Chaotek Thoughts

I was reading an article about a male advocacy student group that formed at the University of Chicago. What struck me was how hypocritical some of the opponents of the group were. For example, a woman who heads a group called “Women in Business” explained how she didn’t understand why there needed to be a male based business student group because there were 5-6 gender-neutral business student groups. Read that again, slowly (I’ll wait)… There are plenty of other commentators who oppose the formation of the group, but this comment was perhaps the most ironic seeing as how the speaker is the president of a gender-specific business student group. The article also notes that there are 9 female advocacy support groups, and this would be the first.

Sure, the president of “Men in Power” explained why a male-targeted group should be allowed, but why should he have to. It’s kind of like how its okay to form women-only gyms, banks, social clubs, etc; but it’s evil to do the same thing for men? Maybe I suffer from the male perspective, but I thought I understood that the goal these types of groups was equal rights…