Bijan Aboutorabi
Bijan Aboutorabi
Recent Stories
ABOUTORABI: Right and wrong sexual choices
It was heartening to see Ted Lee’s ’12 column grace the op-ed page of Friday’s paper (“Love, sex and intimacy,” Sept. 22).
ABOUTORABI, ANDINO AND MARIN: Change the climate, end Sex Week
The 2010-2011 academic year was punctuated by a number of events that drew attention to Yale’s sexual culture and the problems that mar it: rape, harassment, objectification of women and the ways in which the expectation of sexual gratification easily boils over into ugly disrespect and denigration.
ABOUTORABI: The hubris of modernity
Whether by design or by accident, two of last Thursday’s guest columns (“Words for a new age” and “New colleges, fresh names,” Sept. 8) offered striking examples of the same peculiarly modern sentiment: the contempt of the past.
Aboutorabi: Liberal feminism isn’t a given
Kathryn Olivarius’s column last Friday (“Back off, faux feminists,” Oct. 29), enthusiastically upbraided “conservative feminists” in the mold of Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell. But it did little to illuminate the real disagreements between liberal and conservative claimants to the title of feminism. Instead, it was an exhibition of half-arguments and complacent assumptions, which illustrated, above all else, the intellectual laziness that so animates social discourse on Yale’s campus.
Through the Lens: Be mine
Yalies across campus felt the love Sunday night as they celebrated Valentine’s Day, or, as some like to call it, “Singles Awareness Day.” Whether you have a special someone or are flying solo, commercialism is for everybody to enjoy. Photographers Jane Long and Grace Patuwo captured the love.
Aboutorabi: An offense to free speech
Writers from Thucydides to George Orwell have observed that, in political disputes, the meaning of words is often the first casualty.