'Women must veil their form': Law school dean resigns after his writings spark backlash

[DonViejo]

Source: USA Today


USA TODAY NETWORKJoel Shannon, USA TODAY Published 11:23 p.m. ET Oct. 3, 2018 | Updated 1:05 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018

An associate dean at the University of Oklahoma College of Law has voluntarily resigned from his position after his previous writings on women and gay marriage came under scrutiny.

Law professor Brian McCall, who also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, resigned his associate dean position, the university announced Tuesday. The news comes after remarks he previously published were labeled "homophobic" and "sexist" by an Oklahoma University student newspaper.

Those labels were applied to several opinions expressed by McCall in his 2014 book To Build the City of God: Living as Catholics in a Secular Age.

The book calls gay marriage "insanity" and dedicates a section to "Women in Pants and Similar Frauds."






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[mr_lebowski]

1. Not meant in a negative way, and I'm not an EXPERT, but from his picture and writings, Spidey-Sense

is tingling a bit for me.

Call me crazy ... but I think someone has a 'secret' he really doesn't want people to find out about.

One he's over-compensating for, a bit.

[Croney]

3. You say it's not meant in a negative way, but

I recall an eye-opening discussion here a while back, about implying someone might be gay as a way of belittling them. This guy is a horrible person without a doubt.

[obamanut2012]

14. As a gay woman, yeah that is a negative thing to say

Which I also consider, at best, passive homophobia.

[mr_lebowski]

25. Well as a guy ...

who was having sex on the regular with a male classmate starting in 5th grade, I promise you ... it's NOT 'passive homophobia' ... coming from me.

There's not one word there implying I think there's anything wrong with being homosexual.

To be clear, regardless of his 'status' I think anyone that writes or speaks in a homophobic manner ... is a DICK.

But ... is even MORE of a dick ... if they are actually gay themselves.

However, all I said was I think the guy has a secret he's over-compensating for.

You assumed I meant ... he's gay. I could've actually meant anything. For example, a guy who has that strong of a desire to control the minutiae of how women dress ... could easily be a wife-beater, don't you think?

[oberliner]

38. In 5th grade???

[apcalc]

2. His kind of thinking is perverse.

[get the red out]

4. Once again

We have a Christo-Fascist that sounds just like ISIS.

[tanyev]

5. How many right wingers who hate "Islamofascists" do admire how they handle the "problem" of women?

[Silver1]

10. I just had that discussion with my husband ...

and we both feel the Republicans have answered that question with absolute certainty with their desperation to get Kavanaugh to the SC.

[Perseus]

6. He is applying for some post within the administration, that is all

His qualification as a misogynist should fare well with the rest of the republicans, I would say he has a chance once the man-child notices him.

[Ilsa]

7. Looking to be IQ45's next nominee to SCOTUS? nt

[maxrandb]

8. Hey Kids!

Meet your next Supreme Court Justice!

[Paladin]

9. Fucking prairieland asshole. (nt)

[Nitram]

11. Let's put him in a skirt and see how gracefully and modestly he does things.

Add some high heels, too.

[Silver1]

12. And ...

"Women must veil their form to obscure its contours out of charity towards men," McCall wrote."

Ah yes, WOMAN, evil seductress. If a man loses control of his passions, it will be because you brought it upon yourself!

He wrote that in debates about whether women should wear skirts or pants: “I am firmly in the ‘Long Skirt’ camp (not that I wear them myself, but none of the women or girls entrusted to the care of the family of which I am the head may, nor desire to, wear pants)." [my bold emphasis]

the family of which I am the head -- and therein lies his motivation: to control and force the women around him into submission.

What a pathetic man.

[AllyCat]

20. He is admitting he and possibly all men are this weak.

Then, by his own logic, men should not be in charge of anything.

[Silver1]

23. Yes, he is, logically.

But I suppose he would negate that conclusion by saying the bible and God himself instructs men to take dominion over everything: the environment, animals, women, because of their inability to govern themselves. I'm sure there's a convenient biblical quote to justify any self serving supremacist point of view that would keep low lives like him at the head and in control.

OnlinePoker posted an article today about a teenage girl executed in Pakistan. "She said she had been abused by her husband and raped several times by her brother-in-law, who told her that if she accepted responsibility, he could pardon her, which is accepted under Islamic law."

