Sigh. The quotes are just there to make the sentence grammatical. When referring to the word “word” I use quotes to distinguish the word “word” from the rest of the sentence.

oh by “access to” you meant they cant easily get published there. i see. well, that’s normally true, but i think at this point one of the complaining NU students in question could absolutely get the CHE to publish an article by her (or him, i guess?). I don’t know how familiar you are with the CHE: it’s quite…

Are you familiar with the Columbia “mattress girl” drama? I bet you are. Nungesser is suing Columbia, saying that Sulkowicz’s mattress project constituted harassment of him, and Columbia did nothing about it. Defenders of Sulkowicz point out that Sulkowicz’s mattress project didn’t actually mention Nungesser by name;…

Look, I disagree with Kipnis’s argument about student-professor dating. Professors’ job is to be able to grade students objectively.

I don’t see how she veers into saying incest survivors shouldn’t call themselves survivors. She’s simply showing that the word has a history of expanding outward to encompass more groups. This is called discourse analysis. It’s something which feminist academics with a Foucauldian training tend to do.

Kipnis is just providing a discursive history of who uses the word “survivor.” You might disagree with how she presents that history, but then you have to actually articulate a counterargument, rather than just saying “come on.”

Grabbing someone, ignoring their requests that you stop, and not letting go until they physically struggle, is clearly sexual assault. But it’s also nowhere near as horrible as what Sulkowitz originally says happened to her. Sulkowitz has presented the intensity of “Carry That Weight” as proportional to the crime she…

This seems less a tale of the NFL's mismanagement (how is that a new story?) than of ESPN's InfoWars-esque reporting, which has been a thing to behold.

Gawker Media's decided to forget all about Anita Sarkeesian, I see.

but wait! Fred Armisen Has a Reputation!

Can I humbly submit, this is why Spygate is bogus. There are literally thousands of cameras and sound recorders running in these stadiums before, during and after the game. It's all part of the product.

I mean, the idea that the Seahawks needed to burn up clock does make sense to me. If they go up 31-28 with 30 seconds to play, it's not such a great situation for them. The Pats offense can likely get to within FG range in that span of time.

I can totally see why Kobe got more ASG votes than this guy.

The proposed rules seem fine, but the the university's timing is self-defeating. The frats will always associate these new rules with "that discredited Rolling Stone article" — and will thus see the rules themselves as discredited. If the idea is to get the frats to "buy in" to improved safety measures at parties,…

Anyone remember Sex and the City 2?

Hard to see why we'd have no "strategic interest" in Nigeria, a massively populous, oil-rich nation.

No phone is worth this.

I've never seen Gawker Media behave this badly. I am surprised.

I don't think there is anyone named Haven Monahan. Is there?

"Academia famously functions like the Catholic Church (and frankly a lot of Protestant denominations) in letting sexually abusive faculty move from one place to another"