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just_hsut_me

Horny Old Professor

Mar 23, 2010 14:15

The author is called Tony Judt, a professor of history in his 60s who came of age in the sixties, and the name of the piece, Girls! Girls! Girls! It details his sexual adventures and experiences before and on faculty, particularly about escaping being castrated from every different kind of woman there is out there, e.g., administrators, feminists ( Read more... )

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just_hsut_me March 26 2010, 01:31:21 UTC

Oh heavens, the article is fine--the world is ending, women are so oversensitive, blah blah blah, of course--but the COMMENTS? "A confident and sophisticated woman should weather it, but many female students are intimidated [when senior faculty members pull them into a CLOSET to declare their 'love']." I do love Mr. Judt's TOTAL sense of individual exceptionalism/exceptionalism of those cases he personally knows. Sure, these sorts of situations COULD have bad consequences, but not when you're a totally sensitive gentleman AND such a hot catch that the department has to post the sexual harrassment notice on your office door. Because no one elegant Mr. Judt knows could POSSIBLY be the sort of guy (which, in my experience, is EVERY academic guy who has a semi-casual sexual relationship with a female colleague) who inevitably winds up talking about how their former flame isn't very intelligent or talented or is "totally stupid." Not to mention that, again, in my experience, "sexual harrassment" goes way beyond actual attempts at ( ... )