The Nutty Professor Dig

She said that Reitman reciprocated this language to her while simultaneously telling others she was a "witch," ''evil" and a "monster." Ronell said the lawsuit is really about "the inability of Reitman to find a job," and not sexual.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyu-professor-says-emails-were-gay-coded-not-221305983.html

A world-renowned New York University professor was reportedly suspended for the upcoming school year after she was found to have sexually harassed a gay male student.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/14/world-renowned-lesbian-nyu-professor-suspended-after-probe-finds-sexually-harassed-gay-male-student-report-says.html

Gay Graduate Student Files Sexual Harassment Suit Against His Aging Lesbian NYU Professor

https://www.newsweek.com/avital-ronell-nyu-nimrod-reitman-new-york-lawsuit-1078319

“Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage, as well as a penchant for florid and campy communications arising from our common academic backgrounds and sensibilities,” she wrote in a statement to The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/nyregion/avitall-ronell-nyu-title-ix.html

NYU Scholar Accused of Harassment Assails Rush to Judgment as Sign of ‘Sexual Paranoia’

https://www.chronicle.com/article/NYU-Scholar-Accused-of/244308

"Blaming the victim is apparently OK when the accused in a Title IX proceeding is a feminist literary theorist."

https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-a-Letter-Defending-Avital/243650?cid=rclink

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Ronell began an affair with Derrida’s son Pierre while she was staying with the family for the Christmas holidays in 1979, when she was 27 and Pierre was 16. They moved in together the following year (after Pierre's graduation from high school), living for a time in a Paris apartment borrowed from one of Derrida’s colleagues.

https://www.salon.com/2018/08/18/when-a-woman-is-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-the-strange-case-of-avital-ronell/

July 25, 2004: in which Jacques Derrida threatens the Chancellor of UC-Irvine that he will pull future Special Collections donations and renege on the archive's researcher requests if the university doesnt halt an investigation of his friend Dragan Kujundzic for sexual harassment

Derrida, along with Foucault and Althusser, signed a French petition to abolish age of consent laws & decriminalize all consensual sex with minors under 15

Sexual assault in academic philosophy

https://criticathink.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/sexual-assault-in-the-academic-philosophy-profession/