Rosa Freedman told to 'Choose your words carefully'

If the university didn't act to investigate / reprimand I'd be shocked and alarmed, but she hasn't said that has she - the implication is she's just received this.

This woman has been emotionally terrorised for some time by these entitled thought police, and this time she snapped. Who can blame her? I can’t.

I'd still expect a staff member to invoke internal complaint or disciplinary procedures. If I'd received that, I'd want an enquiry into this business of 'working' with the university, and I would either explain to him what made his email offensive or expect another party to do so following disciplinary procedures or informal action short of disciplinary procedures.

If I wanted to comment on twitter, I'd leave his name out of it. I don't think it's victim blaming to criticise her reaction. Other people's bad behaviour doesn't give you a free pass. She didn't deserve to receive that message, but unless Reading's conduct and disciplinary provisions are way outside the norm, she's published it unnecessarily and her action looks unprofessional to me.

He did that - clumsily and pompously

I think you are hugely minimising his behaviour. His email was menacing and threatening. Rosa has been putting up with this sort of shit for a few years now and it seems she is at the end of her tether. The uni also have a duty of care to its staff and while they may have dealt with incidents when they have happened, they aren't preventing them from happening over and over again. Alex clearly thought that this kind of behaviour was acceptable.

Was it Professor Freedman who had students pissing over her office door?

Ah yes it was

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-46454454

He clearly doesn't believe there's 'an uneven balance of power'. He's absolutely acting like he's in control: he calls her Rosa, he accuses her of being 'problematic' and implies her views are on a level with racism, then he demands that she meets him quickly before he takes things further, while also telling her to choose her words carefully.

I don't think calling him out on twitter was appropriate or professional. There's an uneven balance of power between academic and student.

I agree entirely with her stance on gender ideology.

@nonever If men don’t want their threatening private messages to women made public, perhaps they should think of that before they send them.
Said much more succinctly than I've managed so far!

Yeah. Blame the victim. Mean old Rosa Freedman for standing up for herself against a wannabe bully.

If men don’t want their threatening private messages to women made public, perhaps they should think of that before they send them.

And the Daily Mail approached Mr Wareham but he refused to comment.

Tanith

Do you know for sure whether or not the University had been told of this email?

Because the way I read it was that she was at the end of her tether.

She didn't sound like someone for whom the disciplinary process had worked. And this email certainly shows that people are still emboldened to send her threats.

Rosa Freedman has said that Reading University has supported her. They were on a TRA list of “dangerous” universities for trans people because they do listen to both sides and deal with problems. They’ve dealt with students targeting her in the past.

On this occasion, she has bypassed their disciplinary procedure to publish the full name and email address of this student. Please don’t insult our intelligence by quibbling over whether or not it’s doxxing because it was his university email address: he is now identifiable. That is doxxing.

You’d be raging if a TRA did that to a GC woman.

Parents and students are currently looking at universities with a view to next term’s admissions. They now know that, at Reading, there is a member of staff who believes naming and shaming a student on Twitter and in the national press is an acceptable alternative to using the University’s disciplinary procedure.

You would not like it if the roles were reversed. People can now point and say “it’s both sides!” You may be sure that the TRAs will do exactly that.

An but the kiddies will be expecting a personalised 4 page report won’t they? There are some serious ‘little emperor’ vibes there...

WarOnWoman - whoever has been given the job to ‘look into’ all the comments (not that they will I suppose - can you imagine your boss saying ‘can you just respond to 800 people on twitter, some of whom will demand a personalise reply, or else they will demand a meeting with God to complain’) and whoever is running their twitter account (terrified of saying the wrong thing and getting dogs abuse).

I wonder if they were 'looking into it' before she put it on Twitter.

And her work on the politicisation of human rights is held in very high regard, and the university benefits from that.

Her summary of the history of human rights is the best and most succinct that I've ever seen.

A Woman's Place is at the Bar (Professor Rosa Freedman, Reading, 4th December 2018)

Who?

I almost feel sorry for them.

Both!