If you ask some guys, the main thing they like about university is socializing with the ladies.

Apparently that wasn’t the modus operandi of one York University student.

Last September an online sociology course was given an assignment that involved classmates meeting in person in groups.

One student wrote in and said he couldn’t comply because his religion doesn’t allow him to meet with women in public.

Considering over half the population of Canada is female, avoiding contact with the fairer sex is a tall order in academic pursuits.

The professor put his foot down and said too bad.

“We have to make a value choice,” J. Paul Grayson, the professor, told QMI Agency. “What’s more important, the rights of females who make up 54% of the population, or those individuals with religious notions incompatible with egalitarianism?”

Bingo. The politically correct crowd loves religious accommodation. But what sort of precedent does it set?

Should this government-funded institution have to create gender segregated classrooms and study halls if more men claim this religious rule? Didn’t we deal with that subject decades ago?

Why would anyone think it’s acceptable to make a request like this? We’re not in Saudi Arabia, folks.

If someone holds religious beliefs that set them at odds with Canadian society, which stresses equality, then that’s their problem. Go deal with it.

Granted, the student sort of was dealing with it. He specifically chose online courses in the hopes this problem wouldn’t arise.

Then, to his credit, the student understood the professor’s firm stance and the problem blew over.

So why are we still talking about this?

Because Grayson let the bureaucrats in on the situation!

The dean’s office sent a letter to Grayson explaining he had a “legal obligation” to fulfill the request. Nonsense.

The assignment was a reasonable one. It’s accommodating gender separation that's unreasonable.

“Do we want our daughters going to universities where it’s OK for male students to say that we don’t want to interact with you?” Grayson said.

Here we go again: high-paid bureaucrats busying themselves by trying to comply with ridiculous demands that, in the end, nobody actually wants to see enforced.

An apple for this smart teacher.