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Bad Ideas and Bad Prose at Cornell

Posted on | October 9, 2014 | 53 Comments

Cornell University may be the only Ivy League school with a “diversity” quota for the mentally ill. Or maybe the students were sane until they got to Ithaca and started studying under the tutelage of radical professors. At any rate, the Cornell campus is swarming with lunatics:

A student-sponsored event at Cornell University (CU) claimed capitalism and white supremacy are “institutions that promote rape culture” and “must be destroyed.”
The event, which recognized a “National Day of Protest Against Rape Culture” late last month, took place in CU’s William Straight Hall. Bailey Dineen, one of the sponsors of the event, reprimanded Cornell and the justice system and accused “white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist, [and] cisheteropatriarchy,” for promoting rape culture, according to the Cornell Review.
According to the event’s Facebook page, End Rape Culture, where 323 students confirmed their attendance, “[v]iolence and fear are a constant feature of our society.”
“We cannot pretend that ours is a progressive culture when sexual violence remains a daily fact of existence for minoritized identities,” the page says. “Advances toward ‘equality’ cannot purport to signify much when the reality of rape burdens women and queer bodies at every moment and remains a fixed part of the history and present of people of color, people of lower income, and other groups rendered powerless in our society.”
The page goes on to declare that “[s]o long as sexual violence exists, it will be used as a tool to ensure subordination in the interest of maintaining a white supremacist, capitalist, cisheteropatriarchy.” . . .

If you are ever tempted to use the phrases “minoritized identities” or “cisheteropatriarchy,” you should seek professional psychiatric help — or apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. Apparently, they have a Department of Bad Prose that teaches students to write this kind of impenetrable jargon. Their incomprehensible rhetoric is perfect for expressing their incoherent beliefs:

[O]ne of the event’s three organizers, Bailey Dineen, read an approximately 9-minute speech/poem (it had qualities of both) concerning her personal experiences and attacking rape culture . . .
At several points in the speech, Dineen began to cry, and in the audience several students were seen crying, too.

Are you having a protest, or are you having a nervous breakdown? At Cornell, it doesn’t matter. To-may-to, to-mah-to.

By enrolling mentally ill students, Cornell ensures that there will always be a few dozen undergraduates in attendance for any protest rally against imaginary oppressions. The deranged victims will begin weeping uncontrollably during their speeches, overwhelmed by the existential angst of their “minoritized identities” and “queer bodies.”

You may be wondering, “Who is this Bailey Dineen person?” What a coincidence — she’s been wondering the same thing!

Bailey prefers the pronouns “They, Their, Them,” so it’s probably a cisheteropatriarchal hate crime to call her “she.” Next, you may ask: “What is Bailey Dineen’s sexual orientation?” None of the above.

Bailey describes herself (or maybe “themself”) as asexual. Someone explained to her (them) that “there is this thing called sexual attraction,” but the idea of having sex “scares and repulses” Bailey. Here is a video interview with the asexual Bailey:

Some readers may be frightened by this. “Holy crap! This kook is a senior at Cornell University? An elite Ivy League institution where annual tuition is $47,286? Aren’t students at these schools supposed to be the best and brightest, the future leaders of America?”

Yep. We’re doomed. Hopelessly and irretrievably doomed.

 

Comments

53 Responses to “Bad Ideas and Bad Prose at Cornell”

  1. JadedByPolitics
    October 9th, 2014 @ 10:16 pm

    I would never hire from the “elite” schools, nor would that happen with a womens studies degree on a their resume. I think all smart people will recognize that these people are not employable.

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  3. Greg
    October 9th, 2014 @ 10:24 pm

    Excellent blessed article!!

  4. RS
    October 9th, 2014 @ 10:39 pm

    Meanwhile in the world as we know it, here are the actual crime rates for Ithaca, New York, the home of Cornell University. N.B., the rape rate for 2012 was four in the entire city. That translates to a 0.0132 percent chance of being raped. In other words, the risk is slightly greater than zero. Heaven forbid, the “Reality Based Community” should bother to take a look at–you know–actual reality.

    But we can’t let facts stand in the way of a nine page epic poem in this day and age. John Milton wept.

