I feel you, but it’s the administration’s job to field stupid complaints. They failed big time.

I think the students who made the complaint should be penalised for wasting everyone’s time and for causing Kipnis undue harm. And also for being fucking morons and an embarrassment to feminism but unfortunately that isn’t against the law.

There is a pending Title IX complaint Stephen Eisenman, a fellow faculty member Kipnis brought as her “support person” to meeting with the Title IX investigators. Eisenman is the President of the Faculty Senate and openly criticized the secretive and labyrinthine Title IX process. Students are now asking for Eisenman…

Students are now asking for Eisenman to step down for speaking publicly about the hearings.

So happy to read this! I honestly loved her first essay, and I can’t wait to read the most recent one (behind the chronicle’s pay wall right now). There are so few feminists out there arguing that young women should be empowered to make mistakes without seeing them as trauma, and I think Kipnis was incredibly…

Good outcome, but the “prosecution” shouldn’t have taken place. As a result of this process, the temperature has been chilled everywhere. If you know an academic with Twitter or Facebook, you know they are thinking thrice before posting anything mildly upsetting.

Unclear on the concepts.

You think there is a point where a child “ages out” of inspiring hysterical grief in a parent?

This was nearly 20 years ago. I know she was hospitalized for a while and I know she did end up, through social services, finding a better housing situation and going to school. But beyond that I’m not sure. There is a lot of human flotsam and jetsam from the Amish community that is overlooked and under served.…

Sadly it’s not even close for me. I once did a postpartum home visit to find that the infant had died several days before but the mother was still bathing and dressing the little body and frantic because “She just won’t eat.” I suspect this will turn out to be something similar. Grief can do some powerfully tragic…

I’m now curious who the actress is. But you both were in the third grade, and I’m sure that child actor was spoiled beyond belief and she thought it translated into all other aspects of her life. I’m glad she got a real reality check even if only in this instance. Did she still come out of it as a nice person, or have…

Kim and Kyle Richards haven’t seen the back end of 30 in years.

Mine will have to be a Blind Item lest I doxx myself. The celebrity in question is a actress in her 30s who has done movies but is better known for her television work. She’s also much nicer than this story makes her sound. That said...

You have a heart like a lion to walk away from that encounter with your awesome mindset. What seventh grade behavior on his part.

I had absolutely no idea who he is, so I googled him and man, it’s just right there on his face, innit? Dude looks smug as fuck. I bet he has a tiny wee wee. I *HOPE* he has a tiny wee wee.

i am sorry he was such a twatwaffle to you. garbage person indeed.

I went to see a screening of the second Boondock Saints film (for all its deep and obvious flaws, I have an abiding fondness for the original, entirely because of the gorgeous men and all the homoeroticism) that included a panel discussion with Troy Duffy and a few of the actors afterward. The move was so awful I…

I’m super sad about this. I’m from MA, and I know that my state is overwhelmingly against the death penalty, and even overwhelmingly against the death penalty for Tsarnaev, specifically. We should not be in the business of executing people. I don’t believe that counts as justice.

I’m at this point where I don’t care what happens to this guy, but I feel like a life penalty, locked up and isolated until he dies naturally, thinking about all the things he didn’t get to do, is a much bigger and appropriate punishment.

My mom works in an inner city middle school as a teachers assistant. Basically it keeps her busy and she loves the kids she works with, which are the behavior kids. She has basically become a second mother to a lot of them and has some truly heartbreaking stories. One of the best was a kid whose mother had just died…