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Michael Druggan's avatar

> But the minute you retaliate against a colleague because your sexual chemistry ran its course is the minute it's an abuse of power.

I don't think removal of special treatment should count as retaliation. It's only retaliation if the man treats her worse than he would have had the relationship never happened

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Peter Gerdes's avatar

I suspect Robin is just responding to the same incentives that I do but with the greater freedom that comes with his academic and popular status. Namely a desire to come off as an interesting, unconventional thinker who is willing to speak truth to power (social pressure in this case).

As Robin is an academic I suspect he's also pretty immersed in a certain left leaning ideological view so I suspect that when his posts push back against this it's easy to mistake this for pushing back against the more mainstream views.

I mean I often feel the same emotional reaction as you do to some of Robin's posts (must be how other people feel about what I write) but then I remind myself that no it's not good to discourage people from making speculative arguments that imply we should do X just because we happen to believe on balance ~X is better.

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