Snowflake strip protest

[penultimatestraw 473]

Not sure what point she's trying to make, but I'm all for women dressing scantily to protest being objectified.

https://www.facebook.com/lchaithesis/videos/364837930674880/

A student has stripped down to her bra and underwear during her thesis presentation in protest against her professor's comments that her choice of clothing was inappropriate.

Letitia Chai, a senior student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, took off her clothes during her presentation, which was filmed on Facebook live, to stand up against "oppressive beliefs and discrimination".

Ms Chai organised the protest after her teacher allegedly questioned her choice of clothing during a test run of her thesis presentation and told her: "Your shorts are too short".

Describing the incident in a Facebook post, Chai wrote: "She proceeded to tell me in front of my whole class that I was inviting the male gaze away from the content of my presentation and onto my body."

"I think that I was so taken aback that I didn't really know how to respond," she told the Cornell Sun.

Ms Chai said that some students in the class were also surprised by the teacher's comment but one international student agreed with the teacher and told her she had "a moral obligation to dress more conservatively" in respect for her audience.

"Needless to say, I was shook," Ms Chai wrote.

After she left the classroom, her teacher came out to talk to her and according to Ms Chai, she asked her what her mother would think of her outfit.

"What would my mom think? My mom is a feminist, gender, sexuality studies professor . She has dedicated her life to the empowerment of people in all gender identities. So, I think my mother would [be] fine with my shorts," she wrote.

When asked what she was going to do, Ms Chai replied: "I'm going to give the best damn speech of my life."

Writing on Facebook, Ms Chai invited others to support her on the day of her actual presentation and asked people to "strip down" to their underwear with her during her 15-minute address.

The event was filmed on Facebook Live as Ms Chai removed her clothes and some of the students in the room joined her in support.

She told the audience of several dozens that this was a call for "solidarity" with students like her who had been asked to "question themselves about their appearances for the comfort of others".

[MDC 5,892]

Nobody wants to objectify that girl.

[lickin_starfish 1,482]

She needs to hit the squat rack.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

She needs to hit the squat rack.

Will that make her tlts bigger?

[Djgb13 2,338]

Couldnt they have hotter girls stripping?

[supermike80 1,286]

She clearly doesn't understand men.

Too funny

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

It's one thing to want men to not genuinely sexually harass or worse. It's another to erase what makes us men

[Vikings4ever 496]

So... on one hand, we have a woman being told to cover up.

 

On the other hand, we have a female teacher proclaiming that men are animals and can't concentrate if a woman is showing any skin.

 

And on another hand, we have a foreign student whose sensibilities must be respected.

 

And that is how you confuse a college liberal.

[Voltaire 4,560]

 

 

And that is how you confuse a college liberal.

Oh, I'm confused too.

 

Since I can't understand whatever it is she's babbling on about, I don't know what her point is. So even though I appreciate her stripping and encouraging other young women to strip with her, since she's a loopy snowflake gender studies weirdo, I wonder what her motives are.

 

Anyway, I always thought 'gender studies' was a useless field full of awful people but this branch of gender studies that encourages women to strip may actually have redeeming value beneficial to society.

[Voltaire 4,560]

I'm an old fashioned guy. I think women should feel comfortable and be encouraged to wear nothing but sandals, jewelry, and perfume in public like they did in ancient Egypt. Clothing in summer should be optional.

 

But all along, I worried she was doing this for the wrong reasons, and sure enough, sadly, that was proven to be true.

 

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“This is for every Asian woman who was told to speak up lest others think she’s submissive,” she wrote. “This is for every POC man who was told to pull his pants to be taken seriously, and every POC woman who was asked to straighten her hair to seem intelligent. This is for every gay friend who was told to dress more ‘straight’ so that others didn’t feel weird around him/her/them. This is for us.”

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The protest came just days after Chai was presenting a trial run of her thesis in her class “Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life” on May 2. When Chai went to give her trial run presentation, professor Rebekah Maggor questioned the student’s outfit choice.

 

 

So the professor was trying to help her be taken more seriously, but she is stubborn and didn't like the advice.

 

Some folks, you just can't reach.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,653]

"This is for every POC woman who was asked to straighten her hair to seem intelligent"

 

Im willing to bet that conversation never happened between a white person and a colored woman.

 

I'm also willing to bet that many women, of all races, have been told to speak up so they don't appear to be submissive. Men too. These people are creating myths in their head because they feel different.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Protest through wh0redom. But dont call us wh0res.

 

Women are dumb.

[Kopy 491]

So is it bad for me to yell "take it all off", or "show me your t1ts"?

I still can't figure it out.

[posty 2,296]

You are supposed to look professional when giving a thesis, at least that was what I was always told...

 

Is she going to do that when she goes out for job interviews?

[jerryskids 5,206]

What is "POC"? Plain Old C_nt?

[lickin_starfish 1,482]

It means Person of Color, but I prefer being called Black.

[posty 2,296]

What is "POC"?

Pile of Crap

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

It means Person of Color, but I prefer being called Black.

Are you a black guy???

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

So is it bad for me to yell "take it all off", or "show me your t1ts"?

I still can't figure it out.

Should probably add for social justice at the end.