Ok, that’s an answer I would support. On a practical level, though, you would quickly run into the slippery slope problem, where someone who has a legitimate reason for not reading something (rape survivor not wanting to read a text where violent rape figures into the plot) will ask why they have to suffer a lower…

The same academics decrying “trigger warnings” are the ones who have chuckled and gone with the “oh, those GUYS” excuses for their (male) colleagues who have spent decades harassing the 19-20 year old women in their classes. Unfortunately their intellectual distaste for trigger warnings, which I happen to share, turns…

Ok, but if you’re teaching a class and you have student whose participation (and subsequent tests based on that participation) is necessary to determine their grade, what do you do for the student who asks (demands, more accurately) to miss entire sections of the class, or entire segments of the syllabus, because it…

Absolutely. The entire thrust of your argument is well considered, and logical. BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RYAN LOCHTE.

Right, because nobody who was dating one of the hottest women of all time has ever messed around with a hooker.

Lochte told his mom, who told the media.

Hookers. It has to be hookers.

It’s possible he might have invented the story of the robbery to cover up the real story behind losing his wallet.

I’m wiping a tear from my eye, realizing that unless it’s in an old timers game, we’ve forever lost hope of getting the Papelbon vs. Pierzynski brawl we’ve waited our whole lives to see.

She sounds fun. A/S/L?

He had “the math!”

Are you sure he’s not starting to sing “Hey Jude?” I mean, it’s possible.

It’s not, unless you are one of those white people like that chick who sued U. Texas, claiming that she didn’t get in because they went and let in a bunch of black applicants with worse grades/test scores. Lots of conservatives like to blame others for their own failures, and “blacks who got admitted to [college]…

No, not at all. I’m just saying that if 1/20 students at UNC is an athlete (I’m making that up...it’s probably smaller), yet we have a program where just about 1/2 students who benefitted was an athlete, we have a program that disproportionately helped athletes. Consequently we can’t really let the athletic department…

“Because this was not an instance in which only athletes were assisted—53 percent of the 3,100 UNC students found to be involved in the scandal were not athletes—this is a university problem, rather than just an athletic department one.”

I KNOW, RIGHT? AND WHY IS HE COMPARING RACISM TO SOUP???

I call on white leaders to condemn this violence that is shaking the very foundations of their community.

My mom prohibited Disney, but not because of any thematic content—she hated the thought that we’d read a fairy tale, like Cinderella, and then if we saw the Disney version, their depiction of the characters would forever erase whatever we had imagined. I think that’s a powerful critique, one I’ve tried to follow…

“Married into the family” could mean a cousin or nephew or some such.