What percentage of prostitutes agree with you that their profession ought to remain illegal?

Your ballooning tuition and student debt, everyone!

Obviously sea levels will change that much *eventually*. In 500 years maybe. Probably longer than that. Definitely not within the lifetime of the youngest person reading this blog — or that of their great grandchild.

I agree with your final paragraph, actually. Time to move on from each other.

I’ll just say there’s an important distinction between saying that someone who felt they were being coerced was not in fact being coerced, and calling someone a liar. You read Foucault ever? People can respond to an internalized sense that they’re being coercion that isn’t in fact reflected in the external situation.

I’m rereading the paragraphs you block-quote from the article really carefully. And I’m just not seeing where Kipnis “all but outright calls the student a liar.” Kipnis highlights the story as an example of a campus climate where “melodrama” (sleazy prof, groping — but no actual rape) is blown up into a series of…

Actually, Sulkowicz was likely involved in the vigilante posting of Nungesser’s name all over the walls of Columbia’s Butler Library last year. The posters said “this man is a rapist and he’s still on campus” or something. Look it up. It’s not proven Sulkowicz was the person who put those posters up, but this was how…

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.”

So we’re saying that one guy had sex with like, 10,000 different women in a lifetime?

Yes, in Bohemia.

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…

Exactly. Roger Shawyer, Juan Yang, Harold White — names to remember!

Oh my. They...they mightve actually done it?

What happened to Malian king Abu Bakr II's transatlantic expedition in 1310?

In every sector which has been deunionized over the past 40 years, we've seen a return of 80-hour weeks, no weekends, and loss of benefits. So those are still the things the labor movement is fighting for.