You’re making a statement about university behavior but blaming it on students. Protesting students don’t prevent others from attending. Universities make the call about whether to move forward with a particular speaker.

There is an ally-facing campaign called I’ll Go With You. The idea is that allies wear a button or sticker advertising their willingness to enter a bathroom (or other gendered space) with a trans or gender non-conforming person to provide whatever aid is required. I think this is sadly becoming even more necessary.

A “mactivist” peeing in a women’s bathroom to make a point shot by another “mactivist” seeking to protect teh wimmins, perhaps?

I’m going to reply to both your posts here so as to avoid splitting the discussion.

I do not understand your position. Are you saying that, once invited, universities should never un-invite a speaker? Why can’t the students protest the speaker before they arrive?

Regardless of factual inaccuracies, that’s not mathematically possible.

Here’s one from 2011. That real enough for you?

University invites speaker. Students protest speaker. University rescinds invite. At what point has free speech been silenced? The students made their disagreement known and the university decided it wasn’t worth the cost of paying that particular speaker. They’re not organizing a book-burning.

What do you mean “dig that far back”? Redlining officially started in the 1930's but continues to disproportionately impact black people today. And there have been lynchings as recently as last year.

So we should only silence opposing viewpoints when those viewpoints come from students?

Hey now let’s not be too hasty. If they’re so keen on comparing Labrie to Joan of Arc, maybe we could arrange a similar sentence for him...

How about tagua? Looks like ivory but grows on a tree.

But how much attention is he bringing to feminism and how much attention is he bringing to his feminism? Partly because he is so enthusiastic and partly because he is a public figure, it is hard to tell how much of his enthusiasm if for the cause and how much of it is attention-seeking. As I said, that’s not bad per…

There is a campaign called I’ll Go With You. The idea is that allies display a button or sticker advertising their willingness to go into a bathroom (or other gendered space) with a trans or gender nonconforming person and act as support, whatever form that support takes. They deserve a shoutout because this situation…

Whenever he comes up the word that leaps to mind is “puppyish”. Like, he’s not doing anything wrong (in my view), just maybe a little over-enthusiastic and clumsy.

My parents used and taught my sibling and me to use the correct terms but “penis” was just too much for my grandmother. She compromised by calling it “Mr. Penis”.

There are 14 residential colleges at Yale, including these two new ones. Eleven of them are named after white men. Two colleges were named after places before there was one named after a person of color or a woman. Complain about erasure when we’ve reached parity.

As long as you have a person of color teaching a white person their Ancient Mystical Secrets, there’s going to be a problem. But that could be easily avoided if Doctor Strange isn’t white.

Why couldn’t they cast a different Asian actor and change the character’s background accordingly? The script already changed a Tibetan character to a Celt so the background is clearly mutable. That avoids the Tibet-China issue without falling into the each-Asian-is-every-Asian trap.

I think it might be just as dangerous for there to be a separate bathroom that is seen as the “trans bathroom”.