I absolutely love 10 Thing I Hate About You, but it was utterly disappointing when I finally read Taming of the Shrew and discovered that Petruchio is a raging misogynist while Kate is hardly a feminist (or even a proto-feminist). It sort of tainted the movie for me. Still love this scene, though:

You say that the family’s reactions are perfectly natural given that they’re experiencing extreme cognitive dissonance and are the product of a culture that treats rape as an extraordinary circumstance (magic, as you say). This is certainly true, but in your account of our culture, you seem to be suggesting that men…

I preemptively apologize for being pedantic, but she wasn’t actually tenured; she was tenure-track and was approximately halfway through the tenure approval process before her firing. But yes, she’ll likely have difficulty finding a tenure-track position in the future, so it’s possible her career’s been irreversibly…

Personally, I have mixed feelings on this matter, but here’s the relevant excerpt from the Chronicle piece:

That’s certainly part of it (especially because sports coaches, youth group leaders, etc. are often around children without parental supervision), but it’s also because pedophiles who target young girls have more opportunities to sublimate or otherwise act out their desire through mediated, legal means, e.g., there’s…

I have an anxiety disorder as well, and it can be hugely, hugely gratifying when it feels as if someone understands and is actually willing to listen to and accommodate you. But like the other commenter said, you shouldn’t allow his kindness to blind you to the other issues.

I wasn’t attacking you. I was attempting to point out that while the sex offender registry was, in the wake of the 1993 Jacob Wetterling case, created to target and track the sorts of neighborhood pedophiles that you describe, it hasn’t proven effective because the vast majority of pedophilia cases are not perpetuated…

Sex offenders have a lower overall rearrest rate than non-sex offenders (43% compared to 68%), but because “sex offender” is such a large category, these are fairly meaningless numbers.

The problem with this sort of argument is that 93% of sex offenses against children are committed by someone known to the victim, most often a family member. They’re only rarely committed by strangers in the general area.

It’s important to bear in mind that many of the individuals arrested for public urination are homeless. Quite a few homeless shelters will not admit registered sex offenders, which means that these individuals have very few opportunities to escape homelessness.

“The real movement in America should be ‘male lives matter.’”

Wow, this is some Mr. Smith Goes to Washington shit. By all accounts, he’s a horrid human being, but goddamn, this is truly satisfying to watch.

This thread has named rapists, racists, climate-change deniers, anti-choice misogynists, and a father (potentially) guilty of child endangerment, and you’re nominating someone for deleting some emails? Reconsider your priorities.

The federal appeals court recently decided that a similar case (the Columbia one) was worthy of retrial on the grounds that if a university seeks to avoid liability or bad publicity and thereby inadvertently favors one gender over another, it’s supposedly still guilty of practicing sexual discrimination,…

I was honestly attempting to reserve judgment but then I clicked on the Buzzfeed article and saw this: The university discriminated against John Doe because of its “archaic assumptions that female students do not sexually assault or harass their fellow male students because females are less sexually promiscuous than…

That’s pretty damn accurate.

As a Northwestern alum, we’ve been saying this about UChicago students for years.

“No woman can be hit like this and stay with that person if that person isn’t prepared to say sorry.”

Oh, fair enough, I figured it was higher. They could definitely afford that, given that coyotes charge upward of 3,000 USD per person. But I still find it unlikely that they’d fly to Canada to ultimately enter the US because it’d require that they first apply for a Mexican passport and pass through customs in Canada…

To be fair, if Mexican border-crossers had the available money to pay for plane tickets to Canada, I don’t think they’d be bothering with the oftentimes dangerous trek into US territory.