Laura Kipnis On How Campus Feminism Infantilizes Women

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-07-01 14:26

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'"What now gets labeled feminism on [college] campuses," says Northwestern University Professor Laura Kipnis, "has to do with dialing back a lot the progress women have made establishing ourselves as consenting adults."

That was the main argument of an essay Kipnis published this past February in The Chronicle of Higher Education, titled, "Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe." After the article appeared, the Northwestern campus erupted in protest. Students demonstrated by carrying mattresses and pillows and wrote a public letter accusing Kipnis of "[spitting] in the face of survivors of rape and sexual assault everywhere.”'

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The entire purpose of feminism is to give women all the rights of adults and all the responsibilities of children.

And to give men all the responsibility of adults and all the rights of children.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2015-07-02 21:38