Female Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment, #MeToo's Response is The Definition of Hypocrisy
Apparently sexual harassment is an activity that can only be perpetrated against women by men and is impossible to be flipped around the other way. At least that’s the message being broadcast loud and clear by the feminist response to a man who claims a female professor — and feminist — sexually harassed him.
After the accusation was made public, feminists and #MeToo supporters around the country flocked to their sister-in-arms to throw their full support behind her, refusing to toss her under the bus the same way they did countless men before an investigation was made.
Oh the hypocrisy.
Case in point: after a famous NYU female professor, a Trump-hater who is a feminist literary theorist, was accused of sexually harassing a male former graduate student, a group of professors, including well-known feminists, leaped to her defense despite the fact that they admitted they had no knowledge about the findings of the Title IX proceedings against her.
After an 11-month Title IX investigation, Avital Ronell, 66, professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing Nimrod Reitman, 34, a male former graduate student and currently a visiting fellow at Harvard. As The New York Times reports, a colleague termed Ronell, “one of the very few philosopher-stars of this world,” but the investigation concluded she was “responsible for sexual harassment, both physical and verbal, to the extent that her behavior was ‘sufficiently pervasive to alter the terms and conditions of Mr. Reitman’s learning environment.’” Ronell has been suspended for 2018-2019; the Title IX report concluded she could not additionally be responsible for sexual assault, in part because there were no witnesses to the reported actions she had taken.
Reitman, who is gay, had charged that the alleged sexual harassment for three years from Ronell, who is a lesbian, had included her referring to him in emails as “my most adored one,” “Sweet cuddly Baby,” “cock-er spaniel,” and “my astounding and beautiful Nimrod.”
Here’s the real kicker. This lady invited this man to stay with her in Paris for a few days, and that’s when things get really, really weird.
The day he arrived, she asked him to read poetry to her in her bedroom while she took an afternoon nap, he said. “That was already a red flag to me,” said Mr. Reitman. “But I also thought, O.K., you’re here. Better not make a scene.” Then, he said, she pulled him into her bed. “She put my hands onto her breasts, and was pressing herself — her buttocks — onto my crotch,” he said. “She was kissing me, kissing my hands, kissing my torso.” That evening, a similar scene played out again, he said.
Now fifty professors from all around the globe have sent a letter defending the actions of Ronell, calling Reitman’s motivations malicious for speaking out and making these accusations.
Think about that for just a moment. Imagine if a man called a woman who made an accusation like this against someone “malicious.” That man’s life would officially be over. Done. Toasted lightly on both sides.
Here’s a snippet of the letter:
We write as long-term colleagues of Professor Avital Ronell who has been under investigation by the Title IX offices at New York University. Although we have no access to the confidential dossier, we have all worked for many years in close proximity to Professor Ronell and accumulated collectively years of experience to support our view of her capacity as teacher and a scholar, but also as someone who has served as Chair of both the Departments of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. We have all seen her relationship with students, and some of us know the individual who has waged this malicious campaign against her. We wish to communicate first in the clearest terms our profound an enduring admiration for Professor Ronell whose mentorship of students has been no less than remarkable over many years. We deplore the damage that this legal proceeding causes her, and seek to register in clear terms our objection to any judgment against her. We hold that the allegations against her do not constitute actual evidence, but rather support the view that malicious intention has animated and sustained this legal nightmare.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. First hand proof that all is permissible when you hold to the right ideology. One need not practice their beliefs and live according to the tenets of their faith. Just claim the right policy positions and you are free to do as you please, released from the fear of the public square and all negative consequences.
This is the sort of thing that gives legitimacy to the claim that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Source: Daily Wire
