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Oberlin, a private college with a $50,000 tuition, has entered once more into this year’s Tedious Campus Culture War Debate. After hearing complaints that its sushi program wasn’t good enough for reasons of racism, the place of learning has issued an apology. http://gawker.com/oberlin-debate… The New York Times reports that this particular campaign for justice began…
The noted liberal arts school explores new frontiers in getting offended. University dining halls aren’t exactly famous for serving gourmet dishes, but Oberlin students say their meals aren’t merely bad—they are racially inauthentic, and thus, a form of microaggression. It’s one thing to quietly gripe about the quality of dorm food (students have likely been…
I was quoted in a couple prominent publications yesterday, repeating my complaints with Oberlin’s protest against the supposed cultural appropriation of bad cafeteria food. Predictably, this resulted in both a lot of praise and a lot of criticism on social media. I don’t take either too deeply to heart. But I am disappointed that, from…
A lot of things happen when you look younger than your age, like I do. I’m 24 years old, but I get carded everywhere I go. I’ve been told not to get more tattoos for the sake of preserving my appeal to those who fetishize teenyboppers (true story). I’m often asked what high school I attend….
No, Rey from ‘The Force Awakens’ Is Not a Mary Sue By Rebecca Pahle | Star Wars | December 21, 2015 | Comments (View) Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools A new Star War came out over the weekend, and it’s kind of a big deal. While the rest of us were lusting…
Take a wild stab at how many Reys are available in this aisle, or how many women altogether. I hate to break it to you, but Rey is not a role model for little girls. The Force Awakens has been out all of a few days now, and already I’m over hearing this. “Oh, she’s…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and a winter of discontent, a season of police bullhorns and Christmas lights. Demonstrators protesting police shootings of black men confronted last-minute holiday shoppers and travelers in California and the Midwest this week, seeing the crowds as an opportunity to draw attention to their cause. In Chicago…
Earlier this week, Rich Juzwiak published a deeply-researched history of director Quentin Tarantino’s love affair with the word “nigger,” a word he has always used liberally in his screenplays. Juzwiak unearthed and examined twenty years worth of Tarantino’s varied and contradictory defenses of his use of the word. He also produced this video, a supercut…
The family of a man shot and killed by police in suburban Atlanta denied on Wednesday that he pointed a gun at an officer. At a press conference, a sobbing Cynthia Daniels said her husband, Bobby Daniels, “would never, ever point a gun at an officer.” (Reuters) Douglas County sheriff’s deputies got the call around…
AP It appears all three women who were tricked into marrying ambulatory man-wig Donald Trump were born without urethras, because America’s next president thinks it’s pretty gross that females have to purge their food waste somehow. Last night, Trump said presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a ladies’ restroom at this weekend’s Democratic…