Hit piece from former West Point Professor studying "male gender norms"

Former left-wing West Point professor Graham Parsons, whom we’ve covered before and who keeps popping up in the media flouting his resignation from West Point, is featured in yet another article whose goal is to put down the work of the President and Secretary of Defense in getting rid of the CRT/DEI/Woke ideology in the military, especially at West Point.

Pulling out nonsense from Politico’s article, “Inside Pete Hegseth’s Civilian Purge at West Point“, it starts off with:

To Graham Parsons, the nomination of Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary at once offered a fascinating case study and an immediate threat to his career.

Since 2012, Parsons has been a professor at West Point, the U.S. Army’s premier educational institution, where he has taught cadets military ethics and researched the knotty relationship between gender and warfare.

No doubt Gen. MacArthur and all others in the Long Gray Line are rolling in their graves over their alma mater fussing about “gender and warfare”.

Then the article goes on about the efforts of the Secretary of Defense eliminating wokeness. The author thinks his readers will be horrified, but sounds great to us:

In his 2024 book The War on Warriors, Hegseth also agitates against America’s bedrock constitutional doctrine of civilian military control, casting this class of martial outsiders as weak, privileged, radically left. During his confirmation hearing in January, Hegseth pledged to “rip, root and branch the politics and divisive policies” out of service academies like West Point by ridding them of civilian faculty, some of whom, he wildly alleges in his book, had responded in the weeks after 9/11 with a “‘we deserved this’ narrative.”

Days after his confirmation, Hegseth blasted out a memo to military school faculty prohibiting instruction that could be in any way construed as promoting “Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology, and DEI.” Then he gathered service academy leaders on a teleconference. Beamed into each campus was a clear order: Focus on history, warfighting and engineering, and hobble much of the rest. Department heads moved quickly, requesting faculty review their syllabi for materials potentially in conflict with Hegseth’s dictate.

So what did West Point Professor Parson’s submit?

The list of texts Parsons submitted focused on affirmative action, feminism and political theory. One reckoned with the racist underpinnings of famed philosopher Immanuel Kant. He expected they would survive because he believed that “the academy was preparing to fight back.”

Let’s stop here to show the photo Politico shows of Parson’s office with his cat and Pete Hegseth’s great book “War on Warriors”. Let’s hope Parsons read it.

Oh no, a military academy producing warfighters removed “a slate of texts interrogating masculinity”.

West Point ultimately banned Parsons’ entire list, part of a broader sweep across the service academies that scrubbed hundreds of books from courses and library catalogs, including work by James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, plus a slate of texts interrogating masculinity. West Point also dissolved its sociology major and abolished at least a dozen student diversity clubs.

Here’s a graphic STARRS did for an earlier article:

In the article, Parson said he wrote a piece critical of President Trump’s transgender military ban during Trump’s first administration, and West Point’s Dean Cindy Jebb backed him up.

Declared AWOL the day his protest piece appeared in the New York Times:

Parsons stayed home on the day West Point was notified by the Times about his soon-to-be-published comments. His department head had tried to make contact with Parsons that morning, but by the afternoon West Point declared him AWOL.

. . . In a meeting that morning in Jefferson Hall, Parsons said he was notified that he was under investigation for “allegations of misconduct,” but that the inquiry would end if he formally resigned. Parsons was prepared for this eventuality, having secured a temporary appointment just down the Hudson River, at Vassar College.

Ironically, an expert in military masculinity will be teaching this fall at a school that long served only women.

From West Point to…Vassar College, exactly where he belongs. A perfect fit! https://t.co/Y03aiZi0kg

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) August 28, 2025

Ugh, then the author interviews ultra left retired USAF BGen Marty France, he of this:

Retired Air Force Brigadier General Soils His Uniform to Defend Trans Ideology in the Military

The article then talks about civilians teaching at military academies. Parsons talks about his background:

Parson’s dad enthusiastically enlisted as a Marine to fight in Vietnam, while his childhood friends were a bunch of wild-eyed hooligans. “There’s a veneer of toughness on campus,” he recently explained to me. “I realized I could play that part.”

Parsons had first adopted this veneer as a boy, thanks to his veteran father, his older brother and the kids he fell in with, who were organized into a loose gang. During his junior year of high school, Parsons’ crew got jumped by a far larger group, one of whom had a knife. “There was a level of violence in that moment that made me realize, ‘I can’t do this,’” he recalled.

Years later, at CUNY graduate school, Parsons began untangling his childhood urges, thanks to mentorship from two prominent feminist philosophers: Virginia Held and Linda Martín Alcoff.

In one 2023 paper, Parson argues that American society has established male gender norms that shape and inspire military service, in part by normalizing the idea that the male soldier is “expendable.”

“Male gender norms”? Who talks like that? Anyways, the article goes on, delving into Trump Derangement Syndrome and ending with masked Parsons all in black attending a Trump protest. Yawn.

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Another article on the removal of DEI and woke ideology from our academies.

America’s best and brightest should be trained in battlefield tactics, NOT indoctrinated with affirmative action.https://t.co/I7ULeebJAK

— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) August 28, 2025

My fellow Americans, Ask yourselves the real questions:

How did they get employed in the first place?

Then how did they stay employed for so long?

How many minds did they corrupt during their tenure?

You know the answers. We all do.

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) August 28, 2025