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THANK YOU. And don’t pretend this isn’t some ploy to get back into the limelight again. CK wasn’t doing a free show to a 2oo seat venue because he was lonely. This is a toe in the water to try to regain fame. And the audience has every right to bite that fucking toe off. There are plenty of talented creative people

I refuse to respond to this obvious asshole, even to point out he has in his username the name of a girl who was trafficked in hugely-distributed *child pornography* in the 80s while defending a sex assaulter who has done nothing to rehabilitate himself and demanding we stop “victimizing” the abuser. I’m sure he

We don’t have to keep propping up the assholes.

How do I h4xx kinja to star this a billion times?

SAY IT!

I’d also argue that Louis has made a living already—several, in fact. If he invested even 1/10th of what he made in the past decade he’ll be doing better than the vast majority of people in this country.

And personal forgiveness does not mean you have to agree to give people back the life before they committed their offense. I am friends with someone who is a registered sex offender (for like a real crime, not someone who has sex with his 15 year girlfriend at 18). I met him after he got out of prison, I see how

Hannah Gadsby comes to the rescue in the old “Separate the art from the artist” argument:

I wish I could find that tweet again that basically said, “let’s not lament all the famous fuckwads whose careers are now ruined because they couldn’t keep their dicks to themselves. Let’s lament the art that never got created because the people who wanted to make it got silenced by these fuckers. They had their shot,

Oh, she was clearly trying to fuck him. Also, she’s not a lesbian - she identifies as queer. Not the same.

I don’t know if anyone outside academia understands how uniquely terrifying it is to go up against the machines of institutional power there, especially as a grad student. You pour your entire life’s work into your degree and (if your advisors are unscrupulous) put up with all types of abuse because you know these

Reminds me a bit of those people who say “Haha yeah, I’m an asshole” as if it were some endearing quirk. No, that’s not a thing you get to be. It’s not cool to make other people uncomfortable because “that’s just me!”

Right? There is nothing to “make”of this beyond another sexual harasser protected by their shitty friends. Being female, queer, feminist or Jewish doesn’t preclude anyone from being an abuser. And any person of any gender is entitled to file a Title IX claim. This isn’t rocket science. I am also annoyed the article

I will be honest, when I read that the letter admitted that they hadn’t seen the evidence, but were convinced it wasn’t sufficient, I just burst out laughing. That is just some next level stuff there.

“What Are We to Make of the Case of Scholar Avital Ronell?”

What are we to make of it?

It’s only now, with the language around the MeToo movement, that I’ve been able to look back at what happened to me in graduate school and recognize that it was sexual harassment. Because my advisor was a woman (as am I) everyone just said “she’s hard to work with.” Without a doubt, that experience changed my career

I don’t think it’s ethical to blur professional and personal lines when there’s a power imbalance in a professional setting. Anecdotal, but as a supervisor, I zealously avoided personal connections with my employees and others who were not necessarily my direct reports, but were subordinate to me in my position. 

Seems pretty straightforward: we are to make of it what we’d make of any academic sending emails that are transparently sexual harassment. I'll be goddamned if I'm not gonna say anything about all the "but she was a good professor!" whining. She obviously wasn't THAT good if she was sending those emails and her best

God some of the things the women said in that NYT article were terrible especially the one that seemingly implied title IX shouldn’t be used against women.