yeah, but you aren't a man

This comports completely with my view (and any lucid view) of the so-called "manosphere," though one tiny point to note is that "an hero" does not necessarily mean "a hero."

What am I wrong about? Are you criticizing me for not reading all the troll comments in this thread?

I'm not a dude, nor a big fan of reddit. I think "kangaroo court" is just a common figure of speech that people use to describe proceedings which, while styled with some trappings of justice or fairness, violate or mock our due process expectations and serve essentially as theatre justifying a predetermined outcome. …

I agree that being expelled and denied a diploma would have a huge negative impact on your life, and it would suck — especially if you didn't do it. But a private institution is also pretty much free to grant/deny diplomas on whatever basis it chooses — when you pay $200k (or whatever it currently costs) to attend…

These aren't court proceedings, but you're adjudicating rights and liabilities worth upwards of (as you've said) $50k. Therefore, it's hard to take off the lawyer hat when discussing due process.

Yeah, but it's not literally his life that's at stake — it's his degree. If the college disclosed, upfront, the procedures by which diplomas could be withheld and if it followed those procedures properly, then he should not have cause to sue. That said, I haven't read the details of the case.

Without due process in a student conduct hearing, a student can successfully sue a college.

They're not deciding guilt or innocence for criminal purposes. Somebody needs to adjudicate student conduct-code violations.

Occasionally, sure — though also requires live employee attendance. Unless a bot is servicing the bot (Yo, dawg...)

Well, if you are specifically made uncomfortable by graphic explicit rape depictions, you can probably survive in the real world just by googling books and movies before diving into them. If you are triggered (as some on the internet claim) by stimuli as diverse as "ageism" and "offscreen animal death," you probably…

Is there any reason to believe that Bigelow and Boal are themselves torture apologists — or just that they based the screenplay on extensive interviews with the perhaps-torture-apologist CIA?

I read some interview with Pizzolatto where he expressed contempt for the HBO T&A requirement, but characterized it as just that — a requirement. So, either Chastain will spend significant amts of time naked or they'll throw in other random disposable decorative women.

I don't really disagree with any of this — she should still be able to read Greek plays and take classes on them; she should be able to discuss her concerns with her professor; she should be able to get advance notice. My point simply is that before even enrolling in the class, she'd generally have notice that some…

Well, the way I see it, there seem to be "obvious" or "typical" triggers — mainly graphic depictions of rape — then a universe of other potentially-triggering stimuli. If I was raped in an elevator, maybe I have a fear of elevators.

I don't think blog content is "low culture" by definition. When it comes to social science analysis, in particular, I've read content posted on blogs that would easily rival content in textbooks. That said, I don't think I've ever encountered any great literary fiction in blog form. And tags (along with…

I think the "dumbing down" critique arises from a fear that people will (1) run amok with an endless array of tumblr-esque trigger warnings, and/or (2) be influenced to weed out triggering material from curricula. It's easy to imagine fields of study that would be whitewashed and dulled by a prohibition on graphic…

I'm sorry that happened to you. I do think that for extremely graphic depictions, especially in classes where you don't necessarily expect it, common sense and common courtesy dictate an FYI upfront. Of course, you're right — in this situation, the professor wouldn't even have known, and I doubt I'd be comfortable…

How did this work out for you in college? Did you take any courses where you were exposed to material depicting rape and, if so, did you have any inkling in advance that rape would be depicted — or were you taken totally by surprise?

Making connections between literature and real world problems is the fundamental goal of a humanities education.