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...they can keep a safe distance from the term feminism, which conjures images of angry, man-hating lesbians. Not only are Harvard’s conservatives and liberals battling each other over different visions of achieving gender parity, and, indeed, what that parity would look like, but both sides are also struggling to legitimize their feelings of gender-based oppression to a student body that, on the surface, doesn’t seem to care. And they’re distancing themselves from more moderate feminists, reluctant to join either side...
...final clubs are all-male, and that those two-thirds control a great deal of money and property. But they are outside the jurisdiction of the university. There is nothing Harvard can do to compel them to behave differently than they do—the best people on either side of the debate can do is to make first-years aware of social alternatives, but to belabor the point against them seems almost masochistic...
...side proposing a government mandate stressed its importance as a preventative measure and claimed that it would save the government money by reducing deaths from diseases caused...
...well, funny. It’s sort of the same principle that’s at play when Jon Stewart says the word “fag”: he can use slurs because we know that at the end of the day, Stewart is on the side of the smart people—who are on the side of the homos...
Post-homophobic and post-racist humor, like any humor, only really sizzles when you have something funny to say; if you don’t, you’ll probably just end up showing off an ugly side of yourself that is a little too interested in parsing people into gay and straight, white and not-white. That’s the tendency that the Bad People find so repulsive—what they implicitly assume is contained in all humor that hints at homophobia, racism, sexism, genderism, etc. When they find it where it really exists, though...