Edited to add: My partner just reminded me that after we had lived in Massachusetts for a couple of years, Mass got gay marriage. After we’ve lived in California for a couple of years, California gets gay marriage. We’re moving to Ohio next - I’ll be sure and keep folks posted on our progress!

I particularly like the “catholicmilitant’s” description of the “VIOLENT LESBIANS.” I didn’t see any queers being violent, but if you watch on the right side a little more than a minute in, you see some guy manhandling one of the protesters. Who’s the violent one there?

Carol Christ issued a response and it was lackluster as always. She should have applauded the protesters - this guy isn’t bringing any new knowledge to Smith, he’s just there to regurgitate his hateful, homophobic rhetoric. Would she defend the right of Fred Phelps to speak at Smith?

Oh, right. Probably yeah, since she (or at least, the general college administration) hasn’t exactly been on the forefront of defending human rights and student dignity. A good number of tamer Smithies (and “liberals”) have opposed the Smithie action, but I am in awe of the quick and powerful response. I only wish, really, that there’d been such a response a few years ago when I was at Smith and the Republicans invited - no joke - Ann Coulter to speak at Smith. The silent protest, while powerful, was… less effective.

But seriously? “These are the people you have to win” in order to get elected? That’s… not… problematic. No, not at all.

Can someone remind me why she even bothered kicking Ferraro out of her campaign in the first place? Clearly, Clinton’s got the racist thing plenty covered on her own.

Oh, update: a large portion of them are Criminal Justice or Homeland Security (that’s a field of study?) majors. Classy!

Also, amusing mis-speak of the day: “Also, two female blow-up dolls were found in the White Hou-, White Sox clubhouse.” Oh, CNN.

After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on “ecofeminism,” which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out. One student took issue, and reasonably so – actually, empirically so. But “these weren’t thoughtful statements,” Ms. Venkatesan protests. “They were irrational.” The class thought otherwise. Following what she calls the student’s “diatribe,” several of his classmates applauded.

Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was “fascist demagoguery.” Then, after consulting a physician about “intellectual distress,” she cancelled classes for a week. Thus the pending litigation.

Such conduct is hardly representative of the professoriate at Dartmouth, my alma mater. Faculty members tend to be professional. They also tend to be sane.

That said, even at – or especially at – putatively superior schools, students are spoiled for choice when it comes to professors who share ideologies like Ms. Venkatesan’s. The main result is to make coursework pathetically easy. Like filling in a Mad Libs, just patch something together about “interrogating heteronormativity,” or whatever, and wait for the returns to start rolling in.

Problems with (eco)feminism, questioning established “knowledge” and suggesting that “interrogating heteronormativity” is all just a joke… Smells like a temper tantrum backlash to me.