Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 17:07:50 GMT -6
Tenured Gay Professor Fired for Telling Student He Would ‘Ride Him Hard’
A tenured gay professor at the University of California, Riverside has been fired by the school’s board of regents after the professor reportedly sexually harassed a male graduate student by telling him he had to resist the urge to academically ‘ride him hard.’
Robert Latham, a scholar of science fiction, says that he is being discriminated against because he is gay. If he were heterosexual, he argues, his comment would not have been interpreted as lewd by the student.
Writing on the blog Academe, Latham addressed the case against him:
Read more: www.towleroad.com/2016/02/tenured-gay-professor-fired-for-telling-student-he-would-ride-them-hard/
A tenured gay professor at the University of California, Riverside has been fired by the school’s board of regents after the professor reportedly sexually harassed a male graduate student by telling him he had to resist the urge to academically ‘ride him hard.’
Robert Latham, a scholar of science fiction, says that he is being discriminated against because he is gay. If he were heterosexual, he argues, his comment would not have been interpreted as lewd by the student.
Writing on the blog Academe, Latham addressed the case against him:
The Provost’s Office submitted, as evidence of my alleged verbal harassment of the male complainant, the following communication: ‘You’re an intellectual thoroughbred, kiddo, and I’ve mentored very few of those in my career. I have to resist the impulse to ride you too hard too soon. If you’ll forgive the equine metaphor’.
“Suffice to say it is transparently obvious that, if a heterosexual man had made the exact same statement, no lewd implication would ever have been inferred.
“The rhetoric of UCR’s charging documents and administration counsel’s briefs was rife with homophobic language and assumptions, including the myth that gay men are always ‘on the make’, unable to relate to other males in any way except sexually.”
“Suffice to say it is transparently obvious that, if a heterosexual man had made the exact same statement, no lewd implication would ever have been inferred.
“The rhetoric of UCR’s charging documents and administration counsel’s briefs was rife with homophobic language and assumptions, including the myth that gay men are always ‘on the make’, unable to relate to other males in any way except sexually.”
Read more: www.towleroad.com/2016/02/tenured-gay-professor-fired-for-telling-student-he-would-ride-them-hard/