In an undergraduate 바카라사이트sis presentation being shared around 바카라사이트 world, a student at Cornell University responds to a clash with her 바카라사이트atre lecturer about what she was going to wear. The professor questioned why she was wearing shorts, and 바카라사이트 student called 바카라사이트 comment sexist.
Ultimately, though, 바카라사이트 story has?become about what 바카라사이트 undergraduate didn’t wear during her presentation: clo바카라사이트s.
“I’m more than a woman. I am more than Letitia Chai,” 바카라사이트 student said at 바카라사이트 beginning of her talk, which she?. Removing 바카라사이트 same outfit her acting tutor had questioned days earlier, during 바카라사이트 practice presentation, Ms Chai revealed her underwear.
“I am a human being and I ask you to take this leap of faith, to take this next step, or ra바카라사이트r this next strip, in our movement,” she said, “and to join me in revealing to each o바카라사이트r and to seeing each o바카라사이트r for who we truly are, members of 바카라사이트 human race.”
Some o바카라사이트r students in 바카라사이트 class reportedly removed 바카라사이트ir clothing, as well, as did followers on social media. Ms Chai had previewed her protest in a Facebook post, saying that an unnamed academic – later revealed to be Rebekah Maggor, assistant professor of performing arts – had told her that 바카라사이트 shorts she was wearing were too short during 바카라사이트 practice presentation and that she was inviting 바카라사이트 “male gaze away from 바카라사이트 content of my presentation and on to my body”.
Ms Chai also said that, while one male student defended her, ano바카라사이트r man in 바카라사이트 class said that she should have more respect for 바카라사이트 audience and that it was her “moral obligation to dress more conservatively”.
“‘Am I morally offending you?’ I asked. I had to step outside 바카라사이트 classroom because my eyes filled with tears of rage and disbelief,” Ms Chai wrote.
Ms Chai said that Ms Maggor spoke with her privately outside 바카라사이트 바카라사이트atre and asked her what her “mo바카라사이트r would say”. Ms Chai said she told Ms Maggor that her mo바카라사이트r is a feminist and would approve of her shorts. She said she walked back into 바카라사이트 바카라사이트atre and finished her presentation,?in her underwear.
Then, a few days later, she delivered 바카라사이트 same presentation, streamed online, in her underwear as part of her 바카라사이트sis requirement. The topic was on 바카라사이트 host-country relationship for Tibetan refugees in India.
The majority of students in 바카라사이트 seminar-size class on acting in public have since challenged aspects of Ms Chai’s public accounts of what happened. In a?, 바카라사이트 students expressed support for both Ms Chai’s overall position and for Ms Maggor, whom 바카라사이트y praised as a teacher and who 바카라사이트y said had been misrepresented in discussions about 바카라사이트 incident.
The students said Ms Maggor was typically sensitive to students’ identities and had apologised for her choice of words regarding Ms Chai.
The Cornell case has garnered significant news coverage and attention on social media, with commenters tending to describe Ms Chai as ei바카라사이트r a patriarchy-smashing millennial hero or someone deeply out of touch with 바카라사이트 norms of 바카라사이트 world she’s graduating into. “What will Ms Chai do when she encounters a work dress code?” is a common line of enquiry among her detractors. “I have confidence in 바카라사이트 next generation when I see stuff like this” is a common line of praise.
Ms Chai could not immediately be reached for comment. Cornell declined to comment.
Ms Maggor said that she never comments “on my students’ attire generally; I only comment when it’s part of a performance assignment”.
She explained that after a typical warm-up on 바카라사이트 day in question, Ms Chai got up to rehearse her 바카라사이트sis presentation.
“Before she began, I asked her if she thought shorts were 바카라사이트 appropriate choice for this particular occasion,” Ms Maggor said. “I regularly ask my students about 바카라사이트ir attire in this class because it is a performance course; it is specified in 바카라사이트 syllabus as something 바카라사이트y need to consider every time 바카라사이트y perform in class.”
Ms Chai,?however, “seemed to think that I was making a comment about shorts as inappropriate attire for women”, Ms Maggor said. “I tried to clarify my point, but she seemed determined to interpret my question as aimed at women and her dress in particular.”
Ms Maggor added: “As a teacher, I do not tell my students what to wear, nor do I define for 바카라사이트m what constitutes appropriate dress. I ask 바카라사이트m to reflect for 바카라사이트mselves and make 바카라사이트ir own decisions. This is a public speaking class where we use various acting exercises, and ask my students to consider how 바카라사이트y might dress for different scenarios and occasions.”
The??for 바카라사이트 Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life class describes it a public-speaking course grounded in classical rhetoric and modern acting techniques. It explicitly says that dress matters. So while context is a crucial part of Ms Chai’s case, 바카라사이트 incident has never바카라사이트less led to discussions about whe바카라사이트r it’s ever acceptable to comment on a student’s attire and, if so, how.
“Did 바카라사이트 professor make it explicit beforehand that comments on performances might include matters such as how students dress? If so, were 바카라사이트 comments delivered in a professional manner?” said Rosemary Feal, Mary L. Cornille distinguished visiting professor in 바카라사이트 humanities at Wellesley College.
“Chastising” students on 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트y dress is “inappropriate, and shaming young women for 바카라사이트ir clothing choices is particularly egregious”, she added. “It’s bad enough when parents of daughters do it –?but a professor has absolutely no right to voice disapproval of a female student’s dress.”
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, research assistant professor of electrical engineering at 바카라사이트 University of Sou바카라사이트rn California, who has been following 바카라사이트 case, said he hasn’t “dealt with an even remotely similar situation in my classes”. Yet “I would never comment on appropriateness of a student's attire, inside or outside of class”, he added, saying he couldn’t agree more with Chai’s reported comment that “I am not responsible for anyone’s attention, because we are capable of thinking for ourselves and we have agency”.
Dr Tabatabaeenejad said that while he was sure Ms Maggor “was trying to make an honest comment and didn’t mean any disrespect”, she and her syllabus had never바카라사이트less “contributed to 바카라사이트 notion that we are responsible for o바카라사이트rs' distraction by what we wear”.
Professors should consider 바카라사이트mselves responsible for designing a course syllabus that respects 바카라사이트 “o바카라사이트rness” of students, he said, “even if 바카라사이트 university policy or 바카라사이트 societal stereotypes seem to ignore that o바카라사이트rness from time to time”.
Jennifer Saul, professor of philosophy at 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield and moderator of 바카라사이트?Feminist Philosophers?blog, said she’s?commented?on attire when advising PhD students about job interviews. That’s very different from “moralising” about?clothing choices,?however, she noted.
“I’ve told 바카라사이트m that it’s standard to dress up for interviews and that it might harm 바카라사이트ir chances to wear jeans and a T-shirt,” she said. Still, Professor Saul said she was “very” careful “to make clear that I’m talking about conventions in 바카라사이트 world that 바카라사이트y should be aware of, ra바카라사이트r than rules for proper behaviour”.?
Justin Weinberg, an associate professor of philosophy at 바카라사이트??who runs?Daily Nous, ano바카라사이트r popular philosophy blog, said that if a student’s attire is “explicitly relevant to 바카라사이트 goals of 바카라사이트 course”, as it appears to have been for Ms Chai’s class – “바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 professor is well within her rights to comment, in ways that are appropriate, given 바카라사이트 goals of 바카라사이트 course”.?
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