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00:00I'm a beloved professor. I know you feel that way. Have you ever looked at my
00:05evaluations? Let's take a walk. I mean, just take a walk. I have always felt the
00:12origin of anger in my vagina and I'm surprised it's not mentioned more in
00:16literature. Many students are uncomfortable that you haven't spoken out.
00:22Stalk it out? You've been seen with him in public. He's my husband. That association is
00:28becoming difficult for the students. What? And the faculty. You make me feel
00:34uncomfortable. In what way? Your behavior has been erratic. Well, you can't just fire me.
00:39There's a process. I have tenure. We are asking you to voluntarily step down by the
00:43end of the week. Well, I won't. If you don't, we can't put you on administrative leave
00:47until the end of the year starting next week. We'd prefer not come to that. I mean,
00:51who would take over my classes? We're in the middle of a semester. Cynthia is well
00:54versed in your subject matter. This is about the file. What file? This is not about the
01:00file. But what? It will be better for you if you voluntarily step down. Why? Because if
01:05we put you on administrative leave, we will have to formalize the complaints. Really?
01:10Yes. Well, if you do that, David, I will absolutely never even conceptualize fucking you ever again.
01:19What? That is perfectly fine. It is? Yes. I have no interest in doing that.
01:28You don't? No. Well, thank you, David. Thanks a whole fucking lot.
01:40I'm sorry, what? I don't know. She's erratic.
01:53You've spoken out? Of course I could have spoken out.
01:57Excuse me, ma'am? Smoking is perivitant on campus.
01:59You don't me understand? I could have been a feminist hero if I wanted to be. Since when?
02:05Three years.
02:06I could have spoken out all over campus. Big swaths of adoring, dewy young people just drooling
02:13over me as I lusciously spoke out. Ma'am? But it is against my principles. I do not
02:20have to answer for my husband's behavior. Are you going to put your cigarette out?
02:23I am my own person. I have done nothing wrong. May I see your ID? Oh, well, thank you for
02:29the compliment, but I'm not a student. I'm a professor. Yeah, I figured. Are you resisting?
02:34Oh, okay. Um, all right. I put it out. Okay? Now, may I find a trash can? Because I don't
02:40litter. I need your ID. Why? What are you going to do? Suspend me from teaching? No, ma'am.
02:46I'm writing you a summons. What?
02:49What? Come in.
03:07Hey there. Oh, hi. Is this a bad time? Uh, sorry. Sorry. You heard. Heard what?
03:16Oh, nothing. No, nothing. You just, uh, you came to speak to me. Yeah, yeah, no, I was
03:24on my way to class, and I had to ask you, have you ever read Susie Boynt?
03:31Loved and Missed? Oh, my God. Yes, I just started that book. I haven't encountered a voice like
03:36hers in a very long time. You know, when I read it, I just kept thinking, how could it
03:40be so emotional, so funny, and so good all at once? Yes, exactly. It's the best book
03:46I've read in a while. Oh, of course he thinks it's better than mine. It is better than mine.
03:51I believe in admiration, generosity, being a fan. That and yours. What? That and yours.
03:59I bet you say that to all the writers.
04:06Are you okay? What? Well, you just, you seem, I don't know. You look a little forlorn.
04:16Oh, God. I thought I was hiding it so well. You can't hide anything. No? You're translucent.
04:26It's beautiful. Oh. Can I put more armor around you? Of course. Thank you. Oh, I appreciate
04:43the kindness. I'll take you away.
05:01I'll see you later. Yeah. I mean, they can't just ordain that I go on administrative leave.
05:08Hey, I'm as angry as you are, but look at it as an opportunity. You'll still get paid.
05:12Not right. No? Round suit, brown tie? Give me a pair of aviators, keep me 500 feet from
05:19the playground? Don't joke like that. I have to joke. It's the only thing I can do, keeping
05:24me losing my fucking mind. They're not allowed to keep me from my position when I did nothing
05:28wrong. We'll handle it after the hearing. No, no. I'm not going to sit here and take it
05:32like a, like a lump. Okay.
05:41Is this Lila's writing?
05:43I have scans. Don't think you can burn it.
05:47Hmm. May I take it?
05:52Alexis is going to be here in an hour. She is?
05:54We'll bring in the big guns. Are you and Alexis back together?
05:58Oh, we were never really broken up.
06:02Well, do you think you might have told me that she was coming? I mean, I'm really not in
06:04the mood for entertaining right now. Well, I think one of the reasons you and Alexis never
06:08click is because you feel like you have to put on this big show like some 1950s housewife
06:13whenever she comes. You don't have to entertain.
06:15What do you think? Can you try a different tie? I want to dress like myself.
06:20What are you wearing? I'm not a 1950s housewife. Sorry. What are you wearing? I don't know.
06:27Mom, optics are important. If the complaints get dismissed, I bet a lot of your problems go
06:32away. What if they don't get dismissed? We sell the house, move to Mexico, and everyone
06:37can fuck off.
06:58I'm needed here. Not if you're not teaching. I'm going to be teaching, John. I need to talk
07:05to somebody about this. Mom, no, don't do anything. Please, please.
07:12Every year, the president of the college holds an event for business school alumni.
07:18Lynn likes to say that they are properly endowed.
07:38Hi. What are you doing here?
07:42This event is for business majors, real people who help the college in a real way.
07:47Did you hear about the administrative leave?
07:49I can't talk about that right now.
07:51Well, can't you ask Steve to intervene?
07:53No.
07:54Do you think it's right that I get punished for John's actions?
