What is the Yale Women's Center doing joining in the opposition to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's upcoming speech?

Good question, but it is.  Recent Yale grad John Masko, writing at NRO, notes the various groups participating in the organized opposition.  The Muslim Students Association, not surprisingly, is among them.  But why does the Black Student Alliance object?  And what's with a couple of Jewish groups getting on board?  Would like to find out more about that.  But the one that fairly blew Masko's mind, and for good reason, was the Women's Center.

Though I can’t exactly say that my Yale undergrad experience left me with a reverential view of the Women’s Center, I still gasped when I saw its name on that list.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the world’s most tireless advocates against the physical abuse of women and the practice of female genital mutilation, and she focuses her research and activism on cultures in which these practices are all too common.

Considering the Women’s Center’s enthusiasm for women’s advocacy, its joining the protest against her visit is surprising, to say the least. More than that, its co-signing the MSA’s e-mail (which glibly dismisses Hirsi Ali’s childhood abuse as “unfortunate circumstances”) is positively astounding. The Women’s Center’s shared “concern” with MSA over Hirsi Ali’s visit shows in no uncertain terms what the Center’s priorities are: In a clash between liberal political orthodoxy and the most essential women’s rights — the rights to a secure, self-directed life and safety from physical abuse — politics wins.

This is another example of the Left's attempt to get us to think that there are certain things to which we have a right, when it is impossible by definition for us to have such rights.  One of them is not being offended.