READER ´ Unwanted Advances ✓ Laura Kipnis

E environment Defying confidentiality strictures she wrote a whistleblowing essay about the ensuing seventy two day investigation which propelled her to the center of national debates over free speech safe spaces and the vast federal overreach of Title IXIn the process she uncovered an astonishing netherworld of accused professors and students campus witch hunts rigged investigations and Title IX officers run amuck Drawing on interviews and internal documents Unwanted Advances demonstrates the chilling effect of this new sexual McCarthyism on intellectual freedom Without minimizing the serio Kipnis is a feminist who has been maligned and even faced civil rights charges because s

Laura Kipnis ✓ Unwanted Advances TEXT

Unwanted AdvancesUsness of campus assault Kipnis argues for honesty about the sexual realities and ambivalences hidden behind the notion of rape culture Instead regulation is replacing education and women’s hard won right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well meaning bureaucratsUnwanted Advances is a risk taking often darkly funny interrogation of feminist paternalism the covert sexual conservatism of hook up culture and the institutionalized backlash of holding men alone responsible for mutually drunken sex It’s not just compulsively readable it will change the national conversati TL;DR universities shouldn't be permitted to serve as DA judge jury and executioner beca