Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/28/the-short-skirt-that-you-chose-to-wear-encourages-fantasy-75-year-old-professors-sick-email-to-honors-presentation-student.html
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This should have been an email he wrote, so he could get the fantasy out of his own head, and then immediately deleted because he realized that it was wildly inappropriate.
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Professor: Your clothing could have distracted your audience by causing them to indulge in lustful fantasies instead of paying attention to your material.
Presenter: What? Who?
Professor: Well, me, for one.
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Are we still talking skirts or D&D cosplay?
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Where burkas come from.
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We could concentrate on the fact she was wearing a skirt AND shorts AND tights and even that was not enough, but really, what matters is that there is history to show he has consistently paid more attention to the attire of women whom he is supposed to be mentoring than their work. And his department knows this, and does nothing.
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This prof would probably find certain fabric choices for burkas as being erotic. Somehow.
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Is there a specific length of skirt where male objectification suddenly stops?
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It’s time for Professor Creepazoid to take a permanent sabbatical.
He’s in his late 70s? He will… sooner rather than later… he will…
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Not nearly soon enough. How many students will he traumatize in the meantime? Someone needs to step up for the women this guy is victimizing and objectifying, even though I am certain he does not see it that way. “Boys will be boys” needs to end.
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It’s rather amazing and unfathomable that this clueless perv didn’t blurt out something objectively awful, the fucking dipshit took the time to compose an EMAIL and still didn’t reconsider it.
JFC.
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Plenty of people are. Something will be done, and then the next incident will come along to rile us up. And to that:
“Boys will be boys” needs to end.
I am extremely pessimistic. I’m a child of the '70s. Ms. magazine, ERA marches, Mary Tyler Moore and Maude, bras burning, radical feminism, Our Bodies, Ourselves, Free to Be You and Me, unisex toys and clothes (“pink and blue” were anathema). Sexism was a critically endangered species, honest — until it wasn’t anymore. It may finally die someday, through a process of two steps forward and one step back, but I don’t believe any of us will live to see it. Too many people are getting dumber and more brazen. Just gotta hope for the best and expect the worst and keep fighting.
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The best option is to have the skirt be a cylinder that doesn’t actually touch your body and goes from about 6" above your head all the way down to the floor. /s
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Citation fucking required, comrade.
This kind of casually misogynistic behavior has been going on unchecked since time out of mind.
That some perpetrators and predators are now sometimes held to some accountability IF there is enough negative attention is but a mere a drop in not a bucket, but in the goddamn ocean.
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It’s never “needed.”
If a woman (or any guy for that matter) shows up to work dressed only in an oversized belt as a skirt, it’s already obvious that’s not appropriate work attire, and the person should be taken aside and given a choice to change or leave the premises.
Measuring people’s clothes should only happen if one is a clothes maker.
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You’re right - I used the wrong term. It was “needed to be handled”, not needed to be measured. I wrote it badly. It was an HR issue, not a yardstick issue. I edited but left my original there.
Sorry, my head and hands are not on the best of terms at the moment.
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Agreed.
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