Comments for Pauline Park

Comment on Avital Ronell & Judith Butler: a cautionary tale of power & accountability in academia by guest

guest — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:16:00 +0000

“Butler & Co. seem to be saying that stripping someone of tenure who has such status in the profession is in and of itself an ‘injustice’ even if she were guilty of the crimes she was accused of — and conversely, that it would be no injustice whatsoever to demote or dismiss someone who lacked such status in academia. Butler et al. are also clearly asserting that someone without Ronell’s ‘international standing and reputation’ does not deserve ‘dignity,’ which is to be accorded only to the powerful.”

I don’t like (any) people to lose their jobs, but I’m glad you said this. These bourgeois idiots think there are some more deserving of life than others. Radicals, my arse.

Comment on Theodore Roosevelt, Taft-Katsura & the Betrayal of the Korean People by Rita Power

Rita Power — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:15:28 +0000

Thanks for your commentary. I am watching’Mr Sunshine’ and had no idea we the USA meddled so in the Far East…

Comment on Regensburg: Rapunzel in the Golden Tower by Jerry L Floyd

Jerry L Floyd — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:51:41 +0000

I came across your account of your sojourn in the Golden Tower in the course of doing online research on Regensburg, which I visited last June (2023) while on a Danube cruise. Our local guide, who was originally from Sacramento, California but had lived in Regensburg for 20 years, took us into the courtyard of the Golden Tower and I got a couple of pictures of it. I am really pleased to find an account by someone who actually lived there. I enjoyed reading not only about your stay in the Tower but also your adventures on the way to obtaining your Ph.D. By the way, I also read your Illinois Alumni profile and I applaud your advocacy and activism. I myself am neither L, G, B, T or Q, but I have close friends in the Orange County, California, LGBTQ community and am no stranger to their travails. Congratulations on becoming the first UI student to win a Fulbright to France!

Comment on Facebook censors Palestine by Michael Barnett

Michael Barnett — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:58:40 +0000

I’ve had four posts of mine removed for the same issue recently. They’re just links to The Guardian or blogs on completely innocuous topics . Totally bizarre. Now I’ve got a 7-day ban from using Facebook groups. It’s ironic really, because all posts have been to my own Facebook group that I have been running since 2009. It makes no sense for me to jeopardise my own Facebook group.

Comment on Bay View High School class of 1978: where are you now? by Debbie Buchholz Schweikl

Debbie Buchholz Schweikl — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 01:31:38 +0000

Live in Wisconsin but have traveled all over the world through work. Europe, Asia, South America, Mexico and all over the U.S. I have a husband who had his own business and 3 wonderful children and 2 (so far) grandchildren.

Comment on The Civility of Albert Cashier by Salem

Salem — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:44:01 +0000

Salem here – I played John and sang ‘Chicago’ on the night you saw the show! As this was a staged reading (as opposed to a fully-staged musical), and my first-ever solo song in a stage production, I was slightly unseasoned and horrifically nervous. There were definitely nights during which my anxiety got the better of me and I attempted unscripted high riffs to try and compensate for my nerves. Some nights sounded great, and others… as you described.
I hope that you were able to look beyond your critiques, and into the deeper reasons behind my character’s “ingratiating” mannerisms.

Comment on The Multiple Migrations of a Transgendered Korean Adoptee by Carolyn Jackson

Carolyn Jackson — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:41:48 +0000

You’re a remarkable human being, Pauline, and I’m grateful that I met you.

Comment on Avital Ronell & Judith Butler: a cautionary tale of power & accountability in academia by Klemperer

Klemperer — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:42:23 +0000

I heard dozens of tales against Weinstein, Woody Allen, James Levine and so many more, but writing from Europe this was new to me. Little example. The swedish daily “Dagens nyheter” had many, many articles about men acting horribly against women, but to my knowledge not 1 article about Avital Ronell. The same applies to a Berlin daily, the “Taz”. Strange…

I think your sentence: “The only society worth living in is one in which Avital Ronell like Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Kevin Spacey and a legion of other abusers can be held accountable for their crimes and progressive feminism requires nothing less.” is completely true.
Thank you for this great article.

Comment on The Multiple Migrations of a Transgendered Korean Adoptee by Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 03:23:42 +0000

Beautiful and touching my friend. I learned more about you. Thank you for sharing.

Comment on Avital Ronell & Judith Butler: a cautionary tale of power & accountability in academia by Laubeiter

Laubeiter — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:51:59 +0000

Is no one replying to this? I think this is a great read. I have understood the outrage over the protective testimony the accused academic received from colleagues that is part of this post. The accuser has not received a protective testimony. What is more outrageous, the alleged harassment or the counter-allegation that the harassment did not take place and that there was a consensual exchange. If you regard the institution as a family and the senior administration of the institution as the parents while the employees are the children, then the parents did not listen to both children. Instead, they did what the Federal law requires them to do.
One more idea: I guess the letter by the colleagues is conflating academic contributions and personal integrity. The complaint about the professor did not touch upon her contributions to academic fields but delineated events that undermined the personal integrity of a subordinate by a supervisor. I wonder how a complaint about the quality of the academic contributions would have been received. My guess is that the professors that jumped onto penning a testimony for the high quality of the academic contributions of the defendant saw her own academic contributions endangered once a leading figure of the field could be convicted.

Comment on “Introduction to Transgender Studies” by Ardel Haefele-Thomas: a review by Richard Jannaccio

Richard Jannaccio — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 06:11:11 +0000

Excellent review.

Comment on Norway: the trip of a lifetime to the land of my father’s Viking ancestors by Robyn Ochsw

Robyn Ochsw — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:58:25 +0000

Fascinating. And helpful to get your perspective on this. I can’t wait to experience Oslo myself at the end of this month.