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Thank you so much for posting this. I can’t believe so many people here are defending Kipnis after her comments about false rape accusations being just as harmful as a professor raping students. It’s really disgusting.

The mattress protest is probably a bridge too far, but I cannot for the life of me understand why a…

As I wrote in another comment: A graduate student claimed that Peter Ludlow raped her. Ludlow claims that he dated the graduate student in question. The graduate student has consistently denied this. Kipnis simply assumes that Ludlow is telling the truth and implies that the alleged rape victim lying — even accusing…

And she first notes — with what reads like chagrin — that incest survivors were the first group to wrest control of the word “survivor” from referring to Holocaust survivors only. Assuming that’s true (she provides no proof) so fucking what? At whatever time the word was broadened to include victims of incest, there…

If there were no power dynamic at play, women and men should certainly have free agency. But there is a power dynamic at play, which Professor Kipnis pretends does not exist. Her essay opens her up to the kinds of questions (I, personally) hate: “Oh, you slept with a lot of people who supervised your work? Is that why…

As soon as she scare quotes around survivor when talking about incest survivors it’s pretty clear to me her intention is to state that the term survivor should never have expanded beyond the Holocaust.

If you disagree that’s your prerogative.

Also it’s a baffling segue to go from survivor talk to triggers, I have seen…

“... it’s ironic that she’s complaining that her students are being infantalized when she missed the first lesson of adulthood, you can’t always have what you want.”

yeah and she has whole segments were she basically says that being raped and sexually harrassed are the victims fault and she has a problem with calling rape victims survivors because victims of the holocaust are called survivors so calling rape victims that takes way from holocaust survivors suffering, somhow

As someone who sees the ways academic feminists do a disservice to the very groups they claim to fight for almost on a daily basis, I think what’s going on in this story with the prof and Title IX is more an issue of generational feminisms coming to blows. I think Kipnis makes a couple good points but is mostly so…

Yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen any comments on the students side. The situation highlights one thing that we all know for sure by now: universities are total crap at adjudicating complaints. I think the woman who alleges assault is reasonable to be angry about the professor’s initial essay. The piece was snide and…

As a young woman in academia now, I know plenty of female graduate students who have been sexually harassed and even assaulted by professors in their own department. And they are often loathe to report anything for fear of retaliation, which I guess would fall under the umbrella of “power imbalance.”

A professor in the English department where I got my PhD just married a grad student whose dissertation he was supervising. SIGH. (He recused himself from her committee, obvi. But this department has a LOT of spousal hires of former professor-student dyads, which is so gross.)

professors are more likely to treat their students as peers than any other type of teacher in existence

Read the essay till my eyes got tired from rolling. What a dumbfuck, and what a bunch of dipshits these students are. Truly, they deserve each other.

I’m an adjunct professor and graduate student. I thought, when the Kipnis op-ed first came out, that it was irresponsible at best. But, really, I think that it’s dangerous. Power dynamics between professors and students on my campuses are insanely skewed and - if we’re being real - violent. Students are in debt to the…

I’m starting to feel this way, too. I just don’t get it. I’m a liberal as they come, the biggest feminist most of my friends and family know... and this is absolutely ridiculous. There is such a huge community on the internet that glorifies being a victim - and if you’re lucky enough to have not been a victim, you…

What I find worthwhile about the impulse, if not the execution, of this kind of feminism is taking seriously the claims of people who have experienced sexual assault. But there are some pretty simplistic ideas underpinning this version of feminism that are much more conservative than these women probably…

As a grad student in one of the humanities at an ivy league school, I spend a lot of time with well-educated, progressive, intelligent youth. They are often brilliant, incisive, and sensitive. And they — beautifully, at times — recognize how pervasive misogyny, racism, and classicism is in our society. However, this…

Yeah, I agree with you completely. I was sexually propositioned in a relentless way by a prof at the same time as I was dealing with the aftermath of being raped and struggling with PTSD. This prof didn’t know what I was dealing with, but he shouldn’t have to. Given what I was dealing with, it was incredibly harmful…

I think it is an easy way to look like you are doing something about campus sexual violence. Most of student on student violence is a slippery slope of booze and plausible deniability, and no one wants to believe it is as bad as it really is or put in the tremendous effort needed to fix campus culture. Banning…