Saying he promotes a “rape culture” and “excessive drinking,” several female students protested a decision by the student government at the College at Brockport to pay controversial author Tucker Max $20,000 to speak on the New York campus next month.
WHAM13.com, an ABC affiliate, reports that Max, whose New York Times bestsellers include “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” and “A**holes Finish First,” will be paid $20,000 for the one-hour gig.
A Forbes article earlier this year by Michael Ellsburg sums up Max’s illustrious career as follows:
“The books recount Tucker’s endlessly repetitive nights throughout his twenties (he’s 35 now), drinking extreme amounts of alcohol, having utterly drunken, meaningless, uninspired (and uninspiring) sex with a parade of random strangers, acting in a cocky, testosterone-fueled, belligerent way to those who come across his drunken glare, and saying the most insulting, vile, vicious, mean, sexually-degrading things you could possibly imagine to everyone around him, both men and women.”
Max’s personal website states:
“I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead.”
Members of Brockport’s student government defended their decision in the college’s student newspaper, The Stylus:
“BSG has an obligation to bring artists and speakers that differ from those offered by academic departments. … Max also had a resumé we could not pass up. In addition to that little Duke law degree thing, Max has a long list of other collegiate visits. …In closing we would like to summarize that Max is a demonstration of the growth we all experience during the course of our collegiate careers. He recognizes his immaturity in his 20s and has actively been working on the tools needed to be empathetic, to trust and to effectively communicate. Max says his main focuses in life now are eating healthy, yoga, mixed martial arts training, his dog Murphy and seeing a psychoanalyst four times a week.”
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