So the UK Universities really, actually, truly, no-joking-about-it, you-gotta-be-kidding-me did consider segregating sexes during lectures. And now they are taking a well-deserved beating for this stupidity.

What had happened? In a fit of decidedly non-egalitarian, but drop-dead stupidity, they considered segregating classes in UK’s universities to accommodate deeply religious muslims who may feel offended by non-segregated classes. It seems that UKU thinks that everyone should relinquish personal freedom so that a tiny minority of deeply religious people don’t have to relinquish their sexist custom. Enabling these inflexible people to attend all lectures must be important. Because everyone knows that it was close adherence to religion that has contributed most to our sciences in the past millennium.

I can just imagine the vista of such a lecture; the professor details the importance of equality, personal freedom and sexual non-discrimination. The class before her: divided by sex. Oh, and a deeply religious christian faction in the back protesting the sex of their professor by holding up a sign: ‘Tim 2:12 – I do not permit a woman to teach’

Bravo, UKU. [cue extremely unimpressed slow-clap]

It is stupidity like this that universities should battle, instead of supporting it.