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Feminists Sue University for Failing to Protect Them from Mean Internet Comments
Breitbart ^ | 25 May 2017 | TOM CICCOTTA

Posted on 05/25/2017 4:30:21 PM PDT by COBOL2Java

A feminist student group at the University of Mary Washington has filed a Title IX lawsuit against the institution for failing to protect them from mean comments on the internet.

Feminists United, a student group at the University of Mary Washington, has claimed in a recently filed lawsuit that the administration failed to protect them from posts made on the anonymous social media app, Yik Yak.

The suit alleges that the university failed to protect the students by refusing to ban access to the app via the university’s wifi system. The complaint ignores the reality that most students have access to the app via LTE internet service on their cellular devices, which would render a ban on the university’s wifi system almost worthless.

The students claim that the university’s decision to allow students to access the app via the school’s wifi network fostered a hostile environment in which the students were subjected to “overtly and/or sexist/threatening” anonymous messages.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: snowflakes
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1 posted on 05/25/2017 4:30:21 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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Can't they just block the site themselves if they don't like it? Or perhaps even exercise the personal discipline not to go there in the first place?

Whatever. I'll be glad to drive down to Fredericksburg and offer my services as an internet monitor for SJW students. All their electronic devices must be surrendered to me. I'll throw them in the river. Problem solved.

2 posted on 05/25/2017 4:34:02 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: COBOL2Java

Wasn’t this POS regulation enacted so that female students could have a more equal footing when it came to sports participation? How the hell did we come to this?


3 posted on 05/25/2017 4:34:13 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: COBOL2Java

They should sue Al Gore ... he invented the internet.


4 posted on 05/25/2017 4:34:18 PM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: COBOL2Java

They should sue Al Gore ... he invented the internet.


5 posted on 05/25/2017 4:34:20 PM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: COBOL2Java

Someone called the feminist campus group mean names ..

Boo Hoo


6 posted on 05/25/2017 4:34:26 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: COBOL2Java

University of Mary Washington was named after the mother of George Washington. She would be ashamed to have her name attached to an institution filled with such idiots.


7 posted on 05/25/2017 4:35:45 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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8 posted on 05/25/2017 4:35:55 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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9 posted on 05/25/2017 4:37:36 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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10 posted on 05/25/2017 4:38:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: COBOL2Java

I can’t ever recall feminists making rude comments about men.


11 posted on 05/25/2017 4:39:20 PM PDT by Vic S
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Such independent equal women.

Total hypergamists.


12 posted on 05/25/2017 4:39:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I’m glad they sued the university which taught them to be snowflakes who are offended by existence.
Hope they lose.
Life comes with offenses. Get over it.


13 posted on 05/25/2017 4:40:47 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in a way that is contrary to nature results in insanity.)
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A feminist student group at the University of Mary Washington has filed a Title IX lawsuit against the institution for failing to protect them from mean comments on the internet.

You mean this really isn't a joke?

14 posted on 05/25/2017 4:43:32 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is history)
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To: NohSpinZone
How the hell did we come to this?

I often wonder this when I think back to the days I spent at University. Back then, it was all about free-speech, free-sex, no censorship.

Now the little leftists are begging for censorship, controls, 'safe spaces'.

It boggles the mind ;-)
15 posted on 05/25/2017 4:43:45 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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Ha ha ha


16 posted on 05/25/2017 4:43:54 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: COBOL2Java

All you need is 5 down votes to make a post disappear on YikYak. If they wanted to the could coordinate against the ones they don’t like.


17 posted on 05/25/2017 4:45:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: COBOL2Java

Yik Yak shut down at the start of May.


18 posted on 05/25/2017 4:46:05 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Do something you love and you will never work a day in your life - because that field isn’t hiring.

-from Yik-Yak.


19 posted on 05/25/2017 4:50:48 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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Yik Yak is gone?

Now Tawny Kitaen and Brent Huff can never be in a sequel.


20 posted on 05/25/2017 4:53:36 PM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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