Her rapist wants her to accept responsibility for the rapes! This is exactly what Brian McCall is espousing by implying women must cover up their form, otherwise they are responsible for any sexual actions by the men in their communities.

I am sickened. And I am afraid for our future.

[True_Blue]

29. +1000

[laserhaas]

13. Now, if the same standard were applied to SCOTUS noms

Other thingys would be the focus of these days

[riversedge]

21. I was thinking along the same lines as I started to read. sigh!!

[benfranklin1776]

15. Wow sounds like an American Taliban

Except he does it under the guise of being a “good Catholic” showing others the way so that’s supposed to be societally acceptable in his eyes and those of his fellow right wing religious nutcases.

[MosheFeingold]

16. What this moron should have said

Is more along the lines of what I've told my daughters and granddaughters.

Would you leave your car unlocked in a bad neighborhood? Or, heck, anywhere? No.

Walk down a dark alley at 2:00 am, drunk? Not voluntarily, no.

Should you be able to leave your car unlocked? Yes.

Should you be able to walk anywhere you want without fear? Have a few drinks with friends? Of course, you should.

But there are crappy people in this world that take advantage of the unaware or the vulnerable, and one must take reasonable precautions, just like you lock your doors and avoid dark alleys.

Is this fair? No.

Does this excuse the wrongdoer in any way, shape, or form? No.

We live in a crappy world. Take precautions.

Some asshat failed to yield this morning at an intersection with TWO yield signs and "Yield" printing in six foot tall letters on the ground. If I had not given said asshat the right-of-way, we'd have had a wreck. Yes, he would have had to pay. But I would have to deal with the hassle and I'd probably have gotten hurt.

Note: this is not fair, at all. It's not right. It probably encourages assholes to be assholes.

But, that's life, folks. Lock your doors.

[Perseus]

17. If he is married, if...

How can a woman be married to an asshole like that? What on earth is in a woman's brain to accept such misogyny? The guy is a total creep, what made you fall in love with him? What makes you stay in love with him?

With that kind of thinking I cannot believe him treating his wife well, he is from the club of "men are the greater species" and "women are there to obey and serve"...I wish I could understand both camps thinking, his and his wife...again, if he has one, I don't know and don't care to find out.

[OriginalGeek]

22. because women who marry guys like that

are often indoctrinated to believe they are supposed to be submissive to guys like that. It's a pretty sweet set-up for those kinds of guys and that's why they are fighting so hard to keep it.

[AllyCat]

18. Asshole

[dhill926]

19. sick fuck....

another of the religiously insane...

[mainer]

24. If the female form incites you to attack, pluck out

Your own damn eyes.

[Maxheader]

26. ONe more "special" individual looking for attention..

2014? Holy shit batman... , That's like yesterday for
the movement..He had to know then that kind of opinion would
be controversial. So many go over the top on issues... For what?

[Demovictory9]

27. "Women must veil their form to obscure its contours out of charity towards men,"

[YessirAtsaFact]

31. My take is the same as it is with Islam

If men sinning because they see a female is really the issue, they could wear blindfolds any time they go out in public.

It would save a lot of fabric.

[athena]

34. Because women are not people.

We can't just go about our lives, minding our own business. We must always be thinking about the men around us and how we can help them in their endeavors, so that they can live fulfilled lives.

[Demovictory9]

28. none of the women or girls entrusted to the care of the family of which I am the head may, nor desir

He wrote that in debates about whether women should wear skirts or pants: “I am firmly in the ‘Long Skirt’ camp (not that I wear them myself, but none of the women or girls entrusted to the care of the family of which I am the head may, nor desire to, wear pants)."

[LanternWaste]

30. Another creepy dudebro who blames his own gaze on women.

Another creepy dudebro who blames his both gaze and his lack of self-discipline on the mere existence of women.

[dogknob]

32. "Just another sad old man..."

[geretogo]

33. An American Taliban fighter posing as a law professor . He belongs in Afghanistan .

[KatyaR]

35. He only resigned his administrative positions.

He's still a professor at the University.

[Chrysanthemum]

36. His book was published in 2014???

I wish he had been forced to resign his dean position back then!

[RhodeIslandOne]

37. Trump's next SCOTUS pick n/m

[oberliner]

39. Perhaps better-suited to a law school in Iran?