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Re: Mutually Nonconsensual Sex

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This woman is an anti-feminist nutjob, I can't believe she'll still writing opinion pieces for the Atlantic...

If you seriously want to defend a practice where two people do the same thing and then one of them is declared the victim and the other the perpetrator, based on either gender or whoever complains first, then you are the nutjob.

If you drill hard enough, what comes out is actually not a interest in justice or society - quite contrary- its about power, pure, un-diluted power, to chase out and behead, whoever you wish to declare to be a missfit.

And it has been here before, in all shapes and sizes. Its the social skill superiors equivalent of facism.

Re: Mutually Nonconsensual Sex

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Sorry if this sounds old fashioned and traditional, but shouldn’t universities primarily focus on the quality of their education? I’m not exactly keen on my tax dollars going to make schools better for parties and hooking up. Tinder exists, if early twenty somethings want to hook up why are they spending $30K and up of loans and parent’s savings on it? Heaven forbid they go to class and study for midterms instead of…

I'm currently attending University and I'd say for the majority of Universities focusing on education the ship has long sailed. The alternative to the "hookup" scene these days, which most people view as the "traditional" college experience you refer to has been morphed into job seeking. Most students do not go to class to learn, but rather to receive accreditation, concerned only with how future employers will view…

> Most students do not go to class to learn, but rather to receive accreditation, concerned only with how future employers will view their GPA or classes taken

I’m super skeptical of this. In any engineering or science field the only thing a diploma gets you is an interview. I don’t consider myself an especially adept interviewer but I think I can tell in the first five minutes if a new grad didn’t learn anything in school.

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