This is becoming common in America, not extreme. Perhaps it is not only in Afghanistan that cultural terrorism is occurring. The Center's purpose is to advance the research of Carol Gilligan, Harvard's celebrated professor of gender studies. Gilligan, a developmental psychologist, achieved fame in the 1980s by arguing that men and women reason differently. Men are more abstract and women more caring and flexible.
Women are morally superior to men.
Girls become silent and withdrawn and boys shut down emotionally and become vulnerable to a variety of mental illnesses. The problem is that none of Gilligan's arguments have been proven. Further, many feminist academics like Faye Crosby of the University of Santa Cruz and Zella Luria of Tufts are demanding that Gilligan produce genuine evidence for her arguments. Gilligan has yet to do so. It will also further divert teachers from their central mission of educating children.