Men's Group

About 15 years ago I transferred colleges midway through a night program. Because of slightly different curriculum I had to take another freshmen English lit course even though I was almost ready to graduate. I was by far the oldest male in the class.

It was not long before I realized every piece of literature we deconstructed was a piece about white male oppression, white male racism, male sexual deviancy, rape, just in general male are evil. It was amazing that even the most innocuous poem or story was REALLY about white evil oppressive men. Sometime evil black men as well. Bottom line is according to the professor (a women) and most of the class (women) just about anything written by western culture in the last 400 years was expressing in some way that men were just louts of the worst sort or far worse.

I once suggested that a poem actually was about what the poet wrote and not about a sexual assault and was roundly vilified.