Comments on: Phyllis Schlafly: wouldn’t pass my composition class

By: Misogynist film trailer really has to see to be believed « Notes from Evil Bender

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:44:59 +0000

[...] a video promoting a Christianist film called The Monstrous Regiment of Women, which starts with Phyllis Schlafly, and actually gets more odious from there, including a woman who claimed to work for a family [...]

By: My Mind is Wider than the Sky

My Mind is Wider than the Sky — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:33:36 +0000

One thing I learned while acquiring my English degree was to analyze sources. Lynne Cheney (Veep’s wife) founded the organization, served as director (followed by Wm. Bennett), and supposedly it supports “academic freedom.” This support which can be financial, or in the case of Ms. Schafly, public discourse, supports “freedom” as long as the viewpoints support one specific and approved political agenda (sounds rather, um, communist, eh? And not all free).

And as a college English teacher, I make two points about the titles of courses. One, it’s English, so naturally we ‘play’ with the language. Two, it’s English, and frankly students aren’t interested, so just like a Madison Avenue ad agency, we try to sell our “product” to an apathetic public. The course work itself is valid and often rather traditional. (Psst, just don’t tell the students that!)

Now the question could be: why are students apathetic? Community college growth has outpaced growth of all other postsecondary institutions, likely because high school graduates no longer graduate with the ability to read and, therefore, require remediation. Perhaps that education failing authored by public and political policy pleases Ms. Schafly?

By: Evil Bender

Evil Bender — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:09:59 +0000

Dear anti-stupidity,

When expressing our own ideas why the hell should I provide sources?

Thank you for making my point for me.

In closing and since I am not writing an essay let me say that Liberal have not critical thinking skills. They don’t learn about consequence of actions, but instead focus on avoiding responsibility and the way it “should be according to them.”

Thanks for summing up in one paragraph why coursework in English is so important! At very least, it could teach you to proofread, to not rely on assertions presented without evidence, to not abuse quotation marks, and to not make hasty generalizations.

Kisses,

By: Anti-stupidity

Anti-stupidity — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:28:16 +0000

Schafly has a good point in the advice offered, maybe not the reasons. What I dare ask is what are you going to do with a Major in English without additional schooling? Sell Mattresses at the local furniture store?
I think the main point should be to emphasize the fact that a lot of degree are dead end degrees. Note that UW Oshkosh a GPA requirement is the same as that of Philosophy, a 2.0. The more worthwhile degrees are at a 2.5 or higher. Reason for this? English is a worthless degree. Any required training beyond that achieved in High school is worthless. Most Americans read at between the 8th and 9th grade level. http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com/pdfs/The_Health_Literacy_Problem_v2.pdf
But enough here, I don’t want to step on any liberal art student toes. They might go flaming gay on me and try to shove a pile of rotted logic at me to justify just how useful the degree they are after is worth. I mean what would Michelangelo have done without and Art degree? (For you Liberal Art students that don’t understand Sarcasm, that was a sarcastic remark.)
Now to address another complaint concerning Schafly’s paper. When expressing our own ideas why the hell should I provide sources? New ideas don’t need to cite someone else. Granted she could have extrapolated further on this concept. Maybe Cho Seung-Hui was an English major because his GPA was high enough for anything else. Or he realized too late that the degree is worthless and he didn’t have enough worthwhile classes to get a different degree.
Further to point out why Evil Bender had such an easy job ripping her apart, because she was not trying to build a paper against him.
I would like to make notation of the fact that he doesn’t provide source’s to support some of his claims. If I want to develop critical thinking skills I will take a science class, maybe a philosophy course depending on what kind of critical thinking I want to learn to do.
In closing and since I am not writing an essay let me say that Liberal have not critical thinking skills. They don’t learn about consequence of actions, but instead focus on avoiding responsibility and the way it “should be according to them.”
Evil Bender, do the world a favor, go get a job working at McDonald’s get rid of your internet connection and quit trying to share your great reservoirs of convoluted wisdom with idiots that are easily confused and mislead.

By: Announcing the winner of the 2nd Phyllis Schlafly award: « Notes from Evil Bender

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:53:26 +0000

[...] was the case in the essay that caused this award to be named after Schlafly, she’s incapable of providing any evidence to support her claims. She doesn’t [...]

By: I Get Email « Notes from Evil Bender

I Get Email « Notes from Evil Bender — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:56:12 +0000

[...] recover from this abuse. Obviously I should take back everything I said about John Coleman and Phyllis Schlafly, because any misspelled criticism is clearly invalid. Why, god, [...]

By: John Coleman wins the inaugural Phyllis Schlafly Award « Notes from Evil Bender

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:02:52 +0000

[...] his complete lack of evidence and analysis, I present Mr. Coleman with the Phyllis Schlafly Wouldn’t Pass Freshman Composition Award for complete ineptness in [...]

By: Think Before You Post, Brother Izzy « Give Me Ethos or Give Me Death!

Think Before You Post, Brother Izzy « Give Me Ethos or Give Me Death! — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:35:17 +0000

[...] believes that I need to saved. I, however, have a few issues with their post. So, in the spirit of Evil Bender’s Phyllis Schlafly post, I want to address these [...]

By: I love it when wingnuts bring the crazy in list form « Notes from Evil Bender

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:39:26 +0000

[...] Or maybe I’m being too harsh in attributing to them malicious intent: maybe their fear of education has left them without the necessary critical thinking skills to actually evaluate an argument’s claims. Hey, it happened to Phillis Schlafly. [...]

By: we shouldn’t take coulter or malkin too seriously, civilization x, mending wall « inkbluesky

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:09:30 +0000

[...] Republican stalwarts like Elizabeth Dole, Olympia Snow, Laura Bush and religious Conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly. Many Conservatives, most Independents and Libertarians don’t want to be associated with the [...]