USCU Lesbian Professor Lisa Johnson Described ‘Serious Mental Illness’

Posted on | March 31, 2014 | 93 Comments

Professor Merri Lisa Johnson.

The director of the University of South Carolina Upstate (USCU) Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) suffers from a “serious mental illness” and in 2010 described herself as a “newlywed lesbian” whose partner was apparently her former student.

Professor Merri Lisa Johnson published a 2010 book about her struggles with borderline personality disorder. The description of her partner in that book appears to fit a young “butch” lesbian who graduated from USCU in 2008, two years after Professor Johnson joined the faculty of the school in Spartanburg, S.C.

USCU became the focus of controversy when it was reported that the school would host a performance of “How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less” next week as part of the CWGS-hosted symposium, “Bodies of Knowledge.” When asked by Campus Reform reporter Lauren Cooley “what percentage of the funding” for the symposium “was coming from the university,” Professor Johnson replied: “Until you call and ask how much money has been spent on heterosexual literature, I’m not going to answer that question.”

In her 2010 book, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality, Professor Johnson describes herself as a “psycho girlfriend” with a history of dysfunctional relationships with both men and women: “Johnson combines her late-in-life coming out story (between ages 31-37) with the story of what amounts to a nervous breakdown as the result of an affair with a married lesbian colleague.” That affair “prompted her to seek professional help,” apparently around the time Professor Johnson left Coastal Carolina University to become director of USCU-CWGS in 2006. An article about the book describes Professor Johnson:

A newlywed lesbian-after-marriage, Johnson currently resides in South Carolina with her partner Stace and their two loyal shih tzus. The mixed species pack of four shares a 1920s-era craftsman bungalow fondly known among family and friends as The Haney-Johnson Halfway House for the Bright but Broken-Hearted.

Stacey Haney was one of Professor Johnson’s most honored students at USCU, receiving one of four Campus Consciousness-Raising Awards for the 2006-2007 school year and also winning an Award for Scholarly Achievement in Women’s and Gender Studies for the 2007-08 school year. Professor Johnson selected the annual CWGS award winners in her role as the center’s director. Haney served as president of the student group Upstate Feminists, and in 2008 presented a paper at the Wofford College Conference on Gender entitled, “Butch is Back: The Marginalization of Butch Feminists Across the Feminist and Queer Communities.” Haney, who graduated from USCU in December 2008, subsequently served as a teaching assistant at CWGS and in 2009-2010 took graduate courses at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, researching “new theoretical approaches for understanding transgendered identity and embodiment.”

Professor Johnson has edited feminist anthologies, including Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire (2002) and Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box (2007).

In an article last fall, Professor Johnson described her “queer feminist insistence on the importance, validity, and complexity of women’s pleasure” and her “Marxist feminist distrust of pleasure under patriarchy,” adding that “teaching Women’s and Gender Studies 101 since fall 2006 . . . has firmed up my radical side.”

The National Institutes for Mental Health describes borderline personality disorder (BPD) as “a serious mental illness marked by unstable moods, behavior, and relationships. . . . People with this disorder also have high rates of co-occurring disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and eating disorders, along with self-harm, suicidal behaviors, and completed suicides.”

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays

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93 Responses to “USCU Lesbian Professor Lisa Johnson Described ‘Serious Mental Illness’”

BobBelvedere
March 31st, 2014 @ 11:26 pm

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM USCU Lesbian Professor Lisa Johnson Described ‘Serious Mental Illness’ http://t.co/yMcBLg6QZD #TCOT
Bob Belvedere
March 31st, 2014 @ 11:33 pm

Oh, maaannnn.
robertstacymccain
March 31st, 2014 @ 11:35 pm

What are the odds of there being more than one lesbian “Stace” with the last name “Haney” in Spartanburg, S.C.?
Bob Belvedere
March 31st, 2014 @ 11:36 pm

May I call you ‘Stace’ from now on???
DonaldDouglas
March 31st, 2014 @ 11:39 pm

I just call you Robert and leave it at that, heh.
RS
March 31st, 2014 @ 11:40 pm

There’s just way to much here. Let’s start with this:

The mixed species pack of four shares a 1920s-era craftsman bungalow . . .

. . . because “F”-it-all, Lesbians got nothin’, if they don’t have good taste, unlike you breeders in your McMansions.

And then we have:

”Butch is Back: The Marginalization of Butch Feminists Across the Feminist and Queer Communities.”

Cat Fight! Cat Fight!

Professor Johnson described her “queer feminist insistence on the importance, validity, and complexity of women’s pleasure”

So, the Sapphists have problems figuring out how it works, too, eh? (Don’t bother denouncing me. I don’t care.)

