Christina Sommers
Resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Former philosophy professor. Author of Who Stole Feminism? Host of video blog: The Factual Feminist.
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Trigger warnings are countertherapeutic because they encourage avoidance of reminders of trauma, and avoidance maintains P.T.S.D.
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Christina Sommers
If You Need a Trigger Warning, You Need P.T.S.D. Treatment - NYTimes.com nytimes.com/roomfordebate/…
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Is Cordelia Fine's Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars?
One occasionally hears it said, generally by intelligent people who have turned their brains off for a moment, that science and politics don’t mix, and shouldn’t. This is of course nonsense, as they would realize if they thought about it for more tha
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Christina Sommers
Is Cordelia Fine’s Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars? – AREO
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A Campus-Rape Official Who Disses Men Online | RealClearInvestigations
Can male students expect a fair process when a member of the schools department responsible for handling sexual assault accusations has posted anti-male sentiments online?
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In place of the Obama-era guidance on campus assault, schools will now have to adhere to 2001 and 2006 guidance from the Education Department.
The school denies it is a racially hostile work environment, but internal emails belie that assertion.
Could Blazing Saddles or The Producers get made today?
Six years of federal Title IX policy that stripped college students of due process protections and sowed confusion among administrators is finally over.
"These documents have led to the deprivation of rights for many students."
"So she was investigated for writing about being investigated for writing about being investigated?"
Demands for retraction, to fire the journal editors, even to fire author and to revoke his PhD.
The media’s demand for certainty -- and its lack of statistical rigor -- is a bad match for our complex world.
Society's "stupidly politically correct" sensibilities will lead to the "death of comedy", the veteran Hollywood comedian Mel Brooks has warned.
I’ve now finished Cordelia Fine’s newest book, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society. I’ve also read her earlier work, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, …
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s race-themed polemics provoke exasperation and rebuke from some black critics ...
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Christina Sommers
Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Black Critics Reject His Overwrought ‘Antiracism’ | National Review
2d ago
University of Mary Washington had no obligation to "ban Yik Yak from the campus wireless network ," because such a ban "may have exposed the university to liability under the First Amendment" (and in any case wasn't required by Title IX or the equal
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Christina Sommers
Court rejects Feminist Majority Foundation's demand that public university block access to Yik Yak
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Brown University's Glenn Loury: "We're arguing about labels, about what to call our holidays, or which portraits to rearrange on the wall."
Betsy DeVos is rolling back the clock on university policies around sexual misconduct.
In Birka, Sweden, Viking bones from grave B581 until recently were categorized as “anomalous” where “…the gender of the skeleton appeared at odds with the martial objects buried with it.” (emphasis added).5,12 Contemporaneously, in Lewes, East Sussex
Students and educators now live in a world where expressing an opinion about sexual harassment can be sincerely perceived as sexual harassment.