Strawman — Pneumenon
It seems the First Amendment issue has been raised contra sexual harassment/discrimination claims when professors indulge in pontificating about women, but I doubt it would serve well when employed regarding the speech of boorish male college athletes; even those of Harvard. The First Amendment defense hasn't seem much success against hostile work environment claims in the ordinary workplace, it seems, but colleges are, of course, very special places.Probably. The Tonight Show had a running joke making fun of football players. Apparently a number of the joked upon didn't take it well and developed a bit of hatred for Jimmy Fallon. And that with no mention of favorite sexual positions — Mongrel
The issue with that is the women's team didn't even know about the "report" until about 10 days ago so it most definitely isn't "harrasing " speech. If the "report " was published each year and handed to the womens team then i could understand it being harrasing. But dont the supposed "victims " need to know they are being victimized? Or nah? — The17thStateUniversitybro
Well, that's the way manners actually do change. If someone behaves really rudely, there is legislation starting with slander etc. Typically the person is ostracized who behaves badly.But any draconian approach to that, including legislation, of course, as well as social ostracization, public shaming, etc., would be anything but good manners. — Terrapin Station
When people talk about free speech I think they generally that one should be able to express whatever *opinion or view* they have without facing legal repercussions. And not that you can literally say whatever you want in any situation without restriction. — dukkha
I found something I wrote in my reply box around the time that you posted the thread but for whatever reason I decided not to post it — VagabondSpectre
Either there is some standard of conduct which is expected of the students — m-theory
That is a matter of common sense. — m-theory
Perhaps you believe that such guidelines should be exactly worded. — m-theory
I think it would be easy to demonstrate how rating women according to sexual attractiveness is not a policy condoned by Harvard guidelines even if it is not explicitly stated. — m-theory
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