I do not care for John Mayer, the man or the whiny ass music he produces.

He's a racist who is on-and-off boinking a celebrity named Katy Perry.

Mayer is the douchiest of the douches. Has he taken home a Wacky award yet? He's a shoe-in.

The person is talking about Rashida Jones, who dared to produce a documentary that just barely suggests that sex work is less than empowering to women.

Who is R Jones? I feel like I'm missing some kind of context here?

Your post reflects the warped views of a subset of predator I'd forgotten about: The professor who has a different "muse" every year. (I say professor because I see this more with them than TAs.) The muse is always special. She's always smarter and more talented and more worldly than other girls her age. And sometimes…

yeah, but your one experience doesn't negate the volume of students for whom there would be an obvious unassailable power imbalance should their professor make the poor decision to fuck them. the majority case requires this rule - it has demonstrably been enough of a problem that they've had to come out and say…

I think some people (especially men in power) feel a certain entitlement and even if a ban on student-professor relationships doesn't quash them completely, it still reminds these people that the university does not support their sense of entitlement.

I think it can be safely assumed that I am writing what I personally think, since I didn't mention anyone else's opinion. "Inappropriate", by its very meaning, is a subjective judgement. Having an opinion and making a judgment can't take away anyone's agency.

As someone who has been a twenty-seven year old TA working amidst other, mostly male TAs I can assure you that that man never saw you as an adult. When you teach college kids (and yes, at nineteen you are a kid) you cannot view anyone in that age range who you meet on campus as an adult. Being 27 and being a college…

I'm sorry it offends you, but people absolutely can put their own opinions on other people's experiences. That's just...life.

No matter how good your experience was, it is always questionable when a 27 year old man gets into a relationship with a teenager. Add to it that the 27 year old man was a TA (you didn't mention if he was the TA for any of your classes, or if he just worked at your college), which means he has influence over grading.…

Yeah, profs fucking/dating graduate students has been a waaaaaaaaay bigger thing at every campus I've ever worked at. Narrowly dodged that bullet myself...before I'd come to this city and heard the internal gossip, I almost chose a supervisor with a reputation for dating and marrying his grads. Not that I would've…

There are tons of rules and laws in everyday life that dictates how consenting adults behave. At many workplaces, it's against conduct to engage in sexual relations with another employee, as one example.

Straight up, it's just a bad idea to fuck students if you're a teacher of any stripe. Even if they're not your student now, they might be at some point before they graduate. Even if you only teach seniors and only fuck freshmen, those freshmen might eventually grow up to be a senior in one of your classes. Majors…

First of all, I had no idea that there were so many Jezzies from Santa Rosa. I love this.

I've kissed Dustin Hoffman.

I have several celebrity encounters, but this one stands out. About 25 years ago I was at a "Mommie and Me" sort of thing with my daughter who was about 2 at the time when in walked Diana Ross with her son, husband and a nanny. I got to play ring-around-the-rosy and old her hand!

OJ hit on me once! It was really weird. He wanted to go see the movie "Atonement." I thought it was so ironic. He could use some of that, I thought to myself...

I spent an incredibly surreal Father's Day dinner seated with my parents at a table next to OJ Simpson, his older daughter, the two kids he had with Nicole Brown, his mother, and some girlfriend that was probably younger than his oldest daughter.