Quote: (12-15-2014 11:39 PM)Grange Wrote:
Quote: (12-15-2014 10:41 PM)RawGod Wrote:
Quote: (12-15-2014 10:33 PM)Que enspastic Wrote:
At Melbourne Law School there was a similar sensitivity. Assuming there's a reasonable chance someone may have been molested or raped among the student population, how would you expect the teaching staff to proceed ?
Some of the students' friends may have been assaulted or murdered also. Should academic staff tiptoe around teaching the principles of homicide law?
End rape exceptionalism.
Right. The piece mentioned a student who didn't want the professor to use the word "violate." That's fucking ridiculous. If being raped took away your ability to function when you overhear the discussions that are part of law school sue for damages or something but the rest of the profession needs to hear it.
Fortunately, being raped doesn't take away your ability to function when you hear the word "violate." The best thing to do is face your fears and remove the power of the word over you. Especially if your future job involves the frequent use of the word. Will you tell the whole legal system to use a different word?
And as we've mentioned in many threads around here lately, the actual incidence of rape is very low, especially for college women, so most of the time it's probably a P&D regret scenario that shouldn't be allowed to hold the rest of the class hostage.
"The piece mentioned a student who didn't want the professor to use the word "violate.""
The writer was not being honest. She should have said "female student." In fact, every mention in this piece should have said "female student(s)."
Whenever you get a culture with a majority female population -- as college is now -- you get a culture where banning and silencing is the norm. You get elementary school. You get daycare. You get anti-intellectualism. You get the PMRC. You get temperance. You get pop songs like "Blurred Lines" not allowed to be played at dances.
The question is: why don't the people writing these article call this for what it is?
Why won't they be honest and say female students are causing this? And the quest to get more women into college has created a censoring, hysteria-based environment that's not conducive to learning -- or freedom of speech, for that matter.