Last month, Richard Ned Lebow, a professor of political theory at King’s College, found himself in a crowded elevator with Simona Sharoni, a professor of gender studies at Merrimack College, during an academic conference in San Francisco. Sharoni asked Lebow what floor he needed. He replied: “ladies’ lingerie.”
It was a stupid joke—a “standard gag line,” Lebow later explained, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. But Sharoni didn’t think it was funny. And so she filed a complaint with the International Studies Association, whose conference they were both attending.
An ISA committee found that Lebow had indeed violated the group’s code of conduct.
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Lebow tried to resolve the matter himself, and wrote to Sharoni. He said he had no intention of making her feel uncomfortable, but stopped short of a full apology. According to The Chronicle:
“Like you, I am strongly opposed to the exploitation, coercion, or humiliation of women,” Lebow wrote. “As such evils continue, it seems to me to make sense to direct our attention to real offenses, not those that are imagined or marginal. By making a complaint to ISA that I consider frivolous — and I expect, will be judged this way by the ethics committee — you may be directing time and effort away from the real offenses that trouble us both.”
But describing Sharoni’s complaint as “frivolous” made the committee even angrier. Lebow was subsequently instructed to issue an “unequivocal apology.” He has refused to do so, and could face disciplinary charges. In his mind, the episode is “a horrifying and chilling example of political correctness” that “encourages others to censor their remarks for fear of retribution.”
Sharoni, for her part, said that she cannot “remain silent when misogyny is at play.”
The Washington Post‘s Ruth Marcus offered this opinion, which seems right to me:
This episode reflects not only a generational and cultural divide but also the unfortunate intersection of two prickly personalities with the bad luck to be stuck in the same elevator. She shouldn’t have leaped to file a grievance; he shouldn’t have added fuel by labeling her charge “frivolous.”
Nonetheless, count me with Lebow. The days of women feeling compelled to stay silent in the face of sexist remarks or conduct are thankfully on the way out. Hear something, say something, by all means.
But for goodness’ sake, let’s maintain some sense of proportion and civility as we figure out how to pick our way through the minefield of modern gender relations. Not every comment that offends was intended that way, and intent matters. Maybe check in with the speaker before going nuclear? Maybe consider that there is a spectrum of offensiveness? That not every stray statement by a 76-year-old man warrants a resort to disciplinary procedures?
A misguided elevator joke certainly seems like something two adults could have handled on their own—without formal investigation, and the threat of sanction.
What a cunt.
For all we know, he’s a SJW also. If so, fuck him too.
I hope all these stupid mother f’ers are eating each other up. Fuckers.
Sigh…. And she is a pretty ugly Jew which means she has been rejected and therefore has a monumental Talmudic hate for all males, particularly male gentiles without a soul.
Sharoni was born in Romania in 1961. She immigrated with her parents to Israel in 1963. She earned an M.A. degree in Counseling from Haifa University. In 1989 she moved to the United States to pursue doctoral studies, and holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
I bet she’s vegan.
And then on to Merrimack where she teaches, and I use the term loosely, gender studies. So she can’t do what her degree is in, conflict resolution. She can’t teach gender studies. She has no viable skill set and yet somehow (((somebody))) decided to pay her. I hope it isn’t a lot as she will most certainly have a lot of cat food to buy.
Aside from low-T male feminists and low-status, low-IQ white knights, real men today are not “picking” their way through a minefield of modern gender relations- they don’t have to- they’re too busy “sifting” and “sorting” through all the hot girls.
What radical feminism has done is give rise to an “incel rebellion” a subculture whose members define themselves as being unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one.
In a normal world, two adults could have handled this on their own, but today negotiating with some side-cropped dyke over a dad joke is a fools errand. The bad breath and body odor alone isn’t worth it. They smell like urine.
What if he had said let me off at the strap on floor. That would have shown inclusion I suppose without being sexist.
“Sharoni was born in Romania in 1961. She immigrated with her parents to Israel in 1963. She earned an M.A. degree in Counseling from Haifa University. In 1989 she moved to the United States to pursue doctoral studies, and holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.”
And with all that – counseling, conflict analysis and resolution – she blew up over a single line spoken in an elevator? Damn, I’ve managed to hold my tongue when deliberately insulted by an idiot or two – but I’ve left them strictly alone afterwards, which was probably THEIR desire and definitely mine by that point! And I’ve only got “school of hard knocks” experience in counseling, conflict analysis and resolution!
When the Crunch comes and a few hundred million starve to death due to lack of skills, foresight and planning – little events like this will go away, or the perpetrators will settle it quickly, decisively and permanently. No need for conflict analysis and resolution when one side finds eternal rest for it!
With a title of ‘Professor of gender studies’, you can just imagine what her mental high-alert radar ears are listening for all day long. To even have a professor of gender studies shows where our overly-politically-correct society is headed. We’ve created a new industry focused on hysteria and needless tort. We are going to choke on PC. Can’t say anything to anyone anymore without fear of baseless retribution.
So, the word lingerie is offensive? It’s over, we’re all dead if the snowflakes are in charge.
Sounds like this “girl” has not figured out how to be a “woman” nor has her education taught her how to fight fair. She has no reference to the days when were actual people that were paid to “drive” a public elevator up & down the floors. Where at each stop in a dept store there would be the human response of which dept was located on that floor–“2nd floor, women clothes, handbags, & lingerie. Going up.” Anyone else remember those days? He hasn’t realized that times have changed & she is too thin skinned & was waiting for the opportunity to be seen on the world stage. Terrible times, indeed.
