Laura Kipnis

At first glance, “Sexual Paranoia” by Laura Kipnis is appalling. Is she really saying she thinks it’s okay for students to hook up with their professors? What an awful woman. However, Kipnis develops a strongly written essay that will certainly get most people to at least understand her opinion. That’s not to say I agree with everything Kipnis says. Although her argument does contain some good points, it’s flawed in a lot of ways. Kipnis begins her argument by explaining how she feels sorry for

crazy thing, one day is alive and growing and the next is fading until it completely dies. Everyone will have their own view on love, but love is vague, for one knows about today but not about tomorrow. In her critique of love, “Against Love,” Laura Kipnis offers a judgmental version of what constitutes “real love”. She questions whether we truly desire love, or rather, are conditioned to. She asserts that social forms accustomed us to pursue a love life so that we are entertained and wanted. But

In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas I’m a Liberal Professor and My Liberal Students Terrify Me My Title IX Inquisition The Coddling of the American Mind These are but a few of the provocative headlines to capture the attention of faculty and administrators in recent years. Such essays, for many, introduced terms like trigger warnings, microaggressions, and safe spaces, now commonplace in media coverage of academic life in the 21st century. The stories they tell involve a wide range of issues

Love Laura Kipnis’s “Against Love”, and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” ,brings up the issue of what is the definition of love and is love what we think it is. Love has changed in comparison to what it once was, and we now loosely use the term, but what does it truly mean, and why do we buy in to it. Kipnis’s essay develops the idea that this “mature love” is when someone can love and be loved, and she takes the position that this does not happen. Although Kipnis believes

Laura Kipnis’ argument in “Against Love,” is that love in the modern age has an increasingly low success rate while turning into a sacrifice of and freedom. Kipnis shares that mature and secure people’s ideal form of love is “mature love,” a combination of the ability to settle down, mutually appreciate each other, and engage in love that lasts a lifetime. She states that, “For the modern lover, ‘maturity’ isn’t a depressing signal of impending decrepitude but a sterling achievement, the sine qua

world is continuously surrounded by the notion of finding companionship in a single person and staying with them “until death do us part.” In “Against Love” by Laura Kipnis, Kipnis states, “If you love me, you’ll do what I want or need, or demand--- and I’ll love you in return” (Kipnis 805). “Carnal Knowledge” is a prime example of how Kipnis’ claim on love fails. Where a human being can pour his heart out to another person, do all he could to please and satisfy them and receive not an ounce of devotion

famous Laura Kipnis. A book in which the institution of monogamy is put under a microscope and picked away at only to come the conclusion that you should decide for yourself whether marriage is worth it. There are a lot of interesting ideas and questions brought up throughout this book. Like, you can’t have adultery without marriage (p176) and why is polygamy frowned upon while serial monogamy is okay (pg. 172)? But the point that caught my eye the most while reading this book is when Kipnis wrote

seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love

sometimes it is too late once the heart is so broken. An escalation and Brooke asking, “Why can’t you do this one thing for me” (The Break-Up), leads to the break-up of the couple. In an essay from an excerpt in her book, Against Love: A Polemic, Laura Kipnis

The author I have chosen to use to write about is Laura Kipnis and her essay: Love’s Labors. For this Capstone Essay I have chosen to write about Divorce rates, and how they have been increasing over the years. Divorce can come about in many different ways, each unique in the reason of interest/motivation to get a divorce. Kipnis speaks entirely to an audience ripe for divorce; adulterers, fantasizers, the side chick/guy, or even the suspicious spouse. The reasons of increased divorce vary depending