Pirate's Cove

Let’s go with something different than the gender confused. We’ll go with the educationally confused (via Ace)

(Reason) Oberlin College’s activist community is ready to call it quits. Progressive students are dropping out of college, citing academic and emotional difficulties stemming from their mental health problems and overall disgust with the toxic culture on campus.

That’s according to a fascinating piece for The New Yorker by Nathan Heller, who interviewed a number of exhausted activists at Oberlin. They perceive that other students, faculty members, and the administration are completely against them, and have made it impossible for them to live on campus. Some are dropping out.

Of course, some of these students probably feel unsupported because their impractical demands were not realized. Two examples: activist students not only wanted to abolish all grades below a ‘C,’ they also thought faculty members should proactively offer them alternatives to taking a written, in-class midterm exam.

I suspect that the other students aren’t against them; they just don’t care beyond mushy mouthed platitudes. Most are there for an education, something of value for the almost $50,000 per year in just tuition fees. They also, like most college kids, want to have some fun, do some partying, hook up, and all the other things. They aren’t interested in being semi-professional agitators.

The article features lots of woe-is-me’s from the Special Snowflakes, who’ve made the choice to be activists rather than take advantage of the learning offered by the people who are there to teach.

Oh, who am I kidding

(Time) A transgender rights organization is calling out Hillary Clinton for failing to complete a trans-focused questionnaire it distributed to the presidential candidates.

Trans United Fund, the first tax-exempt political advocacy group to focus specifically on transgender issues, announced Monday that both Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had committed to completing the survey, but that only Sanders’ campaign had filled it out.

Does it matter? Trans United is already backing Hillary. And she knows it. The Queen need not fill out a questionnaire. Then there’s this

(Dallas Morning News) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is expected to announce a legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s directive instructing school districts to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.

The attorney general has scheduled a 2 p.m. news conference Wednesday in Austin. WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reported Tuesday evening that Paxton would announce the legal challenge then.

Liberals won’t care. They throw actual biological women under the bus in heartbeat when there’s a special interest group to pander to.