Mr. Reitman, who is now 34 and is a visiting fellow at Harvard, says that Professor Ronell kissed and touched him repeatedly, slept in his bed with him, required him to lie in her bed, held his hand, texted, emailed and called him constantly, and refused to work with him if he did not reciprocate. Mr. Reitman is gay and is now married to a man; Professor Ronell is a lesbian.

In the Title IX final report, excerpts of which were obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Reitman said that she had sexually harassed him for three years, and shared dozens of emails in which she referred to him as “my most adored one,” “Sweet cuddly Baby,” “cock-er spaniel,” and “my astounding and beautiful Nimrod.”

When he got to New York, the behavior continued, he said, when after Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, Professor Ronell showed up at his apartment because her power had gone out. He said that, despite his objections, she convinced him that they could both sleep in his bed together. Once there, she groped and kissed him each night for nearly a week, he said.

“I woke up with a slight fever and sore throat,” she wrote in an email on June 16, 2012, after the Paris trip. “I will try very hard not to kiss you — until the throat situation receives security clearance. This is not an easy deferral!” In July, she wrote a short email to him: “time for your midday kiss. my image during meditation: we’re on the sofa, your head on my lap, stroking you [sic] forehead, playing softly with yr hair, soothing you, headache gone. Yes?”

Professor Ronell and some who are backing her have tried to discredit her accuser in familiar ways, asking why he took so long to report, and why he seemed so intimate with Professor Ronell if he was, in fact, miserable. Maybe, Professor Ronell suggested, he was frustrated because he just wasn’t smart enough.

“His main dilemma was the incoherency in his writing, and lack of a recognizable argument,” Professor Ronell said in a January 2018 interview submitted to the Title IX office.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

She called him a "nimrod", which seems to be confirmed in the quotes under CH's my favorite part.

“my astounding and beautiful Nimrod.”

His name is Nimrod.

His name is Nimrod.

Based on its title and content, I would have assumed this thread was started by jimmypasta or chaspopcap.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Could you be more specific?

Have a terrible night and die in MANY fires.

A gay Jew versus a lesbian feminist immigrant. This is like the Ali v Frazier of shitlibs

Well, both he and his abuser share "Israeli heritage," according to said abuser.

I thought Nimrod was from fucking Babylonia or something. Jews love to appropriate cultures, I guess.

I meant is Denis or the guy in the story a nimrod.

Never mind....I'll see myself out.