{"id":7684,"date":"2014-09-21T11:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T11:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/21\/patriarchy-and-rape-culture-flourish-in-boulder\/"},"modified":"2014-09-21T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T11:43:56","slug":"patriarchy-and-rape-culture-flourish-in-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/21\/patriarchy-and-rape-culture-flourish-in-boulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarchy and Rape Culture Flourish in Boulder . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">. . . if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/guest-opinions\/ci_26522527\/patriarchy-and-rape-culture-philosophy-department\" target=\"_self\">this pathetic piece<\/a> can be believed.&#0160; But it so reads like a parody of POMO rhetoric that it negates itself.&#0160; The writer is an alumna of the UC Boulder Philosophy Department. &#0160; One hopes that she is not representative of the sort of graduate the department &#39;produces.&#39; If she is, then perhaps here is the real indictment of said department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/s\/wes%20morriston\" target=\"_self\">Wes Morriston<\/a>, recently retired after 42 years of service to the department and the university, responds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/letters\/ci_26551619\/wes-morriston-no-rape-culture-department\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">His response is rational and fact-based.&#0160; But one wonders about the efficacy of responding in such a way to a delusional screed.&#0160; It is like responding rationally to someone who accuses you of being a racist for pointing out certain truths the subject matter of which is race. Recent example: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/09\/bruce-levensons-racist-e-mail.html\" target=\"_self\">Bruce Levenson&#39;s &#39;racist&#39; e-mail.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">More on the Boulder witch hunt in my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/feminism\/\" target=\"_self\">Feminism<\/a> category.&#0160; Note the ambiguity of &#39;witch hunt.&#39;&#0160; Are witches the hunted or the hunters?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . if this pathetic piece can be believed.&#0160; But it so reads like a parody of POMO rhetoric that it negates itself.&#0160; The writer is an alumna of the UC Boulder Philosophy Department. &#0160; One hopes that she is not representative of the sort of graduate the department &#39;produces.&#39; If she is, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/21\/patriarchy-and-rape-culture-flourish-in-boulder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patriarchy and Rape Culture Flourish in Boulder . . .&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,394,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-feminism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}