There are plenty of people defending her who don’t agree with what she wrote. The “automatic support” you’re seeing is coming from people who believe in freedom of speech.

He’s made that publicly available before on Twitter.

So, doxxing sex assault victims, okay.

I thought the first essay made some really good points, including in helping us (younger generation) learn to draw the difference between power dynamics and actual coercion, and in highlighting a drift toward sex-negativity. I wouldn’t say it was perfect, but I found it thoughtful, nuanced, and worth discussing. I’m…

You may not like what Kipnis wrote. You may have felt it to be in bad taste, problematic, or outright victim blaming, but it is absolutely her right to publish. Kipnis or any one should be allowed to publish their views on public information no matter how odious or offensive. I am the personal view that Kipnis…

If “retaliation” can actually be defined as “writing about a case in a way that the accuser disagrees with,” then it would almost certainly invite First Amendment challenges to Title IX, which would leave victims of actual retaliation—such as, I don’t know, being fired for bringing a Title IX complaint against a…

That essay sounded convincing at first blush, but thinking about it more, I still don’t think Kipnis’s right to free speech should be limited in this way. In the non-academia world people publish things critical or dismissive of victims of crime all the time with absolutely no risk of punishment; I can’t think of a…

Because abusing Title IX to go after someone you don’t like de-legitimizes real violations, and erodes the carefully-won public support for the law. Just like fake rape claims reduce support for real rape prosecutions.

As you quote:

Sorry Charlie, the court has already ruled on who’s version of events are valid. And they aren’t yours. So suck it up Wallaby.

Not against title ix, you hateful troll.

That’s absurd. This professor was not in a position of power over this student, she could not do anything to her career. All she did was opine on the power dynamics of professor student relationships, and used a situation known to her as an example. Publishing an essay does not implicate Title IX at all. I’ll take it…

Well, she was cleared of the accusations. I’m going to accept that as having more value than a blog post that only argues that she wasn’t “obviously” innocent.

I agree! I discussed the title IX cases with my mother this weekend and while I got a look for my comments on the idiocy of dating faculty (something I did in undergrad) we agreed: we’re adults, we shouldnt hide stupid choices behind legal action the morning after. (This is not a comment on sexual assault or rape but…

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.

Way to do more harm than good for the cause kids.

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…

Did ya know that the assholes that filed the Title IX compliant also filed one to the faculty member that accompanied her to Title IX compliant meetings because his participation created a threatening environment (although the union/association she belongs to provides this person to attend such proceedings and it’s…

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…