@ghost-of-a-duke saidAs a university lecturer for many years, on a few occasions I taught female students who had predatory inclinations in terms of sex.
Your position that even if a subordinate instigates a relationship, the person in the position of power is still a predator due to the associated taboo of such a relationship is frankly bizarre.
There were male students who had similar inclinations, of course: indeed, many more of them.
Sometimes it was just flirtation and the "predator" diagnosis would be wrong. There were hundreds of flirtatious students but also a handful of sexual predators and they were mostly men.
You'd be aware of it too from the soap opera of campus life and from students embroiled in such things suddenly leaving or being expelled. There was even a lecturer who resigned abruptly once.
This is almost all between-the-students stuff, except for a few isolated occasions when a "sexually aggressive" [so to speak] female student made advances towards me [and other lecturers] despite - or perhaps because of - the taboo nature of such a relationship.
I, of course rejected these students and did not respond when they made their passes at me.
As subordinates with predatory inclinations they tried to initiate and they were rebuffed.
I, as the person with power in this dynamic, behaved correctly and in an ethically sound way.
If I had given in to the temptation and taken advantage of a troubled teenage woman who ~ was my subordinate but acting in an inappropriate, "sexually aggressive" or even [unsuccessfully] "predatory" way ~ and thus entered into a sexual relationship ~ despite the taboo pertaining to her status and mine ~ then my behaviour, for all intents and purposes, would have been predatory.
With power comes responsibility. Power without it - and without - perspective ~ is likely to lead to an ethical mess.
@fmf saidBUMP for Ghost of a Duke?
As a university lecturer for many years, on a few occasions I taught female students who had predatory inclinations in terms of sex.
There were male students who had similar inclinations, of course: indeed, many more of them.
Sometimes it was just flirtation and the "predator" diagnosis would be wrong. There were hundreds of flirtatious students but also a handful of sexu ...[text shortened]... responsibility. Power without it - and without - perspective ~ is likely to lead to an ethical mess.
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@the-gravedigger saidCould he be the reincarnation of Jeffrey Dahmer?🤔
He has a lot of knockers.
@fmf saidThanks fmf, now I know your issue. You think you're better than everyone else.
As a university lecturer for many years, on a few occasions I taught female students who had predatory inclinations in terms of sex.
There were male students who had similar inclinations, of course: indeed, many more of them.
Sometimes it was just flirtation and the "predator" diagnosis would be wrong. There were hundreds of flirtatious students but also a handful of sexu ...[text shortened]... responsibility. Power without it - and without - perspective ~ is likely to lead to an ethical mess.
-VR
@great-big-stees saidHe was well over 30 when Jeffers died so unlikely.
Could he be the reincarnation of Jeffrey Dahmer?🤔
@ghost-of-a-duke saidIn other words, you're running away from the discussion about sex, the power dynamic, ethics, and predatory behaviour after your little bit of shallow principle-free internet forum posturing.
The joy of an internet forum is not feeling obliged to reply to an uninteresting post, even when bumped.
@very-rusty saidTook you long enough.
Thanks fmf, now I know your issue. You think you're better than everyone else.
-VR
That's why they're twins, they have the same interest. Themselves.