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Re: Justin O'Dell

Author: KellyV
Date: 2023-01-29 04:20

I have taken your advice and edited the post, even though I fundamentally disagree and believe you are coming from a very misguided place.

A professors conduct is nothing to sweep under the rug, especially when this person is teaching within an academic institution. This is someone who was supposed to protect their students and provide them with a place to learn and grow. When a woman shares a true account of something that occurred under a professor, like the one I did, it’s not fair to tell them to be quiet, that where or how they have shared is not the place or the time for it, encouraged to be silent, or told that it is inappropriate.

Unfortunately this is another case of a man telling a woman to be quiet.

As far as you mentioning legal repercussions, he ruined a students future. I don’t know if you are trying to suggest libel, but just to educate you a little further here, libel is when someone spreads something false about someone else and that someone else is harmed professionally or financially by false allegations that have absolutely no basis or truth to them, whatsoever.

Justin O’Dell knows that everything I shared above and was then told to be quiet about was accurate and true.

You should never suggest to someone sharing a very relevant account that they need to feel embarrassed, should be quiet, or that how they have decided to share an account is inappropriate. That is how we got to this place in this world where things like this were swept under the rug. Why would you ever want someone to feel embarrassed about something someone else failed to do, or did do when they were in a position of power and had a responsibility to their students to provide a place to feel safe to learn and grow as a musician?

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As far as we’ve come, we still have much further to go and I hope you can keep an open mind about how difficult it is to be a woman in a man’s world when things like this just continue to repeat.

Post Edited (2023-01-29 05:23)

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