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![Modern feminism: HIJACKED by melodrama and Dialing Back Progress - Laura Kipnis [MIRROR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jR76ceGuUaA/hqdefault.jpg "Modern feminism: HIJACKED by melodrama and Dialing Back Progress - Laura Kipnis [MIRROR]
Laura Kipnis (Northwestern University professor) criticizes the infantilizing effects of modern campus feminism and the Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights after she was dragged through a Title IX investigation (which she describes as a Kafkaesque Inquisition) for writing an article criticizing the growing reach & scope of Title IX. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) wrote in its coverage: That’s right: A professor was subjected to a lengthy Title IX investigation for her article about how there are too many Title IX investigations.
The article that prompted all the drama - Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe (Feb 27, 2015): http://laurakipnis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Sexual-Paranoia-Strikes-Academe.pdf
Her followup article describing her investigation My Title IX Inquisition (May 29, 2015): http://laurakipnis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/My-Title-IX-Inquisition-The-Chronicle-Review-.pdf
http://laurakipnis.com
This video is mirrored from the ReasonTV channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6luo4U0joO0
Her new book, inspired by this experience - Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.
From her website:
Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis. Anyone who thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress is deranged.
A committed feminist, Kipnis was surprised to find herself the object of a protest march by student activists at her university for writing an essay about sexual paranoia on campus. Next she was brought up on Title IX complaints for creating a “hostile 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 IX.
In the process she uncovered an astonishing netherworld of accused professors and students, campus witch hunts, and Title IX officers run amok. Then a trove of revealing documents fell into her lap, plunging her behind-the-scenes in an especially controversial case. Drawing on investigative reporting, cultural analysis, and her own experiences, Unwanted Advances demonstrates the chilling effect of this new sexual McCarthyism on higher education. Without minimizing the seriousness of campus assault, Kipnis argues for more honesty about the sexual realities and ambivalences hidden behind the notion of “rape culture.” Instead, regulation is replacing education, and women’s right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats.
Unwanted 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 conversation.
Description text from the original video:
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.”
Then two students filed complaints with the university, and Northwestern brought Kipnis up on charges under Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlaws discrimination on college campuses that receive federal support. The charges were later dismissed, but not before Kipnis wrote a follow up essay in Chronicle, My Title IX Inquisition.
Last week, Kipnis sat down with Reasons Matt Welch to talk about campus feminism, Title IX, why Hustlers Larry Flynt and anti-porn activist Andrea Dworkin have a lot in common, and her recent book, Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation.
Shot and edited by Jim Epstein, with help from Anthony L. Fisher.
Nineteen minutes and 22 seconds.
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![Islamist ideology must be terminated and Islam must be reformed - Maajid Nawaz [MIRROR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/krXat8ahOKE/hqdefault.jpg "Islamist ideology must be terminated and Islam must be reformed - Maajid Nawaz [MIRROR]
From the Islam in a Secular Democracy session of the National Secular Societys 2016 conference in London on September 3, 2016.
Maajid Nawaz argues there is historical precedent for Islamic secularism (separation of religion & state) and Islamic reform. He also criticizes the Regressive Left, who dont understand (or refuse to recognize) the difference between muslim apologists and muslim reformers.
Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v KjVKjKBCc0
Full Q&A panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3uIUW_uDD8
Full playlist of secularism 2016 conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3J9CpgtuNPrwzu9YeyCyN_Wnz2iqVjPZ
https://www.youtube.com/user/SecularismOrgUK
http://www.secularism.org.uk
Maajid Nawaz is a former islamist-turned-reformer. He is co-founder of Quilliam Foundation, the worlds first counter-extremism think tank. He campaigns for liberalism, secularism, counter-extremism, and islamic reform. He is author of Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism and co-author (with Sam Harris) of Islam and the Future of Tolerance.
Quilliam Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/user/QuilliamFoundation
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org")
