Should we ban women's studies/gender studies?

I suppose gender/women's studies could go under the psychology/sociology section :/ Maybe to address this problem you speak of the studies could be one of the topics you get to choose when you're in your 2nd or 3rd year of university if you studied sociology or psychology... However, to say people whom choose these topics are possibly unfit for Academia is arrogant. Overall, I don't really see the problem... But, what I would like to see is more investment in the Sciences.

Social sciences are not truly scientific..

Social sciences are not truly scientific..

Well they're not exactly mere speculation either are they; they attempt to use the scientific method for observation but don't succeed to the attempt of say physics or biology because they don't model universal laws; how a Korean man behaves and a French man for instance might be completely different, whereas gravity will be the same for each. Nevertheless they are empirical like science in many respects, it just depends on the research method I guess.

Couldn't the same be said for History then? Women's studies involves a lot of history and sociology, but you want to ban it for some unbeknown reason. Who are you to tell people what they should be doing?

While I do agree with you, who the OP may be should have no bearing on whether their argument is valid. If the OP or others can prove that the studies are valueless, there is a case that they shouldn't be publicly funded. I think there's a pretty strong case for the social value of the humanities, as injecting powerful ideas into popular discourse, and therefore promoting debate and discussion

I agree with you, which is why I can't see why the OP has any grounding for banning these subjects, there is no argument there but a set of assumptions that could easily be applied to a range of subjects where graduates might as well have taken the 3 years to work instead - to those individuals, despite not getting a relevant job, it might have been worthwhile which is why I don't see why the OP thinks it's his business to judge. If they can provide facts then fair enough, but it's just conjecture.

To my mind these subjects are simply a waste, in several ways. First of all, the tax payer has to subsidise them, costing a lot of money in a country with a large deficit problem. Secondly, a waste of time. Imagine the opportunity cost associated with people studying gender/women's studies. They could spend those years studying a practical degree or actually working. With that said maybe those who study gender studies wouldn't be intelligent enough to study something like science - but still, they could work as a truck driver or a shop assistant, even claiming social welfare would be cheaper for the tax payer.

The OP's accusation that students of gender are less intelligent than others is particularly embarrassing, given his complete failure to structure a coherent argument, or indeed an argument at all. I consider argumental capacity a telling sign of intelligence, personally. By contrast, diatribe is not hard to come up with, and even by those standards he hasn't achieved much...

Why women's studies? Why not men's studies? Men exist, too, and they wear the trousers in the more backward cultures that inhabit the cess pits of this Earth, which are worth studying if you want to know how not to run a society.