Female sexual harassers and double standards

Santos Square Extinguisher wrote: »

When a man is found guilty of sexual harassment, women expect other men to join in unilateral condemnation of his actions.

The logic doesn't seem to work the other way, though, as seen in the case of Avital Ronell, a professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, who has been found responsible, after an internal university investigation, of systematically sexually harassing a male former PhD student, Nimrod Reitman, over a period of three years.

Reitman stated that Ronell repeatedly kissed and touched him, slept in his bed with him, asked him to lie in her bed, held his hand, constantly texted, emailed and called him, addressed him by pet names including "spaniel cock-er," and refused to work with him if he did not reciprocate. We all know what would happen if a male professor did these things to a female student.

But how did Ronell's female colleagues respond to the news? A group of them sent a letter to NYU, defending Ronell and trying to smear her accuser. The signatories include a number of top feminist professors, among them Judith Butler, author of the well-known book Gender Trouble. "“We have all seen [Ronell's] relationship with students, and some of us know the individual who has waged this malicious campaign against her,” they wrote.

There's a blatant double standard here. If women expect men to support them when they accuse powerful men of sexual harassment, they should also be willing to support male victims after a powerful woman has been found guilty. But they don't. Instead, they turn on the man and attack him, accusing him of waging a "malicious campaign."

So much for #MeToo.

New York Times story here.

Cleopatra_ wrote: »

There should just be one women bashing mega thread, one dole bashing one and one immigrant one. So then I can easily avoid them all.

B0jangles wrote: »

You have got to be the try-hardiest try-hard that ever tried Too Damn Hard..