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is upset that local journalists “waited outside” her office to speak with students and managed to find and call her “unpublished cellphone number.”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.
I’m surprised it took until post 40 for the key information it takes to determine guilt or innocence.
Guilty!
Big porn is all about money and influence, like any other criminal activity. Getting after the scum puppies that are making millions while wrecking our children's futures should be important, right?
I don't find the incident funny - the women is an imbecile who shouldn't be anywhere near young people.
Strange that this tidbit ‘news’ never surfaced on my “LOOCAL NEWS” reporting..
Surprise! Surprise! (Not!!!!)
As a law professor, one would think that she would be up on the momentous financial events, some of which boggle the legal mind in what occurred in events surrounding them.
In the particular question she could not answer, the background was GM’s bankrupts and what foreign government ended up being a significant shareholder in the company? Unsaid in the discussions surrounding that question was any mention of the coercion and extortion Obama’s government exerted on the Premium Bond holders going into that bankruptcy.
Regardless, she, nor her “phone a friend bankruptcy lawyer” or the CNN expert babe (all of there 25-30 years age) knew the answer that I knew - Canada. I think none of them knew the answer because the surrounding facts of this case have been purposefully obfuscated and largely kept hidden by the media and government. We just don’t need to know all that.
OK, got it. I think this story is good news. It points out the moral vacuity of the entire college biome.
You have style.
Guilty!
LOL!
Again, what do you propose to do about it?
And yes, I find the incident to be very funny. With all due respect, you know nothing about this woman. You don't know if she is a competent professor of a beneficiary of affirmative action. For that matter you don't know if she is a conservative or a liberal. The article never mentioned that aspect of her. This may come as a shock to you but not all professors are raving moon bats. It certainly sounds like she did not intentionally do this. To say she belongs nowhere near young people is way over the top. Don't you understand that this was a mistake.
And a very funny one at that!
Thank you. Last night’s movie starred Sterling Hayden and Ruth Roman. Two nights in a row we’ve watched a Ruth Roman movie. She does not take her clothes off. She’s just a good looking woman that knows how to carry herself in sort of a sexy way.
and she still has a job??
A person in authority sending something like that to her students sounds like an abuse of her position to me.
Weird sense of humor..
Let me recast this for you: you have a professor, someone whose expertise, education, and credentials are sufficient to educate our young people and that professor 1. Indulges in pornography and 2. Is sloppy or corrupt enough to intentionally/ unintentionally forward filth to those young people.
I have one son in college now. On top of the garbage he has to weather on his path to manhood, now I have to worry about pervert educators as well?
The way to fight pornography is to not ever use it and go after the scum making the big bucks corrupting young people. How are pornographers any different than abortionists?
I agree with your assessment of the value of classic movies and a world of class and taste - but Sterling Hayden? He was a diehard Communist to the end, as I remember..
Dude, it is post graduate law school. She has no authority other than to teach. Her students are all grown adults.
>> The link was sent by mistake <<
Hey, knock it off. You’re spoiling the fun of us folks who want to bash the professrix!
Thanks for the picture. If she’d lose about 50 pounds, she’d probably be found “not guilty.”
Well, at least the students know what gift to get for Teacher.
Sounds like a ‘professor’ who has such a boring class that she was looking for a way to ‘pep’ it up. With a soul so dead she probably saw nothing wrong with encouraging the degeneration of the young minds through the eyegate.
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