Dude, I totally get that.

Key Democrats are sympathetic to the furor from their left flank but aware something needs to pass Congress that can win Trump’s signature.

God damn right. You know what America actually needs? People willing to bust their ass. America is a place where people come to make a better life, and shockingly, if you already live in a country with a better life, you’re probably not particularly interested in coming to America!

I love how the discussion is so shallow on the right when they say, “Yeah, those are shitholes.” There’s no follow up on how those countries got so poor (hint: mostly because of the U.S. and European countries).

The autism spectrum and academia go hand in hand, too. Not every professor is on the spectrum - frankly I’m stunned when I go to a conference and see the alpha male strutters and social butterflies, because I tend to think of all academics through my own socially awkward lens - but there’s a lot of overlap. To a point…

It’s usually not that they are socially incapable or inept. It’s more that they’ve been socialized within academia to see what would normally be considered asshole behavior as a form of power display.

I think of it as the Dr House effect...for men (and maybe some women) being a dick can somehow make you more credible. Like you’re some sort of savant and can’t bother with the brain space to have normal social interactions and so must be that much more of a genius in your field. I see it in directors of even shitty…

I have noticed that too. The people who are saying it isn’t that bad always focus on straight, white man doing something to a straight, white woman.

I really do find that idea of theirs that demanding not to get sexually harassed or worse as “self-imposed victimhood” of a negative context intolerable.

Show me a smart, competent young professional woman who is utterly derailed by a verbal unwanted sexual advance or an inappropriate comment about her appearance, and I will show you a rare spotted owl.

“He leaned in and put his hand on my thigh, up between my legs, up my skirt, and said, ‘I didn’t listen to a damn word you said because I was too busy imagining what was under your dress.’ ”

I can’t agree with this statement : “Show me a smart, competent young professional woman who is utterly derailed by a verbal unwanted sexual advance or an inappropriate comment about her appearance, and I will show you a rare spotted owl.”

“The majority of women in the workplace are not tender creatures and are largely adept at dealing with all varieties of uncomfortable or hostile situations,” Roiphe wrote in the New York Timesin 2011. “Show me a smart, competent young professional woman who is utterly derailed by a verbal unwanted sexual advance or…

I was demeaned by an academic in my field, and I don’t even work in academia. “You sound awfully young... Are you a secretary or something? Can I speak to your boss?” Uh, okay asshole, I’m 34, and I am the boss.

The smartest thing I ever did as a PhD candidate was not report my harasser. It made me literally physically sick at the time. But in the end, I was right. Which is the best thing you can be if you’re an academic. Reporting him wouldn’t have hurt him. He’d been reported before. In fact, I think for him part of the…

One of my coworkers came from a staff role at a university and she said once she left the job it took her a while to realize that being screamed at every day at work wasn’t normal.

There’s all the use in the world. If a woman in academia is given the option to name names, she’ll usually stay silent. Our jobs are so precarious—even getting one is a tremendous long shot, and tenure is even harder—that many women would prefer to keep silent about their abuse rather than risk the career they’ve…

I worked at my University’s library. The professor patrons were the rudest people I’ve ever served (and I work for a Wall St. finance co. now). One guy spit at a coworker of mine.

Well, give it a couple more years and men just won’t be going to college anymore at the current rate of decline. Maybe that will lower the rate of sexual harassment, because colleges sure don’t give a damn about any of their students.

As a recent recipient of a PhD: ugh.