Also, has anyone read Yenor's latest book? He has an extended section in it in which he argues that affirmative consent in sex is a bad idea and that heavy petting and foreplay pretty much forfeit a woman's right to refuse penetration.
Instead of sharing and interpreting actual, real-world rape charges and listening to the experiences of rape victims, he sets up hypotheticals where, by walking the reader through a sexual encounter step-by-step, he makes the woman seem unreasonable. . .
for refusing what he calls the "wind-up and pitch," but by which he means penetration.
Anyone has the right to stop a sexual encounter at any point. If a partner persists after that point, it's sexual assault. What's so hard to understand about that?
Of course, this is a guy who in the same book also argues for ending no-fault divorce.
I know of SO MANY divorces (my own included) where, if the women were put in the position of needing to make the case for the divorce beyond irreconcilable differences, the husbands would have landed in much, MUCH worse places than with no-fault divorces.
Don't push your luck, fellas. We keep receipts for years, even decades.
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People are trying to get me fired for this tweet. I encourage everyone to look at how the legislature defines critical race theory in HB 377, then explain how my ideas or behavior in the classroom align with any of what is forbidden under the law. legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/upl…
The HB 377 doesn't ban the teaching of CRT. What it does is set up a straw man version of CRT. And of course I don't do any of the things that caricature of CRT includes.
Do I compel students to "compel students to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to any" of the tenets named in the law? No.
Here's the deal with Boise State: There's one guy who has these horrifying ideas about women and wants to limit our opportunities. But there are HUNDREDS of faculty and staff pushing in the opposite direction.
By attending workshops, engaging in other relevant opportunities, and reflecting on our learning, Boise State employees can earn the BUILD certificate (BUILD = Boise State Uniting for Inclusion and Leadership in Diversity).
BUILD's offerings introduce faculty and staff to the research and evidence-based practices that we need to know if we're to make Boise State a welcoming place for everyone.
Here's how this kind of thing works: 1. Right-wing website doesn't interview anyone about the workshop. 2. Website's followers send threats/promise to show up & disrupt. 3. Workshop privacy settings changed for safety. 4. Website authors/followers outraged about privacy settings.
I have yet to read an article in a conservative publication that explains that (a) faculty voluntarily do professional development to become more effective teachers, (b) it's typical for universities to have teaching centers that help faculty with this development, and. . .
(c) there's an entire body of rigorously peer-reviewed literature, based on sound social science, that guides the development of teaching centers' workshops. Faculty developers and instructional designers don't make this stuff up out of thin air.
New #BoiseState pres @MarleneTromp spoke this morning to the College of Arts & Sciences faculty. It was hard not to shout AMEN! or raise praise hands during her remarks. So much of what she said resonated with my experience and observations.
@MarleneTromp spoke of the importance of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences to the immediate work of the university—educating our students—but also addressed how, for example, historians and sociologists are essential to research in engineering & science.
Pres. Tromp also spoke of how those of us who understand culture need to bring our perspectives to challenges like cybersecurity because our divergent thinking is key to understanding cybercrime. I'd add climate change, gun violence, and mass migration to that list.