Headline: He Makes a Joke. She Isn’t Laughing: ‘Lingerie’ Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars.
Headline: He Makes a Joke. She Isn’t Laughing: ‘Lingerie’ Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars.
1. Vicious online backlash is never ok. It's vigilantism, which is not heroic and definitely dangerous.
2. Big deal, they asked for a written apology. Hopefully one that indicated he understood why it was no longer a funny joke. Yes you should censor yourself sometimes, yes standards change. He didn't ask for the sports department, or the menswear department. It was a gendered remark whether he likes it or not and came from a gendered time.
3. Advocates can screw up. It's not a problem if you can say ok, it might take me a while to understand, but I see that it has affected you and I'm going to make the effort to understand why.
4. Resolving things privately or informally is practically code for pretending it never happened. As it happens, it was being handled privately. Until he made it public. Insight, dude. You're doing this because you want someone else to say you're right and what you did was ok. You're not and it wasn't.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/He-Makes-a-Joke-She-Isn-t/243350
https://www.chronicle.com/article/He-Makes-a-Joke-She-Isn-t/243350
1. Vicious online backlash is never ok. It's vigilantism, which is not heroic and definitely dangerous.
2. Big deal, they asked for a written apology. Hopefully one that indicated he understood why it was no longer a funny joke. Yes you should censor yourself sometimes, yes standards change. He didn't ask for the sports department, or the menswear department. It was a gendered remark whether he likes it or not and came from a gendered time.
3. Advocates can screw up. It's not a problem if you can say ok, it might take me a while to understand, but I see that it has affected you and I'm going to make the effort to understand why.
4. Resolving things privately or informally is practically code for pretending it never happened. As it happens, it was being handled privately. Until he made it public. Insight, dude. You're doing this because you want someone else to say you're right and what you did was ok. You're not and it wasn't.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/He-Makes-a-Joke-She-Isn-t/243350
https://www.chronicle.com/article/He-Makes-a-Joke-She-Isn-t/243350
The backlash against #metoo and recent code of conduct work is sadly very real.
ReplyDelete“This was totally okay in 1950!” Seems like a remarkably stupid remark even for an academic.
ReplyDeletePamela Korda As we currently have plenty of empirical evidence of in Sweden right now.
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