Texas A&M University on Friday announced it is ending its programs in women’s and gender studies as part of a broader effort to eliminate teaching related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and canceled six to comply with a policy adopted last November that prohibits, without approval from the campus president, teaching that “will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Ira Dworkin, an associate professor of English at Texas A&M and vice president of the American Association of University Professors at the university’s flagship College Station campus, condemned the move as an unprecedented political interference by the university’s board of regents, all of whom were appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican.
I did a ton of research about the neurological differences (the kind controlled by hormones like oxytocin) between men and women for a book… Men and women are equally emotional but testosterone is a literally “chemical brake” on tear production… Which is a stress reliever (reduces cortisol).
What this means is that if you have a room full of people and the women are crying because something awful happened, it’s likely that the men would also be crying if they didn’t have testosterone cutting it off. The same emotions are there, it’s just they aren’t as visible (external) in the men.
That’s just the most obvious, easy thing to explain (everyone understand tears) but there’s so, so much more to this kind of thing. Understanding these sorts of differences would be greatly beneficial to society. If only there were some area of study for this kind of thing…