Not Ready for Prime Time

Let me see if I've got this right:

Larry Summers is too dangerous a symbol of racism and sexism to speak to any students attending university in California, but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who's been pretty upfront about wanting to bomb a country because he doesn't like Jews, and whose attitude toward women is somewhat less than progressive, is okay to speak at Columbia?

I wonder if Columbia would let Summers speak, and if Ahmadinejad would be welcomed by the UC regents?

It just seems that if the grounds for disinviting someone are that "inviting a keynote speaker who has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia conveys the wrong message to the university community and to the people of California," then I'm thinking the answer to part II of the above question is "no."  Dunno about part 1 - has Summers spoken at Columbia post-Harvard explosion?

On a related note, I would like to tell the Sisterhood At Large, Academic Division, to please stop acting like a bunch of prissy-pants weenie heads about Larry Summers.  You got his ass fired, which proves to anyone with a brain where the true power lies.  Getting all a-twitter because the guy may actually TALK IN PUBLIC AT A UNIVERSITY, ON A TOPIC COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE HARVARD HOO-HA, just makes you look like a bunch of wimpy chicks who can't handle icky bad words.

I'd tell you to grow a collective pair, but I don't feel like dealing with the mess that will result when your heads explode due to my use of scary, heteronormative, phallocentric LANGUAGE.