I hate you McCain. I’m having way too much fun.
Bob Belvedere
March 31st, 2014 @ 11:42 pm

Keep on going, H8er!
Greg
April 1st, 2014 @ 12:04 am

“…completed suicides.” So, there is hope…
robertstacymccain
April 1st, 2014 @ 12:20 am

That’s cold, man.
K-Bob
April 1st, 2014 @ 12:23 am

can we get a little broom action in the other threads? It’s getting a bit funky.
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April 1st, 2014 @ 12:34 am

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K-Bob
April 1st, 2014 @ 12:36 am

So not only are the lesbian whatever-archy discriminatory against the freshly-d*ckless trans-g’s out there, they are also discriminatory against the butch lesbians?

All hail the new diversity!
concern00
April 1st, 2014 @ 12:44 am

Why do so many lesbians find sexual satisfaction in their students or others they have power over? A mad hijab wearing lesbian police chief in Minneapolis also springs to mind.
Nan
April 1st, 2014 @ 12:59 am

The bad part about borderline personalities is they get less stable over time.
David R. Graham
April 1st, 2014 @ 1:01 am

Criminal.
joscefi
April 1st, 2014 @ 1:02 am

It’s English, I think, because I recognized most of the words, but does Oblio have a point, or not?…
Adjoran
April 1st, 2014 @ 1:07 am

That tax money goes to support such utter nonsense is one more reason the federal government needs to get completely OUT of the higher education subsidy business, be they direct subsidies, program subsidies, or student grants, subsidies, or loan guarantees.

If these schools had to fund all this crap and their leftist tenured faculties out of their own revenues and endowments, you would find curricula and faculty tightened up pretty fast.

They sure as hell don’t want to have to ask the SC state legislature to fund this stuff.
M. Thompson
April 1st, 2014 @ 1:09 am

Truth.
RichFader
April 1st, 2014 @ 2:14 am

That sign resembles English, but it makes no sense whatsoever.
Colorado Alex
April 1st, 2014 @ 2:18 am

While I won’t say that all gays are mentally ill, the gay community as a whole certainly seems to be geared towards enabling and encouraging a whole host of personality disorders.
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:10 am

While Leon Puñettas was so busy with gay pride celebrations at the Pentagon, three Navy Seals and a U.S. ambassador were murdered, all because everyone was being so fúcking gay…

These people just can’t stop playing with their dícks…

Who is going to fight a war against the Russians with cúm drunk morons like this in charge?
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:26 am

The U.S. State Dept. has been infested with communists since WW1 and Woodrow Wilson, they tried to steal the Russian elections for their comrades in the Russian Communist Party through non-profit n.g.o.s… just like at home in America…

But Vladimir Putin beat them… so they launched a fággot jihad against the Russian Orthodox church over the the punk rock band and the Olympics (something Romney also piled onto).
flaIing
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:27 am

Meat is patriarchy!!!!

I’m enjoying the trip into crazy land as feminist intellectuals boost my self esteem.
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:33 am

Francois Hollande is a Sodom Hussein Obama sycophant… When Marine Le Pen can face criminal prosecution (in France of all places) for criticizing Islam in context with existing French laws, there is something rotten.

The U.S. State Dept. has been infested with communists since WW1 and Woodrow Wilson, they tried to steal the Russian elections for their comrades in the Russian Communist Party through non-profit n.g.o.s… just like at home in America…

But Vladimir Putin beat them… so they launched a fággot jihad against the Russian Orthodox church over the the punk rock band and the Olympics (something Romney also piled onto).
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:41 am
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:45 am

“When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.”

(Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, 1651)
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:48 am

Ben Dragon Sipari? duyuyorum… Satanism is a Jewish cult… The Synagogue of Sodomy…

judaic bolshevist mammonism (baphomet) = mahomet (muslim brotherhood)

same devil

The Jewish owned international media is on an anti-white, anti-Christian fággot jihad.
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 3:55 am

“Perhaps he is wondering why you would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.”

Jesuits and the Vatican… Hitlery Clinton’s Presidential Campaign-Latin America Working Group…

Zbigniew Brzezinski… Institute on Communist [Anti-Russia] Affairs, 1960 to 1989… Obama at Columbia with Brzezinski… never seen on campus, student transcripts are sealed…

Sodom Hussein Obama visits Jesuit Pope… secret input, NSA computer system and network…

Vatican banking scandal, secret accounts, audited… purged of evidence… the angel is burned… Thuban… Draco… Khufu…

“Nobody cared about who I was until I put on the mask.”
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 4:07 am

Homosexuals desire their own extinction and Muslims are more than willing to give it to them.

Broken clocks can be right twice a day…

While the Koran does come in two-ply, it allows a man to have four wives and allows homosexuals to be executed by stoning them to death.

All men are born of a woman.
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 4:10 am

Just how does the Jew get to Heaven from dry humping the Wailing Wall like Miley Cyrus?

Russia has real soldiers on their border and no gay pride marches in their army… imagine that…
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 4:18 am

Because it is not supposed to make sense…

It is another distraction rooted in Tikkun Olam paganism and Judaic word fetishism coming from linguists like Naom Chomsky over at M.I.T., who use the Talmud as a blueprint for an illusion of a parallel and false reality.

