How the fuck is Adam Carolla still on TV? Oh, as a guest on HannityâŚ
Follow up.
You can always tell a Harvard man.
Iâm pretty fucking angry that both Lepore AND Gates signed that shit.
Farmer and Kincaid too! Wtf?
Right?
Itâs a small club, and you ainât in it⌠even in a supposed meritocracy like academiaâŚ
âWatch Out Phillyâ warns people about harassers around the city
With over 80% of women across the U.S. experiencing sexual harassment, an Instagram account that share info about experiences in Philadelphia has grown to 23k followers.
- Watch Out Philly allows people to anonymously share details on harassment theyâve faced in public, One of its unique features is using crowdsourced pics or videos to directly identify or call out perpetrators.
The accountâs creator envisions it as a âone stop shopâ for people to get information about potential suspects in specific areas of the city, BP intern Bibiana Correa reports.
Where weâre at on the ERA:
It looks like Snoop really is a dog.
Fucking Hell
Meanwhile, in Cambodia:
This could go under âFuck Today,â but I think this is a nice conversation-starter about sexual harassment in the workplace, especially in academe.
For those who donât hang on every little thing happening in academe, a Harvard professor is accused of sexual harassment, and for whatever reason 38 professors [some of whom are extremely well-known in their fields, even by Harvard standards] chose to post a public letter defending him. They then retracted their letter, but havenât apologized for being part of the gaslighting of the abused students.
Prof. Potter, a historian (go team!), lays out the real problemâa constant unending coverup by faculty in general of the sexual harassers among us.
When I was young and naive I tried to get a âno fucking your studentsâ policy put into my universityâs Faculty Handbook. I worked the Faculty Senate behind the scenes to ensure the votes to get it passed, only to have one guy on the Senate (notorious for fucking his students) stand up and go on about the slippery slope of âacademic freedomâ and if it was âno fucking your studentsâ now, what would be next. When he started talking I laughed, thinking ânot a chance.â Then I started watching the faces of the men and women around the room, as they began to waver. Sure enough, the vote failed. He came up to me afterwards to offer some bullshitty words of âwell, nothing personal.â I told him it was personal and that if he got within 50 feet again for the rest of my career that Iâd make damn sure that I would go dig up any woman he had ever talked to, had as a student, or even seen from a distance, and encourage her to report even the slightest whiff of sexual harassment from him. We never spoke again.
Prof. Potter lays the problem out really well, and her Q&A at the end with her students is especially depressing for the one question [âBut what about innocent flirtingâ] that shows how entrenched the problem is.
The idea that the workplace is an environment supposed to serve as a source of potential partners (or prey for predators) is one I wish would die in a fire. Folks caught violating company policies against it tend to excuse their behavior in disturbing ways. Too bad some organizations canât (or wonât) just purge those too opportunistic or lazy to separate work from personal relationships. Itâs a slippery slope from there to a toxic work environment for everyone.
Iâm not saying people canât meet on the job. If they really want to date that means following workplace rules. Iâve seen married couples (in different departments), affairs, and divorces (civil and ugly) among my co-workers. The best was a departmental relationship that began when there was no transfer possible, so they decided which one would resign. Theyâre still together over 20 years later.
Yep, sometimes it works. Mostly not, in my experience. Iâve seen a prominent male faculty person who slept with his grad students, and so the department hired his same-discipline-and-more-âfamousâ wife away from another university, hoping to force some oversight. Not only was that cowardice on the universityâs part, but it turned out that she did slept with her students, too. Utter chaos.
a) Only Harlan F Stone sat on both courts.
b) âThe Court held unanimously that the Act violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because white-collar crimes, such as embezzlement, were excluded from the Actâs jurisdiction.â