  5. OldandNavy
    October 9th, 2014 @ 10:41 pm

    Or really all that redeemable, while we’re talking.

  6. Adobe_Walls
    October 9th, 2014 @ 11:01 pm

    Lawsuit waiting to happen.

  7. LLC
    October 9th, 2014 @ 11:02 pm

    And people accuse us scifi and fantasy authors of using confusing language and jargon…

  8. Adobe_Walls
    October 9th, 2014 @ 11:10 pm

    One can’t help but wonder how much the parents of these dingbats and nitwits are aware of their higher education adventures. It would be interesting to catalog these various protests, speeches and lectures and then see to it that parents shelling out these obscene sums are apprised of what their money is getting them. For instance what would Bailey Dineen’s parents think if one of them just happened to be a fan of this blog and read this article.

  9. William Wise
    October 9th, 2014 @ 11:17 pm

    “asexual” I think the word you’re looking for is frigid.

  10. Katie Scarlet
    October 9th, 2014 @ 11:19 pm

    In my day (yes I am now old) kids like this were toiling away in beauty schools not tramping around university campuses.

  11. Zohydro
    October 10th, 2014 @ 12:16 am

    I’ve seen San Francisco… I know Boston… And I know Ithaca! I can state with authority that Ithaca is waaaaay gayer (per capita—Ithaca being a mere village) than the other two!

  12. JadedByPolitics
    October 10th, 2014 @ 6:14 am

    One would have know and unless you are calling them in after receiving a resume with the tripe on it, you will be good to go.

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  14. Mike G.
    October 10th, 2014 @ 6:23 am

    Is she a ‘Ginger’ or is that some kind if die in her hair? ‘Gingers’ are known to have a screw or two loose, ya know. ( Of course, someone loosened every screw in this gal’s head and threw a few of them away.)

  15. Quartermaster
    October 10th, 2014 @ 6:34 am

    Looks like dye. But, I think you take on the characteristics of the color you choose. My son knew a girl who was a bottle blonde, and he said some how she got the roots too.

  16. TheOtherAndrewB
    October 10th, 2014 @ 7:21 am

    Miss Dineen may not like the idea of sex, but that does not change the reality of her gender. If preference was all that mattered, one could elect to be a reptile because you does not like the idea of bearing live young. In addition, the video shows her as dressing in a very deliberately feminine way. If she is a “they”, shouldn’t she be wearing a drab Mao suit and skipping the giant earrings, bare midriff and hair dye? Obviously elementary logic is not in Cornell’s curriculum.

  17. Rob Crawford
    October 10th, 2014 @ 7:40 am

    It claims to be “asexual” and frightened of sexual activity, but it dresses like a cheap prostitute.

  18. Paul H. Lemmen
    October 10th, 2014 @ 8:26 am

    Heh. I think all government forms (and forms in general) should have the following in place of Gender or Sex identification:

    “Do you have a vagina?

    ? Yes

    ? No

    If Yes, is said vagina:

    ? Original Equipment

    ? Aftermarket Equipment”

  19. NRPax
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:13 am

    So you’re saying that her sandwich making skills are non-existent?

  20. PeterP
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:36 am

    Because when you’re 22, you know everything there is to know about life.

  21. PeterP
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:37 am

    I wouldn’t *&$% her with her dick.

  22. kilo6
    October 10th, 2014 @ 10:07 am

    Dressing like” cheap prostitute”
    ZOMG, PaTrIaRcHy AlErT !!!11!!!!11eleventy!!!
    Clothing is an artificial construct!!!
    Gender is an artificial construct!!!
    Prostitution artificial construct!!!
    Don’t you know EVERYTHING Western Civilization calls “normal” is an artificial construct and part of the oppressive patriarchy / “RapeCulture”
    We need to liberate ourselves from this oppressive Natural Law and return to living in trees where there are no artificial constructs.

  23. kilo6
    October 10th, 2014 @ 10:44 am

    … An elite Ivy League institution where annual tuition is $47,286? …

    Two hundred thousand dollars to change your child into a cultural version of Ebola? No thanks

    Better to major in a STEM discipline and read The Other McCain (using the cultural Ebola analogy, I guess you could also call the blog The Other Antigen … or some sort of mental antivirus protection if you prefer tech analogies)

  24. arcadius
    October 10th, 2014 @ 11:06 am

    “Cisheteropatriarchy” is a new one for me. These guys are cutting edge.

