Women can never be adults?
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@Jolly said in Women can never be adults?:
How far are we on the downslope of Believe Every Woman?
Are you a fucking biologist?
@George-K said in Women can never be adults?:
@Jolly said in Women can never be adults?:
How far are we on the downslope of Believe Every Woman?
Are you a fucking biologist?
Well, that's what it says on the degree. And it's been a long time ago, but in college I even fucked a biologist. And her dad was a professor in the biology department.
Lots of biology goin' on here...
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I have followed that story while it unfolded.
A much more detailed account of what happened can be found here.
While I agree with the "can women never be adults" take, I think the main takeaway from this story is something else: That we now live in a world of hypermoral hypocrites, where nobody is safe from persecution by the hypermoral mob.
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I think that's one problem I have with the Garrison Keillor stuff...Thirty or forty years ago, the object of his fantasies would have told him to shove it up his ass sideways, and that probably would have been the end of it. Leacherous and flirtatious old men will always exist, and I think most ladies know how to handle them.
One thing Keillor did say in the video I posted the other day that is pure gospel...Times have changed and behavior has to change with it. I'm just not sure it's all for the better...
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I was half expecting that the aggrieved woman would have something resembling a point. Seems I was over-optimistic.
Yeah but what about all that right-leaning moral panic, causing relatively sane people to act insanely and amorally, all the way up to the top levels of the status hierarchy? I mean, that stuff exists too, right? Both sides are equally bad.
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Today I've seen a document that changed my mind a little.
https://www.docdroid.net/IbuM7VK/searchpage3-pdf#page=17
etc.
I can't say how accurate these objections are, and I still think he shouldn't be "canceled" for these things, but if they are somewhat accurate then it is at least fair to conclude that Sabatini is an asshole. To me, these findings about his general demeanour as a "boss" are much more significant than the Puritan "he had a sexual relationship with a lab member" thing.
The "adult" reaction by the hosting institution would have been to talk to Sabatini about this unacceptable behavior. If he would have continued this despite the warnings, then one could have considered to letting him go.
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He sounds like a creep to me, assuming Klaus' article is true.
How odd that the author of the original article didn't look into this further before coming to the conclusion that the woman was to blame for this poor, sweet, brilliant man's predicament.
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@Jolly said in Women can never be adults?:
That's not the gist of the article.
The article paints Sabatini as a victim. If he said the things that are claimed in what Klaus posted, then he's not a victim.
Would you get away with saying them where you work? I sure as heck wouldn't. And rightly so.
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Yes, it paints him as a victim. And to a certain extent, he is. He's also vulgar and crass.
The question is whether the punishment fits the offense?
@Jolly said in Women can never be adults?:
Yes, it paints him as a victim. And to a certain extent, he is. He's also vulgar and crass.
The question is whether the punishment fits the offense?
I'd say what he said sounded an awful lot like sexual harrassment.
I wouldn't want that guy running the works canteen, never mind a lab.