An open letter by Business Management student Ben Froughi slamming the incoming YUSU Women’s Officers has received huge student attention after being posted on Facebook.
The no holds barred post opens with with line “congratulations on your victory, now please go and talk about your imaginary glass ceiling somewhere else.”
Froughi makes the case that there is no need for policies to promote women’s equality as, he claims, society structurally advantages women.
He cites statistics such as the 2 to 1 advantage over men that women have when applying for jobs in STEM subects and the fact that women are more likey to get Upper Second and First Class degrees at university as evidence.
Froughi strongly criticses Mia Chaudhuri-Julyan and Lucy Robinson for their advocacy of compulsory consent classes which he claims is “the most demeaning and patronising thing you could do to pick on a group who’ve done nothing wrong.”
The post received a response from Chaudhuri-Julyan and Robinson who defended their policies and their democratic mandate pointing to the fact that consent classes would be compulsory for both men and women.
The letter attracted a lot of attention from both Froughi’s detractors and defenders with one angry student calling Froughi “an idiot” and another encouraging him to “stick to your guns.”
Women’s Officers aren’t really there for you mate.
When were facebook rants re-branded as open letters?
@Hello
Perhaps not, yet their presence over the last year has affected men a lot so having an opinion on the position is perfectly acceptable.