I love the end of the livestream I saw where the cops pull his mask off in front of everyone and then basically parade him in front of the people he was antagonizing. The kid looks TERRIFIED and it is sooooo very satisfying.

Of course he is.

So this asshole is studying for a career in Law Enforcement?

He wrote about a bridge and Frank Sinatra I think. Riveting stuff.

Okay a couple of things:

This might infuriate me - IF Gay Talese was relevant.

Hi, my name’s Jonathan Franzen and I really don’t see what the uproar is all about.

Wait, someone who is a famous proponent of replacing journalism with narcissistic navel-gazing is a shitty sexist? Gosh I for one am shocked.

Who?

Another man who thinks his male-ness makes him special. Rather pathetic, really.

Thats my point. A university has to be shamed into investigating a male professor who abuses students whereas a female prof with nude photos in her past is usually fired immediately.

thanks for writing this, i appreciate the time and thought you put into this post

This is a really well written, clear, thoughtful piece that put into words many feelings I couldn’t quite articulate about this kind of accusation.

I’m 100% on board with you here. Yes, it’s appropriate to question the validity of these anonymous accusations, but I think the larger problem is that men are still doing this and women have no system in place (save telling one another about it in secret) to effectively report it. I think these kinds of anonymous…

Look how we agonize when a man has been accused of wrongdoing but if a female teacher posed for a nude photo in her past? Instant dismissal.

Because, the idea that the literary world is so narrow that a man like that holds the key? These men do not have as much power as we think they do. When you believe that they have power over you, you are reinforcing whatever power they do have. There’s no one gatekeeper. The gates are open.”

Different disciplines but the same idea. I currently teach as an adjunct film instructor and articles like this should be required reading for my fellow dude faculty. I witnessed this same phenomenon in my own MFA program. Some of my fellow graduate assistant guys could be incredibly mean, condescending, and sexually…

Jez section is! We’ve got a lot of smart and savvy (not to mention hilarious) folks here who I have personally learned a lot from.

Sadly, that’s not nearly the case. I’ve seen so many insufferable, thoroughly mediocre male writers get break after break after break. All the while acting like total assholes. It’s not the quality of the writing that determines how much of an asshole you can be and still be successful in the literary community, it’s…

This is great, and its infuriating and depressing that women are discussing how to tell their stories rather then men discussing how to not fucking do this.