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  • Western Carolinian December 1, 1994 Editorial The Smoking Section In today's politically correct, multicultural world it seems more important to portray yourself as a persecuted minority than as a person sharing common threads with all of the five and some odd other billion people in the world. This idea struck me when a friend of mine was talking about that now-famous Gay and Lesbian Literature course. My immediate response was do they offer Physically Challenged Literature, White Upper Class Male Literature, Muslim Literature, Poor Overweight Hispanic Female Literature... Do you get the point? We could break the American population down into several hundred demographic subunits. Why not give each unique category their own curriculum on college campuses? Soon the UNC system could devote a whole institution to this endeavor. Then everyone could get a degree custom fit to their ethnic makeup and moral creed. I would be overcome with joy to have a perfectly useless, but oh so hip, degree which read "This certifies that James Douglas Gray has satisfactorily completed a curriculum of study in Irish, Scottish and German American young heterosexual male studies and is hereby granted this degree." The money for these trendy, time-oriented programs could be better appropriated to make some real headway in improving the overall attitude of Americans toward those they view as "different." Instead of having a Women's Studies program we could have a Political Ramblings Featuring James Gray compulsory seminar (all students must participate to graduate) where issues of discrimination and inequality could be addressed. By offering Women's Studies the people who need to see the ugly side of sexism, the sexists, get ignored. If we placed everybody in diversity seminars or, even better, General Education courses about multiculturalism, then at least the bigots would have to think about their views. Offering Women's Studies does the right thing for the wrong people. To address the problem of sexism, the sexists need to be confronted and compelled to think critically about their misogynistic ideas. It's like the way the federal government gives the biggest tax breaks to the ones on top, the richest of the rich — the ones who don't need it! Instead, the small businessmen should get most of the breaks because they are a larger segment of the population and they carry the weight of their country on their shoulders. Recently me and one of my buddies were talking about the "way things used to be." He said we would be better off if it went back to the way it used to be, when men ran everything and women stayed at home. To a great degree I agreed (I like most of the ways of old, excluding the traditional sex roles), but then he said that women didn't get to vote because public affairs were a man's realm. On this pointl had to disagree. "Women were subject to all the laws men were, right?" I asked. "Yeah, that's true, but men did what was best for all," he argued. "So let me get this straight," I continued. "You feel they needed to obey all laws, but they had no right to choose the legislators that made their laws? That is kind of like 'no taxation without representation,' isn't it? Don't you remember that that's why we broke off from the crown in the first place, because they wanted to govern us, but not allow us any say in how we were governed. We split because they tried to tell us what was best for us without consulting with us. Women had to pay taxes on land they owned, and they could be tried and convicted, but they couldn't vote for their county's tax collector or sit on juries. All their property legally became their husband's when they married, even if their father willed it to them, and you're say that was 'all right' and 'fair'?" "Yeah, I guess you're right," he conceded. "I can see your point." You see, this is the type of person who needs to learn that women with the same qualifications and skills make about 3/4 or less of what a man at the exact same position in the same company makes. A person who thinks that Caucasians are more advanced than, say, Native Americans or Negroes is the type of person that needs to learn about the splendid, highly advanced civilizations like the Ghana and lnca Empires. These were immense, sophisticated kingdoms in Africa and South America which rivaled, if not surpassed, the pinnacles of civilization in Europe of the same time periods. Another friend of mine told me about a girl he knows that tries to twist almost anything a guy says to her back on them and make it look like a sexist comment. One day he asked if she had something done to her hair and she told him that was a sexist and politically incorrect thing to ask. Then I started thinking about the dozens of times I had heard women comment on each other's hair. If there's no difference in us and we are all truly equal then isn't it as bad for women to comment on each other's hair as it is for men to do so? All this brings me to an interesting point: do these special study programs, and the ways we view all our non- W.A.S.R groups in America really solve any problems or merely serve to widen the gap between us all? I think the latter is true. In the minds of the politically correct flock of sheep, woman-bashing is a cardinal sin, but man-bashing is frivolous entertainment. A professor using provocative images of a belly dancer to illustrate a point in class is his attempt to force his sexuality on females and gays. But a school art gallery showing a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph of gay men urinating in each other's mouths or sticking bullwhip handles in their rectums is not. All these "open- minded" people have a narrow, arbitrary double standard of what is offensive and what is not. In my Dad's college years, the early and mid-60's, the thing was civil rights. Civil comes from the Latin word civis, meaning citizen or common person. Those cats saw "the struggle" as a battle for the equality of all, not just for segregated, individual groups, like Women or Gays or Blacks. In their minds, if you neglected one segment that was not treated equally then you were as good as against them. The movement for universal equality has almost reached the point of nonexistence. We do not have equalists: we have feminists and racists. Dr. Martin Luther King,( Jr., one of my greatest role models, was for EVERYBODY. He often spoke on the need to stand up for people of all ages, colors, nationalities, and religions. He also realized that if the shoe had been on the other foot and whites were treated as blacks were (and vice versa) that it would have been just as bad arid unjust. "Is Dr. King a distant and misconstrued memory in America? often ask myself. I have to say yes because the Anti-Defamation League, NOW, NAACP, and the Gay/Lesbian Coalition do not stand together as one collective organization. Most of their members seem not to be committed to true equality, they want to stand out — not blend in with their human brethren. Wouldn't you agree that this is sad because we all came from the same place and we all have a hell ot lot more similarities than differences? JamesGrey Disgruntled Waitress Speaks Out WCU Students. I am writing this letter on behalf of all the waitresses and delivery drivers in the world. It is customary to tip both waitresses and drivers 15-20% of the total bill! Waitresses are generally paid $2.13/hr.; the rest of their wages are your tips. Delivery drivers make approximately $4.25/hr; however, they put countless miles on their cars. Minimum wage does not pay for their gas nor car maintenance. SERVICE IS NOT FREE AND STIFFING IS RUDE!!! If you cannot afford an adequate tip, call in your order, pick it up, and eat it at home. Being a poor college student does not excuse you from etiquette! The delivery drivers and waitresses that serve you an; poor college students too! -Beverly Bo wen The Western Carolinian is now accepting applications for Classifieds Director, Assistant Editor, and Assistant Advertising and Sales Director. All positions will involve training. Call 227- 7267 for more information.
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