Note that this is MIT where the ADULT WOMAN and ADULT MAN have a consensual affair but when the fire died, she played the victim card and got him removed. If there is more to the background (I sincerely hope so), it is undisclosed. Now, he is besmirched, which is bad, but an apparent worse is a friend-colleague at another school gets an apparent threat/investigation, from an attempt to hire him there.
Wow!
And ... before the inevitable response, I have no idea of the exProfessor’s politics but the odds are that, being MIT & Massachusetts, LEFT is likely! Still, remember that old axiom about how becoming conservative is a logical reaction to being mugged.
I believe what she did was start a campaign against him, not so much involving her own relationship with him, but his behavior toward other women in the school. She called in some lawyers who questioned women he worked with and got them to say things that reflected poorly on his character and that information was brought to HR and the powers that be at the university. She knew that her relationship with him on its own, wasn’t enough to destroy his career, which is the revenge she wanted.
Unfortunately, he did make some questionable choices in his behavior and they helped fuel the fire she built.
There is little new here. For many years we have heard about adult college women revoking their consent after sex and accusing the men of rape. The fact that this was taken seriously and even lead to consent having to be in writing has brought us to this idiocy. Seduce the wrong woman, lose your job and career.
Stuff like this will hasten the development of extremely life-like female substitutes which can be occasionally deployed when necessary, then cleaned and placed safely away in a secluded closet.
God's way is always better, including God's way regarding sexual behavior.
The godless Dims can't even make up their mind what the sexual boundaries are, and if you cross their ever-moving boundaries they create chaos. They want us to think it's okay to sexualize 6-year-olds in school and hate us calling it "grooming", but for a man to convince a 29-year-old to go to bed with him is "grooming" and worth ruining his life over.