Author's note: It appears other outlets misrepresented this story, reporting John was found in violation simply for asking out a physically smaller woman. This is not true, nor is it what I reported. I reported that the comments from the Mizzou official were made during a deposition for a lawsuit brought by John. I then summarized the actions that led to his punishment and linked to a previous article with more information. Nowhere in that summary or the previous article do I mention physical size, because that's not what led to his punishment. That does not change the fact that a Mizzou official, during a deposition, compared a man asking out a physically smaller woman to a professor asking out a student.
Getting up the courage to ask someone out on a date can already be nerve-racking, but now that college campuses have completely gone off the deep end, that fear will be intensified.
Today's crazy comes from - unsurprisingly - the University of Missouri (Mizzou), best known for
torpedoing its enrollment rates after campus protests led a professor to threaten a student journalist. An official at Mizzou indicated during a deposition that a male student who was physically larger than the female student he asked out may have violated the school's Title IX policy because his physical size gave him "power over her."
For years, we have been told that one must receive "affirmative consent" before anything of a dating or sexual nature takes place. Critics of such policies, such as this reporter, have often wondered what would happen if the mere ask is unwanted, does that also constitute sexual harassment or assault?
Now we appear to have our answer: Yes.
When a Mizzou official was questioned regarding a case where a black male Ph.D. candidate at the school asked out a white female fitness trainer, she bizarrely suggested that the fact that the male student was larger than the female student gave him "power over her" and violated school policy.
Comment: Apparently a new category, 'oppression by physical size' has just been added to the Oppression Olympics as well as a new conduit for inter-sectional warfare...get out the popcorn!!