Claims of sexual abuse at SanFran Conservatory

88 says:

I’m very sorry for what happened to these women. It is rampant in the classical music business and has been for along time. I (male) was harassed at all three schools that I attended including being asked for sex, and being asked to go on a “trip” with an administrator. I saw other female students being harassed. It didn’t change when I became a faculty member. Senior faculty think that they can do whatever they want to junior colleagues and students – and it is not just males. Some of my harassers were female including a teacher who tried to educate me about what women want in sex, and a colleague who told me that “if I wasn’t gay, she would ride me for days.” The administration protects the perpetrators by most often ignoring it, saying “that’s just how it is,” or talking to the perpetrator and then putting them back into the same classes and committees with the same students and colleagues. Title IX is often entirely unhelpful. Perhaps this hits too close to home for people in leadership positions.