Good to know that MRAs were just as insufferably whiny in the 1900s are they are now. “Oh no, those uppity women got the right to vote and now they don’t want to be hit!”

Yeah, when I discovered that editorial was actually using the phrase “men’s rights,” I lost it.

Actually, it’s about ethics in gaming journalism.

This is absolutely amazing. Honestly, a great work, I really found it fascinating. Love this line, which made me almost spit out water from laughing:

Rape is all about who has power and the ones with power are the ones getting away with it.

Everything.

Title IX Coordinator here: Part of the problem behind differing punishments for staff v. faculty is that the faculty have incredible powers with regards to self-governance. For example, at my school, the faculty senate was created in 18- or 19whateverhundred, and its bylaws give it the power to have final say in…

Oh look, dudes ruining higher education for everyone else again

Having been sexually harassed by four professors (and two in my department) while I was an undergraduate at Berkeley, colour me unsurprised. I considered going somewhere else for graduate school on this basis but then decided not to let it change my path (and figured the same might happen to me elsewhere anyway).

100%

True. And part of the rep is that UCB is a progressive and inclusive institution. I think as a result: 1) staff are treated almost like they have a “calling” to work in public higher ed and should put up and shut up for the higher good and 2) these cases run so counter to institutional identity that the impulse to…

I just imagined all the people guilty of sexual harrassment in the whole country getting fired and it made me really excited. Excited for the comeuppance, excited for the job openings....

Organizations like this are larger than some cities. Crime is basically inevitable.

A few years back a doctor in the UC Berkeley health clinic sexually assaulted a student more than once and the university dragged its feet dealing with that (and did its best to keep it under wraps). And I’ve seen and overhead some REALLY iffy things in departments not my own.

Apparently.

Why is not being an asshole so baffling for some people? Is it really that hard?

This is why the “justice” system is fucked; this kid got probation for rape, and he still couldn’t hack it. Meanwhile, there are people younger than him rotting in jails on charges, not convictions, because they can’t afford this kind of “justice”. People like Labrie can exhaust every benefit of every doubt and then…

Persistence is a white man whose day in court didn’t end the way he thought it should.