I'm extremely lucky to have a very supportive and safe department now, but I've worked in places where I felt unsafe. Past places I've done
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research have been not only feigning ignorance of such abusers but actively promoting their work like in the article. It's devastating to
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watch undergrad, postgrad and PhD students be victimised by powerful men — I even know of one case where it's been a woman too.
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Power structure in academia allows their abuses to be ignored for two main reasons, they never direct their abuse towards current peers and
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people below them are terrified, gaslit, condescendingly ignored, given bad advice, powerless, and stressed already with PhD obligations.
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Their peers don't see them as abusers often because their persona with their peers isn't abusive. The peers who do notice Prof so and so is
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abusive don't usually work at the same university so are less able to lodge complaint or do but are ignored by the more powerful ingroup who
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primarily want to maintain status quo, not bring shame on department (the irony), etc.
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I wish I could report the people I know sexually harass students, but it's pointless. Their ingroup knows this, so the only info I'll be
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Print some anonymous leaflets and post them around the places? Pamphleteers used this method!
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I don't work there any more.
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