#AMA being a grad student with an abusive advisor

[miz-chase]

do you ever think about how Brennan goes to conferences and Michael Stires is absolutely at them? How he intentionally has tried to discredit her professionally? How he probably has a pattern of preying on his students, and she sees them with him, somehow the grad students looking younger and younger each year?

I like to think she poaches his students any time she can. And that at some point she breaks his bones. And reaches a point in her career where she can safely, publicly denounce him.

fuck that guy for real

I always figured this is why she and Booth keep their relationship secret as long as they possibly can. One can only imagine things people said about Brennan when she was involved with Stires: sleeping her way to the top, riding his coattails, trading sexual favors for publication. No matter how amazing she was as an individual, people (her peers and seniors) made horrible assumptions. The last thing she would want now was a repeat of that nightmare, no matter how secure she felt professionally. So she and Booth sneak around for as long as they possibly can.