Horny Old Professor

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The author is called Tony Judt, a professor of history in his 60s who came of age in the sixties, and the name of the piece, Girls! Girls! Girls! It details his sexual adventures and experiences before and on faculty, particularly about escaping being castrated from every different kind of woman there is out there, e.g., administrators, feminists

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Oh heavens, the article is fine--the world is ending, women are so oversensitive, blah blah blah, of course--but the COMMENTS? "A confident and sophisticated woman should weather it, but many female students are intimidated [when senior faculty members pull them into a CLOSET to declare their 'love']." I do love Mr. Judt's TOTAL sense of individual exceptionalism/exceptionalism of those cases he personally knows. Sure, these sorts of situations COULD have bad consequences, but not when you're a totally sensitive gentleman AND such a hot catch that the department has to post the sexual harrassment notice on your office door. Because no one elegant Mr. Judt knows could POSSIBLY be the sort of guy (which, in my experience, is EVERY academic guy who has a semi-casual sexual relationship with a female colleague) who inevitably winds up talking about how their former flame isn't very intelligent or talented or is "totally stupid." Not to mention that, again, in my experience, "sexual harrassment" goes way beyond actual attempts at jaunty fun sexy times to include things like "reminding women that once you're married you're not a serious PhD student anymore" or "making your life hell if you have a kid/openly admit to planning on having one." I'm really sorry, Mr. Judt, and I take your political critique of sexual harrassment obsessions to heart, but I still feel like aside from my general ineptness and low talent, the next biggest thing in my way as a professional is gender-based discrimination--though I guess maybe this is an effect of the "creaky old reactionary" nature of my department.