KALI DHARMA X SHAKTI DHARMA

by PostModernity's Red-Headed Step-Child

"Um, yeh, like, I'd like to exchange this paradigm? It's tew scratch-ehy."

10.10.07

Hate Crime at Columbia

Before you even read it, you know the prof is a woman. Women with authority.... still just can't deal with that. Let me count, how many female TAs and profs have I known who have threatened with death and / or stalked? Seven. Where race-hate was part of the picture? One. Where homophobia was part of the picture? Two.

So, instead of scary irony, this threat is a double cliche.

Coward.

Fortuately, the campus response is spot on.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Toward+a+gender-inclusive+conception+of+intimate+partner+violence...-a0165430146

10/10/07 23:50
PMRSC said...

You clearly have a point. Underreporting of such DV is a problem, men not talking about and reporting violence by women against them. A statistical base of seven out of only about, oh say, 40 or so people is not even relevant. It was just that I felt it, the prof is a woman, before I started reading. The worst case I ever encountered as a female TA whose student was failing her class. The student scratched "I Will Kill You" onto the door of the TAs office, and then shat on it. No joke. Anoter is currently being stalked by a former student who is in the habit of sending emails describing his sexual fanatasies about the TA while expounding on how difficult it is for him to imagine her as either human or alive. While DV goes both ways much more than we know, this kind of, shall we call it business violence?, tends to go one way. Tends.

11/10/07 09:44

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