Credentials are not qualifications.

Yes, I am being a bit of a hypocrite here. Let’s see, what credentials do I have? The answer is a few. I don’t list them all most of the time: if I’m writing a paper I put down two or so. Beyond a certain level credentials don’t matter. What matters is what you have produced.

It’s not your degree. It matters not a whit of you have a PhD or a good research Master’s or both. What matters is what you do, how you perform.

And we have too many people chasing credentials, subsidized by Daddy’s money or their partner, with no end game. A PhD may be a great credential, but if you cannot monetize it sufficiently that you pay down your student loan, go not to graduate school. Get a job.

Another key reason men don’t go on to postgrad studies is because “Why don’t you have a job yet? You’ve got your degree, start earnin’, boy.” Men are expected to earn the stereotypical milestones of adulthood; women aren’t. A degree, a mortgage, a house, a car, a 40-hour work week (at minimum!), savings, bills – responsibilities.

But that’s not the biggest responsibility he’s meant to have, nor are any of those the key, the ultimate, the top-of-the-pyramid responsibility, for which all these other responsibilities are meant to work for. In other words, the only responsibility that men are told matters:

To support a woman…in all the ways that men are expected to support themselves. Financially, emotionally, sexually, educationally, professionally, any other -ally you can think of.

As Warren Farrell would put it: “Perform, pursue, and pay”.

I knew a ton of women getting their Phds who were shacked up, free of charge, to men with Bachelors who were working. Sure, some of them still had the token jobs, as mentioned above, but there’s a good chunk of them who were contributing to the household nowhere near as much as the man, with little in return. The woman lives in the man’s house, drives the man’s car, the man pays for all the maintenance, pays the bills, buys her food.

Now, of course, Officially…this Doesn’t Happen. After all, Beyoncé said so. A woman in this situation will proclaim She Is An Independent Woman who Don’t Need No Man, and Could Absolutely Maintain This Sort Of Lifestyle On Her Own, And Any Way, The Guy Is Totally Doing This Of His Own Free Will.

Women are, of course, entitled to a man’s a man’s labour with little in return. And men are “required” to give it to them. The only “progress” the so-called progressiveness in the last fifty years ago has made on this topic is to eliminate any acknowledgement of that labour and that entitlement, and make speaking of it a virtual crime.

The trouble is that this world does not understand this. They understand credentials. Credentials are easy to measure. However crendentials don’t as much solve problems as barriers to being able to solve problems. There is some training and knowledge required — but as the Open Source movement shows, peer review of your code and data is more rigorous and ends up with a higher quality product.

Linus Torvald’s master was a description of how he wrote version 2.0 of the linux kernel. His fame came because he has continued to write it.

And so, while I applaud Milo for setting up a scholarship fund for white males — if anything it makes the hypocrisy of the current feminists obvious — it misses the point. You get paid for your skills, and promoted for your productivity, not your credentials.

The fund will start ‘modestly’ with $125,000 a year (£87,000) to give out to an as-yet undecided number of applicants as “for a poor person, the difference between going to college and not can be a few thousand dollars”.

“It will be means and ability-tested,” Yiannopoulos said. “When tuition fees came in in the UK, it proved that people aren’t dissuaded from going to university by fees, provided they don’t have to pay them upfront. What people do find harder is the initial cost of moving and buying books – particularly in the US, so this is a small contribution towards that.”

On why the fund is set up to help only white student when US government figures show those students with the lowest attendance at university are of American Indian origin, Yiannopoulos stated: “There are literally thousands of funds set up to help women, but there are about 40 set up for men. UCAS says poor white boys are the most under-represented group in the UK, and it is the same in the US.”

The most recent data released by the US Department of Education in January 2016, shows 43.5% of first time post-secondary students enrolled in a four-year institution from 2011/12 were white, while 30.2% were black and just 23.2% American Indian. But Yiannopoulos said: “A lot of these studies don’t take into account numbers, they say black people get X percent of Y, but there may be a lower percentage of black people.

“I have identified a group of underprivileged people in need of help – and they are definitely in need of help in the UK as well. I have a lot of very rich friends, and a lot of famous friends – on the quiet because no one can be publicly associated with me because I am a bit of a naughty hell-raiser – and they wanted to help me do something like this.

What do young men need to know? Skills for employment: how to invest, how to manage the emotions within a family, and lead it. What to women need to know? How to love their husbands and children, and raise a family.

Our universities, instead, teach you how to be unskilled, in debt, emotionally incontinent, hateful, and how to ruin your spouse and children. If you need credentials, stay and get them, but unless you are cursed with the role of a scholar/scientist, leave.

For there is more to life than the library and laboratory.

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