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flynny51 writes "Dr. Dylan Evans of the School of Medicine, University College, Cork, Ireland, has had a two-year period of intensive monitoring and counseling imposed upon him and as a result his application for tenure is likely to be denied. His offense — sharing an article from a peer-reviewed journal on fellatio in fruit bats."
By all indications the guy is a jerk. In any setting there are expectations of a professional level of behaviour, and he chose not to abide by them.
These are not the 1960s. No one in academia can claim not to understand where the line is drawn when interacting with other colleagues.
"It was just a joke" has long since ceased to be an adequate excuse for offensive behaviour.
Three Squirrels
The case is pretty simple: don't do it in private if you can do it in public; don't do it to person X even you won't do it to person Y; don't do it in private if it could be misconstrued.
I wasn't there. You weren't there. Possible third party has made no statement.
Those are not examples of violence. Just because something is violent, does not make it translate into violence. A storm can be violent but no one would say it is impacting violence.
No one except the DICTIONARY:
violence [vahy-uh-luhns]
–noun
1.
swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
There's always a fucking moron to argue about the meaning of words without bothering to open a dictionary. There needs to be a new captcha, one where you have to prove you understand what you're typing before being allowed to just type ignorant tripe and press "submit". *sigh*
You can't take the sky from me...
Yes but thats not the meaning we are talking about is it? What kind of idiot would actually bring up the violent act of CPR into a discussion as to whether physical violence is bad or not? A pedantic moron with a stick up his ass thats who.
BWAHAHahaha, you're proven wrong, so you go for the ad hominem. What a twat. Keep fucking that chicken!
You can't take the sky from me...
That is the meaning we are talking about here. Not CPR and not storms.
You brought up storms, called me a pedantic moron, and now you're declaring which is the One True Limited Definition and saying "we are not talking about storms".
You really are a fucking moron.
You can't take the sky from me...
Quiet little boy. The adults are trying to have a conversation.
I was having a nice talk about when violence is a good thing, and you started making noise about how ignorant you are and how highly you value your own opinions.
You should really follow your own advice.
You can't take the sky from me...