And when you don’t get what you want, you call the person a racist and start a national campaign to pressure them into doing what you want which has no basis in actual reality? That seems clearly to be a case of not about “goals” but about getting one’s way.

I think people are being taught that their fear is more important to their identity than their accomplishments and goals. Yes.

would you send them to school that following day?

However, some professors are great academics but perhaps have a bit of Asperger’s or autism. They shouldn’t be raked over the coals for responding to a student without the kind of warmth the student would like.

By placing credence into fear and sustaining an atmosphere that expects violence one does not overcome violence and bigotry. It is immature and unrealistic for students to believe so completely that threats and safety concerns are their purveyance and only their place to judge.

He may be a bad person but he’s also an object in lesson in why professors need to wise up about interacting online with their students. I teach college classes and I do not engage in any but the most mundane e-mail interactions with students. That’s just a cover your ass sort of thing. Don’t create a written record…

If the school isn’t closed, why would he close his class? If you shut something down every time there is a baseless threat, you let the assholes win

There is literally evidence that proves it was unlikely and no evidence exists suggesting that he did it. Zero evidence. Zero.

Alright fine, you man-hating shriveled old schoolmarm...

Rest assured, the Jezebel hive will never run out of things by which to be offended.

Come on, your feminist is showing, Not only is it impossible to try and find something sexually related that either sex hasn’t fantasized about, But the “male gaze” aspect isn’t fantasy, it’s truth. How many lesbians do you know got turned on by that ?

Yeah, but...duh? He’s a relic from another time. This is like finding out ancient peoples believed in multiple gods.

That’s a surprisingly backwards, sexist attitude for someone who came up with a character named Pussy Galore.

Before we jump down Ian Flemming’s throat, can we try to remember that this was the era where Alan Turring was given the option of chemical castration or prison for his gayness.

Wait, so you’re telling me that a man that named a female character PUSSY GALORE was a reactionary, lesbophobic misogynist?

Yeah, it’s shocking that an old guy writing over 50 years ago would not get how this stuff works. Totally weird and shocking. Why didn’t he have the enlightened attitudes of people living decades after his death? I guess it’s a mystery we’ll never solve.

I believe it.

Sean Connery was so smooth, he could make a lesbian turn straight.

Because no murder or rapist has ever claimed to be innocent, right? FFS there are plenty of trans women convicted of non-violent crimes who are likely treated poorly. Why defend this one?