To be clear: are you suggesting the article is demonizing a specific demographic?

The article says:

> Note that bullying appears to be related to power differentials more than to gender, meaning that the reason why perpetrators are overwhelmingly male is because men disproportionally occupy powerful academic positions.

This seems to be about as demonizing of a demographic as saying “with great power comes great responsibility.” Tenured professors may not have mutant superpowers, but they do have tenured superpowers, and some of them abuse these superpowers. In my personal experience, there is no evidence to suggest that the perpetrators are especially correlated with any particular demographic other than being people who are able to do the specific problematic things they do. The perpetrators who abuse those they advise [0] are people who advise other people. There is no shortage of examples of cis, straight, white, able, male, etc people in academia harassing others who are every bit as cis, straight, etc as they are. There are, of course, also examples of males with power harassing females with less power and many other combinations.

And there are many, many examples of people harassing other people in ways that were seen as normal and even expected in an earlier era. Some of the perpetrators here genuinely do not realize that they’re doing anything wrong, and some of the victims may also not feel that they are being wronged. There are huge gray areas here! One thing that society could do a lot better is to realize that many of these perpetrators are not bad people, that they should not be vilified or canceled, but that they should learn to do better in the future.

So, while I’m sure there is a whole host of problematic and maybe even “woke” literature that is over-the-top on demonizing a demographic, I don’t think this article is it.

[0] “Advise” here is a term of art. There are academic advisors and research advisors who have very specific powers over those they advise that, in general, are only vaguely related to the common meaning of giving advice.