Obsessing With Equality

The staff has fallen prey to a common contagion of this day: an obsession with equality and with it, the intolerance of inequality.

I concur to the extent that the faculty have acted inconsistently in their application of the University's 1985 non-discrimination policy, which they recently used to censure ROTC. Their failure to act similarly with respect to Radcliffe raises the question of whether discrimination against men is more politically palatable than that against homosexuals.

But perhaps we have taken such matters too far. Perhaps the very principle of non-discrimination ought to be questioned. After all, cannot certain instances of discrimination be healthy? Do men really comprehend the challenges faced by women?

And, conversely, do women understand the special needs of men?