Male Feminist Prof Defers Award Due to Allegations of Misconduct
“has spent the better part of the last three decades becoming famous for telling other men how to be better”
The left almost always comes for their own eventually.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
More Than Rumors
Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said last week that he’s deferring his acceptance of a major sociology award for six months, over what he called “rumors” about his professional conduct. And while Kimmel’s terminology was criticized as dismissive of his accusers, the harassment allegations against him circulating online and off were then anonymous.
But on Thursday one of Kimmel’s former Stony Brook graduate students put their (the student’s preferred pronoun) name behind a detailed account of what they called his explicit sexual talk, homophobia, transphobia and general “lack of respect” for anyone but cisgender heterosexual men. In an essay published in Medium, Bethany M. Coston, now an assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, said now was the time to share their experiences.
To Coston, now means three years removed from working with Kimmel and the fear of professional consequences that could come with speaking out against him. It means showing solidarity with his accusers, distaste for his response thus far and sending a message to the American Sociological Association. The association was to give Kimmel a career award for promoting the study of women in sociology at its annual gathering this weekend in Philadelphia. But Kimmel said last week that he’d asked ASA to wait six months, to look into any claims against him first.
Timing aside, Coston said that “what makes this case particularly toxic is that Michael has spent the better part of the last three decades becoming famous for telling other men how to be better, including contributing to field-specific knowledge on intimate partner violence and community-wide conversations on #MeToo outside of and even in the workplace.”
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said now was the time to share their experiences.
“The time” often means after tenure.
If the tenure system was eliminated, I suspect that much of the ultra crazy crap would stop.
Possibly but tenure also allows conservatives to speak freely amidst a hostile environment.
I don’t think getting rid of tenure is a cure-all for bad behavior, and it does have some perks. I say this is as someone who is ineligible for tenure.
To add to that, tenure keeps the socialist justice movements (spelled as intended) from taking over. Why do you think those groups are pushing for “acid tests” for political persuasion in both hiring decisions and admission requirements? They are so squirmy when someone infiltrates their cult and dares not to sing the anthem and recite the mantra.
If she’s only three years removed from being a graduate student, she doesn’t have tenure. The process generally takes seven years, along with a buttload of research and publishing. I agree that tenure is an outdated and arcane system, but she hasn’t had time to become tenured. He has.