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The Virus of Critical Social Justice

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The Threat of Panic in Women's Studies

The production of panic in essence demonstrates the threat and damage to the existing order into people's feelings of comfort and security. Women's studies department chairs and professors have routinely discussed the consequences of living with the possibility of shutting down their programs, cutting funding, or otherwise redirecting resources away from the women's away from women's studies. Further, they write reactions to women's studies in the public also resonate with fear, hostility, and panic; whether via harassing several celebrities like Lena Dunham, who out themselves as feminists, or by accusing women's studies professors of corrupting students while they do.

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