Professing
Either way, there are always men intimidating women. The guy in the blue T shirt is an actual academic, who teaches students.
He gets in her face, he raises his arms inches from her face, he follows her as she tries to get away, he addresses her with the underlined “bitch” – he’s just the flip side of the coin.
NBC News reports on the aftermath:
An Arizona State University postdoctoral research scholar is on leave as the institution investigates his confrontation with a woman in a hijab that was captured on video, the school said Tuesday. The confrontation happened Sunday during a pro-Israel rally just outside campus in Tempe. Viral cellphone video shows the scholar, Jonathan Yudelman, and another man, not identified, confront the woman, who was wearing a hijab.
It’s not clear what happened before the video captures Yudelman facing off with the woman, but in the clip, he said, “I’m literally in your face — that’s right.”
The woman backs away as Yudelman repeatedly advances, sometimes with his hands raised, and gets inches away from her.
“You’re disrespecting my religious boundaries,” the woman says.
“You disrespect my sense of humanity, bitch,” Yudelman says back.
NBC of course didn’t spell out the whole word.
On Tuesday, the university responded to the video and criticism of Yudelman. “ASU is aware of the allegations against Jonathan Yudelman and is investigating them,” it said in a statement. “Dr. Yudelman is on leave and will remain so pending the outcome of the investigation.”
When you don’t know what else to do, find a woman to bully. It’s so much easier.
Othering is dangerous. You’d think that would be one of the lessons carried in “Never again”, but …
It’s about what you’d expect from someone born after 1948 (’67 too, from the look of it); entitled cry bullies with an unearned victim complex.
I absolutely *despise* Mohammedans and I’d certainly never do anything like that.
That’s awfully harsh. People are born into their religions and can’t always cut the ties easily, and they don’t always agree with or act on every bit of the doctrine. I dislike Islam (and the other Big Monotheisms) but the billion-whatever followers are another matter.
I’ve never really felt comfortable with the whole “hate the sin, not the sinner” thing; I just don’t treat people I hate like shit (whatever might be going on inside my head). It’s not like anyone chooses what they believe.
It appears that this political science “scholar” doesn’t see the irony here.
Tell me polisci isn’t part of the humanities (without telling me polisci isn’t part of the humanities). :P
Why anyone respects the (in)Humanities these days is an open question. (BA Political Science here)
His “sense of humanity” obviously does not include women in the definition of humanity. New patriarchal, entitled misogyny, pretty much like the old patriarchal, entitled misogyny.