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 Posts 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 McElroys 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, McElroys 1,054-word op-ed in one of Americas 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 She is upset that local journalists waited outside her office to speak with students and managed to find and call her unpublished cellphone number.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, Americas 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 Im 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.
Go ahead, waste your life staring at other people having sex.
“..the tenured professor..” that says it all.
The concept of “tenure” is totally un-American and akin to a lifetime job in a communist regime.
Add the fact it’s extremely difficult to fire a failed teacher/professor if they are tenured (aka protected).
Is she a professor of rectology?
Well, at 62 I don’t have a whole lot of life left, but, be assured of one thing, the time I have left will be used as I see fit, not what some puritan thinks I should be doing.And I don’t have to watch other people having sex, I do quite well in that department.
Conservatism supposedly exists to protect and defend our country and its values - for good reason - because we are supposed to know what losing those values will mean for our future.
But what the heck, why fight - right?
Sure.
and that’s all that matter today isn’t it. Not illegal? do it!!! there is no morality or God anyway!! /s
We have a saying for this in the military:
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
So you do not think pornography is not illegal?
This tells me that you think child pornography is not or should not be illegal, right?
I know a college professor that is in prison now for having child porn on his computer. Maybe you better go defend this guy in his next appeal.
Actually, it was the section of the class on what to do when the opposing counsel has preemptively destroyed your arguments, i.e., "Pull it out of..."
Cheers!
Alcohol sales are banned in some communities that doesnt make the alcohol itself illegal.
So you're implying we can find you lurking the [censored] section of Craigslist? ;-)
Amateur. Kitty pr0n.
I guess that makes you a purr-vert.
Cheers!
Who the hell said anything about child porn. The issue here is about adults and viewing adult porn and the legality of it. I never said anything about the moral issues, just that adult porn is legal and was deemed legal as a 1st amendment right by the US
supreme court.
This tells me your reading comprehension skills are not that good.
(they know that scandal, sex and shame are irresistible)
Does she seem to feel even a scintilla of shame? Do any liberals even know what shame means? Would any normal person with normal shame have the gall to cast aspersions on others after getting caught doing what she did?
No, it means you got way to much time on your hands, or maybe it’s something else in your hands.
LOL!
Just how do you propose to "fight" it?
Also, your definition of conservatism and mine aren't exactly the same. Conservatism, for me, exists to protect us from a government that will erode our liberties until we become subservient to the state.
Besides, I think you missed the point and have taken the discussion off topic. This whole episode was a mistake. Ya know, prof thinks she is sending students homework and directs them to porn site. Somewhere there is a SNL skit waiting to be written on this.
Just like the supreme court deemed abortion legal.
Ever since lefties took over our culture has been turned upside down where good is now evil and evil is now good. The US Supreme Court is just as much a participant in this as is the MSM, Hollywood, our education system, the uniparty, etc.
I do not like porn put out in front of me to watch much the same manner that jerk wad put out the porn link to her students.
A good example of this is todays movies. We start watching a highly praised movie, then realize it is wall to wall sex. Movie rating systems of years ago, which in part were aimed at controlling porn, gave a person the option of knowing the sexual content of a movie before watching it. Today that option is severely limited. In essence porn is being forced on our culture.
I just love watching movies from the 50’s or before where a good plot and good acting could carry the movie. Where a woman’s beauty was enhanced by how well she dressed.
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