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No, there isn't more to it than that. One party has power over the other. They don't get to entertain intimacy, whether or not they initiate. The article mix

No, there isn't more to it than that. One party has power over the other. They don't get to entertain intimacy, whether or not they initiate. The article mixes takes and facts and is entirely suspect. It's excusing behavior to vilify a perceived opposing tribe. Know what matters at the end of the day? Any modicum of accountability in a system with no oversight. Even if this one story is true, there are thousands more where the abused students do not spend their life grinding their axe. They just pick up the pieces and move on. Or kill themselves and/or their professor. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-20160601-snap-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-2... https://badgerherald.com/news/2021/04/27/toxic-tenured-professor-to-resign-from-uw-following-two-conduct-investigations/ https://badgerherald.com/news/2021/04/27/toxic-tenured-profe...

zozbot234 5y ago
> One party has power over the other. They don't get to entertain intimacy, whether or not they initiate. Parent post was not denying that. There are indeed long-standing norms in non-corrupt societies that require avoiding even the mere appearance of impropriety whenever unequal power relationships may be involved. But this just goes to prove that neither side should be seriously entertaining intimacy, and that keeping "lists" of people you want to improperly fraternize with would be especially problematic behavior.
Aurelius3 5y ago
Power imbalances are a fact of life, where do you draw this arbitrary line of people being equal enough in power to interact certain ways? It's not obvious and seems nebulous to me. Furthermore, consider the possibility that many of these situations benefit and/or are consciously intended by both parties specifically because of the "power imbalance", like the parent poster described with undergrads trying to get in with higher level faculty, while the higher level faculty reciprocate for their own reasons.

zozbot234 5y ago

> One party has power over the other. They don't get to entertain intimacy, whether or not they initiate. Parent post was not denying that. There are indeed long-standing norms in non-corrupt societies that require avoiding even the mere appearance of impropriety whenever unequal power relationships may be involved. But this just goes to prove that neither side should be seriously entertaining intimacy, and that keeping "lists" of people you want to improperly fraternize with would be especially problematic behavior.

Aurelius3 5y ago

Power imbalances are a fact of life, where do you draw this arbitrary line of people being equal enough in power to interact certain ways? It's not obvious and seems nebulous to me. Furthermore, consider the possibility that many of these situations benefit and/or are consciously intended by both parties specifically because of the "power imbalance", like the parent poster described with undergrads trying to get in with higher level faculty, while the higher level faculty reciprocate for their own reasons.