Word: mackinnons
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...bigotry at one moment while breathing forth their own form of prejudice in the next. A prime example of such hypocritical bigotry was the Law School Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) rally on Friday, February 26 in support of granting tenure to University of Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon, a longtime advocate of state-enforced censorship and sex discrimination...
...MacKinnon's published writings reflect a venomous hatred for men as a class, stereotyping all men as rapists, and display contempt for heterosexuals in general. Wild animadversions such as "marital sex is sexual harassment is rape" and "heterosexuality is the eroticization of dominance and submission" full her speech and writings. (Ironically, MacKinnon herself recently married a feminist man, demonstrating that even she doesn't believe her absurd claims about marriage being rape.) MacKinnon asserts that nearly all heterosexual sex is rape, questioning even "whether consent is a meaningful concept." MacKinnon believes that sex constitutes rape if a woman who consented...
...Mackinnon, who already has tenure at Michigan, is the author of the influential "Toward A Feminist Theory of the State," and is widely respected in her field...
...professors' reactions to the Mackinnon placards differed. While some, like Professor of Law Randall L. Kennedy, wished the students good luck, others, like Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, said that offering Mackinnon tenure was "not even in question...
...students at the protest said they believed the faculty would vote on Mackinnon's case on March...