Coming soon to a prestigious university campus: an academic conference on gender reparations.  This is leaving me deeply confused.  I have been lectured for several years now that gender is a “construct” and that each of us can determine on a minute-by-minute what our gender is.  Some of us purportedly are, as the brilliant intellects of the left phrase it, “gender-fluid.” So who would pay what to whom? Unfortunately, reading the announcement of the conference and its program leaves me confused.  But then again, I am a “layman” (layperson? laygenderfluid?) not qualified to understand the jargon (despite my Harvard Ph.D. in sociology) Thinking Gender, Imagining Reparations 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference February 9-10, 2017, UCLA Faculty Center The conference introduction is mystifying: This year’s conference theme, Imagining Reparations, engages...(Read Full Post)