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.

Academics are often really socially incapable. It’s like a badge of honor. I work in research administration and most of my professors are perfectly ok but the ones who are off...would be unemployable anywhere else. Why this shit is accepted as some kind of mark of intelligence, I don’t know.

Yeah, “It didn’t cause me to literally curl up into a ball and die” is a shitty bar for her to set. Wrong behavior is wrong, not (just) because it can potentially derail someone’s career.

Whose life was derailed by a murky and anonymous accusation? I know I probably shouldn’t respond to your ass but I really wanna know.

You’re right, but you’ll get a bunch of male nonsense in the grays. Women are just beginning to process the collective grief we’ve suffered, yet these so-called male “allies” think our top concern should be protecting their feelings. Where were these allies when all this abuse was happening? *crickets* And now they…

And let’s not leave out all the enabling dinguses who are constantly fawning over these guys and boosting their comments.

But it does though. Have you not been paying attention? Hell, did you not read the article you just commented on? Women are just beginning to grasp the level at which we’ve been systematically been abused, excluded and denied career opportunities due to our gender. The last thing we need are a bunch of male hot takes,…

This has been a continuous conversation for several months now. You can jump to defense if you want, but you have no context for the conversation so you’re adding nothing. Also, jujy is an attention whore who just always has to be there to flaunt his allies cred. On a site explicitly created for women, that’s annoying…

I think that, in the larger sense of the world, gender does dictate what people can do and where, and so when women carve out a little slice of the internet it would be nice if men didn’t take up quite so much space on it.

You seem nice!

It’s not unusual for the top four or five comments to be from this tiresome pack of dudes who seem to think their banal opinions are absolutely indispensable.

From you:

I think outing herself was Donegan’s way of regaining control. Imagining what drove her to create that list in the first place, I doubt there’s nothing left else that she’s afraid of.

Fucking Katie Roiphe. Of course it was fucking Katie Roiphe.

And obvs manipulating you into being present when he pops out of the shower naked begging you to massage him is gentlemanly courtship!!

That’s what sexually aggressive men needed: Women defending them.

Anyone else noticing the trend that the women who are coming out to cry about how wrong #MeToo and other campaigns are all tend to be of a certain older age and higher social class?

Yes, wokeness is of black origin and speaks to an awareness of social justice and racial justice. Handing it over to white women without the slightest hint of irony is peak Jezebel.

I’m side-eying the title of “wokest Globes in history” for a ceremony that almost completely excluded winners of color. Side-eying it hard.

“James Franco got too much time for my taste” is a fantastic way to describe that man in general, let alone his career.