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00:14I'm a beloved professor. I know you feel that way. Have you ever looked at my
00:19evaluations? Let's take a walk. Can we just take a walk? I have always felt the
00:26origin of anger in my vagina and I'm surprised he did not mention the word
00:30literature. Many students are uncomfortable that you
00:35haven't spoken out. Spoken out? You've been seen with him in public. He's my
00:39husband. That association is becoming difficult for the students. What? And the
00:44faculty. Who? You make me feel uncomfortable. In what way? Your behavior has
00:50been erratic. Well you can't just fire me. There's a process. I have tenure. We are
00:55asking you to voluntarily step down by the end of the week. Well I won't. If you
00:59don't we can't put you on administrative leave till the end of the year starting
01:02next week. We'd prefer it not come to that. Who would take over my classes? We're in
01:06the middle of a semester. Cynthia is well versed in your subject matter. This is
01:11about the file. What file? This is not about the file but... But what? It will be
01:15better for you if you voluntarily step down. Why? Because if we put you on
01:19administrative leave we will have to formalize the complaints. Really? Yes. Well if you do
01:26that David I will absolutely never even conceptualize fucking you ever again. What?
01:33That is perfectly fine. It is? Yes. I have no interest in doing that. You don't? No. Well thank
01:45you David. Thanks a whole fucking lot. I'm sorry what? I don't know. She's erratic.
02:07Have you spoken out? Of course I could have spoken out. Excuse me ma'am? Smoking is
02:12prohibited on campus. Don't they understand? I could have been a feminist hero if I wanted
02:17to be. Since when? Three years. I could have spoken out all over campus. Big swaths of adoring
02:24dewy young people just drooling over me as I lusciously spoke out. Ma'am? But it is against
02:31my principles. I do not have to answer for my husband's behavior. Are you gonna put your
02:36cigarette out? I mean I am my own person. I have done nothing wrong. May I see your ID?
02:42Oh well thank you for the compliment but I'm not a student. I'm a professor. Yeah I figured.
02:46Are you resisting? Oh okay. All right. I put it out. Okay? Now may I find a trash can because
02:53I don't litter. I need your ID. Why? What are you gonna do? Suspend me from teaching? No ma'am.
02:59I'm writing you a summons. What?
03:17Come in. Hey there. Oh hi. Is this a bad time? Uh sorry. Sorry. You heard. Heard what?
03:29Oh. Nothing. No. Nothing. You just uh you came to speak to me. Yeah. Yeah I know. I was on
03:37my
03:38way to class and I had to ask you. Have you ever read Susie Boyd? Loved and missed? Oh my
03:46god.
03:47Yes I just started that book. I haven't encountered a voice like hers in a very long time. You know
03:52when
03:52I read it I just kept thinking how could it be so emotional, so funny, and so good all at
03:57once.
03:57Yes. Exactly. It's the best book I've read in a while. Oh of course he thinks it's better than mine.
04:03It is better than mine. I believe in admiration, generosity, being a fan. That and yours. What?
04:11That and yours. I bet you say that to all the writers.
04:20Are you okay? What? I don't know. He just, he seemed, I don't know.
04:27You look a little forlorn. Oh. God. I thought I was hiding it so well.
04:34You can't hide anything. No? You're translucent. It's, it's beautiful.
04:48Oh. Can I put more home around to you? Of course. Thank you.
04:54Oh, I appreciate the kindness.
05:03I'll take you away.
05:07Professor Blavinsky?
05:08Oh.
05:14I'll see you later.
05:15Yeah.
05:17I mean, they can't just ordain that I go on administrative leave.
05:21Hey, I'm as angry as you are, but look at it as an opportunity. You'll still get paid.
05:26Not right.
05:27No? Brown suit, brown tie?
05:30Give me a pair of aviators, keep me 500 feet from a playground?
05:33Ugh, don't joke like that.
