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I read through that, and once you get through that mystical artsy fartsy spin, there’s two key points. One is that she’s the one in charge, and particularly as a woman in a patriarchal society, she should have the leeway to demand the people working with her work to her specifications. That’s very valid and

These two statements would seem to slightly contradict themselves.

If it bothers you so much, don’t watch his shit. 

You know whats weird? I’m a pretty plugged-in guy, I'm on serveral different social medias, including YouTube, I'm on Reddit all the time, I follow some news outlets... and I never hear about this guy apart from articles on here talking about how absolutely everyone knows him and how he’s the apparent evil heir to all

Yay, I found a sane person!

I’m honestly as tired as the “John McCain was a terrible terrible person who no one should say nice things about” pieces as the “John McCain was last of a rare and noble breed of American statesmen” pieces. Dude died just yesterday, and in my universe, it’s still poor manners to interrupt other people’s mourning with

The cousin who was telling them to fuck off with their political grandstanding supposedly is receiving death threats already :-/

The worst part of this aftermath is that eventually the Tibbetts family will be vilified by the racist right for not playing into their game. I’ve no doubt that the family will be made to suffer twice over.

There wasn’t anything women-blamey about using a specific example to poke holes in a blanket statement. I was pointing out the behavior of people I know. If we women can’t handle that, then something is wrong.

Dear god, I called the women IN MY OFFICE catty, etc. Because they are. How do you not understand that I did not call all women that?

Exactly. Anyone can be shitty, which is why I hate it when people say that women should be in charge of everything. What is so hard to understand about being wary of absolutes?

I’m being sexist because I reported how things are at my workplace? ROTFL. FFS, no one expected thm to be that way bc of their gender. They are that way bc they choose to be that way.

In my workplace, the women are the most horrible catty two-faced gossips, so, not convinced that one gender is more likely to be good if the power were balanced between the two. (I am a woman).

Honestly Rose is an unstable presence as well. The movement simply needs better advocates than these two.

She was incredibly stupid to think this wouldn’t come out. Even if the accusations were blackmail she should have known MeToo detractors would find it.

I found it a bit eerie that you could just search-and-replace the names in this article with those of any of the recent powerful-man-harasses-woman-at-work stories and have it be pretty much identical, right down to the “but he/she is really good at their job!” defenses.  Yay equality?  Also:  yuck.

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

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

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.