For the sake of argument, let’s say her version of events is true. That her professor made her academic progress conditional upon her reciprocating his romantic advances. Even if true, she still had the agency to agree or turn down those terms. Nobody is entitled to academic success (or any kind of success), so if she chose to agree to sex in exchange for advancement in her academic career, then she freely made that choice. It’s the same thing with Hollywood metoo. Those women knew that the price of stardom was sex with gross old men and they chose sex in order to advance their careers. Don’t come back years later and claim coercion.
Sure, and he got fired for it. That’s completely reasonable. But that has no bearing on whether this woman had a consensual sexual relationship with her professor.
For the sake of argument, let’s say her version of events is true. That her professor made her academic progress conditional upon her reciprocating his romantic advances. Even if true, she still had the agency to agree or turn down those terms. Nobody is entitled to academic success (or any kind of success), so if she chose to agree to sex in exchange for advancement in her academic career, then she freely made that choice. It’s the same thing with Hollywood metoo. Those women knew that the price of stardom was sex with gross old men and they chose sex in order to advance their careers. Don’t come back years later and claim coercion.
Sure, and he got fired for it. That’s completely reasonable. But that has no bearing on whether this woman had a consensual sexual relationship with her professor.
Seven years after graduation is a long time to be paying residuals on good grades.