05:35I have to joke. It's the only thing I can do from keeping me losing my fucking mind.
05:39They're not allowed to keep me from my position when I did nothing wrong.
05:43Well, handle it after the hearing.
05:44No, no. I'm not going to sit here and take it like a, like a lump.
05:49Okay.
05:54What's this Lila's writing?
05:57I have scans. Don't think you can burn it.
06:00Hmm?
06:02May I take it?
06:05Alexis is going to be here in an hour.
06:07She is?
06:08We're bringing in the big guns.
06:09Are you and Alexis back together?
06:12Oh, we were never really broken up.
06:15Well, do you think you might have told me that she was coming?
06:17I mean, I'm really not in the mood for entertaining right now.
06:20Mom, I think one of the reasons you and Alexis never clicked
06:22is because you feel like you have to put on this big show like some 1950s housewife whenever she comes.
06:27You don't have to entertain.
06:29What do you think?
06:30Can you try a different tie?
06:32I want to dress like myself.
06:34What are you wearing?
06:35I'm not a 1950s housewife.
06:37Sorry.
06:38What are you wearing?
06:39I don't know.
06:41Mom, optics are important.
06:43If the complaints get dismissed, I bet a lot of your problems go away.
06:46What if they don't get dismissed?
06:48We sell the house, move to Mexico and everyone can fuck off.
07:08Everyone else can fuck off.
07:12I'm needed here.
07:14Not if you're not teaching.
07:15I'm going to be teaching, John.
07:17I need to talk to somebody about this.
07:20Mom, no.
07:20Don't do anything.
07:21Please.
07:22Please.
07:26Every year, the president of the college holds an event for business school alumni.
07:32Lynn likes to say that they are properly endowed.
07:50They made lace bath.
07:51Lynn.
07:52Hi.
07:53What are you doing here?
07:56This event is for business majors.
07:58Real people who help the college in a real way.
08:01Did you hear about the administrative leave?
08:03I can't talk about that right now.
08:05Well, can't you ask Steve to intervene?
08:07No.
08:08Do you think it's right that I get punished for John's actions?
08:11Steve has to look out for the college in general.
08:14Lynn, this is your chance to take a stand.
08:18You have a PhD in medieval philosophy, and yet all you do is entertain like some 1950s housewife.
08:24Because the only thing that's ever really mattered to you in your whole life is being approved of by men.
08:29Well, if I'm such a bone job, then why are you asking for my help?
08:34Lynn?
08:38Ma'am.
08:39No, Lynn said I could use her bathroom.
09:04I'm of a mind that if you come across a controlled substance, you should always take at least one.
09:12For the apocalypse.
09:25Sid made this for me when she was ten.
09:40Sid?
09:42What's up?
09:45Nothing.
10:09Run away with me.
10:10Run away with me.
10:19Blast.
10:21Oh, my God.
11:18Baby, have you ever held in bed?
11:21These are beautifully chopped peppers.
11:23Good morning.
11:23Good morning.
11:24Good morning, Sydney.
11:26Good morning.
11:27Did anyone feed you last night?
11:30Oh, yeah.
11:31Yeah, we ordered in.
11:32I know I just kind of sprang, this sprang sprung.
11:35No, you'd say either.
11:38Visit on you?
11:39And my mother would have been furious.
11:42No, no.
11:42Well, I mean, thank you for saying that, but no.
11:45Baby, these have to be tiny.
11:47That's what I'm doing.
11:48No, small.
11:48I hear you've come to save us.
11:50I'm just offering some advice and some moral support.
11:55Did you hear they asked me to step down from my tenure at the position?
12:00Yes.
12:01And she told me to do nothing until after the hearing.
12:05That's good.
12:06She's very right.
12:08You should listen to your daughter.
12:10She's a very good lawyer.
12:12And don't worry.
12:13We won't be in your hair too much longer.
12:14Nobody's in my hair.
12:15We're gonna head back to the city right after the hearing wraps up.
