Identity of Speakers
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Christina Hoff Sommers
Unaffiliated
Invited for non-academic lectureChristina Hoff Sommers is an author, philosopher, and prominent critic of contemporary feminism.
Resources
Additional Information
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Incident Nature:
Recognized student group event
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Incident Political Orientation:
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Incident Responses:
Rally or Protests
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Incident Status:
No litigation
- No protest Occured
- Did not involve Speech Codes
Summary
Christina Hoff Sommers is an author, philosopher, and prominent critic of contemporary feminism. Sommers has spoken critically of campus response to sexual assaults, questioning the concept of “rape culture.” In an interview, she said that the push against sexual assault has “infantilized” women.
On March 5, 2018, Sommers was scheduled to speak at the law school of Lewis and Clark college at the invitation of the Federalist Society. Prior to her speech, a small group of protestors attempted to block access to the room in which she was scheduled to speak, prompting the college to lead those who wanted to hear Sommers around to a back entrance. Then at the beginning of the speech and various points throughout, protestors interrupted Sommers. The dean of diversity and inclusion at the law school later said that the students who blocked the entrances to the auditorium and interrupted Sommers violated college rules, and that there would be unspecified “consequences” for those students.