With a degree in gender studies you can..,…………..fill in the blank
Merrimack college turns out people who cannot compose a coherent paragraph
I live in Mass and have first hand experience
There is only one thing to say:
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
-Groucho Marx
If she had an IQ over 85, she’d asked if he wore silk or cotton. PS: If a liberal cunt can’t take a simple witty barb from a 70 year old geezer on an elevator full of fillies, fire’er flabby ass (on a greasy ol’barbie).
Q: “Why are disputes between academics so vicious?”
A: “Because the stakes are so small.”
He should just tell them he ‘identifies as a woman. End of complaint……………..
It’s frickin underwear. I’d be suing those rat bastards. The whole thing is about as frivolous as “gender studies” and I’ll be glad when the entire stinking edifice collapses in on itself.
‘ Ladies Lingerie’ yup that is a bad one alright, dude should have known better than to be running his mouth trying to be cute and witty and such. I can’t believe he is still employed. (sarc)
As a side note scrolling down to the comments section I witnessed pictures of one woman on her knees doggy style, one woman with yoga pants to tight around her ass she might as well have been naked, multiple pictures of impressive cleavage, and more such titillating click bait. All of which I am a big fan and feel no outrage. There must be something wrong with me….
Political correctness has fucking destroyed productivity in this Country. I’ve been watching this train wreck for 25 years and how the wheels are still on is, mind boggling.
It was a funny joke. Ta-Da BOOM! Any of you who don’t appreciate it, screw you. As for “In a normal world, two adults could have handled this on their own…” THERE’S NOTHING TO “HANDLE”. It was a JOKE, and a GOOD ONE at that! An adult would loft the quip, another adult would laugh, chuckle, or guffaw. (Although it is nice to see him getting eaten by his own ideological peers. Commies are like that. They eat their own. Good.)
— “Sharoni, for her part, said that she cannot “remain silent when misogyny is at play.””
She hasn’t had a single whiff of hatred of women in her life. She has experienced a lifetime of indifference though, which feels worse than hatred. So since she can’t get a whiff of love, she’ll make damn sure she gets to feel something and the only direction she can go is to make men truly hate her.
This too shall pass. When the everyday pursuit of most survivors is securing food and shelter for one’s self and family and trying to protect same from roving bands of fsa survivors bent on destruction then silly shit like this will fade from memory.
1st World Problem.
Call me when the complaint actually has something to do with rape, assault, quid pro quo harassment, or whatever real women actually have to deal with, not jokes, wisecracks, and clumsy attempts to break the ice in awkward situations. Oh, and when the bitch involved wasn’t dressed up like a tart and acting like a total fuckwit. Then again, don’t call, cuz’ I probably don’t care.
I’ve been a liberal minded fellow all my life. Still, when faced with the daily abuse of a conservative women’s libber – oh, it’s true – I finally had to renounce my figurative pussy hat.
Let’s cover the conservative part, it isn’t hard to understand, it’s conservative as used by tards; I’m white therefore I am a conservative, I vote Republican because Trump is white. OK, did you get that? It ain’t your daddy’s conservatism, it’s Laura Ingraham conservatism.
On to the women’s lib part; Bitches are more equal than men. The bitch asked me if she could borrow my sweater to put on the floor so she could step on it, I forget why. The same bitch gave me a dirty look when she caught me using the women’s bathroom. I had to pee badly and the rational non-lib woman in the office said there were two bathrooms, to use the other. Anyway, bitch witch actually went to complain. Nyah-nyah.
A couple of years passed (they go by like weeks around here) and bitch witch asks me to watch the men’s room door while she uses the men’s room. Women’s lib flexibility, Yay!
I learned a couple of things that pertain to this article:
1. Never apologize to the bitches, they take it as an admission of guilt when all you want to do is soothe their butthurt feelings.
1.a. Never try to soothe their butthurt feelings, in their mind’s eye, you are on your knees licking their crotch. The better thing to do when they get butthurt is to visualize them on their knees sucking your massive cock and choking on two gallons of semen. Try it one day, it will help keep you from speaking and digging the hole deeper. Your welcome!
2. Do not talk to libber bitches, they will always take offense. Shit, one time – when I still spoke to the bitch witch, I was happily munching on my crunchy kettle cooked potato chips. She turned around and told me she was offended at my crunching. Like, what the fuck, is this going to get elevated to management if I don’t stop crunching because she is offended?
3. Bitches, man, fuck ’em.
Hey dumbfucks… the joke is a direct reference to an Aerosmith song.
“2nd floor…hardware, children’s wear, lady’s lingerie. Oh, good morning Mr. Tyler, going down?”
I can understand this flying over the gender studies cunt’s head… but does the author even realize this?
the left…imbued with a madness so mad the sane cannot begin to comprehend the depths of the insanity.
Simona Sharoni; bitch you are to tightly rapped.
What is the difference between Sharoni coming out of a church and Sharoni coming out of her bathroom?
Well, Sharoni comes out of a church with a soul full of hope, whereas Sharoni coming out of her bathroom has a hole full of soap!
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!
(You wouldn’t expect this ‘master piece’ from a Harvard PhD but rather from a Cornell
behavioral scientist, right? But they don’t have the mental flexibility that we have. Hahahahaha.)