Word: mansfield
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...take the big red clunker (the phone) and an elegant leatherbound notebook (a backup phone) into the bath, run the suds, and kick back with a man. A real man—and no one knows what makes one of those like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. After all, who better to riff salient on strength, courage, and action than someone who’s been able to dedicate himself so virulently to ivory tower contemplation...
...Professor Mansfield, you’ve been known to “wear hats in a cocky way.” What’re you wearing right now? Mansfield: I am wearing cocks instead...
...Really? Mansfield: Yeah, cocks on my hat!! Really...
...Mansfield was assailed with questions that asked not about the heart of his theory but about the exceptions: “what if two women are married to each other?” Another concerned a woman that started to “identify” as a man—what to do with this transgendered person in Mansfield’s equation...
...Mansfield stood his ground, properly calling those examples marginal and ultimately irrelevant to his core argument. But many have not been so steadfast with reality. When the proposition of changing Tuft’s “heteronormative” housing confronted the university’s president, he found it hard to respond in the logical way—that heteropresumption is the way of a world where the huge majority are straight—and instead invented a nonsensical excuse underpinned by a worry that sexually transmitted diseases would increase if the sexes were mixed...