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by boona 3238 days ago
> The fresh hell I’d suddenly found myself in ... a graduate student going up against a tenured professor who had everything to lose should the allegations be proven true.

> I remembered that all of my friends had told me Dr. Mao took advantage of me, and their increasingly exasperated suggestions that I try to stand up for myself in some way.

>I had just been academically f*cked over. And there was nothing I could do about it.

>Her outrage only fueled my sense of injustice.

My impression after having read this article is that she seems have a strong victim hood mentality. I don't know if this says more about her, or academia. Humanities should help you discover yourself and build you into a strong individual, her experience seems to have done the opposite. I also believe she should leave academia, but she's going to be in for quite the shock when she faces the free market.