Huh, I see the professional Twitter left discourse of the day is...huh. “College professors making sexual advances on their 10+ year younger students is good, actually”. Didn’t see that one coming.
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Replying to @CalliopeAnim
Is this still about that whole thing Judith Butler is connected to?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @CalliopeAnim
Nope. Holyoak mayor guest lecturer at UMass Amherst.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @CalliopeAnim
I think poly sci, his name is Alex Morse.
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There's a bunch of stories about him from undergrads that finally led the Amherst College Dems to withdraw their endorsement, which provoked this outcry about how this is neoliberal sabotage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hyperdriveprof and
One wrinkle to this story is that he's gay (one of the youngest mayors in the country when elected 9 years ago and one of the first openly gay ones) and these are male undergrads, which has led his defenders to accuse his critics of homophobia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hyperdriveprof and
yeah - that's an angle I don't really have a response ready for, but I'm pretty sure dating 19-year-old girls wouldn't go over particularly well.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @hyperdriveprof and
My response would be that the smearing of powerful gay men as inherently predators goes hand in hand with dismissing vulnerable gay men as disposable Sexual abuse within the gay community gets treated by the straight majority as this smirking joke, not a serious crime
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"Oh, that's normal for those people, they don't mind it, it's not like when something bad happens to one of us" It's a narrative used against all kinds of minorities In this case it's how abusers like Kevin Spacey got away with it so long
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