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"The key points for women to pursue men in love include verbally 'claiming to have children'" "Make-up can increase attraction to men, but the understanding must be accurate, and the core is to look younger"... Recently, Gong Li, a teacher at the School of Geographic Sciences at East China Normal University, opened The "Love Psychology" course was exposed to contain negative remarks suspected of sexism, causing controversy.
Some netizens said that the courseware was suspected of "objectifying women".
On March 13, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the students of East China Normal University that Gong Li would no longer serve as a teacher of "Love Psychology" and teachers from the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences would be responsible for teaching subsequent courses.
Teaching women how to handle men and teaching them the skills to pursue men in love - on the surface, this teacher is "worried" to help girls fall in love successfully, but in fact it is just the output of decadent ideas wrapped in a "scientific" cloak. .
This is obviously not the "correct way" to open a college love class.
Universities are not only a training ground for young minds, but also an incubator to help them become better adults and socialize.
The essence of love classes is to guide students to establish a correct view of love and cultivate their ability to harvest and manage happiness.
To put it bluntly, those course outputs that are suspected of gender discrimination and teach students not to be sincere but to "disguise" may not only mislead some students' views on love, but also waste the teaching resources of universities and precious energy of students.
Generally speaking, university courses cannot be opened “on the fly”, especially public basic and general education courses that are applicable to the entire school, and must go through the school’s professional control.
According to reports, this is not the first year that "The Psychology of Love" directed by Gong Li has been launched.
A student who took the course in 2022 said: "The teacher has repeatedly taught views that objectify women, strengthen female stereotypes, and emphasize female fertility in class."
It can be seen that a school-wide general education course that is obviously "off track" has survived safely for several years. The loopholes exposed in this course should obviously be plugged.
College love classes are by no means a "dispensable" "grade-earning class", but a course about shaping the concept of love and guiding young people to learn love and respect.
Judging from public opinion feedback, similar courses are highly popular in universities, also because students have demand for them.
But those courses that convey rotten gender concepts should never appear again.
□Ren Guanqing (media person) (Source: Beijing News)