12:18Together?
12:19Yes.
12:20Are you moving back in with her?
12:22Why are you saying her like that?
12:23I just don't think you've proven that you're ready for the kind of relationship that she's been asking for.
12:27What? Don't talk a lot. Alexis is not standing here.
12:29It's fine. I think Syd knows what she's ready for.
12:31Listen, I know how it feels to be a 35-year-old woman.
12:35What?
12:36But do you really think that she's ready to be a co-parent? I mean, she can barely look after
12:40herself.
12:41Babe, what did you tell her?
12:42I, I, no. I told her we were maybe getting ready to start the process. Mom, you have to stop.
12:47Babe, that's our business.
12:48You're gonna be counting your eggs? She hasn't even got a job.
12:52I have five interviews lined up.
12:55In the city?
12:56Yes. That's where my life is.
12:58You haven't been telling me anything.
13:00Because I don't need to ask for your permission for everything I do. Like, I'm a fully grown adult.
13:04Well, you do not behave like one.
13:06Why are you being so mean?
13:07You need to speak to your daughter more respectfully.
13:09Oh, no thank you. Uh, uh, uh. No thank you.
13:12Guys, what's going on?
13:12Don't call me guys. I'm her mother. Where were you last night?
13:16Seeing a friend.
13:17You don't want me to be an adult. You want me to depend on you,
13:21so you can feel like you still matter.
13:25You're the one who's mean.
13:41Why are you so agitated?
13:43I don't want to talk about it. I wouldn't be in this position if it weren't for you.
13:47What position?
13:49They are asking me to give up my career.
13:52Wow, you are gone.
13:54You know what? You're right. Let's not talk about it.
13:55No, let's not.
13:56Yeah.
13:57Jesus Christ.
13:58You know, first of all, you could have spoken out against me or whatever you wanted and you chose not
14:04to.
14:04Excuse me?
14:05You have free will. Make your own choices.
14:07I, I, I can't believe that.
14:09Second of all, we only came to an agreement because of you.
14:11Oh.
14:12You're the one who let the door open for all this shit to happen.
14:14You mean so have I been more of a strict little wife then?
14:17I'm saying it was your idea.
14:19No, no. We came to this agreement together.
14:21It could have gone another way.
14:21We did not want a conventional marriage.
14:23We were being good, anti-establishment radicals.
14:26We didn't want to accept the status quo.
14:28Maybe that's what you wanted.
14:29I'm gone.
14:31You're gone.
14:32No, that is the most delusional thing I've ever heard in my life.
14:35You didn't want to fuck around.
14:37You were fucking around before we came to the agreement.
14:40That's why I suggested the fucking agreement in the first fucking place.
14:43Listen.
14:44I am not moving to Mexico.
14:49You've always been the most important person in my life.
14:53What a lie.
14:55No, I'm serious.
14:55John.
14:56I'm serious and I'm not conflicted with myself.
14:59I'm with you because I want to be with you.
15:03I wish you could say the same.
15:08I feel so manipulative motherfucker.
15:32As T.S. Eliot wrote,
15:34This is how the world ends.
15:36Not with a bang, but with an NP.
16:08I can't have my job.
16:10And I can't have my daughter.
16:12And I can't have the man I love.
16:16At least I can do something decent.
16:20Hey.
16:21Are you kidding me?
16:22More space.
16:24I want to tell you something.
16:25No.
16:26We're past that.
16:27Back up.
16:27Honey, I just want to tell you that I thought that this story was really rather brilliant.
16:32What is that?
16:33It's from your sub stack.
16:35The one you're going to use to defame me.
16:36I'm serious, Lila.
16:38It really touched me.
16:40There's an honesty there that I admire.
16:43Very, very good.
16:45I mean it.
16:46I'm not going to drop out of the case.
16:48No, that's not why I'm saying this.
16:50And you kept me from the scholarship.
16:51I don't think I did.
