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In Unprecedented Move, U. Of Washington Fired a Professor for Sexual Harassment
- chmaynard 8y agoChickens are coming home to roost, finally. This is probably just the beginning. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861184 "Predatory male scientists abound in such numbers that it would be a Sisyphean task to devote a series of essays to describing their abuses in painful detail; even as this article was heading off to press, pop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. In addition to cataloguing the trespasses of individual scientists who abuse the cultural power of their position, we have to dismantle the structures that have allowed their abuses to continue with little to no disruption. Just for starters, this means abandoning the myth that the science can be separated from the scientist."
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- AstralStorm 8y agoUgh, that article is a truly pointless opinion piece.
- RodericDay 8y agoI love how so many nerdy dudes instinctively side with whomever is accused of sexual harassment, or using slurs. I suppose it's the outcome of years and years of "playing devil's advocate" in an attempt to appear more interesting than you are, turning into an actual entire personality.
- williamstein 8y agoHere's the (ex) professor introducing himself in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4XtmccsDo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4XtmccsDo0
- RickJWagner 8y agoI'm glad to see the invisible force field that protects tenured professors is breached. I've known at least one that should have been fired, but wasn't. It's good to see they're not 'above the law'.