Laura Kipnis on the State of #MeToo, and a Night at Richard Nixon’s

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🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Laura Kipnis is a professor at Northwestern University and a provocative feminist critic. Her book “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus” states, “If this is feminism, it’s feminism hijacked by melodrama.” She has been accused of violating Title IX by creating a hostile environment for students to report harassment. Kipnis, who supports the movement, tells the staff writer Alexandra Schwartz that the grassroots power of public revelations is being hijacked by institutions in a power grab to control the lives of employees and students. The real feminist lesson of cases like Aziz Ansari’s much-discussed bad date, Kipnis thinks, is that that women as well as men need to reflect on how they conduct themselves in heterosexual relationships.

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0:00.0	This is rule of trade to God
0:04.0	The One World Observatory
0:07.0	The Strait of the Block for West Boulevard that makes that right.
0:10.0	They didn't break that, but they have pretty good access to those people.
0:15.0	They're really, they just be good.
0:16.0	Self-consciously mocked that lineage.
0:19.0	So that's happening.
0:21.5	It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts.
0:25.1	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour,
0:29.4	a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:33.1	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:34.9	I'm David Remnick.
0:36.4	Laura Kipnis is a professor at Northwestern
0:39.1	University, writing as a feminist about sex, culture, and power in our society. She's written
0:45.8	provocatively about pornography and sex scandals, and she's even written a book called Against Love.
0:51.6	But Laura Kibniss's views have brought her opposition with many other feminists on campus
0:56.5	and off.
0:57.8	She's written that sexual harassment policies don't empower women or further the cause of
1:02.1	equality at all.
1:04.2	And after she wrote about a harassment charge at her own university, two students filed a
1:08.7	Title IX complaint against Kipness saying that her words contributed to
1:13.4	discrimination. In their view, her arguments discouraged people from reporting rape or harassment
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