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Student presents thesis in underwear after professor says her 'shorts are too short'
Yahoo! ^ | Sat, May 12, 2018 | Chloe Farand

Posted on 05/13/2018 4:13:37 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000

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."

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"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," ...

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.

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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".

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; chat; cornell; letitiachai; newyork
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To: TaxPayer2000

If she does it there, she’ll likely be doing the same at job interviews.


41 posted on 05/13/2018 5:01:55 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BBell

I knew a perpetual student who wore business attire to campus admin job interviews and then put on whatever goofy clothes she wanted to wear after she landed the job because she knew they couldn’t fire her if she otherwise _behaved_ herself. “That’s how you get _hired,”_ she said.

It worked on campus, for sure. And it’s working in more places outside the university campus, too.


42 posted on 05/13/2018 5:02:55 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Liberal chicks are easy. Most guys I know did the 4F with them when young, then married a conservative woman later in life. Those married the liberal chicks all got divorced. Those that did the 4F with the liberal chicks also found marriage to a conservative woman difficult and some got divorced.


43 posted on 05/13/2018 5:03:33 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Her:

“I dreamed I was in my Maidenform bra...

Until I heard the sound of a needle scratching across the record...”


44 posted on 05/13/2018 5:05:19 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Fai Mao

IT’S A MAN BABY


45 posted on 05/13/2018 5:06:45 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: TaxPayer2000

Massive Bush D-


46 posted on 05/13/2018 5:07:20 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: TaxPayer2000

The prof should sue her for sexual harassment. I mean, what male could get away with taking his pants off in front of a female professor?


47 posted on 05/13/2018 5:07:35 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: TaxPayer2000
Ms Chai replied: "I'm going to give the best damn speech of my life."

Too bad she could not give the “best damn speech” of her life without stripping. Sad.

48 posted on 05/13/2018 5:10:59 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: TaxPayer2000

Her male classmates might have a bone to pick...


49 posted on 05/13/2018 5:12:41 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

50 posted on 05/13/2018 5:14:51 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: lee martell

Oh no.

This is just practice. The job interview will be full nudity.

“See what you are buying?”


51 posted on 05/13/2018 5:19:11 PM PDT by TheNext
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To: papertyger

True! They fit in for sure. SAD!


52 posted on 05/13/2018 5:20:10 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: lee martell

Built being the operative word there.


53 posted on 05/13/2018 5:20:52 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: TaxPayer2000

When I transferred after my Freshman year, I needed to tale a summer school calculus course. I also took a speech course to raise my GPA

One speech was delivered in muddy caving clothes and hard hat complete with carbide lamp

She got the instruction backward. To prevent fright, pretend your audience has no clothes


54 posted on 05/13/2018 5:20:59 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: TomGuy

“”the content of her thesis””

I was so disgusted that I didn’t see what the content of her thesis was...What was it? How to make an *** of herself without any effort?


55 posted on 05/13/2018 5:23:38 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: TaxPayer2000

The professor should call her bluff, and tell her that her panties are too short.


56 posted on 05/13/2018 5:25:29 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: TaxPayer2000

Her communist Chinese parents must be so proud of her.

Way to show up those Yankee Imperialist Americans.


57 posted on 05/13/2018 5:29:54 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: TaxPayer2000

The only thing in this story that surprised me is that it appears she shaves


58 posted on 05/13/2018 5:32:02 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Yes because being professional is oppressive. Ithaca, of course it’s Ithaca.


59 posted on 05/13/2018 5:33:34 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: TaxPayer2000

Definitely NOT a distraction from any thesis presentation...


60 posted on 05/13/2018 5:38:52 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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