16:53You promised I would get it.
16:54No, I didn't.
16:55You told me I was the strongest candidate.
16:57Well, you were.
16:58But then you got cocky and lazy and you didn't put enough work into your application.
17:02I'm not lazy.
17:03Well, you can be.
17:04The work was not strong enough and you didn't try hard enough.
17:09But listen to me, Lila.
17:11I mean, who fucking cares?
17:13You know those people who are so good at things early on?
17:16Well, they usually turn into boring people whose biggest accomplishments are behind them by the time they're 25.
17:23You have your whole life in front of you.
17:27You didn't have to be great in high school or college or in your 20s.
17:31You can make mistakes.
17:33You can fuck a professor.
17:34Life is not about nailing it when you're young.
17:37It's about clinging to the fucking rock face no matter who or what tries to push you off.
17:44Don't make yourself irrelevant before you're done living your life.
17:47You will be irrelevant soon enough.
17:49Believe me.
17:59Okay, guys.
18:00Okay.
18:00Okay, folks.
18:01Folks, folks.
18:02I appreciate your dedication to this committee, but how much time do we want to waste on this, okay?
18:06The mother called the dean.
18:08She keeps emailing me.
18:09He wants us to just give the kid honor, so let's just give it to her.
18:12That's a terrible president.
18:13He wasn't even close to that.
18:14Wait.
18:14Wait.
18:15Wait.
18:15Wait.
18:15Wait.
18:15Wait.
18:19I have taken your recommendation into consideration.
18:23I plan to turn my next lecture into a public forum.
18:27I'll answer all student questions, including those about my marriage, tomorrow at three.
18:34I don't know if that's best for the students.
18:37Well, of course you don't, Florence, because you're my frenemy.
18:40I'm not that.
18:43Sweetie, I agree with Flo.
18:44This kind of thing is unpredictable.
18:45They want me to speak out, so I'm speaking out.
18:49What outcome do you expect?
18:51They'll see I'm an open book, and they will understand.
18:54Sorry, I don't think the students are in the right place to talk to teachers about this kind of stuff
18:59right now.
19:00I know you're coming from a good place, but it's generational.
19:02They just think about these things in a really different way.
19:06Well, I can offer up my perspective.
19:08I think it's a good idea.
19:10I do.
19:11I think the students want us to be real with them.
19:13That's what I found.
19:15What?
19:16They want you to be real.
19:19All of us?
19:20No.
19:20They want a literary celebrity with a cool jacket to be real with them.
19:24Not a middle-aged career professor.
19:27We were all you once.
19:29We know what changes.
19:34That's a little harsh, David.
19:36Well, I am going to be holding this forum whether you like it or not.
19:40And you are all invited.
19:42I have a dermatologist appointment.
19:44Very good.
20:09You will all have to forgive me for not speaking up sooner about the case against my husband.
20:14It was difficult for me to know how best to proceed.
20:18I wanted to provide you with the opportunity to write questions anonymously.
20:23So thank you very much for these.
20:26But if anyone has the urge to speak up directly, then I aim to be in a listening position.
20:38First question is, do you agree that what your husband did was wrong?
20:45Well, you have to understand that I come from a very different generation.
20:49When I was growing up, I was taught that my virginity was the most important thing about me.
20:55It was more important than my brain or my soul.
20:59We stigmatize sex by telling women that it's going to hurt them.
21:03I mean, these were consensual relationships.
21:06So if I say that John was wrong, I'm saying that these women were hurt by the act of having
21:13consensual sex,
21:14and I am not comfortable with that.
21:24The next question is, did you know about the affairs?
21:32Only vaguely, but in full disclosure, we had a marital agreement.
21:41What do you mean agreement? Do you mean an open marriage?
21:47Well, you could call it that. Like polyamory?
21:54Well, you could think of it as polyamory.
21:57We didn't, but you could.
22:05Yes, Aaron?
