SMERCONISH: Angry, white and male. The University of Kansas is offering a class on the study of just that. According to the class description, this course charts the rise of the angry white male in America and Britain since the 1950s, exploring the deeper sources of this emotional state while evaluating recent manifestations of male anger. It does have a prerequisite titled "Women, Gender and Equality, and Sexuality Studies" although students can get a written exception for the requirement. And as you can imagine there's some heated views about the class. Kansas Congressman Ron Estes has already slammed tweeting, "Instead of a course to unite people and empower women, KU has decided to offer a class that divides the student population and could pose a Title IX violation by creating a hostile campus environment based on gender." The course is being taught by Christopher Forth himself a white guy. His bio states -- quote -- "As a cultural historian I am especially interested in how gender, sexuality, the body and the senses are intertwined in a variety of social and cultural locations." His "current project is a cultural history of fat in the West." It sounds like professor's research cuts across party, gender and size, lines, no word as to whether he himself is angry. Let's check in on your tweets and Facebook comments. Let's see what's going on. Smerconish, watching white males get so angry about a class focused on angry white males is an absolute hoot. Grant, I think there's some truth in what you say. I want to remind you to make sure you're answering the survey question at Smerconish.com. Is anything that has recently emerged about Joe Biden disqualifying for a presidential run? Up next, 50 years ago this summer Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to set foot on the moon. Why was the quest so important to America and to the late President John F. Kennedy? I'll ask legendary historian Douglas Brinkley.</s>JOHN F. KENNEDY, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We chose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
University of Kansas Offers "Angry White Male Studies" Class