07:57Yes. Steve has to look out for the college in general.
08:01Lynn, this is your chance to take a stand. You have a PhD in medieval philosophy, and yet
08:08all you do is entertain like some 1950s housewife. Because the only thing that's ever really
08:12mattered to you in your whole life is being approved of by men.
08:15Well, if I'm such a bone job, then why are you asking me for my help?
08:21Lynn?
08:22How many times are your parents?
08:24I would die.
08:25Ma'am.
08:26No, Lynn said I could use for a bathroom.
08:29Yeah.
08:41Hmm.
08:50I'm of a mind that if you'd come across a controlled substance, you should always take at least
08:55one.
08:58For the apocalypse.
09:11Sid made this for me when she was 10.
09:26Sid.
09:27Sid?
09:28What's up?
09:31Nothing.
09:55Run away with me.
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19:10Not a middle-aged career professor.
19:14We were all you once. We know what changes.
19:20It's a little harsh, dear.
19:23Well, I am going to be holding this forum, whether you like it or not.
19:27And you are all invited.
19:29I have a dermatologist appointment.
19:31Very good.
19:55You will all have to forgive me for not speaking up sooner about the case against my husband.
20:00It was difficult for me to know how best to proceed.
20:04I wanted to provide you with the opportunity to write questions anonymously,
20:09so thank you very much for these.
20:12But if anyone has the urge to speak up directly, then I aim to be in a listening position.
20:24First question is,
20:27do you agree that what your husband did was wrong?
20:31Well, you have to understand that I come from a very different generation.
20:36When I was growing up, I was taught that my virginity was the most important thing about me.
20:42It was more important than my brain or my soul.
20:45We stigmatize sex by telling women that it's going to hurt them.
20:50These were consensual relationships.
20:52So if I say that John was wrong, I'm saying that these women were hurt by the act of having
20:59consensual sex,
21:00and I am not comfortable with that.
21:10The next question is, um...
21:16Did you know about the affairs?
21:19Only vaguely?
21:22But in full disclosure,
21:25we had a marital agreement.
21:27What do you mean agreement?
21:29Do you mean an open marriage?
21:33Well, you could call it that.
21:35Like polyamory?
21:38Well...
21:41You could think of it as polyamory.
21:43We didn't, but...
21:46you could.
21:51Yes, Aaron.
21:53What's your take on conversion?
21:55What is that?
21:56Like, the well-being you feel when your partner takes pleasure in another relationship?
22:01Oh, I don't feel that.
22:05How do you deal with jealousy?
22:08Jealousy?
22:11Jealousy can be an opportunity.
22:13Sorry, your husband's relationships involve power imbalances,
22:17not relationships between consenting adults on equal footing.
22:21But who is ever on an equal footing?
22:25Aren't you adults? Aren't you capable of making your own decisions?
22:31I know it sounds like an old shibboleth, but it really was a different time.
22:36I mean, I would argue that in the past, love affair is with all different kinds of people,
22:41some who lifted you up, some who left you a little bruised,
22:45I mean, emotionally, of course,
22:47were considered, within reason, really kind of...
22:51fun.
22:53So a student suffering because of a teacher is fun?
22:55That's not what she's saying.
22:57Then what is she saying?
23:17I was looking for my keys.
23:19I had my forum today.
23:23And?
23:24I don't know.
23:26You'll be fine.
23:28One foot in front of the other.
23:31Where are you going?
23:32Our friend.
23:34Who is this friend?
23:36You been out every night this week?
23:38Nobody.
23:41It's helping.
23:47What's helping?
23:50What's helping?
23:53What's helping?
24:06What's helping?
24:40Inspiring.
25:07hey hello morning
25:13oh this way
25:17oh i didn't realize this would be a group endeavor
25:21on a saturday no less we thought it might be better to meet not on campus
25:27okay
25:32want a donut maple glazed no okay then let's just get to it since this is profoundly
25:39fucking awkward thank you we are happy to say we are not putting you on administrative leave
25:50wonderful that is great but the faculty has decided that you will be supervised
25:58what do you mean by supervised your classes will be monitored monitored by whom i'll take
26:05women in american fiction okay and i'll take your seminar and do what with it we'll write
26:11up notes it's administrative it's accountability and then we'll meet bi-weekly to review review
26:20what to make sure that you are appropriately in line with our departmental goals so you
26:26are going to be advising me as to whether or not my instruction is in line with your departmental
26:32goals in a bi-weekly meeting it's a formality it's a safety issue we want to make sure our
26:39students feel safe some students requested that you be removed some advocated that you stay
26:45so we feel that this is a compromise to placate them they're in charge
27:02well i appreciate the update may i ask that this decision uh please not leave this room
27:16sure thank you don't
27:48it's the big day
27:49yeah it is how are you feeling good um alexis and sid and i are going to go get breakfast
27:55and i don't know talk over the bullshit strategy if you wanted to come or you can just meet us
28:03there i'll meet you there
28:08i do want you there i know i'm coming you sure john i mean this hearing is the only way
28:16out of this
28:17whole mess for you and for me i have my own reasons to be there okay cynthia coming which one
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29:17I'm so glad you changed your mind.
29:21Are you ready?
29:23You're done.
29:25My love.
29:50Your freedom.
29:53You're done.
30:14Help me, I think I'm falling in love too fast
30:20He's got me hoping for the future
30:48He's got me hoping for the future
31:11He's got me hoping for the future
31:26He's got me hoping for the future
31:27He's got me hoping for the future
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