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after beginning the day like this. y: y r u moving around so much? z: oh i was thinking of this article and feeling annoyed by how it justifies tenure.
y: what's wrong with tenure?
z: well when i was at school there was this guy who had a problem with sexual harrassment but no one could do anything about it because he had tenure. he wasn't allowed to have females work for him. then i did and everybody kept coming up to me about it and the secretary sent another student to tell me things like i shouldn't give him my number or e-mail. and then the head of the dept. called me in and i told her and she was like "i'm sure she wouldn't do anything like that!" she didn't want to get the sec'y in trouble. i didn't want to get her in trouble. so i was like, whatever. and then she told me 'i expect if anything happens with him it will be your choice.' so it was like she was saying if he did something bad it would be my fault. i didn't even think he was that bad but he had a problem. this woman taught feminist courses! it was f'ed up.
y: well why does tenure matter. just go to the police and make a statement.
z: they're not going to do anything. unless he does something really bad, like rapes someone, there's nothing they'll do. and it shouldn't have to come to that. they should be able to reprimand him, to say, this is not okay, this is not professional. but they don't because he has tenure. if he didn't have tenure, they could reprimand him.
y: i'm not talking about tenure. that's a separate issue. you can go to the police.
z: but they're not going to do anything
y: you can go to the police and make a statement
z: but what's the point if they don't do anything?
y: (calmly) you can go to the police...
Z: (UnCalmly) TheyAreNotGoingToDoAnything! ICan'tBelieveHowManyFuckingTimesIHaveToTellYouThat!
JesusFuckingChrist!
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should be uphill from there...