I think the title of this post is misleading. Long story short: a female undergrad accused Ludlow of sexual assault and a grad student independently accused him of rape. Kipnis’s article basically accused the graduate student of lying, of being melodramatic, and of harming Ludlow. Title IX prohibits retaliation…

Yes to all of this. She obscures her own (not very rhetorically coherent) point behind layers of strawman and polemic arguments. It reads very much like a defense of professor/student relationships because they have value as a “learning tool,” and it does nothing but flippantly dismiss all of the bad things (for…

I think you’re reacting pretty fairly. I was lied to about the alcohol content of a beverage, and had too much and passed out. Then the man who raped me did just that. He had planned that. He knew I had said that I only wanted to have X drinks because I had taken medicine for menstrual cramps, and that I didn’t want…

How? She basically waxes nostalgically about student/teacher relationships:

While I’m not terribly supportive of the students outrage here, this woman doesn’t have any of my sympathy ‘cause she’s is basically lamenting that professors sleeping with students is no longer OK.

I agree. Republicans always scream about tort reform, MRAs about false rape accusations. The fact is that if there is any sort of reporting system in which anyone can make an accusation, some of those accusations will be bogus. That someone who considers themselves one of the good people got accused doesn’t mean that…

I don’t think of this as the “current iteration” so much as the same thing that happens in every other demographic: a handful of extremist idiots making the rest of us look bad.

I’m 46, a research prof, and not at NU, but I found Kipnis’ article off-putting. Faculty, really, it’s not that difficult - don’t fuck undergrads and do not fuck grad students in your department. We had a similar referendum at my university recently and it prompted absolutely zero discussion because it’s absolutely a…

Love came to my door

It’s almost as though when a “special interest” represents 51% of the population, there might be some differing goals.

Yeah there’s really only one of the two that allows for gray area, which is pro choice. Don’t want one? Don’t have one. Don’t believe in them? Again, don’t have one. Have questionable feelings about them? That’s between you and your doctor. There isn’t a hard line within pro choice, unlike the anti-choice movement.

Any organization that is trying to tell me they exist in the “grey area” between pro life and pro choice can kindly fuck off, please.

The problem is there is no fucking grey area.

That’s funny that people are already like “WHY AREN’T LIBERALS TALKING ABOUT THIS, HMMMMMM?” when Mother Jones brought it up.

Hey, how did that happen??? (Kinja! Arghh!!!)

Um, from my experiences? No. No if you’re going there you’re going there for a specific thing and a lot of the big chain sort of restaurants that might fit into that space are really struggling financially these days.

A peer review is not an audit, the reviewers rely upon the data and description of the methods that are presented by the authors, we presume that they actually did the fucking work. This person seems to have put tremendous effort into maintaining the fraud, play acting at data rolling in, creating hundreds of plots on…

I lied about being fired from my pizza counter job in college and put my friend’s cellphone number down as my manager so like.

I was that friend in college that would swat Tylenol out of your hand if you were taking it for a hangover or pre-hangover. Like a one-woman public service announcement.