This is the world republicans envision. A return to the days before Roe v. Wade. They can’t make that happen directly just yet, so they edge around the corners with the explicit purpose of difficulty, harassment and humiliation. If they could pass a law requiring women seeking an abortion to leap through two purple…

This whole thing is so not for me. Don't like the super built dudes, don't like forced sexual tension, I get real awkward real quick in situations like this, but if he is being sincere I am all for it. He seems like a legit cool guy. I want to be friends with him and his wife.

When your first response to “how has your wife changed you” is “well, she gives me a lot of pleasure” ... that is not a healthy dynamic.

Oh, be fair to them! they’re perfectly willing to rape black women too, just not on SAE property, that's for raping white women.

Yup. SAE is also known for it’s colloquial nickname: Sexual Assault Expected.

Fraternities and sororities are stupid, stupid, stupid. Yes I’m sure you were in a great sorority that did a lot of charity work or whatever, it doesn’t change the fact that they are exclusionary and have no place on modern day university campuses.

There is a very early adolescent vibe to all this. Like when I told my family I wasn’t one of them and I should be referred to as Cordelia (yes I read too much Anne of Green Gables).

What I find interesting is that even in some male/infant wax models (at least in my book about the Museo La Specola Florence), they’re in a recumbent pose that looks inspired by Renaissance images of martyred saints, with the head lying just so to one side. The female models are more likely to have a somewhat…

Do they really not see how creepy this makes them look? And do they not see that they probably could have done this anywhere because there isn’t security standing in front of the women’s bathrooms?

Is that actually what a safe space is? Insulation from foreign ideas? Or is it a space where sensitive issues can be debated with some guarantee of respect and open-mindedness? Why do I get the feeling the entire controversy surrounding this issue is a massive straw man argument?

You’re right: it isn’t fair. The attempt to create support spaces for marginalized, disadvantaged, and/or threatened students is not a “movement.” It’s basic service provision with a history as long as that of the integration of historically excluded groups into higher education. What’s ridiculous is that people get…

Having worked in student services in higher ed, I couldn’t agree more. The term has been hijacked by people who have no idea what it means or how it functions (much like “social justice”) and who have completely drained it of its original meaning. It’s become interchangeable with “political correctness” as an…

Yes, down with safe spaces! Let’s live in the real world! I agree with the man who has several bodyguards and unlimited private transportation!

All these people condemning safe spaces under the auspices of intellectual openness have never really needed safe spaces. Try again when you’re POC, a woman etc ffs

“He stresses that his family members were legal immigrants.”

Wait, I thought we were all starring in an ongoing adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale?

YESYESYESYES.

Good for him. It sucks because it’s like “Thanks cis white guy for drawing attention to inclusive feminism” but I love that he knows that and thinks its BS that he’s getting all the pats on the back for it when women from all walks of life have been saying this for awhile now and just getting crickets. So he’s dammed…

I do absolutely get the “it’s easier for a man to be a feminist” thing. Every now and then a troll will presume I’m a woman and I’ll get a fraction of the gendered harassment that women on this site get, and it’s such a heartbreakingly personal reminder of how I, as an ally, can't truly understand the psychic toll of…

While the women who are there protest the fact that the men are there, and the men refuse to leave, harass a woman, and manhandle her. Good job, pointless hateful law. “Protecting” women with these kinds of laws never does seem to protect us, huh? Especially if we’re not girly enough for the people doing the…