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The Title IX lawsuit against universities for creating a hostile environment for males

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This is awfully interesting:

California doctoral student who filed Title IX complaints in 2018 against Yale University and the University of Southern California for alleged discrimination against male students has now filed a similar complaint against Harvard University.

Ph.D. student and former USC assistant lecturer Kursat Christoff Pekgoz claims that Harvard, along with other institutions of higher education in America, has created a “hostile environment against men.”

“Male students/professors who deviate from the orthodoxy of campus gender politics often face mobbing or termination,” Pekgoz wrote in his recently filed complaint against Harvard.

The Ph.D. student’s previous complaints focused mostly on the exclusion of males from certain programs, much like a 2018 complaint filed against the University of Michigan by economics professor Mark Perry, who claimed that certain university resources, including funding and scholarships, were available only to women. The Department of Education has recently agreed to investigate Perry’s claims.

Bravo.

The suit against Harvard has a different twist, however:

Pekgoz’s complaint against Harvard, however, is centered around the Ivy League school’s status as a “sponsor and accomplice” of the American Psychological Association (APA), an organization that, according to Pekgoz, “has recently proclaimed that masculinity is a form of (or a driving factor for) mental illness.”

Pekgoz claims that Harvard’s use of recently revised APA guidelines result in a number of Title IX violations, including creating “different standards of behavior/sanctions/treatment for men and women,” adopting “biased” training resources that “rely upon sex stereotypes,” and simply “endorsing an external agency (i.e., APA) which discriminates on the basis of sex in offering services.”

Bravo again.

The APA has, in my opinion, long been a political group. This is just the latest iteration.

Pekgoz has created this guide for others wishing to mount similar challenges. If you know any interested people, you might want to send them the link.

And here is his website (he was born in Turkey, by the way, and emigrated here). His self-description:

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California. I have engaged in various forms of human rights advocacy throughout my life, including the rights of political dissidents against Islamic fundamentalism and Title IX Advocacy on college campuses. I have a Prior Degree in Molecular Biology and I am Currently writing My Dissertation on Law & literature in Renaissance Tragedy. I Created this Website to Provide Contact Information and to Offer Guidance to Individuals who Want to File Civil Rights Complaints.

Courageous guy. Much more at the link.

Comments

The Title IX lawsuit against universities for creating a hostile environment for males — 17 Comments

  2. I second Kate, thrice!

    For Perry; for Pekgoz; and for Neo for publishing this.

    :>))))

  7. IMO, the legal profession is less intellectually corrupt than the corps of educational apparatchiks, so it’s conceivable that they’ll deliver some disagreeable surprises to the purveyors of this tripe. Not holding my breath, though.

  8. Interesting. His website says he has been an advocate against Islamic extremism. If so, bravo, once again. Our Turkish friends, who are Muslim, are very much opposed to the Islamist policies of the current Turkish government.

  9. hey my work does this to me:
    “different standards of behavior/sanctions/treatment for men and women,”

    what do you think of solitary confinement and separation for a few years might be?

    glad someone is at least sayung something
    i never got to go to college as i should have for much of thse things
    same wiht a lot stuff, like raises and promotions…
    🙁

  10. IMO, the legal profession is less intellectually corrupt than the corps of educational apparatchiks

    given one begets the other, how do they wash them clean?
    You probably dont know that the most quoted person in laws was a real piece of work in his home life, and too bad people didnt realize..

    if ya wonder why society thinks certain things, ideas have pedigrees:

    Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

    Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

    fun guy…

    It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society’s only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

    that was all Kinsey..
    IF you knew how he got his jollies, you may realize that much of his work was to make the kinds of things he liked more palatable to humans as if limits of any kind were wrong…

    dont think so?

    The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

  11. In fairness to that unsightly growth on the banks of the Charles, Harvard has never been a bastion of alpha masculinity (well, maybe Teddy Roosevelt was an exception). I can’t be the only one of Neo’s posters who remembers that old Tom Lehrer classic, “Fight fiercely, Hahvahd”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27PSHASlGUU&ab_channel=JanHammer

    Lyrics:

    Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight!
    demonstrate to them our skill.
    albeit they possess the might,
    nonetheless we have the will.
    How we will celebrate our victory,
    we shall invite the whole team up for tea. (how jolly!)
    hurl that spheroid down the field,
    and fight, fight, fight!

    Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight!
    impress them with our prowess, do!
    oh, fellas, do not let the crimson down,
    be of stout heart and true.
    Come on, chaps, fight for Harvard’s glorious name!
    won’t it be peachy if we win the game? (oh, goody!)
    let’s try not to injure them,
    but fight, fight, fight!

  12. https://www.creators.com/read/dennis-prager/01/19/american-psychological-association-has-made-choosing-a-therapist-easy
    American Psychological Association Has Made Choosing a Therapist Easy
    By Dennis Prager

    January 22, 2019 6 Min Read

    Three observations:

    1) The last thing American males need today is less masculinity.
    …
    2. This is another example of the most important rule of contemporary life: The left ruins everything it touches.
    …
    3. The APA statement makes choosing a psychotherapist simple.

    The hardest part of starting psychotherapy is figuring out how to choose a psychotherapist. If you choose the wrong one, you will not only be wasting a great deal of time and money; you will not be helped, and you might well be harmed.

    So, how does one go about choosing a psychotherapist? The APA just made the task much simpler: Just ask any therapist you are considering for yourself or someone else, “Do you agree with the American Psychological Association that ‘traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful’?”

    If the therapist agrees, thank him or her for the time and leave. If the therapist starts giving a prolonged response, leave. Any therapist who cannot unequivocally condemn the APA statement is unworthy of your time and your money, let alone your psyche. Many will try to weasel out of directly agreeing (or disagreeing) with the statement. They will tell you that sometimes masculinity is a problem. But they are just being careful not to lose you as a potential client. Such a statement is meaningless: There is nothing that cannot be harmful at times. That includes femininity as much as masculinity, and it includes such normally good things as water (a lot of people drown, after all).

    Without “traditional masculinity,” civilization is lost. Ask anyone you know who agrees with using the term “the greatest generation” to describe the generation that fought World War II whether the men of that generation would have fought, much less won, without “traditional masculinity.”

    Do not trust therapists who will not condemn the APA statement. They are either a fool or a coward. They may well be very kind and sincere. But that means nothing. You or your child will not be helped by kindness and sincerity. You or your child will only be helped by wisdom.

  16. Neo needs to set up some official categories like the “State” things (flower, tree, motto, song, laureates, etc).
    Nominations:
    Blog Author – Milan Kundera
    Blog Composer – ??
    Blog Danseur/Danseuse – ?? (she likes a lot of different ones; who is the tippy-top?)
    Blog Food Favorite – Jell-o
    Blog Poet – Robert Frost
    Blog Saint – Thomas More
    Blog Satirist in Chief – Tom Lehrer
    Blog Tree – everything in the NE that changes color in the fall

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