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Mrs. FingerbottomAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:00am
with one unnamed person calling her situation a “soap opera” and “accusing her of flirting with her harasser.”

Yep, this is pretty much my exact experience with reporting sexual harrassment in academia.
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  Flamingo83Mrs. Fingerbottom
  3/24/16 10:13am
  Especially since to some creeps ANY communication is “flirting”.
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  PrettyPrettyBunniPrincessMrs. Fingerbottom
  3/24/16 10:15am
  I love how if a woman’s first instinct is to try to diffuse the situation (as it is for most women) that becomes ‘encouraging it’ aka flirting.
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JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:07am
He sought an intimate relationship with Ms. Ravina, insisting that she meet him off-campus, touching her inappropriately, demanding that she compliment him, describing her as “sexy,” and indicating that he was “horny.”

Apparently this guy’s emotional development came to an abrupt end at 12 years old?
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  m-o-o-nthatspellsmoonJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
  3/24/16 11:19am
  Sad thing is that I had lots of male friends when I was 12 yrs old and younger, and never once did any of them ever act even remotely this disgusting. Fuck men who think this is just "boys being boys". Lots and lots of "boys" never ever ever act like that.
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  Hoyo AfrikaJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
  3/24/16 11:21am
  Also, Glen Hubbard is a total asshole. He was interviewed for The Inside Job and he comes off as a cold dickwadd.
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PoodletimeAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:11am
I do not know anything about the facts here. All I can say so far is that this sounds plausible, and that if you look at this guy’s photograph, he has the face of a sexual harasser and general douchecanoe.

Also, all business schools should be shut down, and folks who actually run actual businesses should be brought in to teach short courses in stuff they know about to college students, and other folks who need a further education should apprentice themselves to someone who actually runs an actual business. End of rant!
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  AceVenturaPetDetectivePoodletime
  3/24/16 10:14am
  it seems like he didn’t even try with his defense??
  
  “because I did a good thing and helped out, well, she’s saying I harassed her and decided to risk her entire academic reputation for no reason. Yep. This is why I don’t volunteer! Who knows what would happen then.”
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  Hank ScorpioPoodletime
  3/24/16 10:22am
  Columbia doesn’t have an undergraduate business major. The business school is only there to teach MBA and business PhD students, and they famously don’t accept anyone who hasn’t already been out in “the real world” for several years.
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bella bachelorAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:12am
She is never getting tenure now, effectively ending her academic career either way - which to academics is some life or death shit. It’s a big deal for her to file this lawsuit.
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  Rando Calrissianbella bachelor
  3/24/16 11:36am
  I know. I had a lawsuit case at my doctorate granting institution and people I trusted advised me not to sue because it would destroy my credibility and it would destroy the credentials of the other students. It IS life or death shit after you choose to live in poverty for 7 years plus. If you walk away, how can any of that have been worth it?
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  bella bachelorRando Calrissian
  3/24/16 12:55pm
  I’m probably not going to tell you anything you don’t already know (academia is like a cult), but browsing job postings was the best baby step I took towards leaving. We’re qualified for A LOT, and there isn’t any “hey you obviously love it enough to work for less, right?” bullshit. And at least with corporations you can expect shitty behavior from coworkers and bosses...it’s a slap in the face when academia pretends like exploitation is impossible (everyone’s so educated and progressive!). You haven’t wasted 7 years for nothing. I guarantee, degree or no degree, you’ve accomplished so much both as a person and professionally.
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TheVageniusAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:12am
Capitalist America - where absolutely no social progress happens until you sue enough times.
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HaHaYouFoolAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:27am
Me, sitting at my desk right now.

GIF

Fuck this shit, man.
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mazzieDAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:13am
It’s going to be really telling when a gaggle of former female students and colleagues come forward with the same experience.
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Vitamin VAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:11am
For crissake. This is business school, where I have to imagine the esteemed professors are aware of gender issues, discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace. How on earth could they dismiss her allegations? And I love his statement: The allegations are completely false. She made them up, ‘cause she’s got nothing better to do? That’s the first sign of a complete liar.
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  anonprof1Vitamin V
  3/24/16 10:54am
  It is really telling that more than 20 tenured faculty came forward to complain about this case and try to intervene on behalf of Enrichetta... and there were 2 written petitions by other faculty members on her behalf... and yet nothing was done.
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  WheresCarlsJRVitamin V
  3/24/16 11:16am
  Your answer is right there in your second sentence: “This is business school.”
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RubySububiAnna Merlan
3/24/16 10:12am
This is a description of well-premeditated harassment; if he did this to her, he almost certainly did it to other women. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if several more women came forward with similar stories.
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SailorTsuki^-^Anna Merlan
3/24/16 9:59am
This is bullshit, she's trying to do her work and be a professional about it and this asshole tries to undermine all that and says he's a victim? Wtf
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  Flamingo83SailorTsuki^-^
  3/24/16 10:14am
  Because she made his penis happy and wouldn’t put out. She obviously did it on purpose wah wah wah!
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