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In 2015, students at Northwestern University responded to an article in
the Chronicle of Higher Education with a protest march. Some carried
mattresses. The author of the article, Laura Kipnis, a tenured faculty
member at Northwestern, had gleefully denounced the state of campus
sexual politics. Kipnis’s immediate target was a university policy,
introduced the year before, that prohibited all romantic or sexual
relationships between students and university staff or faculty members.
In the piece, titled “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe,” she critiqued a
“new paradigm” of trigger warnings and trauma, in which students had
become “committed to their own vulnerability, conditioned to imagine
they have no agency, and protected from unequal power arrangements in
romantic life.” Kipnis, who has written books including “Against Love”
and “Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation,” often voices
controversial or contrarian views; here, as always, she took pleasure in
stirring up a hornets’ nest. In a telling anecdote, she related that, a
decade earlier, she had voluntarily attended a harassment workshop on
campus (“Hoping my good citizenship might be noticed,” she wrote). The
first guideline issued by the workshop leader was “Do not make unwanted
sexual advances.” Kipnis couldn’t help herself. From the back of the
room she called, “But how do you know they’re unwanted until you try?”
full:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/laura-kipniss-battle-against-vulnerability
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