By Jess McCabe

Jess McCabe is a journalist. Most of the time she writes about affordable housing, sustainability, feminism and social justice. You can find her on Twitter , on Tumblr and in some other places.

  1. Since her first opinion piece, a critique of college anti-rape activism, was published in 1993 in the New York Times, Roiphe, an academic at New York University, has embraced a stock-in-trade described in Salon by Rebecca Traister as an ‘I’m-too-sexy-for-this-movement provocation.'  The article in question typifies the literary mix which makes her both so interesting and infuriating. Roiphe wrote it at a time when anti-rape activism was growing rapidly on university campuses. At the same…

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