#4544. Postscript for “A Letter to the Male Good Apples”

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This essay is an open letter to my White-male academic colleagues, whose sometimes well-intentioned attempts to interact with, mentor, or be supportive can come across as tone-deaf to your female colleagues and doctoral students. Maybe you are not quite the good apple you thought you were. In the aftermath of an incident of racial or sexual violence, many of us often shake our heads in consternation about how the bad acts of a few “bad apples” can cause such harm. When diversity training and other interventions fail, our usual rationale for that failure is that these interventions are unable to get to the heart of the problem—they are an exercise in “preaching to the choir” and are seldom able to reach these bad apples who are the ones who need to change their attitudes and behaviors. It is unsurprising, therefore, that these interventions and training programs do not work. Here is some food for thought.
Keywords:
Academic colleagues; behaviors; interventions; training programs; diversity training

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