Ooooooh, that’s a good point. Like maybe she internalized the message some how that in order to be taken seriously as a painter African American subjects, she needed to actually be black herself.

My understanding of sociopathy (I’m not an expert by a long shot) or perhaps of narcissistic personality disorder, is someone who is constantly leeching off of other people, using others to gain perceived powers or advantages they think another person (or persons) have. Here is a partial list of traits from the web:

Lol - that’s why she did it! I think you hit the nail on the head. This entire charade for the last 10 years has been leading up to THIS MOMENT - in which she is now helping provide the platform for the voiceless to have their voices finally heard.

Her naivety had to exist before grad school though. She somehow managed to rationalize applying to Howard with a total lack of understanding of what she might encounter once she arrived on campus (i.e. people who might find her presence problematic. Not saying that that is what happened - but certainly and…

It’s called being a sociopath

Actually, the main actor kid is still around doing things. I don’t know how insufferable he is personally, but he seems to still be involved in acting in non-pretentious indy films. I was kinda surprised, and happy to find that out.

I responded in my own thread, but I just want to post here too because I heartily disagree:

This guy has major co-dependency issues. He said he discovered that in therapy, but jesus fuck. It sounds like he has no identity outside of his relationship as caretaker to this woman.

/\ this - every white kid from Detroit I met when I was living in Chicago.

I went to college with a girl who reminds me of this lady. She was a totally normal, average white girl; a political science major, and while I believe she is intelligent, she had a habit of exoticizing foreignness in a way that always made me uncomfortable - it always seemed to have an underlying narcissistic purpose…

Ha, “well produced” is not a goal in the realm of video or performance art. Performance and video art are not considered “film” in the same way films at a multiplex are thought of as film. Because a lot of the point behind video art and performance art is to remove the false veneer of slickly produced, commercial film…

I have the sense that in order for any contemporary artists to justify the work they do, they’ve had to come up with a lot of over-intellectualized theoretically-based explanation, exemplified as empty art jargon. I used to think you had to come up with some complicated theoretical justification for your work, but now…

What do you think of her working with the artist Ted Lawson as “director” for this? I’m kind of inclined to agree with you, and another thing I wonder about being kind of problematic with this piece is having another artist involved in the conceptualization? Like, the mattress carrying as a piece of art isn’t that…

Lol, from my reading, I wouldn’t really believe that Kipnis has underlying insecurity about her complicity in the culture. She said pretty straightforwardly that it made women of her generation feel empowered :-/ gross....

Love this! Yes. “Kipnis’ Malibu-tinted memories” - brilliant! The thing is, professors exist to teach - to impart information and learning. Attractions can happen, but acting on them seriously violates the reason you have such a nice position in the first place.

Can I just point something out here? What is the deal with PHILOSOPHY professors? It seems like all these cases of inappropriate student relationships are with PHILOSOPHY professors??!!! What is going on here?

It’s really disconcerting to get the impression that you have to either fuck, or attract one of your graduate advisors in order to have a chance at getting an academic position :(

I think that this experience you bring up hits the nail on the head in some ways. In certain professional spheres where being a feminist, and showing how extreme of a feminist you are, is actually a part of the job description.

Here is one woman’s take - feminism as I have seen it grow in my life time (I’m 34) has become an angle of professionalism in the work world. This is obviously not a bad thing, but it has made it all that much more important for students who aim for that to establish their feminist credentials early on, in college, in…

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????!!!!!!! Good God! F that crap!