Um, If You Choose To Take A Class Called "Deviance In Society," Do You Next File A Complaint About The Sexual Content?
What a surprise -- all these demands for trigger warnings and other attempts to comply with the government's Title IX interpretations are catching up with professors who aren't exactly white men on the right.

In The New York Times, Anemona Hartocollis writes that a professors' group, the American Assoc. of University Women, says speech is being squashed on campus, and guess whose:

Yes, that's right -- it's especially problematic for "female professors in areas like gender studies":

The report says that in the last few years, the government has been regulating not just sexual conduct but also sexual speech, and that the emphasis on complying with federal law has led to some professors being investigated by universities for making statements that some students find offensive but that the report says should be protected. A heightened focus on speech, the report said, has led to episodes like one in which students demanded trigger warnings before being exposed to graphic lesbian sex in "Fun Home," the memoir by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel.

"We need to protect academic speech and the freedom that goes with academic speech, as well as due process," Risa L. Lieberwitz, general counsel of the association and chairwoman of the subcommittee that drafted the report, said in an interview Wednesday. "Universities are acting in a way that is overly precipitous as well as applying overly broad definitions of sexual harassment because they are afraid of scrutiny."

How nice that the AAUW came out for due process -- only when it started to affect women.

This is my problem with feminism, too.

If you are for equal rights -- and not just special rights for women under the guise of equal rights -- you do as I have done and advocate for men to have due process rights when you see that they are now constantly violated on college campuses across this country.

Men are being suspended and expelled after judgments by campus kangaroo courts where the evidence standard is basically "You did it" and "Don't bother bringing any."

More from the piece:

In recent years, student advocates have pushed the federal government to more strongly police university compliance with Title IX, and the government has tightened its standards and increased enforcement. But the report said there should be a clearer distinction made between speech that is sexual harassment because it creates a hostile environment and speech discussing controversial or emotional subjects.

...Recently, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, was investigated for writing an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education in which she talked about "sexual paranoia" on campus. She was investigated by the university's Title IX office and exonerated.

The report says the matter should have been viewed as an intellectual disagreement, not a violation of education law. But it says university administrators understood the rules "to mean that once a complaint (however questionable) had been filed, an investigation had to be pursued."

In an email, Ms. Kipnis said: "After I wrote about being brought up on Title IX charges, I got dozens of emails from other professors around the country who'd been though similar things. It's truly out of control."

Via @AliceDreger (who stands up for free speech, among other things)