.

I’m a feminist and I love men, sex, and porn- and I hate patriarchy and sexism. Feminism FTW!

It’s crazy…

"Feminism is built on believing women’s accounts of sexual use and abuse by men." — Catharine MacKinnon

"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman." Catherine MacKinnon

"All men are rapists and that’s all they are" — Marilyn French Author, "The Women’s Room" (quoted again in People Magazine) "All men are rapists and that’s all they are …" –Feminist Marilyn French, People Magazine (Percent of reported rape or near-rape incidents = .07% [The FBI's Uniform Crime Report lists for the year 1996])