Participants in “Nudity in the Upspace,†a weeklong series of events running from September 30 until October 5 at Brown University, are angry. It’s offensive and exploitative when a forty-something-year-old-man from Fox News asks if young women feel comfortable becoming nude in that kind of space, because the look on his face says you ought to be ashamed if the answer is yes. It is entirely inappropriate for middle-aged men to be interviewing young college girls about what they are doing with their bodies. Asking them what their fathers would think of what they are doing is deeply misogynistic. After all, these students are pushing back on ideas about what naked bodies are for, exploring concepts like privilege and what is a naked body, and “creating art” around body positivity and consensual sexuality that includes everyone, that doesn’t exclude any kind of body (!). These students, you see, are on a mission. They’re not at a frat party getting naked. All this is an intellectual and productive activity.
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Brown University Cost of Attendance, 2013-2014”
Total Tuition: $44,608
Fees: $1,004
Room: $7,200
Board: $4,420
Books: $1,404
Personal: $1,824
Total Cost of Attendance: $60,460
Scullman
This nation is f@cked.
SDD
If I were truly proud of what I was doing I wouldn’t mind having Fox News publicize it.
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