In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health. By GREG LUKIANOFF AND JONATHAN HAIDT SEPTEMBER 2015 ISSUE of The Atlantic Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely…
Read moreFree speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’
An excerpt from this article: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/ Brendan O’Neill and Harriet Brown discuss the rise of the Stepford student Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students….
Read moreWhat the catcalling video gets wrong
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Read moreThe Everyday Sexism campaign risks making all sexual advances ‘misogynist’
The campaign against everyday sexism has shown that a deeply unpleasant vein of misogyny still runs through our society. But in highlighting the antisocial, misguided behaviour of some unreconstructed individuals, it is important to be aware that such behaviour is not representative of most men’s attitudes. More worryingly, from the perspective of a progressive sexual…
Read moreWomen: STOP GETTING DRUNK!
Young women are getting a distorted message that their right to match men drink for drink is a feminist issue. A well-known feminist dissident Camille Paglia one wrote: For a decade feminists have drilled their disciples to say “Rape is a crime of violence but not sex.” This sugarcoated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young…
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