The academic who wrote that tried really, really hard to not say what they really meant: “It’s not the same thing, because this time, I know this person.”

Weinstein had a freakin’ caftan made of Oscars. Awards do not constitute morals or ethics.

Yep. If your personality is built around whackiness and lack of boundaries you probably shouldn’t be in a supervisory role.

I’m currently trying to get my PhD, and I want something like Title IX and whatever institutional bodies that protect trainees from harassment to function well for anyone who has a mentor. I don’t give a shit that she’s a well-respected female academic that’s advocated for feminist causes for decades. She used her…

Yup. This line really says it all to me: ‘“People know that she is very friendly and open and crosses traditional boundaries in relationships with her students,””

“Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage...”

Lauding her “brilliant scholarship” and “intellectual generosity” and noting that the French government recently bestowed a prestigious award upon her,

Academics, particularly those who have obtained tenure, are treated with such kid gloves in academia.  This is but the tiniest tip of the total iceberg.  These rockstars will continue to abuse their power in numerous ways (not all of them sexual) until people start getting fired and banned from academia.  It’s not…

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. 

Many of the male sexual harassers seem like desperate, dirty old men. Doesn’t make it any less harassment.

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…

Ugh. Enough already with the damn “this person has done a lot of good, therefore they could never have done anything wrong” letters. I can understand it’s hard to accept that a friend or idol might not be who you thought they were but keep your thoughts to yourself.

Look, if I were the beneficiary of white privilege, then I could not claim to be the biggest victim in this society, and that would morally obligate me to look to other people’s well-being, rather than demand they look to mine. And you won’t even let me have that. HOW CAN YOU BE SO SELFISH???

We haven’t become anything. We’re just showing who we really are.

Tell me again about how Republicans love and protect The Babies?

Grace and dignity did not keep Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Medgar Evars, Robert Kennedy, and a whole host of civil rights activists from being assassinated.

Not right in the head eh? How come every time white people are spewing hatred or shooting people up it’s because of mental health. That’s a cop-out and an insult to people with legit mental health issues.

Your use of the word animals tells me everything I need to know.

Yawn. Your moral outrage is noted, and rejected. Do you know how many Black people died with N!@@er being the last word they heard? Get off your high horse. It’s not just some verbal stupidity when a white person calls a black person the Nword.

Jen and Ben are kind of the opposite of most celeb divorces--stay on good terms, keep your dirty undies out of the press, take care of each other and remember we all still have to raise these kids together.