Like raping a women is just one of those things. I mean I can appreciate how Lausten got into the nuances, but you?
A blanket dismissal: So what, that he treated women like chattel - it was the manly thing to do???
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Dewey didnât rape anybody, so youâre a moron as usual.
@thatoneguy Do not call people âmoronâ. This is within the rules of the forum under verbal abuse.
@thatoneguy. Iâm going to take back that nice thing I said a couple of hours ago. Iâm not always clear on what CC is up to, but I donât draw your intelligence into my critiques, and there is no reason for you to do it.
CLASSISM, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, RACISMâŚTHE LIFE OF MELVIL DEWEY
Anna Gooding-Call Apr 3, 2019
That state of affairs was to change in 1905. On a post-conference VIP cruise to Alaska, Dewey sexually assaulted at least four librarians. That got him drummed out of the American Library Association almost on the spot. Itâs hard to overstate what a big deal this was. Dewey had helped to establish the ALA in 1876. Now heâd been publicly blacklisted for life. The secret was out: Dewey was a pervert!
The Father of Modern Libraries Was a Serial Sexual Harasser
Melvil Dewey helped create a new profession for womenâand harassed them at every step of the way.
ERIN BLAKEMORE August 22, 2018
âFor many years women librarians have been the special prey of Mr. Dewey in a series of outrages against decency,â argued Los Angeles Public Library head librarian Tessa Kelso, one of Deweyâs most outspoken critics, in a 1924 letter. Yet his behavior was often dismissed by male colleagues, including Deweyâs son, Godfrey, as mere âdisregard of conventions and indifference to appearances.â
But though Dewey championed women in library science, he also seemed to think that harassment came along with the jobâand his obsession with female studentsâ sexuality was so overt that rumors circulated he asked them to submit their bust measurements along with their applications. (He didnât.) He surrounded himself with librariansâoften spinstersâandinsistedon entertaining them in private. âŚ
Bringing Harassment Out of the History Books
Addressing the troubling aspects of Melvil Deweyâs legacy
By Anne Ford | June 1, 2018
Still, âI think there needs to be a more balanced awareness that he had human failings,â says Beck, professor emerita at Halle Library, Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.âTo have made him such a god-like figureâthe great Melvil Deweyânow seems kind of ridiculous. He was revered as this man who brought women into librarianship, but all these women he encouraged and worked with still had to be subordinate to him and were expected to look up to him as the great male leader.â
Which brings her to another point: âDewey, in the bigger picture, is part of a whole pattern of the subordination of women and the power dynamics of a profession in which for most of our history, men got all the executive positions and the better pay,â she says. (The AFL-CIO found that in 2014, women working as full-time librarians reported a median annual salary of $48,589, compared with $52,528 for men. It also found in 2010 that while only 17.2% of librarians were men, they held 40% of library director positions in universities.)
âSo in a way, I donât think we should just single out Dewey,â Beck finishes. âThere are many elements of keeping women subordinate.â
I admit I wasnât there, but I know a thing or two about the dynamics between men and women, and that of power to subservience. In my heart Iâm sure he got to home base a few times. Iâm sure he never thought of it as rape, but Iâll bet she(s) did.
@thatoneguy You can call it speculation, Iâm sure.
But, âmoronicâ - nope my dear boy,
itâs called human nature and what power (or lack thereof) does to people.
what just happened?
system just now â Automatically removed quote of whole previous post.
lets see if this goes through. 
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