[Reader-list] fwd: Professor's views on homosexuality and more...

[Iram Ghufran]

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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:29:33 +0530
Subject: Professor's views on homosexuality and more...

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/07/14/the-oppressor-and-victim-is-who-and-what-now/

Excerpts from the long blog post:

Oh this story is so rich for critique 
<http://abovethelaw.com/2009/07/dr_li-ann_thio_v_random_nyu_la.php>. The 
summary is this: NYU Law, my alma mater, invited National University of 
Singapore professor Dr. Li-ann Thio to teach as a visiting professor. 
Dr. Thio is slated to teach “Human Rights in Asia,” and is certainly an 
accomplished academic and politician. However, Dr. Thio also has some, 
uh, /questionable /views 
<http://abovethelaw.com/2009/07/thio_li_ann_hates_perversity.php>on 
homosexuality and gay rights — she compared anal sex to “shoving a straw 
up your nose to drink,” for example, and in a speech supporting the 
continued criminalization of sex between men (which she called “acts of 
gross indecency”) let loose gems such as “You cannot make a human wrong 
a human right” and “Diversity is not a license for perversity.”

In response to Graves-Pryor’s email, Dr. Thio issued an 18-point 
rebuttal 
<http://abovethelaw.com/2009/07/dr_li-ann_thio_v_random_nyu_la.php#comments>, 
which she sent to the entire NYU Law faculty. Her argument, basically, 
is that she is the victim here, and that oppressive and malicious 
homosexuals are slandering her and destroying her reputation.