University professor tweets sexual harassment is his hobby

Sex harassment can be done BY females too.

Wonder if they’ll fire him or just slap him on the wrist.

These days universities are looking for any excuse to fire their tenured faculty and replace them with contract employees. Regardless of the intent, the professor was unwise to tweet about sexual harassment in a way that appears to make light of the matter.

It seems like he was trying his hand at satire or a thought experiment, rather than condone sexual harassment or state a fact (that he enjoys sexual harassment).

Slow news day? Over sensitive much?

Another instance of universities being supposedly full of clever people when clearly they are not.

Moreover, some people in them would never survive in the outside (corporate) world, and vice versa.

Why do I think this guy is not clever? Well, if you think of tweets, I think of 'channeling Trump'.

Sexual harassers are men in positions of authority on a violent power trip. The perpetrator may use force, threats, and manipulation or sweet talk and flattery (or a combination) but the end result has less to do with sex than leveraging their power to manipulate and coerce people less powerful than themselves. I've personally never heard of offenders talk in terms of simply 'wanting to touch' but even if they use sex addiction as a reason it is generally speaking an excuse -- simply seeking a justification for bad behavior (serial womanizing, philandering, harassment, etc).

Bad article, meaninglesly pushing an agenda and gaining nothing with it...

LudditeJuly 5 07:14 pm JSTWhat a stupid man.

Yes, but remember what Donald Trump says on tweet and in public. He brags about it like an 11-year-old kid.

Still an idiot. Fire him. We have an overabundance of perverts in education already - both in the closet and out.

Hope he has tenure. People can say stupid or controversial things. Im sure people here have done so too. Sure you'd hate to lose your job over it. As a professor, he should have added protection so as to talk openly about controversial subjects instead of towing the party line.

The prof probably chose some very ill-advised comments to make, though. For a man of learning, he doesn't seem all that clued up.

The full tweet as translated by Kazuaki above suggests that this headline is highly misleading and unfair to the prof.

I think that employment contracts should come with a "delete your twitter" clause.

This just shows the low level of higher education in Japan.

@Kazuaki Shimazaki Thanks for your added info. This story is taken out of context.

He was doing a thought exercise and naively shared it in public.

Social networks have become the P.C. thought police. Appears he was trying to start a meaningful conversation by pointing out many meaningless statements.

He isn't allowed to say that he likes touching womens' bodies? See how bad that sounds when taken out of context? Think I discovered why Japanese birth rates are so low if that isn't allowed.

nobody was ever promoted for a good tweet, but many careers have ended because of a bad tweet.

This is why I never use

Ok professor, me too!

Come play with me and see what happens to you.

Have Japanese old guys been suddenly hit with a Bug that makes them tell the Truth ?

What a stupid man.

He'll get a 5% pay cut for two or three months and 'urged' not to post anything like that again.

"Kagawa University’s public relation office has announced it will further investigate the contents and take appropriate disciplinary measures against the professor who joined the university in 2003."

Yeah, I can see that resulting in nothing pretty quick. Certainly won't result in a firing or even anything besides the apology, except maybe the university will still allow sexual harassment but ban Tweeting so as making it less easy to be caught. They certainly seem more embarrassed about being in the spotlight than upset about the content.

@Kazuaki Shimazaki

Thanks for adding this detail, which seems kinda important. I don't know why this article didn't include it. It's still not the smartest thing to tweet, but it puts it into a different context.

http://www.yukawanet.com/archives/5386649.html

To be fair to that guy, here's what he said:

However, as the amount of discussion on severe sexual harassment increases on (my?) timeline, (I) start wanting to say "My hobby is sexual harassment. Doesn't it feel good?"

(After all,) saying is not the same as doing it, and some statements of "I don't sex harass" can be taken like my above statement - meaningless.