Brickbat: Title IX
Iranian universities have banned women from more than 70 degree programs, including majors in computer science, electrical engineering, and business management. Officials say the move is designed to balance enrollment in Iranian colleges.
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Officials say the move is designed to balance enrollment in Iranian colleges.
Here in the U.S., we call that "social justice".
Done in one.
Seriously, we need to create a whole asylum category for women from Muslim countries. If Iran doesn't want female physicists and engineers, we should take them all.
Excellent idea!
Chain immigration will allow their Jihadi brothers to get EBT cards. Shikha will approve, as long as they get the EBT cards.
One particularly misogynic of my multiple personalities finds this amusing. What are privileged women in the US and Europe going to do in a big way about this? Other than whine, nothing.
Other than whine, nothing.
But if women can't study electrical engineering, how will they learn to build form-fitting suicide bombs and kill Americans and Jews?