Dr. Terence Kealey, a top administrator at a major British university, is facing a torrent of criticism for writing that staring at female students in class is a “perk” of teaching college.
In the same article — a humor piece for the Times Higher Education supplement — Kealey (pictured at right) called the idea that student-faculty sex “represents an abuse of power” a “myth.”
He also compared classrooms to high-end strip clubs.
Olivia Bailey, the Women’s Officer of Britain’s National Union of Students, said she was appalled by Kealey’s “astounding lack of respect for women,” and commenters online have called the article a defense of sexual harrassment.
But Kealey, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, is unrepentant, saying he was merely ” employing humour to highlight the ways by which people try to resolve the dissonance between what is publicly expected of them and how they actually feel.”
studentactivism.net 
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September 23, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Patrick
Ah, the classic misogynist “lighten up” defense. What an idiot.
September 30, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Roy
As my great women’s studies professor Flavia Rando, recently fired for the crime of being an adjunct too long, once said, “You know you’re on to something when they start telling you that you’re too sensitive and need to ‘lighten up.'”