'Angry, scared, and confused': Oberlin student's anxiety compounded by fact that radiator installers might be cisgendered men

Here’s a great find by Glenn Greenwald from Oberlin College’s school paper, “The Oberlin Review.” Students were informed that contractors would be entering students’ rooms to install radiators. Peter Fray-Witzer writes about the anxiety that caused in a piece for the paper:

In general, I am very averse to people entering my personal space. This anxiety was compounded by the fact that the crew would be strangers, and they were more than likely to be cisgender men.

Baldwin Cottage is the home of the Women and Trans Collective. The College website describes the dorm as “a close-knit community that provides women and transgendered persons with a safe space for discussion, communal living, and personal development.” Cisgender men are not allowed to live on the second and third floors, and many residents choose not to invite cisgender men to that space.

I was angry, scared, and confused. Why didn’t the College complete the installation over the summer, when the building was empty? Why couldn’t they tell us precisely when the workers would be there? Why were they only notifying us the day before the installation was due to begin?

“I was angry, scared, and confused.” So, a normal day.

Students at Oberlin, which costs $80,000/year to attend, are angry and scared that the low-paid servants sent to fix their radiators are cis men.

Perfect illustration of how shitty identity leftism doesn't just ignore class repression but reinforces it:https://t.co/I9ceGcGPAY

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 18, 2021

Ponder the rotted roots of an ideology that convinces highly privileged and wealthy students at elite colleges that the guys who come to fix their radiators are their oppressors, and that the ones whose family is paying $80k/year are the oppressed.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 18, 2021

Imagine if someone said this:

I was angry, scared, and confused. . . Why couldn’t Comcast tell me precisely when the tech would arrive? Why was Comcast only notifying me the day before the install? Why couldn't Comcast tell me exactly how long it would take to hookup my cable?

— Fletch F. Fletch (@GartheKnight2K) October 18, 2021

God – every time I see one of these it seems to be a more extreme parody of the last one. Then you realize it is not a parody and it is just……

— FeralQuokka (@FeralQuokka) October 18, 2021

I was 💯 it was satire. Turns out I was so wrong.

— Erin Daly (@erinldaly) October 18, 2021

This has to be a parody <checks notes>.Oh, it's Oberlin. Take that back.

— Cate Long (@cate_long) October 18, 2021

I laughed so hard reading that then I stopped and started crying. I realized my landlord replaced my refrigerator over the summer and didn't give me a precise time she would arrive. She was also a woman. I didn't know I was violated until now. I am now filing a lawsuit.

— CastleBravo (@Sulaco22) October 18, 2021

Making this out to be a "safety" issue is just bizarre.

— Jon M (@ownerslament) October 18, 2021

These folks will be running the joint in 20 years. Poor USA.

— JBP (@cutoff12) October 18, 2021

I think it’s exceptionally bigoted to assume the gender of the people being sent to do the work, and to also assume those workers are not just as offended and frightened by the residents.

— Rick (@rockymtnrick) October 18, 2021

Seriously, how is this person going to exist in the real world?

— Daniel o’Donoghue (@d_m_odonoghue) October 18, 2021

Some people are living in such opulence and privilege they don't even realize how ridiculous they are.

— Marco Fleuve (@MarcoFleuve) October 18, 2021

I couldn’t get past the first paragraph. Don’t fix the radiators and let them freeze all winter.

— Caroline Bell (@Olybells5) October 18, 2021

But we should be okay with men in our locker rooms and rape crisis centers.

— Marx is Good☭♀️ (@DemSellouts) October 18, 2021

Of course, this would be the perfect opportunity to enact gender quotas among radiator repair "people" so we can have an equal number of women doing that thankless job. Same for sanitation and construction jobs which the patriarchy is responsible for keeping women out.

— Fallen Angel (@MyBattleAngel) October 18, 2021

This article about workers coming to fix the radiators reads like a first-person account of the sack of Rome.

— NegatingSilence (@Apothegmata) October 18, 2021

Glenn why is it necessary for you to drag literal college students writing in their literal school newspaper

— Libertarians Posting Their L’s (@E_iversonii) October 18, 2021

"School newspaper" makes it sound like some newsletter they were writing for 6th-grade English class. These are college students who, in some cultures, would have been considered to be of adult age and capable of raising families and being fully-functioning community members.

— Matthew Opitz (@Wehtammzo) October 18, 2021

I used to have high hopes that the Millennials and Gen Z would have the brains and common sense to deliver us from the sclerotic excesses of the Boomers. Alas, the future is bleak.

— M. Chapman (@mcvadc) October 18, 2021

Unbelievable.

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Wow: Jury awards family business Oberlin students tried to destroy maximum damages totaling $33 million https://t.co/PbvqzqFlIf

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 13, 2019