"Schywzer has never named his behavior as an act of gendered, intimate partner violence, nor named..."

“Schywzer has never named his behavior as an act of gendered, intimate partner violence, nor named himself as a perpetrator of violence. This same dishonesty is evident in Schwyzer’s writing about his preying on younger female students – behavior he describes as “neither feminist nor gentlemantly,” but “always age appropriate” and mostly with students in his “approximate peer group” (less than 5 years his junior) – and therefore “perhaps less overtly predatory.” Disturbingly, what in other contexts would appear to many feminists as a consistent pattern of abuse of women, and a consistent refusal to own up to that abuse or the harm done by it, seems for some feminists to be eclipsed by the fact that Schwyzer speaks the language of feminism and presents himself as male feminist ally, cloaked in an appealing and powerful narrative about the possibility of personal transformation.”

- Why do some feminist spaces tolerate male abusers?