president obama named loretta lynch. and in that time the republican-controlled senate has introduced new baffling puzzle pieces that don t seem to fit at all. there is the justice for victims of human trafficking act piece into which republicans shoved anti-abortion language which angered democrats and has the whole senate stalled. a worthy debate perhaps but why is it part of the a.g. confirmation? and before there was the abortion and human trafficking piece, there was the immigration and executive action piece. during her confirmation hearings lynch affirmed that president obama s executive action which offered temporary legal status to millions of up documented immigrants was legal. that really irritated republicans. but this is a confirmation for president obama s a.g. chances are any candidate is going to support this action. so again, why is this piece part of this puzzle? in the meantime, and this is the part that makes it so puzzling. guess who gets to remain attorney general
the internet is just one other avenue for delivering the message of the sexual double standard. you know what happened at the penn state fraternity what s going on with ashley judd these are logical conclusions in an environment where you have the sexual double standard and a culture of slut shaming. particularly in the ashley judd example, we see that being labeled a slut being sexually degraded and threatened with sexual violence in a horrific graphic way doesn t have anything to do with sex at all. what did ashley judd do? all she did was assert an opinion about a sports event. frankly, i think we can all agree a pretty mild opinion too. roxanne, i want to come to you on this because this was also i actually had difficulty reading the ashley judd piece. i want to offer a trigger warning to anybody that s going to read it now. i purposely don t i have been run out of my own at replies. i no longer see my own twitter
like you give the school an opportunity in that moment. so the idea that let s not talk about it is the way to not appear to be a great school as a college campus so it seems another way to respond to it is we have been challenged on this point. let s talk about it and that s how we ll indicate how open we are, how willing we are to engage in dialogue and discourse and how afraid we are to be challenged. when we think about institutions and organizations, i think we have to pay attention to being proactive than reactive. if you re being proactive about these issues when things like this come up you have a lot to say. you have a lot to talk about and say we re doing this we re doing this we re doing this. it didn t work out here because these are challenging issues. but we have the things in place, we ve been working on these things that position us to be able to have these conversations going forward. that idea that maybe the race talk conversation starts not by asking how many fri