NewfGirl
NewfGirl
NewfGirl

When the Colin McGinn news broke, I wrote her an email personally thanking her and telling her I had never been more proud to be a Hurricane.

At least now you can feel a little safer.

It is exceptionally rare and uncommon for male tenured professors to face any consequences for this kind of thing.

Also, the UM campus police right away contacted the regular police when the victim reported it. That is sadly not typical in these cases.

It's not just that the guys confessed— when the victim reported it to UM police, they went right away to the regular police. That is NOT typical, as we know all too well.

UM President Donna Shalala has an awesome history of standing up for women who are rape victims/sexual harassment victims. When a VERY famous and prominent philosopher, Colin McGinn, was accused of sexually harassing a philosophy graduate student, she fired him. This is practically unprecedented (especially in

Some of the male students on the campus hang the Confederate flag. Maybe you should actually read the linked article before you make silly unfounded statements.

"Women are lucky that they have Justices Beyer"

What websites would you recommend for feminists who agree with you that this article is slut-shaming and stupid, missing the point entirely that women get it way worse than men?

"Here's the thing, I won't say that Thurman's photo did not display an odd juxtaposition: she's literally breast-feeding in a cap and gown with fellow graduates all around her. It's funny. "

Nope. I'm not okay with ANY form of FGM.

So do you also not have the point of reference to criticize female genital mutilation?

"You must be loads of fun at parties."

I'm really disturbed by the number of "boys will be boys" comments that have been made in response to my initial concern over the tone of this article.

"I am saying I don't think that what happened to Piers is the same as what happened to America."

Exactly! The "boys will be boys" argument (which several people have explicitly argued) is really puzzling to me. I'm not claiming the America Ferrera incident was completely analogous to this, and I should have pointed out in my original comment that of course the difference in privilege is important. But still, in

"there's a cultural history of it being a harmless boyish prank."

"It's a prank guys do to each other."

I didn't mean to imply that the America Ferrera incident was completely analogous to this incident, just that it reminded me of it.