A student at an $80,000-a-year ultra-liberal Oberlin College in Ohio claimed in an op-ed that he was left ‘angry, scared, and confused’ because ‘cisgender men’ installed a radiator in his ‘safe space’ dormitory.
He also complained that he felt ‘mildly violated’ and ‘a little peeved’ when the contractors returned to his dorm room the next day to ‘check the insulation.’
Fray-Witzer adds in his op-ed that he was '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.'
Before they showed up, he writes, he ‘waited apprehensively.’
When the contractors arrived, they knocked on the door to Fray-Witzer’s dorm room.
He writes: 'When the insistent knock eventually came, I scrambled to get my mask on and repeatedly shouted, "Coming!" through the door.
'Four or five construction workers stood outside, accompanied by someone who I could only assume — by his neat polo and clipboard — to be an emissary of the College.
'We stared at each other for a moment before I moved aside to allow the workers to enter.
He was widely mocked on Twitter.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted:
'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 s***** identity leftism doesn't just ignore class repression but reinforces it: 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.'
Did somebody explain that there is a monitoring device embedded in the new register? That'll get his fear elevated where it should be.