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City_Dater
08/27/09

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How? By being a young anti-choice, pro-free market conservative twit?
Yep, that's redefining something...
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IamnotStarJones
08/27/09

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He only wrote this to get Gawker to link to him.
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SarahHeartburn
08/27/09

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"Sammy Dweck is a columnist. E-mail him at opinion@nyunews.com."

Come on, y'all. Show the boy some REAL writing.
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redqueenmeg
08/27/09

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Yeah, because "redefine" means "it now means whatever I say it means, and not what you say it means."
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schatzepage
08/27/09

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Well... I agree with him in that I like her and think she is the only hope for the Repubs but HOLY LORD this guy is at NYU? Are we sure a 12 year old didn't write that?
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Magister
08/27/09

@schatzepage: I don't know that I'd go quite that far, but he's paraphrasing Hannah Montana and marking the day, he saw a YouTube? Once again, I feel old.
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skahammer
05/09/09

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I'll defend Owen on this one. This story makes me curious about a lot of things, and Owen's post here does contain some reliable answers to the questions I'd find myself asking. Answers are good -- even if they're partial and flawed, if presented in good faith they're still better than nothing.

And I don't find the tone of this post to be blame-y or excessively snarky or even notably irreverent. Instead it just highlights how some of the fairly mundane details of this story managed to take on a sadly tragic importance.

Similarly, I'm pretty sure that some commenters' attempts to psychoanalyze the perpetrator are hopelessly premature...but I still find those interesting too, especially SarahHeartburn's comments about the very first impressions that students sometimes make.

In short, I see a lot of thought-provoking observations in this post and its attendant comments, and it seems unhelpful and obfuscatory to complain instead about what's not there. (Except maybe the failure to blur out the instructors' identifying info -- that seems worth considering.) I wonder if people aren't just taking their free-floating sadness and anger at this story and aiming it at the nearest target, which Owen happens to be here.
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NOLA girl
05/09/09

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I thought this Owen putz had gone?
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Motoko Kusanagi
05/08/09

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Is there anything more crushingly tragic than a bright, attractive person who falls victim to a self-pitying loser?
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ZLevee
05/08/09

@Motoko Kusanagi: An arrogant blogger who thinks he's funny when he partially blames the victim for living and a university for "causing" the perpetrator to snap.
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minou
05/08/09

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It's a shitty syllabus and a lame, conservative take on the subject matter. That said, there could potentially be some benefit somewhere in looking for the potential triggers for this guy's totally irrational hatred of women -- this staggeringly smart woman in particular -- and it's possible that this document could provide some insight. This sick young man is obviously the extreme example of a completely unhinged misogynist/anti-semite/general bigot. It is likely that he took the class because he was already those things and thought it would be a good opportunity to visit his anger on his fellow students, to victimize them. But it is also possible that he learned some truth in this class that was powerful enough to crack him once and for all. And it might be worthwhile to know what that is.
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forwardmotion
05/08/09

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Also, the title of this is in bad taste, no matter what you were trying to actually achieve.
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forwardmotion
05/08/09

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I hate this. Why do they always have to take an innocent person down with them?
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Ha Ha Sound
05/08/09

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I wonder why the syllabus doesn't have justified alignment.
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RollsRoyceRevenge
05/08/09

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Things I've learned from Gawker recently:

1. When depressed people write to Salon, it's funny!

2. When beautiful women take classes in sexuality they get shot!

3. Fire Shelia.
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CaptainFantastic
05/08/09

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Can someone dig up her college rejection letters? "If only Harvard had accepted her, she never would have gone to NYU..."
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
05/08/09

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This has to be the stupidest thing I've ever read on Gawker, and I'm usually one to just turn the page rather than complain.

And posting the syllabus? Why? How is that in any way enlightening? I don't get it.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
05/09/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Maybe to keep Gawker's female readers from taking not only this class, but anything that sounds similar. Just in case. Oh fuck, I don't know. We all know what goes on in a women's studies-type class, right? Why post all this?
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