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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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Yeah. I mean, before 2016 or so, it wouldn't have been treated as a big deal. Like Harvey Weinstein surviving for so long, and actresses sleeping with directors was treated like the actresses were doing something wrong.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl and
I'd argue this was doubly true for gay men being abused by other gay men though Like the fact that the Moral Majority wanted to burn all gay people just for being gay at all meant that people were even less inclined to parse issues of consent in those contexts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Yeah I mean this is sort of a weird test case where you "have to hand it" to thinking patterns that can lead to puritanism. I would maintain that this is consistent with my view of a more just and equitable society, but I get why it might not seem like that
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I'm not the sort of person who inherently thinks an age gap between adults, in isolation, is a reason they shouldn't be having sex or in a relationship. I think that discourse has gotten extreme. What I think gets ignored is gaps of finance and power.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Which, interestingly, sometimes run in the traditional way in LGBT circles, as is the case here, and sometimes not (I know so many trans women who dated succesful software developers who were also trans women and we're abused bc of financial leverage. Age isn't the issue there)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
But, in this case we've got a straight up (pun accidental) case that I think really would play out close enough to identically if it was a straight guy that there's no real nuance He's an older (relatively) man who used prestige to get sex with people he had power over
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It's only his defenders who are bringing up that he's gay and that the complainants are men If you didn't know who he was and you stumbled on this discourse from his critics' side you'd probably assume he's straight and they're women I think that's telling
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Yeah I searched for the issue and like the first post that popped up was like "he's being disciplined for being a normal gay man" and like, again, I'm not normally with the Let's Purge the Bad Old Ways kids but I do feel like there's some... bad internalization going on there
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Like, again, I'm not gonna pass judgment on age gaps between adults, but it IS worth noting the ways in which historically our experience as minorities shapes how and who we date, in ways that may or may not be good
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