Dr. Helen Smith is a psychologist and author who you may know as the wife of Instapundit blogger, Glenn Reynolds.

She was recently interviewed by Jerry Bowyer of Forbes.

Welcome To “Girlington”: Helen Smith On How College Is Becoming A Hostile Working Environment For Men

Jerry: “There’s a sort of universal theme in twentieth century thought – really it starts in nineteenth century thought – of an idea of a revolution by the victim group against the victimizer group, against the powerbase. Archetypally the powerbase is white, male, Christian, phallocentric, logocentric, capitalist, imperial, et cetera; there’s this list of ways in which a certain group of people are said to have victimized the entire world. And then all these different groups have their liberation moment, but the liberation moment doesn’t seem to want to stop at a moment of liberation. It seems to want to go on to an inversion; a kind of comeuppance; a, “Now it’s your turn.””

Helen: “Right. I thought feminism was supposed to be about equality. I was somewhat of a feminist, or I was very much a feminist when I was younger, because I had this idea – naively – that it was about equality, that we wanted to see men and women as equals. Instead, women today want special privileges and no responsibilities or very little, and they want men to have the responsibilities but none of the privilege. As you point out, there’s the problem.”

Jerry: “You mentioned a number of institutions in which men feel uncomfortable – no, it’s actually not a matter of feeling uncomfortable, it’s a matter of actually being disadvantaged. There’s one you haven’t mentioned yet which is something that overlaps with an interest of mine and of your husband’s, Glenn Reynolds: the idea of a college bubble, the idea of a higher education system in which the value of the product has been become completely dissociated from the price of it. Talk to me a little bit about – what do you call it, Girltown or Girlingtown? – the universities as sort of a world hostile to men.”

Helen: “Right. I call it Girlington [in the book] and that’s sort of like Burlington. There’s so many women at the University of Vermont they call the place Girlington as opposed to Burlington. What’s interesting is that it’s something like 60% women going to college and 40% men, and I think you’re right. I don’t think that it’s just the higher education bubble – I know that my husband Glenn Reynolds is interested in that and actually has a new book called The New School coming out about that very topic – but I think that actually what’s happening is that not only is the [college] commodity much less desirable to men but I think that the environment itself is actively hostile towards men.