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Archive for April, 2009

Since I Can’t Thank You in Person
Posted by N Pepperell, 12:40pm 06/04/2009
Miscellaneous

To the person who found and left in my faculty box, without a note or other identifying comment, a copy of the charming sexual overture previously discussed here: just a quick suggestion. I will assume that this anonymous gesture had the best of motives – perhaps the sticky note identifying you or explaining why you left this in my box fell off, or perhaps you wanted to make sure I was aware that this content was associated with my name online, but were self-conscious about indicating you personally had seen it, or perhaps there is some other innocuous reason. However, in the future, just so the gesture is unambiguously dissociated from, say, harassment – since placing sexual comments about a female staff member anonymously in their faculty inbox could be interpreted in that light – it’s probably best to include some other sort of communication clarifying what the intention was. For, you know, all those other times you find inappropriate comments about me in online forums…