Early this morning Pasadena City College history instructor and internet-famous male feminist Hugo Schwyzer, who has been conducting a slow-motion self-immolation all summer, interrupted his online hiatus to offer yet another admission of wrongdoing.
Hugo Schwyzer
This one is likely the most significant yet.
In a brief middle-of-the-night blogpost, Schwyzer admitted that a pseudonymous accusation posted on Tumblr a few days ago was true, and that he has been conducting sexual relationships with students for more than five years:
“Until recently, I maintained that I had stopped having sex with students enrolled in my classes in 1998. That is not true; I started sleeping with students again in 2008, well before my psychiatric breakdown of earlier this year.
I have no intention of naming names or of discussing numbers, save to say that the allegations “Meagan” makes are true and that I did indeed have sex with more than one adult student. There is no excuse for this behavior, and I do not expect anyone to defend it.
I will convey this information to the college, and I expect this will be a factor in discussions about my future as an history instructor.
I am deeply sorry for having maintained a lie for so long, and extend my apologies to the many whom I’ve wronged, including those who fiercely defended me against charges that turned out to be true.”
As he indicates in this post, Schwyzer was nearly fired from Pasadena City College in 1998 for sexual contact with students — dozens of them, by his most recent account. He has attributed his success in keeping his job at that time to the fact that he had just been granted tenure when the allegations surfaced, and to the fact that PCC did not then have clear written policies outlawing student-teacher sex.
The charge of sleeping with his students subsequent to 1998 is one that Schwyzer has consistently and adamantly denied, even as he has acknowledged an ever-growing catalogue of improper behavior. (Only weeks ago, he admitted having written a series of private text messages in which he fantasized about having sex in a classroom while his students watched and masturbated.) But now those denials have been shown to be false.
Schwyzer says his admission that he slept with multiple students who were enrolled in his classes will likely “be a factor in discussions about my future” at Pasadena City College. But it should be more than a factor. It should be decisive.
To have sex with your students is a profound violation of your moral, ethical, and pedagogical obligations to them. At PCC, where Schwyzer teaches, it is also a direct violation of college policy.
Today’s revelations make it abundantly clear, if it wasn’t before, that there is no place for Schwyzer in the classroom. Not now. Not ever.
Schwyzer should resign from PCC immediately. If he refuses to resign, he should be fired. Period.
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