'Slavery,' pregnancy drove California professor to accost teen pro-lifer, say defenders

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-08-16 20:15

Article here. Excerpt:

'Supporters of Mireille Miller-Young cite the "cultural legacy of slavery" and even the effects of pregnancy to explain why the feminist studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara would accost a teenager spreading a pro-life message on campus.

The pregnant 38-year-old who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of theft, vandalism and battery after stealing and destroying an anti-abortion poster and injuring a a16-year-old activist, says she’s sorry for some of her actions and hopes to “makes amends through community service.”

An associate professor whose course work, which includes pornography and sex work, has gained her the nickname the “porn professor,” Ms. Miller-Young was set to appear for sentencing today (August 14) before Judge Brian Hill in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.
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Joan Short said any punishment that doesn’t include some sort of broader apology to students, not just for stealing the poster but also for the physical nature of the confrontation, does not go far enough.

“Before, some of the things she was saying was, ‘I had a right to do this. I set a good example for my students. I was showing them how to protect themselves,’ ” Joan said.

“I think she should publicly say to her students, ‘I acted completely inappropriately.’ ”'

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The thing that irritated me about this professor was not her blatant misandry.

I was not irritated so much by her tearing down the poster.

I suppose that, assuming she had conviction, scratching the protester also was not so irritating to me.

What really angered me was how, moments before she went into action, she began chanting: "tear down the poster! tear down the poster!"

She was trying to incite a mob into action -- to get others to do her dirty work.

This feminist evinced total cowardice and mob mentality.

If anything, she should be held accountable for that; and inciting a riot SHOULD have been the charge against her.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Sun, 2014-08-17 20:20

I thought she acted this way she's a b--not a very nice person. That's just what not very nice people do.

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Submitted by el cid on Tue, 2014-08-19 13:38