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Kuros
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 Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:27 am Post subject: Gender Studies Professor Lacks Decorum |
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Professor's 'F- Off' to Republican Students Sparks Free Speech Debate
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At the University of Iowa, the College Republicans sent an email this week to the entire college community about an event they termed the "Conservative Coming Out Week." Planned events include an "Animal Rights BBQ" and an opportunity for students to "pick up your Doctors' Notice to miss class for 'sick of being stressed', just like the Wisconsin public employees during the union protests."
No doubt this email was intended to be provocative. But few expected this: Ellen Lewin, a professor of Anthropology and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies, wrote back: "*beep* YOU, REPUBLICANS." |
My solution? Annihilate gender studies. |
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geldedgoat
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:03 am Post subject: |
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The student group opened itself up to all kinds of ridicule and criticism by its choice of phrasing for those events. To then turn around and cry foul at this professor's response displays the same sickening kind of passive-aggressive victimhood that's become so popular with Republicans as of late.
While I think the professor acted extremely childish in her first response, I admire her for not relenting in her followup 'apologies.' Those students should be laughed back into whatever mustache-twirling, self-aggrandizing support group they crawled from. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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The student group opened itself up to all kinds of ridicule and criticism by its choice of phrasing for those events. To then turn around and cry foul at this professor's response displays the same sickening kind of passive-aggressive victimhood that's become so popular with Republicans as of late.
While I think the professor acted extremely childish in her first response, I admire her for not relenting in her followup 'apologies.' Those students should be laughed back into whatever mustache-twirling, self-aggrandizing support group they crawled from. |
She didn't laugh at them. She responded with strong profanity.
This is an inappropriate response. She's a professor. Maybe if she used her private email account this would be appropriate, but she used a school email account tagged with her professor signature. |
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Greyjoy
Joined: 12 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Both parties acted irresponsibly.
Both parties need to grow up. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies?
What a bunch of garbage anyway. Put on some make-up and learn how to cook a good meal. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| She didn't laugh at them. She responded with strong profanity. |
I guess we view ridicule and criticism differently. I don't see why profanity can't be a form of either.
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| Maybe if she used her private email account this would be appropriate, but she used a school email account tagged with her professor signature. |
Maybe if the students had kept their intentionally incendiary slogans out of a public forum their whining would move me, but they advertised their stupidity to the entire university via a mass email using the university mailing list. As far as I can tell, the professor kept her comments between herself and the idiots that invited the criticism, placing her infantility at least a peg above.
I just can't be bothered to feel the least bit of sympathy for the students. |
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rambler
Joined: 18 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| This is an inappropriate response. She's a professor. Maybe if she used her private email account this would be appropriate, but she used a school email account tagged with her professor signature. |
I generally support profanity, but this comment is spot on. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:46 am Post subject: |
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I think I'm with geldedgoat on this one.
The students were trying to be provocative and they succeeded, then whined about the reaction. Please. They were not offended by the language the prof used; they were just using it to further stir up attention for themselves. The College Republicans should just get in the cars their daddies bought them and drive back up to Snob Hill.
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| Frak any statist or neo-con who says otherwise. |
How is that qualitatively different than just coming flat out and saying 'the word'? It made me think 'the word', so the karma should be the same. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe if she used her private email account this would be appropriate, but she used a school email account tagged with her professor signature. |
Maybe if the students had kept their intentionally incendiary slogans out of a public forum their whining would move me, but they advertised their stupidity to the entire university via a mass email using the university mailing list. As far as I can tell, the professor kept her comments between herself and the idiots that invited the criticism, placing her infantility at least a peg above.
I just can't be bothered to feel the least bit of sympathy for the students. |
This isn't about sympathy for the students. Its about unprofessional behavior on the part of the professor.
But even if you're going by the statements of the students, yes, her response was also disproportionate. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| This isn't about sympathy for the students. Its about unprofessional behavior on the part of the professor. |
Of course it is, because that's how it was spun. It's just another in a long, ridiculous line of stories deceitfully presented in a way to make universities look like liberal training grounds. This should be a story about the college community censuring the group of students and looking disapprovingly at the professor, as they both acted inappropriately.
But, as I said above, Republicans have become surprisingly proficient at instigating a situation and then playing the victim, so, as much as I want to be taken aback at the reaction to this non-controversy, I'm not.
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| But even if you're going by the statements of the students, yes, her response was also disproportionate. |
Agreed. Her response was proportionately slightly better than the students' original email.
And if the situation here had been reversed, and we were facing a group of College Democrats hosting a fetus rights carnival complete with condom bursting water gun games and baby cake walks, I would feel exactly the same. |
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