“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
“[T]he hidden linguistic universe of companianate couples... rests entirely on one generative phrase: 'Would you please stop doing that.” — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism in gender… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the blame on… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share
