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   Irene Zhang (irene@discuss.systems)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 01:41:09 JST Irene Zhang

   I wrote a postmortem of the University of Washington harassment investigation. I don’t get into details but I do explain my perspective and name the men involved, plus some lessons learned at the end. https://irenezhang.net/blog/2025/03/04/uw-harassment.html

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     Irene Zhang (irene@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 10:51:57 JST Irene Zhang

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     At some point during the UW situation, I was confused by why the men kept going to various university offices and admin with complaints, and someone said to me: because the system has always worked for them, so they trust that it will work this time too. I couldn’t comprehend it myself but now that we’ve finished this, indeed, the system did work for them. So I’m trying to do a tiny part to right things.

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     Irene Zhang (irene@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 10:54:15 JST Irene Zhang

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     @steve so one of the conspiracy theories that the Allen School has been pushing is that I have a vendetta against them for not hiring me. And yesterday, @dan realized: they’re saying that you have a vendetta against them for not giving you a faculty position when actually they have a vendetta against you for not taking a faculty position. So yeah DARVO

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     Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 10:54:16 JST Steve Canon

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     @irene the unreasonable effectiveness of DARVO will never stop surprising me

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