I'm remembering that The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien was a good (though painful) book that I read when I had to T.A. for Ol' Profesor Pobrecito Sexual Harrassment while I was in graduate school.
He (Profesor Pobrecito) did pick some good books, although I think he could have treated the "dumb coz" stuff a bit more sensitively. ("Why does he call the woman a 'dumb coz?'" he'd say, and the students wouldn't answer, so the air was heavy with silence, except that he kept saying the phrase over and over again, until I felt incredibly annoyed and stressed out and I thought, 'gee, maybe you're just focusing on this because you enjoy saying that phrase so much.'") I was tempted to write the author a letter about it.
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