Jacob Christensen

Terence Kealey, chancellor of Buckingham University says that female students should be seen as a perk for (male) university lecturers. Comparing lecture halls to nightclubs adds an even more hilarious edge to the argument. The academic whorehouse, anybody?

Okay, I think we can understand a joke – and let me also note that beautiful women can in fact be intelligent. Potential female readers of this blog are welcome to inform me if handsome men can be equally intelligent.

But what about gay lecturers (I suspect that they should move into science and engineering), lesbians and, lest we forgot, ordinary heterosexual women (oh, wait: it’s science for them as well)? As they say on Facebook: It’s complicated.

I have a massive deadline in the too-near future, so blogging is very light this week and most likely also next week. Steam will be let out over at Twitter. And yes, it is 1.50 am.