Chase Olivarius-McAllister
Chase Olivarius-McAllister
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Olivarius-Mcallister: CLAY made a bad choice
In 2007, the first time Choose Life At Yale applied to be a residence group of the Women’s Center, I was on the Women’s Center’s Board. At the time, Peter Johnston ’09 was the president of CLAY and quickly becoming influential in the conservative movement at Yale. Intellectually, I had grown to know him well, due to the fact that we both took Directed Studies and were in nearly every section together, a proof that God, if existent, is not without an exquisite sense of irony.
For hypocritical response, Salovey should resign office
They lied because the truth was getting Yale University bad press. Helaine Klasky ought to get a raise. Peter Salovey, on the other hand, should be fired as the Dean of Yale College. Dean Salovey was instrumental in concocting the lie that the publicists told.
Right-wing foolish: abortion is necessary
Ann Marie Beckley was born, and not aborted, in 1932. In that year, illegal abortions killed an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 women.
Anti-Fashion: Patriarchy necessitates prostitution necessitates fashion
At the crux of humanity are two ongoing concerns: reproduction and quality of life, better known as sex and money.
Free speech aside, porn is pernicious
Pornography is terrible for women, for men and for how we have sex. In terms of content, pornography eroticizes the passivity, subjugation and humiliation of women. Its consumers learn that women want to be penetrated, to be dominated, that women’s orgasms are fraudulent. And mainstream pornography encompasses brutal power dynamics.
Today's women can reject virginity myth
The loss of virginity is not the moment you lose your innocence. It is the moment when you start to reinvent, and fail, at sex. Nothing is taken from you. You join the conversation.