What is the ifeminist position on having womens studies programs at public universities?
Women’s studies programs are a good example of why universities should not be publicly funded. Many people find that their tax dollars are funding poor scholarship and dissemination of offensive and inaccurate information in the name of women’s studies. It is likely that such disinformation would have a hard time taking hold in a marketplace of ideas. Yet they are easily propped up when we are forced to support them against our will through taxes. The ifeminist position is that women’s studies programs should compete in the free market. Let those who choose to fund them voluntarily do so, but it is inappropriate to force those who would otherwise not choose to fund them to “contribute” through taxation.
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