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When Simone de Beauvoir's landmark book, "The Second Sex" landed on shelves in 1949, sex differences were clearly defined: people born male were men, and people born female were women.
De Beauvoir's book challenged this assumption, writing, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education published yet another story under the headline, "Should colleges be judging rape?" This article, like many others, delved into the complexities of real and fabricated accusations, the need to balance protection of victims with due process for the accused, administrator's insufficient training in criminal and legal matters, the blurring effect of alcohol use and concerns about the overall culture on college campuses.
Accompanying the story was a photo of a large group of Brown University students, standing together silently to protest the university's alleged inadequate response to two sexual misconduct cases.