No, you’ve got it backwards. I’m perfectly able to determine what sex is. Allowing people to rent your body to perform acts of violence and degradation upon is what sex is not.

Gussy it up however you like, prostitution is paid rape. Sex work is the temporary suspension of a person’s sexuality. If you are getting blowback from actual feminists – not the Belle Knox-loving third wavers on Jezebel – I doubt it has anything to do with your body type. It’s that your mindset and behavior harms all…

I don’t know; it’s hard to say really with break-out TV stars. Strangely ER seems to have launched a high percentage of people who continue to have very long and broad-ranging careers while people who had it all going for them, like Eliza Dushku, for example, just didn’t stick (not talking about morons like Heigl who…

She actually had very very good performances in The Good Girl, Friends With Money, and, of course, Office Space.

“With a decade under its belt, Orange County knows how its done...”

It’s a tenure track job.

I know what he said. But he wasn’t speaking directly about the very population who was likely to turn up in his classroom. If you complain about young white men, or young white women, for that matter, or young people in general, teaching college is not a thing you need to be doing. Because you know where you find a…

You don’t get tenure until you get tenure. It’s a tenure track hire, but even her mid-tenure review is a few years away. I’d say she’s very very unlikely to make it.

Salaita didn’t say anything that made it seem as if the random Zionist who turned up as one of his students wouldn’t be welcome in the course and get a fair shake coming grading time.... Grundy did make it seem as if young white men would face direct problems in her governance. Salaita’s comments were directed at for…

Did you mean to respond to me? If so I don’t think you read my own post, let alone any actual reporting about the situation on the Chronicle or Higher Ed websites. That’s not at all what I said. Also you don’t know what irony means...given that you don’t speak English I guess I can’t expect you to know the Greek root…

She doesn’t have tenure; she hasn’t even begun her first year contract yet. Unfortunately this is going to end up in Steven Salaita territory when it’s really not the same situation at all.

What’s a problem is the drop in the number of white males enrolled in the types of humanities courses – art history, LotE, classics, philosophy, history, etc. – that teach people how to think critically and become exposed to the theories and histories underpinning (real actual not third wave BELL KNOX/bell hooks…

Love Paperhouse (and Candyman also). I thought Cross was effectively scary because it’s entirely possible for much of the story that there’s something else going on besides Stepfather-esque homicidal mania. And the visual devices for presenting the little girl’s state of mind and perspective were very creative, simple…

The moment in the inn when the embers from his pipe illuminate “Strider” is burned into my mind...

No, it’s not like that at all. It’s 2015. Germany accepts a higher number, in actual numbers and per capita, of refugees of all sorts, including those being persecuted for sexual orientation, than any country in the world. It’s you Anglophones (see the horrifying refugee camp situation off the coast of Australia) who…

There actually isn’t any evidence that he or she speaks German beyond a few phrases you can easily find on dict.cc.

I’m sorry, and I appreciate your non-incendiary comment. But I have to tell you that this person is inhabiting a bizarre persona, maybe similar to that person who posts about her husband’s BMW and son at Harvard.

This is exactly the original definition of trolling, adopting a fauxsona and making bizarre comments to initiate discussion. I’m not saying the person is being abusive, but it’s simply not possible to be German and be unaware of discussion about white male patriarchal issues or to have heard the terms “black” and…

“Living in Frankfurt, which is a great multicultural city (especially compared to München)...”

I’m sorry, but, you’re totally making all of this up. I’m from München, and we (and everyone else in the entirely far less provincial rest of the country) is very well aware of both “racial descriptions” and the ascription of power to white men. What a weird thing to make a troll post about.