I never buy that argument and your diminuating insult adds nothing to the conversation. If you read and write fluently in the hosting language of either a blog or an education institution, your fingers fly to the apostrophe of the Shift + Capital letter without thinking. That’s what inherence of language is, six month…

“WASP queen boss lady...” that’s nice I guess that she disclosed her religion to you so you could easily append the Reagan-era insult-noun afterwards...

That’s...actually not what Barthes says. The crux of the concept of the lowercase “death of the author” (see also Rosalind Krauss), is that media (all media relevant here since it’s a book-to-film project) can be interpreted as a “text,” and that the recipient, reader, or viewer makes the meaning. This is a bygone…

Your argument that sex work bypasses consent and that it is “paid rape” is one that has been used by plenty of men who actually do rape sex workers and by cops who refuse to take those sex workers statements, prosecutors who refuse to bring the case, and judges who deem the sexual assault of a sex worker to be “theft…

Of course. I always gave individual grades, and an overall project grade, and depending on the length of the project, etc. made some sort of an average, or something to take those factors into account. Professors aren’t monsters and want students to do well. I also don’t grade my students on a curve, so there’s not…

I understand. I hated them when I had to do them too. When I reflect back, part of it was, though, that even though I was very very confident about my mastery of the subject, I was essentially shy and anxious about interacting with people I didn’t already know and (because they were slackers or not into the subject or…

Unequivocally no. Prostitution is a bypass to consent. It’s essentially paid rape. I know there will be an army of brainwashed third wavers here trumpeting how “sex positive” they are, but no man who pays for sex respects women at all, let alone is a feminist. Kudos to France for passing the Swedish model into law,…

Academic here. I hated to do group projects in undergrad and in getting my M.A., but as a Ph.D., I assign them. The reason for doing so goes beyond addressing the topic at hand. I treat all of my students as if they are preparing for a career in academia, in our discipline, whether they are or not, because I teach a…

Was thinking the same thing. But then I wondered, it being GM and all, if it wasn’t just a spelling error.

“and am extremely pro-sex-worker.”

I think maybe you don’t understand how the Fulbrights work.