{"id":6792,"date":"2016-10-12T06:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2016-10-12T06:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:29:23","slug":"aggressive-photocopying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/10\/12\/aggressive-photocopying\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive photocopying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once had a colleague who was full of wit and wisdom, but who was\u00a0always getting into scrapes. \u00a0He was once accused (it was the 1980s) of using a photocopier in an overly\u00a0masculine and patriarchal fashion. \u00a0I fear that people prone to making such accusations used to lie in wait for him.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this when I read about the University of Edinburgh student who was accused of being in violation of that institution's fatuous safe space policy when she raised her hand during a meeting in what was deemed by the over-potty-trained to be an inappropriate way. \u00a0It was good, therefore, to hear that\u00a0students at universities, including Aberystwyth,\u00a0Cardiff, Leeds,\u00a0the LSE, Manchester, Oxford, Queen Mary, Portsmouth and York, have set up <em>free speech societies<\/em> with the aim of\u00a0overcoming such nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once had a colleague who was full of wit and wisdom, but who was\u00a0always getting into scrapes. \u00a0He was once accused (it was the 1980s) of using a photocopier in an overly\u00a0masculine and patriarchal fashion. \u00a0I fear that people...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}