Social media has had some regressive effects on social norms. Swimming, for example, is a pleasant pastime and excellent exercise. There are 1850s photographs of Victorian ladies in swimwear in family albums. An Instagram account is the 21st century digital equivalent. Sacking a college professor for (a) swimming (b) putting pictures of herself in a swimsuit on her Insta account harks back to the medieval.
There’s a disconnect. At one level, the complainant and the vice chancellor who sacked the professor are living in some dim distant past. At another level, they are savvy enough to access social media, a cutting-edge
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