Unwanted advances
by Laura Kipnis · first published 2017
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From a highly regarded feminist, cultural critic, and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.
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…as is also good, but the book expands and improves on the argument. It’s less of a classic as the Righteous Mind because it’s more focused on a topical issue. I think it pairs well with Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances.
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗…against a law professor on the basis that the law professor criticized Title IX? > Kipnis was the subject of yet another Northwestern Title IX investigation earlier this year — this time for writing “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus,” a book about being investigated for saying there are too many Title IX investigations. https://www.thefire.org/breaking-laura-kipnis-second-title-i... https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/laura-kipniss-endle...
on “One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar” ↗