For women supposedly being so independent and empowered these days, they sure do whine a lot about nothing.
A male professor got in an elevator at a conference and said "lingerie department, please," the daddest dad joke ever dadded.
Now he's being accused of sexual harassment. https://t.co/vB6HCUbfzb
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) May 7, 2018
From USNews:
A male political theory professor said Friday he won’t apologize to a female gender studies professor for a joke about “ladies’ lingerie” he made while both were riding in a crowded elevator. The public spat comes amid heightened sensitivity to sexual misconduct propelled by the #MeToo movement.
Professor Ned Lebow, who teaches political theory at King’s College London, told The Associated Press that he has refused to apologize because he did nothing wrong and because a complaint filed by Professor Simona Sharoni against him with the International Studies Association is “frivolous.”
Sharoni, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, said in a complaint she filed last month that she was standing near the elevator at a San Francisco hotel and she offered to press the elevator buttons when Lebow “said with a smile on his face, ‘women’s lingerie’ and all his buddies laughed.”
It was a joke … OMG WHO CARES?!
I'm pretty sure we talk about sexual assault and domestic abuse "survivors" because those are violent crimes that often leave victims dead? But apparently you can also be a "survivor of sexual harassment." pic.twitter.com/5rfoS9owoB
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) May 7, 2018
A survivor.
FFS.
Read the tweet and joke – my first thought was that it was a joke against himself (cross dressing male professor buys lingerie). I certainly didn't read it as sexually harassing anyone & after now reading the article I am still puzzled as to how this isn't just the lamest joke.
— Mike Booton (@mbooton) May 7, 2018
It is a lame joke, hence the ‘dad’ joke descriptor.
But it’s certainly not sexual harassment.
I wonder why so many people immediately think of "humorless scold" when they hear the phrase "gender studies professor" https://t.co/s1GZKnqR6X
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 7, 2018
Humorless scold works perfectly here.
That's such an old elevator joke. I suppose that if they said, "Menswear" she would have been just as disturbed. It's a department in a Department Store.
— Rick Collins (@flyhombre) May 7, 2018
If he had asked for ‘Menswear’ they would have called him sexist as well.
Let’s be honest, some women are just looking for any excuse to make men PAY.
Like Sharoni.
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