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  26. Zohydro
    October 10th, 2014 @ 11:37 am

    I’m almost certain the term “cisheteropatriarchy” was first coined by a commenter at this blog some time ago…

  27. RKae
    October 10th, 2014 @ 1:04 pm

    And you should be allowed to totally shape the culture based on some recent books you read!

  28. Steve Skubinna
    October 10th, 2014 @ 1:44 pm

    Why do these severely disturbed people insist upon making everybody else responsible for their pathologies? I wish the Psycho-Americans would take a page from the gays and at least own their afflictions.

    “We’re here! We’re nuts! We’re loud and proud!”

  29. Finrod Felagund
    October 10th, 2014 @ 1:59 pm

    This is why I call them the Community-Based Reality. The intersection of that space with actual reality is vanishingly small.

  30. Finrod Felagund
    October 10th, 2014 @ 1:59 pm

    My response to that ‘word’ is usually ‘gesundheit’.

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    October 10th, 2014 @ 5:14 pm

    And some really awesome things you saw on Instagram.

  34. RKae
    October 10th, 2014 @ 7:13 pm

    Klaatu barada nikto, indeed!

  35. RKae
    October 10th, 2014 @ 7:16 pm

    “…but the idea of having sex ‘scares and repulses’ Bailey.”

    That there is someone who was molested as a child. She is damaged. She needs therapy, not a podium. And, again, I say that a severely damaged person is the LAST person we should ask about social structure.

    It’s like asking Josef Fritzel’s cellar captives if they think a father is important to a family structure.

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  37. DeadMessenger
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:03 pm

    One might wonder if Mummy and Daddy would give a rip. Whipping out $47k per year, plus books, plus living expenses, might mean that Daddy is busy in court all day, and busy writing briefs all night (or something involving briefs), and Mummy is slamming Prozac-knockoff mixed with expensive Scotch.

  38. DeadMessenger
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:05 pm

    And would be beaten up or committed for using a made-up word beginning with “cishetero…”.

  39. DeadMessenger
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:08 pm

    Then what good is she?

  40. DeadMessenger
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:09 pm

    Even if they ARE mangas, or part of the Twilight series.

  41. DeadMessenger
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:11 pm

    I don’t even know that they believe their own crap. They might just be attention whores.

  42. DeadMessenger
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:11 pm

    Excellent point.

  43. Adobe_Walls
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:19 pm

    Surely the failures these children must become just as those before them, would give pause if their parents are not as equally demented as their as their kids. Most parents indeed most of today’s society thinks of college as an investment in these young peoples future. A hundred sixty grand is lot of money to spend merely to produce a run of the mill moonbat. Admittedly many of the parents are already as demented as these kids and wouldn’t give a rip. But one way to at least partially reign in this institutional madness would be to get those who are financing it to say enough is enough.

  44. RS
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:25 pm

    I informed each of my two older children that they could attend any college or university they wished. After stating that, I handed them a list containing the names of the colleges and universities I would help finance. I also informed them that under no circumstances would I take out or guarantee any loans for college.

    Number one graduated debt free, summa cum laude and is employed. Number two is enjoying his first year without the burden of student loans. It’s amazing what a parent can accomplish when s/he acts like, you know, a parent.

  45. Zohydro
    October 10th, 2014 @ 9:48 pm

    I think academia and government is actively recruiting just these very types!

  46. theoldsargesays
    October 10th, 2014 @ 11:37 pm

    THAT about sums the whole thing up.

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  48. NRPax
    October 11th, 2014 @ 9:36 am

    She’s an example of what not to be in life.

  49. Daniel Freeman
    October 11th, 2014 @ 6:06 pm

    About 1% of human adults have simply never had any libido at all, just because they’re different, not because they were abused. (They don’t even masturbate. They have no desire, no arousal, no impulse or urge.) Their attitude toward sex is therefore much like a child’s — eww, gross! — so I agree with you that asexuals are not qualified to lecture the other 99% of us about how we should relate to each other. You might as well as a radical feminist or a lesbian (BIRM) about how straight relationships should work.

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