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I take exception to the notion that “the Faculty of Engineering introduces itself to its female students as a straight man’s club in which the way to acceptance requires a woman to sacrifice certain feminist values to the ways of the dominant group.” Throughout my time in Engineering, I was introduced to a large, tight-knit group of strong, intelligent, motivated women who would do credit to the notion of gender equality. They showed that there is no need to sacrifice our interests or values in order to succeed in the “straight man’s club.” As for the men in the faculty, at no time did I ever witness any of the misogyny that these Frosh songs supposedly encourage. I suppose the first-semester workload beat these tendencies out of them. The author’s opinion perpetuates the patently false idea that women are not welcome in the faculty. In fact, the faculty and its student associations have been making concerted efforts to reach out to girls who might be Kristina Huss BEng Mining Engineering 2008; EUS President 2007-2008 swayed against enrolling by this exact opinion. Furthermore, the prejudice that engineering, as a male-dominated faculty, is automatically oppressive to women is insulting to all members of the faculty. Perhaps the author should turn her attention to exposing male oppression committed by the Women’s Studies department. Kristina Huss BEng Mining Engineering 2008 EUS President 2007-2008 Masculinity! HU-AH! Re: “Engineering Frosh is sexist” | Commentary | September 10 An excerpt from the sacred engineering song, Godiva’s Hymn: The modern engineer must be politically correct, No more motors lubricating, no more buildings rise erect, No more electrical capacitors whose plates are high and fair Instead of problem solving let’s just sit around and care. Engineering! Moosehead! Aggressive and Strong! HU-AH! Lucas Kruitwagen U2 Mechanical Engineering The only important Thing there is Love Dearest One, My name is Helen Kumba, I am 26 years old girl in search of a man who understands love as trust and faith rather seeing it as a way of fun always but a matured man with sense of humor, so you should also consider trying a new thing by making a open avenue to meet and know new people as this may bring us a happy dream together. I am interested in having a relationship with you, I will also like to Know you the more, you can send an email to my email address (kumbahelen08@yahoo.com) so that I can send you more details about my self including my picture. I believe we can move from here. But bear in mind that Love has no colours barrier, no educational back ground barrier, no socio-economic barrier, religious, language, nationality or distance barrier, the only important Thing there is love. I am waiting for your mail and a brief information about you. I believe we can start from here. awaiting to hear from you soon so I can send pics for more introductions. Kisses, Really, I agree with you Womyn helping women Re: “Engineering Frosh is sexist” | Commentary | September 10 Re: “Engineering Frosh is sexist” | Commentary | September 10 I would like to express my appreciation for the article entitled “Engineering Frosh is sexist.” The view that engineering should be a “Boys’ Club,” held by an everdiminishing number of chauvinist male engineers, has never received such attention, and certainly deserved the “boost” you have given it. I’m sure that any female student considering engineering as a vocation will appreciate the concise, all-encompassing review of the treatment of women in engineering at McGill you have provided. Your commentary will most certainly help to rectify the minority status of women in the Faculty of Engineering, and as a single, male engineer, I can’t thank you enough. As one of these supposedly degraded women in engineering, what I find truly insulting and marginalizing is not some silly crude song with irrelevant gender pronouns (“A nickel-plated bathtub s/he wanted / a golden shower s/he got!”), but Sarah’s misguided notion that we are second-class citizens who have been helpless until she heroically stood up for our oppression. Patrick Diez U3 Electrical Engineering Don’t like what you’re reading? Love what you’re reading? Send your thoughts to letters@mcgilldaily.com from your McGill email address, and keep them to 300 words or less. The Daily does not print letters that are transphobic, homophobic, racist, sexist, classist, ageist, salacious, mendacious, libellous, in-your-facious or otherwise hateful. Helen Kumba Acacia Brovedani U4 Software Engineering Previous organizer of McGill Engineering Frosh Former VP Internal of ExCESS (Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering Student Society) HYDE PARK Engineering Frosh is not sexist William Farrell A s I’m sure Sarah Mortimer might have imagined (per haps she even intended it!), there has been quite an uproar over her September 10 article “Engineering Frosh is sexist.” Mortimer’s lack of journalistic etiquette is apparent: she made absolutely no attempt to contact an Engineering O-Week Organizer or even the Engineering Undergraduate Society prior to the publication of her sensationalistic article. As Vice President Internal of the Engineering Undergraduate Society and one of the organizers of Engineering O-Week 2009, I would like to address several of her accusations and assumptions, as well as some larger issues I believe to be at play in her article, although there’s more I would like to say than I have room for in this Hyde Park. The first point I would like to raise is in regard to her many assumptions about women in engineering. After speaking with several female engineers, including froshies and executives of Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE), I was unsurprised to hear that they were very offended by Mortimer’s claims. Mortimer perpetuates the “victim status of women” by implying that women are being “oppressed” by these lyrics and are not tough enough to have a voice in this “strong, aggressive, male-dominated” field. I can certainly understand why they were so insulted by such insinuations. If Mortimer had done even the slightest amount of research into her preposterous claims, she would have soon discovered that the gender breakdown in engineering is much closer to 60 males to 40 females, and in Chemical Engineering, there is in fact a female majority! Civil Engineering is approximately at parity. Her accusations do nothing to encourage female participation in the field, but rather reinforce tired stereotypes. An equally offensive claim that Mortimer makes is that these women engineers are ignorant of their own oppression. She even says in her article that the women she spoke to enjoyed the songs and were in no way offended by them. Clearly, it takes a Cultural Studies student to enlighten these engineering women to the misogyny they have been subjected to without prior knowledge! I wonder if it had occurred to her that women engineers understand the song’s true intent – not malice towards women but rather comedy through innuendo and unity through song. She also seems to take an enormous leap of logic by declaring that this song is about rape, when there is absolutely no indication that it depicts anything but consensual relationships. This is not to mention the myriad verses where the pronouns are often switched or are in fact written about men walking into the store. As a matter of fact, I would hardly expect any sane per- son to go out and carry out one of the actions described in these verses upon hearing the song – such a person would clearly be psychologically disturbed. The larger societal issue I would like to address is the suffocating political correctness prevalent here in the university setting. Too many people read too much into otherwise harmless activities and make issues where there were none before. Instead of worrying about silly things like songs, jokes, and the spelling of words with the letters M, A , and N in them, why not focus on getting along, accepting people for who they are and what they believe? There is no need to bastardize the English language and stifle the free exchange of ideas (and jokes!) to redress some perceived injustice. Furthermore, it does a disservice to women everywhere, not just in engineering, to imply that they cannot decide for themselves what is offensive to them. Ultimately, what Mortimer has done is to judge an entire faculty on the basis of a single song, even though that song is sung at every faculty Frosh. It would be as if I judged every “writer” on the basis of Sarah’s opinion piece – an even less flattering proposition. She arbitrarily singled out engineering just because we happened to be the Frosh to pass her by as she was scrounging for a pseudo-issue to write about. I’m sure that if she actually took the time to talk to us scary engineers, or even to get to know us, she would find out that we don’t bite… unless you’re into that, of course. Misogyny and misandry aside though, one last thing she did really disappointed me – she left out some of the best verses! William Farrell is a U3 Civil Engineering student. He’s also Vice President Internal of EUS and one of the organizers of this year’s Engineering Frosh, but the views expressed. 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