How I Learned to Look Believable
“[I]t is my understanding that these hearings are basically like courtrooms — where the plaintiff is the administration and the defendant is the accused. When the University of California professor Blake Wentworth was fired, it was after an Academic Senate committee hearing.
“I can’t say whether I participated in such a hearing, but I can say that on the morning of Nov. 2 I carefully showered, sprayed my hair with leave-in conditioner, put on my VPL-free underwear I’d bought the year before at Uniqlo, put on those same Club Monaco dress pants, and took the black and gray sweater out of its drawer.
“But what shirt? […] At Madewell, I bought a short-sleeved gray flannel collared shirt and a black button-down printed with gold stars. I obviously wanted to wear the star shirt — if nothing else, this experience has brought me face to face with my own brightness — but it was too bulky for the sweater. And you know what they say about harassment victims with visible shirttails: They’re lying.”
Sometimes all you can control is what’s on the outside.
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