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University of Miami teacher resigns after students notice "Busty college girl fu..." bookmark in Zoom class
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Clearly he was at the Busty College Girls Fund for the Prevention of Sexualization of the Student Body
They raise money to try to combat stereotypes in media. It's a very serious charity. It's partnered with People for the Ethical Treatment of Nurses, Secretaries and Cheerleaders
Pretty unfortunate for this idiot that a tab that might have raised eybrows, garnered uncomfortable laughs and got you a meeting with HR in another industry - is pretty much toast-apocalypse in his position. I guess we're sorta lucky it's as mild as it is.
I mean, at least Ted Cruz had an intern to blame on his extremely rough twitter accident. He WISHES that had "just" been college students...
They raise money to try to combat stereotypes in media. It's a very serious charity. It's partnered with People for the Ethical Treatment of Nurses, Secretaries and Cheerleaders
Pretty unfortunate for this idiot that a tab that might have raised eybrows, garnered uncomfortable laughs and got you a meeting with HR in another industry - is pretty much toast-apocalypse in his position. I guess we're sorta lucky it's as mild as it is.
I mean, at least Ted Cruz had an intern to blame on his extremely rough twitter accident. He WISHES that had "just" been college students...
Sometimes resignations are actually another form of firing. Being asked to resign instead of being fired is a common practice when there is a contract.
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I didn't say he was a dumb person. Most people probably keep way too many tabs up and forget about them.
But he knew he was going to be broadcasting his screen to a bunch of people. He should have cleared or hid his porn tabs; that was a dumbass move. A potentially job ending dumbass move, understandably, I think.
I'm not saying he should be jailed or anything crazy. He's simply free to find another gig.
Who in the world bookmarks porn and think they'll get away with it?!
What a dummy. There is a reason people tell you to keep a work computer and a personal computer. Don't sync em don't do anything. Keep that shit separate. Don't do anything on the work computer you wouldn't want to do in front of the whole office. He should be fired for breaking that simple rule.
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In WFH times, sometimes the lines can be blurred.
The real best strategy is to use a Guest/Incognito window for anything being streamed to others (not just for porn; but to avoid leaking other secret info like accounts, emails, etc.)
Not a man... the professor made an honest mistake.
I can see why this would be problematic if the professor exhibited additional creepy behavior alongside flirting with his students or making constant offhand remarks regarding his sex life, etc. I have had instructors or other people do that in a class setting "as a joke." That changes the context.
However, this specific incident, taken alone, is not problematic. The guy watches porn. Women watch porn. I watch porn. I watch a lot of gay porn, I'm very sexually active, when I dance, I wear sexy clothes. The pretense of this is that understanding that porn/sex alone is problematic and I cannot subscribe to that.
Gotta love how one of his actual female student's opinion in the OP is just disregarded/ignored
I'll go a bit further on this. One computer for work - One computer for other purposes.
Pretty much this. I think a lot of the men replying in this thread aren't thinking about this from the perspective of the female students who said they were uncomfortable. And bear in mind that sexual harassment is something women have to deal with at much higher rates, especially at this age.
I don't think this says enough to make a definitive statement about his character, especially without knowing what the specific video was, but resigning was the right call given the difference in power and the discomfort he'd put at least some of his female students in.
One computer for work
One computer for entertainment/gaming
One computer in the crawlspace exclusively for porn
Jesus you're really stupid enough to have that in your bookmarks bar? Come on dude. How often do you fucking click on that shit???
Lmao.
Lmao.
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Dunno how it works with Chrome, but in Firefox Mobile when you bookmark something it gets positioned first in the folder.
thats terrible. what video was it? so i can avoid it in the future?
also its the first item in his bookmarks right next to what appears to be his actual classwork assignments lol this guy really dropped the ball
i wont judge him on his preferences since its impossible to tell how much is intent, how much manifests in his daily life, and what the context of the video itself was, but once that stuff comes out all bets are off
also its the first item in his bookmarks right next to what appears to be his actual classwork assignments lol this guy really dropped the ball
i wont judge him on his preferences since its impossible to tell how much is intent, how much manifests in his daily life, and what the context of the video itself was, but once that stuff comes out all bets are off
Uh find me a straight man who isn't attracted to 20 year old porn models. Such a person would be a pretty big outlier, and those outliers do not happen to all be college teachers. That's a pretty infeasible standard.
If it was a super big fetish of him it would be problematic, but you cannot deduce that from one bookmark, that actually looks like a wrong button press, because who puts bookmarks of single porn videos on his toolbar.
Yeah, he fucked up. In that position of power, can't walk that one back. The women students trust is forever ruined and it's just extremely unprofessional.
also, If that's a company computer, there's normally clauses in his contract that also say not to do that on company property. Not to mention making it visible during work hours.
also, If that's a company computer, there's normally clauses in his contract that also say not to do that on company property. Not to mention making it visible during work hours.
That seems like a gigantic leap there. Fetishizing I get, but you think this was an intentional power play?
Eh, for me, it's more about power dynamics. They're your professor. There's a reason why there's often a policy of students and teachers not dating, EVEN when it's legal.
It's not just professionalism, which is way more subjective imo.
And no, running into TAs and professors at a bar or a club never made me feel uncomfortable. It's happened before.
I mean, despite porn being fantasy/fake, it's really just not the same as someone having a drink and dancing.
Ionno. Anyway, it's not totally rational, but the discomfort would still exist. I mean, I really like all sorts of kinks, but I wouldn't want anyone I had any position of power or authority to know about, especially if any of my kinks involved anyone in their position. THAT would be really uncomfortable.
Your immediate defensiveness is certainly something to behold.
All I said is that I don't watch much porn. I have no idea why you've read so much into such a simple statement. After all, weren't you trying to explain popular porn search terms to me originally? Clearly I didn't know much about it...because, again, I don't watch much porn. Certainly less than you, which is why I'm sure you're an expert on porn-viewing habits.
Gotta side with the prof on this one - this being a bookmark rather than something he was blatantly running in the background at work, via a zoom meeting of all things.. I mean, sure, it shouldn't be there but I could see people making that mistake. Especially if it's their personal computer at home. Probably didn't think anything of it until it was blasted all over the internet.
Just tested it on desktop Chrome, as I wasn't sure. Gets added to the end of the folder/bookmark bar. So either this was the first thing he saved to the bookmark bar, or he moved it there. :)
I totally get how a college girl finding out her teacher watches porn about college girls offering sexual favors in exchange for passing grades would be incredibly disturbing.
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He was a lecturer. Do these positions even get issued work computers?
It was a pornographic tab, I can't recall what the subject matter is at the moment but it was fairly humorous to those in the class.
Honestly it's not hard for links to accidentally get dragged onto your bookmarks bar without you intending or realizing until much later. Much more likely than someone intentionally bookmarking a button with the title "Busty college girl fu..."
Yeah, especially for something like Zoom which can basically run from anywhere
I would imagine the type of porn he was watching would have creeped out the students. Not surprised he resigned.
You'll remember it, but some of it can be hard to find again.
I am crazy enough that I went out and bought a cheap laptop when I was told I would be WFH. I could have got one through work, but the hoops you have to jump through are insane and it never hurts to have a spare computer lying around.
It's one student's opinion vs. multiple student opinions. If some college girls in his class aren't comfortable with his fetishization of college girls, then what're you going to do? Just because it's been normalized doesn't mean it's right.
This isn't harassment though, it was clearly an accident. It's a deeply uncomfortable situation for everyone involved, but it seems wrong to suggest this was harassment
Your other post definitely sounded like you were being condescending imo
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