Professor cleared in sexual harassment cases

Seriously. Esp. white guys. I mean, one thing you might say or do can turn into an inquisition. Heck you don't even have to say or do anything. Just be male and/or white and blam-o, you are an open target. My own mother today suggested I teach the topic that is integral to my line of work. I laughed. I said Hell No. Yes I'd make a good teacher. I've had people say that several times. But being a male teacher today is walking around with a Kick Me sign on your back. Being white among non-whites is double-jeopardy. Besides, teachers get paid squat unless they are full-time unionized. I'd be a $10/hr. adjunct with tons of stuff to grade and getting paid $hit to risk my livelihood and reputation on the bet that some nutty feminist does not decide to accuse me of staring at her tits. That's grief I don't need. Fuck teaching.

So far, I've had 29 years of a teaching career and have been lucky. But I've felt threatened several times, and just managed to dodge bullets. For example, once a student had been absent from class for a few weeks, and suddenly showed up at my office. She marched in, slammed the door behind her (though, as a matter of policy, I ALWAYS leave the door open when I'm with a student of either sex), and threw her keys down on my desk. Her keychain had a large plastic tab with a bit of feminist humor: "Men are just like diapers: they're full of shit!" Then she launched into a tirade about how her boyfriend had cheated on her (not sure I blame him), how her male boss had been giving her grief, and on and on. I panicked. Here I was behind a closed door with this unhinged, man-hating woman. I ended up choosing my words very carefully, and gave her breaks and allowed make-up of missed assignments that I would not have allowed under other circumstances. I knew I just couldn't afford to piss her off. She could have made up any lie about me, and it would be pink slip time, no questions asked. As it turned out, she never made up the assignments, kept missing classes, and got an F in the course (and I felt nervous for a long time after I turned that grade in). Of course, when feminists start caterwauling about sexual harassment, I can't help thinking that they completely control the discourse. I'm not even allowed to mention the kinds of experiences I've had on the other side, and even if I did, they'd accuse me of "whining" (as if that's not what they do all the time).

... was handled by 2 realtors. One was a man in his mid-30s and in the course of dealing with him he told me that he had been a school gym teacher before becoming a realtor. I asked him why he left teaching. He hesitated not when answering: it was because of the harassment he got from female students who knew they could do anything they wanted around him and he was powerless to stop them. He told me he had girls (he was a HS gym teacher) walk up to him and say "Hi Mr. _____" in a provocative way then literally straddle his thigh and start rubbing their crotches on it. Or they would walk up behind him and put their arms around him and press their breasts to his back and kiss or nibble his ear. No he wasn't making this stuff up. He could not touch them to remove them from him. He had to just tell them to let go and "stop that". The other kids, boys incl., of course though this was funny and just laughed at it. The burden though was on him to report each time he came into physical contact with a student even if he did not cause it in a written statement. Any student that made contact with a staff member was supposed to get into trouble for it but in practice he said this almost never happened unless it was a traditional assault. I.e., teen girls behaving that way to adult men working at the school was somehow not considered an assault of some kind but if he had done anything like that or even been accused of it... jail time.

In all seriousness you could not pay me enough to be a teacher at any level. Wallow in ignorance, foolish children. :)