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On Tuesday morning, I went to the Durham County Courthouse to testify in the hearing between Duke and the Services Employees International Union regarding the eligibility of a union election for graduate students. Even though the Duke administration has couched their opposition to unionization in the language of neutrality, their current stance is anything but neutral.
The position of Young Trustee was instated in 1970 to incorporate Duke undergraduate community members into the governing board of their University. Forty-one years later, women have remained conspicuously absent from the ranks of this role. The last female Young Trustee to serve on the Board, Katie Laidlaw, concluded her term in 2006; she remains the sole woman to take this position in the first decade of the 21st century. Unfortunately, there have been only three women in this role in the past 17 years.
While the humor of Gossip Bro’s Monday, Monday column is not lost on me, the overall glorification of Karen Owen’s PowerPoint and the implied sentiment that it was an act of sexual liberation equates “shattering the glass ceiling” with humiliating members of the opposite sex. Why should we congratulate Karen Owen for subjecting men to the objectification, embarrassment and harassment that women have fought against for years? Sexual liberation, in the most perfect sense, requires respect for all individuals involved. Yes, we should be happy that modern women can embrace their sexuality, and more power to Karen for her voracious sexual appetite as well as her ability to snag “9s and 10s” as only a “6.7.” Nevertheless, the public nature of the PowerPoint, and even its existence, demonstrates a lack of respect for both men and women.
