Feminist professor offers extra credit to women who stop shaving legs and arm pits

[MADem]

122. If you don't care for the major, don't go for it.

If you don't like the courses, eschew them.

The article is about people who took the course and learned something from the extra credit experiment.

The bottom line is this--unless you're majoring in a nuts-and-bolts type of discipline, like "accounting" or "chemistry," or "education" with a certification to teach at the end of the academic rainbow, you're not going to be prepared to do much more than THINK with a bachelor's degree, particularly the bachelor of arts. But that IS what college teaches young people--how to think. They take the fire hose of learn these facts/memorize this for the first 12 years of their schooling, and in the latter four, they learn how to think, to examine how they FEEL about things.

I think learning how to think--and figuring out how a person feels--about these kinds of appearance and gender related issues is a very worthy growth activity. I don't think it's time wasted at all. If those kids do nothing but manage a pizza parlor after they graduate college, they'll at least have an insight into how to treat their customers as a consequence of that course. It may well influence how they deal with their employees, to say nothing of how they approach their neighbors and friends.