Posted on 04/28/2015 2:39:33 AM PDT by markomalley
The Drexel University School of Law professor who recently sent students a video link of an explicit porn video has surfaced in The Washington Post’s op-ed section to proclaim that she is embarrassed — and, of course, really angry at the students who viewed and then forwarded the shocking video.
The professor, Lisa McElroy, is also blaming tabloid journalists who “ran with this story because they knew they would get page views.”
The original video kerfuffle occurred about a month ago.
“I thought this article on brief writing would be interesting to all of you,” the text of McElroy’s email with the video link read.
The 13-minute, 21-second video at the website Pornhub.com is very appropriately titled “She Loves Her Anal Beads.”
And The Daily Caller can vouch for the fact that the woman in the video — who is not McElroy — definitely does enjoy the beads.
With not a hint of irony, McElroy’s 1,054-word op-ed in one of America’s major national newspapers claims that “there was nothing newsworthy about” her porn email. She also casts many, many people — but not herself — in a negative light for the incident.
“[N]o one questioned the dignity of those who forwarded the unintended post,” McElroy complains. “No one asked why, if they found it so offensive, students opened the link, with its unmistakable Web address, and watched the video long enough to know what it contained.”
The Drexel professor also criticizes “the so-called journalists who wrote salacious stories” about her faux pas. She is upset that local journalists “waited outside” her office to speak with students and managed to find and call her “unpublished cellphone number.”
McElroy also blames news consumers who read the story. “[N]o one questioned the dignity of the intended audience,” the professor suggests.
“Tabloid journalists ran with this story because they knew they would get page views. How would they know that? Because they know their readers and viewers — and they know that scandal, sex and shame are irresistible to those who devour their posts,” the Dartmouth- and Harvard-educated law professor at Drexel, America’s 127th-best law school, declared.
“What happened was, in the grand scheme, pretty trivial,” McElroy argues in op-ed. “My students are adults. The link was quickly removed. There was nothing illegal in the video. The post occurred in the same two-month period when the movie ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ grossed almost $570 million worldwide. Yet, because it was porn and I’m a law professor, news organizations spread the story around the world.”
McElroy also notes that she has been investigated and cleared in a Title IX investigation over “Beadgate,” as students at Drexel has called the scandal.
“See you in class,” the tenured professor concludes.
In 2010, a happier time for the professor, McElroy appeared as an effusive contestant on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” She won $5,000.
There was a time when people like this “professor” were put in prison for things like this.
Than goodness those times are long gone. She didn’t do anything illegal.
> She didn’t do anything illegal.
I would not want any of my kids sent unsolicited porn from a “professor”.
What are they supposed to be studying, anyway?
Are even the engineering schools safe anymore?
And what the “professor” did was illegal when I was in college.
As far as I know, it may still be illegal, just not enforced.
And what the “professor” did was illegal when I was in college.
As far as I know, it may still be illegal, just not enforced.
More like locked up in stocks in the public square.
Tell me please what is illegal about sending a link, understand that, a link to a porn site, not the porn itself and BTW, Porn is not illegal.
What she did was tasteless, stupid, and in my boot ground for termination, but not illegal.
Porn was illegal when I was in school.
I don’t see where legalizing porn has contributed anything positive to our social climate. If anything, it’s poisoned it.
Is she saying she sent this link accidentally, when she intended to send a link to an article on writing briefs?
Porn was illegal when I was in school.
Well I am 62 and I have never known porn to be illegal in my lifetime.
Her actions undoubtedly violated the university’s code of conduct, and demonstrate her lack of judgment & stupidly. She could be fired for that, however, because she’s female, and as a result, likely is tenured, she will not be.
Aw, c’mon. We called it “smut” in those days, and you know it was banned just about everywhere.
Plus there is no proof..?
[N]o one questioned the dignity of those who forwarded the unintended post,” McElroy complains. “No one asked why, if they found it so offensive, students opened the link, with its unmistakable Web address, and watched the video long enough to know what it contained.”
The link was sent by mistake.
Sending a link is stupid and irresponsible and shows just how depraved this "professor" really is.
Just because some communities banned it doesn’t mean it was illegal.
Alcohol sales are banned in some communities that doesn’t make the alcohol itself illegal.
> Well I am 62 and I have never known porn to be illegal in my lifetime.
It was illegal in Massachusetts. Even the stores were closed on Sundays back then.
Maybe you don’t get it. The link was sent by mistake, an accident. And NO, it is not illegal, 1st amendment and all that stuff. Where have you been the last 50 years. And BTW, it is 18-25 year olds that are starring in these porn films.
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