Feminist upset by professor’s lingerie joke, demands investigation

Like CNN, feminists ruin everything, even humor.

Here is the rundown of what recently happened that has many of the pussy hat-wearing crowd angry (courtesy of The Chronicle of Higher Education):

Political theory Professor Richard Ned Lebow of King’s College was in an elevator at the International Studies Association conference at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco and asked for the women’s lingerie department, a joke that dates back to the 1930s.

Unfortunately, there was a depressed, sad, and bitter person in the elevator with him: Simona Sharoni, women’s and gender studies at Merrimack College professor.

The joke perturbed her. Not only did joke cause her discomfort, she was just as outraged that other men in the elevator chuckled.

This prompted her to submit a letter to International Studies Association, explaining that she was shaken by the ordeal and that she is still coming to grips with what unfolded. She also demanded that he be reprimanded. The ISA established an investigation to find out if Lebow violated the code of conduct.

Lebow wrote a letter to Sharoni:

“He suggested that Sharoni, who was born in Romania and raised in Israel, might have misinterpreted his remark. When he was young, in the 1950s, he said, it was a “standard gag line” to ask the elevator operator for the hardware or lingerie floor as though one were in a department store. “Like you, I am strongly opposed to the exploitation, coercion, or humiliation of women,” Lebow wrote. “As such evils continue, it seems to me to make sense to direct our attention to real offenses, not those that are imagined or marginal. By making a complaint to ISA that I consider frivolous — and I expect, will be judged this way by the ethics committee — you may be directing time and effort away from the real offenses that trouble us both.”

She responded to his mansplaining:

“For decades, women and other marginalized groups in the academy had to put up with white men who decided what counts as a violation and what is “frivolous.” As someone who has dedicated her life to confronting sexism (and other forms of discrimination and oppression) in academic spaces, I cannot and will not remain silent when misogyny is at play.”

And there you have it. Another feminist making a fool of herself, but her fatuous behavior is being taken seriously as well as enabled.

Is there any wonder why people don’t take feminism seriously anymore?