She seems like a delightful person. Not.
Posted on 05/09/2018 6:25:43 PM PDT by BBell
"In my view, this is not only a frivolous complaint but one that is damaging to serious issues of discrimination and misogyny."
Students on the campus of Merrimack College. –Jim Davis / The Boston Globe, File
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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.”
She said she froze and didn’t confront him. As the men walked out of the elevator, the only other woman in the elevator turned to her and told her maybe they should have spoken up. They said it is no longer acceptable to make such jokes.
“As a survivor of sexual harassment in the academy, I am quite shaken by this incident,” Sharoni wrote.
Hours after the April 5 encounter, she filed a complaint with Mark Boyer, the executive director of ISA, which was hosting the annual conference on international relations studies.
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I guess feminist today are just that self-absorbed.
Pig behavior by men? I think you’re overreacting, by far.
We ought to flood her inbox with emails chastising this feminazi for assuming this guy Lenka wasn’t a cross-referenced, with a legit interest in lingerie. Besides, he said “women’s” lingerie, ,and she looks doubtful the part,
Man, what a persimmon sucker. That “smile” must must be photoshopped. No way this representative for the distaff sex has the working facial muscles.
B*llsh*t. it was a remark obviously intended in humor. If he had said “men’s shoes” instead, would that have been inappropriate? The fact this feminist lib doesn’t get humor isn’t his fault.
Hands up if you believe anyone would take the time to sexually harass her.
This dried up old cow should apologize for being a jerk off and wasting parents’ money on BS studies.
Agreed. He should have said "women's lingerie, please".
Her hair looks like one of my kids got a hold of a pair of scissors.
#8. This professor will never have to worry about any guy asking her to “go down”, be it on an elevator or whatever.
My Sharoni - The Knack, new title.
I guess she couldn’t get an honest job so she became a feminazi college professor of Gender Studies. About as useless a subject to learn as is a bandage on a torpedoed ship.
Yep, I remember getting an ad in the mail several years ago from J.C. Penneys saying all ladies underware would be half off the next Saturday. I got there jus as the store opened and I hung around the store all day and did not see even one lady with her undies anywhere near half off.
Humorless bitch!!!!
some people cannot take a joke. Some people cannot “read the room” and should stay quiet.
Some people “read the room” and decided to speak up anyhow. I believe this was the case- he thought he’d poke the old gal that doesn’t smile.
Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.
One sick chick.
She seems like a delightful person. Not.
I usually say “Pursuant to public act 147, paragraph b subparagraph 3, it is hereby deemed illegal to speak in elevators. Please follow the law.”
Usually gets some snickers.
I've been around academe for almost 40 years now and I've learned that anyone who self-labels as an intellectual isn't. That is a title that is rightly bestowed upon a person by others.
That’s Rod Stewart’s mom!
The proper response to these incidents is ridicule.
Walking through the tampa airport on Monday, I crossed paths with a woman in a black tshirt on which “The future is female” was written in bold white letters.
She stared at me as we passed, me a white male in business attire. I smiled and said “make me a sandwich”.
She didn’t respond, but was clearly shocked.
Did she make you one?
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