Fantasy is their medium of infinitization.
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 4:28 am

It is Tikkun Olam paganism and Judaic word fetishism coming from linguists like Naom Chomsky over at M.I.T. who use the Talmud as a blueprint for an illusion of a parallel and false reality.

Like the Jew who dry humps the Wailing Wall like Miley Cyrus trying to achieve an erotic union with their “Shekinah,” a masturbatory cosmos maker… think miss neo-kabbalah Madonna, like a virgin…
Winston Blake
April 1st, 2014 @ 4:49 am

Fantasy is their medium of infinitization… Like the Zohar Jew who dry humps the Wailing Wall like Miley Cyrus trying to achieve an erotic union with their “Shekinah,” a masturbatory cosmos maker… or miss neo-kabbalah Madonna, “Like a Virgin.”
Kirby McCain
April 1st, 2014 @ 6:31 am

also winning an Award for Scholarly Achievement in Women’s and Gender Studies for the 2007-08 school year. So Stace sleeps it up with the professor and gets an award for it. That sounds a bit queer doesn’t it?
Kirby McCain
April 1st, 2014 @ 6:37 am

Well he’s crazy with some lesbian traits. Yeah, call him Stace.
Kirby McCain
April 1st, 2014 @ 6:43 am

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
scarymatt
April 1st, 2014 @ 7:00 am

The link to the Consciousness Raising Awards is a real gold mine. My favorite so far:

The award is named after a famous Marxist feminist activist who developed a philosophy of feminist anarchism, a political philosophy that foregrounds individual and collective will over the will of the government…Drea has been reading, reflecting on, and formulating original ideas in the field of Marxist feminist cultural studies ever since.
Kirby McCain
April 1st, 2014 @ 7:08 am

The faculty at this, hitherto unknown, shelter for nutty professors has a thing for frigging signs.
Rob Crawford
April 1st, 2014 @ 7:44 am

That is one ugly woman.
Dana
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:08 am

Miss Haney won “an Award for Scholarly Achievement in Women’s and Gender Studies?” Given the seriousness of the scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies, one would think that just learning not to urinate on the carpet would qualify for such an award.
Dana
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:11 am

At least the lovely Miss Haney knows how to spell Stacey. https://uscupstate.edu/uploadedImages/Offices/Communications/News/2008/October/Stacey%20Haney.JPG
Dana
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:12 am

“That sounds a bit queer doesn’t it?” I denounce you, sir, I heartily denounce you!
Dana
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:15 am

Is politics genetic?

After all, with every story that ~~Stacey~~ Stacy posts on these topics, it seems that lesbianism drives liberalism, and the lesbians are trying to use liberalism to push heterosexual women into lesbianism, all the while telling us that sexual identity is something inborn.

It will take someone wiser than me to put it all together in a package which is logically consistent throughout.
scarymatt
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:17 am

It could simply be poor record keeping, but if you go to their awards archive, they seem to give different awards every year, as the whim strikes them. But it struck me as ~~queer~~ odd.
robertstacymccain
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:26 am

As a matter of fact, Ace of Spades has a habit of calling me “Stace,” which … oh, never mind.

It’s the old “Boy Named Sue” thing. Father of six? Overcompensating!
robertstacymccain
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:26 am

As a matter of fact, Ace of Spades has a habit of calling me “Stace,” which … oh, never mind.

It’s the old “Boy Named Sue” thing. Father of six? Overcompensating!
Cube
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:26 am

You know they will request funding from the state to make up for what has been CUT!!!111ty!!!. Objections to “educating our children” are already characterized as [insert preferred term of derision here]. They’ll just leave out the specifics of what the funding is for and few will dare to ask.
Cube
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:26 am

You know they will request funding from the state to make up for what has been CUT!!!111ty!!!. Objections to “educating our children” are already characterized as [insert preferred term of derision here]. They’ll just leave out the specifics of what the funding is for and few will dare to ask.
robertstacymccain
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:45 am

Do you see Professor Johnson’s description of herself as a “queer feminist … Marxist feminist”?

How long have I been saying that “feminist” is a synonym for “Marxist lesbian”?

This goes back to my argument (in 2011) with Joy McCann over whether Sarah Palin is a feminist. My point then was that “conservative feminist” is an oxymoron. Feminism has always been a movement of the radical Left. Conservative women who attempt to co-opt the “feminist” label are engaged in a sort of “Me Too” gesture that is as ill-advised as it is ill-informed. If American women were informed what feminism actually is, they would reject it, and the task of conservative women (one that Phyllis Schlafly has always supported) should be to expose the truth about feminism.
Dana
April 1st, 2014 @ 8:46 am

One wonders what the left would have said had it been a male professor who seduced a female graduate student . . . .