22:07What's your take on compersion?
22:08What is that?
22:09Like the well-being you feel when your partner takes pleasure in another relationship?
22:15Oh, I don't feel that.
22:18How do you deal with jealousy?
22:21Jealousy?
22:24Jealousy can be an opportunity.
22:27Sorry, your husband's relationships involve power imbalances,
22:31not relationships between consenting adults on equal footing.
22:35But who is ever on an equal footing?
22:38Aren't you adults? Aren't you capable of making your own decisions?
22:45I know it sounds like an old shibboleth, but it really was a different time.
22:49I mean, I would argue that in the past, love affairs with all different kinds of people,
22:54some who lifted you up, some who left you a little bruised.
22:58I mean, emotionally, of course, were considered within reason really kind of...
23:05fun.
23:06So a student suffering because of a teacher is fun?
23:09That's not what she's saying.
23:10Then what is she saying?
23:30I was looking for my keys.
23:32I had my forearm today.
23:36And?
23:38I don't know.
23:39I don't know.
23:40You'll be fine.
23:42One foot in front of the other.
23:44Where are you going?
23:46A friend.
23:47Who is this friend?
23:49You've been out every night this week.
23:52Nobody.
23:55It's helping.
24:01What's helping?
24:04What's helping?
24:26What's helping?
24:27I don't know.
24:55Inspiring.
25:21Hey.
25:22Hello.
25:23Come on in.
25:26Oh, uh, this way.
25:30Oh.
25:31I didn't realize this would be a group endeavor on a Saturday, no less.
25:37We thought it might be better to meet not on campus.
25:40Okay.
25:46Want a donut?
25:47Maple glazed?
25:49No.
25:50Okay then, let's just get to it since this is profoundly fucking awkward.
25:56We are happy to say we are not putting you on administrative leave.
26:00Oh.
26:02Oh.
26:03Wonderful.
26:04That is great.
26:06But the faculty has decided that you will be supervised.
26:12What do you mean by supervised?
26:13Your classes will be monitored.
26:16Monitored by whom?
26:18I'll take women in American fiction.
26:20Okay.
26:21And I'll take your seminar.
26:22And do what with it?
26:24We'll write up notes.
26:25It's administrative.
26:28It's accountability.
26:30And then we'll meet biweekly to review.
26:34Review what?
26:35To make sure that you are appropriately in line with our departmental goals.
26:39So you are going to be advising me as to whether or not my instruction is in line with
26:44your departmental goals in a biweekly meeting?
26:49It's a formality.
26:50It's a safety issue.
26:51We want to make sure our students feel safe.
26:54Some students requested that you be removed.
26:57Some advocated that you stay.
26:59So we feel that this is a compromise.
27:02To placate them.
27:04Yeah.
27:06They're in charge.
27:16Well, I appreciate the update.
27:21May I ask that this decision, uh, please not leave this room?
27:31Sure.
27:37Don't.
28:02It's the big day.
28:03Mm-hmm.
28:04Yeah, it is.
28:04How are you feeling?
28:05Good.
28:07Um, Alexis and Sid and I are going to go get breakfast and, I don't know, talk over the
28:13bullshit strategy.
28:14Mm-hmm.
28:15If you wanted to come or you can just meet us there.
28:17I'll meet you there.
28:22I do want you there.
28:23I know.
28:24I'm coming.
28:26You sure?
28:28John, I mean, this hearing is the only way out of this whole mess for you and for me.
28:31I have my own reasons to be there.
28:34Okay.
28:36Cynthia coming?
28:38Which one, Cynthia?
28:42I'm here.
28:43I'm here.
28:55I'm here.
29:31I'm so glad you're here.
29:31You changed your mind.
29:35Are you ready?
29:37You're done.
29:38My love.
30:01You're not like you love your freedom.
30:30I'm so glad you're here.
30:36I'm so glad you're here.
31:35I'm so glad you're here.
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