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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I mean this is just like the situation with Judith Butler's friend. She was a woman and it was a young guy, so it was Woman Power and thus okay. The entire idea of giving out "passes" on this invalidates the concept of stopping abuse that isn't male against female cishet
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I mean, if this was mainly a question of whether he should be fired, and he never slept with anyone underage or currently being advised or in his class, I'd say just sternly talk to him.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
That was the official policy for me as a professor (I didn't have to worry since I was in a relationship and I could just date people from a few towns over if I wasn't): don't sleep with YOUR students, but please, don't sleep with any students.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
But frankly the whole thing has a very Mr. Jefferson quality to it, by which I mean from the College Dems statement he was building popularity on social media based on his status as a professor, and then crossing personal boundaries
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They have dismissed him as a guest lecturer and it's because of him specifically looking for hookups when coming to speak at College Democrat events
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Yeah see like... that's damning. That's using institutional power I mean damn, *conference hookups* are questionable, how could you think this was ok? And yeah, if he was doing it to girls he'd probably get away with it LONGER. Which is unfair.
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Yes and no, I think that depends heavily on the situation
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I just mean it's pretty normal for male politicians to sleep with women who work for them, I sort of internalized that based on how I and most kids my age learned what a blowjob was and what can cause stains on a dress if you catch my meaning
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...As we learned from Lin Manuel Miranda's authoritative work of historical scholarship, it's the kind of thing that's normal all the way up until the day when it's not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Yeah, though it didn't go well for Alex, either! I think the other big shift recently is *why* it's treated as wrong.
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