Here's a story to warm your heart for the new year.

Short Version: A feminist biology grad student latched her claws into a lab to do research and within the year had it shut down. Betrayed the trust of her friend, cost the University millions in lost grants, made a dozen students lose their research, a few innocent lab techs lost their jobs, and she feels like a hero.

You already know this special type of "Stem Student" if you've been in higher education, she took the path of least resistance to a Stem degree, found out there were no jobs, and decided to retreat to grad school. Pretty typical story so far. Then she lucks into getting an invite to work in a lab which should give her the real world experience she needs to find employment. But we all know feminists are miserable creatures that ruin whatever they're involved in.

Our Feminazi finds out that the professor might be sleeping with a student. Now you would think she would be happy that a fellow woman was so empowered as to engage in hypergamy, but no she is a jealous little butch girl. So she starts complaining. Eventually she causes so much trouble that the people in the lab are like... GTFO. This hurts her feeeellliiiinnngggss.

So she runs to her feminist friends at the school admin building. You know, the ones who have never done any research and make their cushy living off students tuition by pushing the 'rape culture'. Within the year she gets the lab shut down, the school loses millions in grants, a dozen students lose their lab, a few people lose their job who weren't involved in anything. And the feminazi is proud of her accomplishments and is now working with the university to ruin even more peoples lives. In fact, to certain subreddits, she is a hero!

Moral of the Story: You have to be an insane person to ever bring a feminist into your organization. They do not care about advancing medicine, they don't care about your job or that you might have a family to support. They live an existence full of hate. If you see a girl with any feminist leanings applying to your company ( e.g. they took women's lit, have a feminist blog, etc) you need to next them as quickly as possible. Best case scenario they will half ass their way through their job, worst case they find whatever reason to sue you that they can.

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Throwaway here, otherwise regular reader of TwoX. I am a PhD student at a major public research university. My (now former) PhD advisor had an extramarital relationship with an undergrad who was paid to work in our lab and given many special privileges as a result of her relationship with the professor. When I let the undergrad (someone I considered a friend) know that I was aware of their relationship out of concern for her, the professor began a campaign of retaliation that eventually drove me out of the lab and led me to reporting the way he was treating me and his relationship to the department head. He also repeatedly sexually harassed other female members of the lab. I was effectively removed from the department after making this report.

Sexual assault between students is very prominent in the national spotlight right now, but I believe the focus on the undergrad assault problem has allowed some universities to turn a blind eye to the fact that their own professors can be guilty of sexual misconduct as well. When professors engage in sexual misconduct it can cut a wide path of destruction, even when a physical assault hasn't happened. This professor's actions ultimately cost him his job, close to a million dollars in grant money (all returned to funding institutions), 2 grad students were left without labs, 2 grad students were fortunate enough to be able to graduate early, 1 lab manager was unemployed, and 8 undergrads were left without a lab.

I am now working within my university to try and improve reporting and investigation procedures and to find protections for STEM graduate students who live and die by their advisors so that grad students don't have to choose between reporting misconduct and potentially ruining their own careers to do so or just dealing with a hostile environment.

So AMA about what it was like going through the (now 2 year long) process, what I'm doing about it now, or about being a female graduate student in biomedical science. Or ask me something random. I was going to write up the whole story of what happened as a sort of catharsis, but I figured it might be more useful to others who might have questions about what happens in similar situations to try it this way. *I'd be happy to verify details with mods.

Update

She got called out in the thread by a former classmate. A lying feminist, HOW SHOCKING

Wow, I can't believe I came across this. I am acutely aware of this situation as it has directly affected me, and quite frankly, I just want to set the record straight. I had worked in this lab, and was one of the people that lost my position due to this whole mess.

To set the record straight, yes there was a relationship with an undergraduate student and the faculty. No, it was not that big a deal, until the OP brought it up with the undergraduate student. The reason that she brought it up with the undergrad goes back to a meeting that both were late for.

In this meeting, the OP got chewed out (I would assume that this is the harassment she speaks about), while the undergrad did not. Now, the reason this had happened is simply because OP had been late multiple times for multiple staff meetings, while the undergraduate student was mostly on time. She took this very personally, and decided to report this relationship. There was no sexual harassment as she states, only the yelling a supervisor would do.

It is true that this caused the funding to cease. This is the primary motivation for no one wanting her to join their lab. She cost the school millions over a personal vendetta. This is also why she is not working in academia and is pursuing a "start up". No one would write her any letters of recommendation. As for the faculty member that was fired, as she said, he is currently at his old university in a teaching/research position, and last I had heard, he had recouped the funding that had been lost to him.

[She replies with bullshit]

That's not true and you know it. The meeting I am talking about took place Sept 10th at 9 am. You were 10 minutes late for our weekly meeting. After that is when you cornered the undergraduate and told her that you knew what was going on etc.

You are not a brave whistleblower. You are a busybody that caused alot of us undue hardship.