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Reacting to this woe-betide business of a young lady at Yale having faked a bevy of abortions in the name of pseudo feminist art, Ann Althouse writes: “‘Ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body…’ So that’s what passes as insight at Yale these days? If I was going to get livid and horrified about something it would be that a great university sucks so many young women into the intellectual graveyard of Women’s Studies. Think what these women could be studying instead of this endlessly recycled drivel.”

Ah, the art addresses the issue of ambiguity surrounding the form and function of a woman’s body. Well. There is, one hardly needs to say, no “ambiguity” whatever—neither about the form nor the function of a woman’s body. Both of these have been known for a long while. The twin secrets, form and function, are hided away in an unprepossessing building that sits somewhere on every college campus called The Biology Department, where unthanked academicians neither want nor need the charity of addled university administrators but rather toil honestly in the life of the mind, finding answers to serious questions—while their colleagues in the Women’s Studies department spend their days manufacturing questions which have no answer and which, if answered, imponderable though they be, would help no one at all.