Do you think someone like Jed Rubenfeld would have accepted and agreed to a two-year, hush-hush, unpaid suspension had he not sexually harrassed students and been creepy in classroom and other mandated academic experiences (in his home!)?
Sorry I don't.
Did you think that Rahm Emanuel actually agreed to that $5 million dollar payout to LaQuan McDonald's family -- before a civil lawsuit, or criminal charges against the officer came -- before he saw video, body-camera footage of the killing?
Of course not.
If you know men, you know the likes of Emanuel, and Rubenfeld, and even Kavanaugh. They have told us who they are. Aged now, they have show us again and again who they are. We permit this, and lionize men like Philip Roth even, for their alleged skills in their field.
But nobody really likes men who never much mature past boyhood into a greater sexual and code-of-honor manhood. They thrill at what they can ... get away with!
Imagine the mature young men and women, some married themselves, who find themselves at the mercy of professors playing psycho-sexual games in the classroom, like Rubenfeld has admitted doing, steering the discussions in public, with an audience of other young persons (and sometimes, mature non-trad students too.)
After awhile, so many men -- and women -- like this look outside their own marital bonds for sexual thrills -- not consummated necessarily, but... showy. Proudly displaying. I imagine after awhile, the excitement his Asian-American wife brought to the mix faded, and he sought excitement outside the marriage in the classroom, and then, at his home, with the students Chua procured...
Seen in this light, Rubenfeld and Chua are the Epstein and Maxwell of the blue-blood fading academic legacy schools... Poor Kavanaugh was just like a prince or a president or a CEO -- sexually immature themselves, not achieving a mature honor code or loyalty to family -- being presented with these beautiful, qualified, sculpted model types who externally all shared a similar body type in addition to being intellectually the brightest of the Yale admittees...
It's good that finally even American academia will be forced by the new numbers of young people to begin cleaning house. Rubenfeld never would have accepted that suspension if he knew that what would come out would be something trivial and less than two years worth of his pay, and the damage to his reputation...
Chua should have kept quiet, but needed the attention, poor pet. She invited reporters into her home, and her world, with her husband, perhaps, skulking in the background... Chua is coy about athis. Their girls are grown, their stories are told, their reputations still semi-intact.
But the truth is out about whether or not a professional young person with established family and religious values, woman or man, who wants to learn the law and not just buy access (I'll let you in my circles if you let me in ... yours. -) would want to play those games at Yale Law.
Do you have to drink and sexually socialize out East to make it professionally? Do you have to wear those horrible shoes, men and women, with no support for the adult body? Do you have to accept the "sophistication" of divorce, broken homes, blended families, sexual fantasies played out in public settings with an audience, etc.?
No wonder they make more and live lives of such lesser quality. If you're content to be playing for the rewards of people like Chua and Rubenfeld in the rat race, you likely will not come out with your own integrity intact. Kids today see that, the "minorities" especially.
Harvard and Yale and the likes of that legacy class will crumble in time, from within. The more social media puts the behind-the-scenes on display, the wiser potential applicants become and the more will reject those types of classes and professors. Hence the push by the school to get Rubenfeld to teach no necessary classes, that students must take and therefore, potentially throw themselves into that mix...
No all of us have fathers and brothers as skeezy and sexually open as Rubenfeld admittedly was to his students. That doesn't make for a better lawyer. Rubenfeld should divorce Chue, take his earnings and step away and look elsewhere for his Second Mountain in life to climb. He's likely smarting too, with two daughters who physically resemble the wife, but no son to survive him.
I suspect their story is not ended, and the drama (Rubenfeld studied drama for two years at Julliard, nttawwt) will continue in decades to come... Will you buy the book?
ADDED: Remember, this is the Power Couple responsible for foisting JD Vance on the nation. Tall, stocky for his age as a result of MawMaw's cooking and all the soda pops guzzled up in his hillbilly boyhood dreams, Vance enlisted in the Marines, finished Ohio State "early" and got admitted to Yale as a veteran diversity candidate, where he met Chua, and the rest is history...
She recommended his "Big White Boy Overcomes Bigly -- and you can too if you're not so damn lazy, go to church, get married and stay off the opioids!" story to publishers, it became a bestseller bought by liberals in the Age of Trump equally as they lapped up TaNehisi Coates's lessons on how to make peaceful reckoning and forgive themselves for what they'd done to black people (I think that's what buying the book bought them without having to really read it...)
Unlike Coates (Black), Vance's bestseller got optioned into a movie by the Hollywood liberals though, with the mature white woman star even shaking her beautiful booty to applause from Black tablemates after losing an acting award... what a good sport she is!
And Vance too, who has continued in his Peter Principle success journey of riding the "I overcame, MawMaw, I overcame!" narrative past the bestseller lists, past the movie marquees and Sunday morning talk shows, past the Venture Capital circles into the Holy Grail of politics. This Big Boy from Ohio, who started out as a lowly military man and leapt to such heights thanks to where his Yale- and Chua-fueled connections took him...
He's running at about 4% voter approval in that Ohio prospective race, but it's early. The polls don't start churning until later, but you know he too will accept defeat graciously, shaking his booty proudly too, if asked. Unlike Rubenfeld, he has at least one son now by his Asian-American wife, and as a convertee to Catholicism, he will take his vows more seriously, I suspect, in that showy way they do... The traditionalism appeals to the male converts, it seems. And they come in a bit more mature than the Kavanaugh boy-child who only became a man much later in life, shielded by the protective environment in which he was raised and educated.
It's good that times change, because this is how true diversity happens. You break, at the top, the players feeding these select fellows and pushing their narratives, non-naturally. Trust me, Hillbilly Elegy is not what America was waiting to hear -- the Big White Boy Overcomes story. And most importantly, it never did explain the voting phenomena that produced Donald Trump's presidency anymore than Coates' book seriously laid out a legislative and economic plan for racial reparations, as had been seriously discussed in the law reviews for years before his bestseller dropped...
Putting the academies back in the service of the scholars will be a helpful start in addressing American society's inequities. The young people who don't fit the mold -- legacywise, bodywise, colorwise or religionswise -- are coming up with the energy that the old guard fed off of for so long. And if you haven't heard from them?
They have demands. Keep on ignoring and promoting your own preferred players and stories at your own risk. But it's harder to make a movie of that!
Every single one of 'em has got the Devil inside... Results-wise, dollar for dollar and pound for pound, this war crew made Donald Trump's team look like a cast of choir boys. No major wars, no unpaid promises, no regime changes on our Don's watch... The press was complicit in the Bush regime and wars, as were the Dems in power then. That's why they gave the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld legacy a pass while trying to crucify Donald Trump for his alleged sins. Plus, character sells papers and DJT oozes character while these three blind men merely bled blood...
Ghosts, not GOATs.
Hudson, New Richmond... rather affluent too. And very white (nttawwt). Educated people (a UW branch is in nearby River Falls). I hope any national media covering this maybe double think their idea of Trump supporters, even today, being uneducated opioid-addicted fools. They're not, they're flag-waving folk with funds. Just sayin'.
