No, in the relativism-gone-mad culture of college campuses, to be an effeminate, timid, and cowardly man is a matter of personal choice, and all choices are equal….well, some are more equal that others, as effeminate, timid, and cowardly men are actually preferable, as they do not pose the threat of physical aggression or of, God forbid, “pushing their values on others”….

I also can’t help but wonder if our society actually promotes “sissie” as virtue — I can’t think of another time in history where “metrosexual” would’ve been possible, after all.

(This was a reference to Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, Chapter IV, Section 2, wherein Calvin argued against Scholastic views on penance, saying, “Velim autem animadvertant lectores, non hic de asini umbra rixam esse, sed rem omnium maxime seriam tractari: nempe de peccatorum remissione;” … “But I would have my readers note that this is no contention over the shadow of an ass, but that the most serious matter of all is under discussion: namely, the forgiveness of sins.”)

All in all, the female students at Columbia took it in stride, not giving us the satisfaction of them being demonstrably offended. In some cases, they even asked if they, too, could become members, and again, not being seriously offended when we suggested that we would take it under consideration to make them “little sisters” instead.

Clearly, the women at Columbia twenty-three years ago were made of sterner stuff than our more enlightened Yale Divinity School counterparts of today would likely be.