And like her other defenders, it's kind of pathetic.  (On the evidence of her most loyal admirers, one might conclude Prof. Ronell is a charlatan, though one shouldn't visit the sins of the students on the teacher obviously.)  Part of the pathos is that it's in large part unintelligible.  Here's the crucial (I think) paragraph:

As it stands now 1) our precarious German department, filled with marginal characters, is being likened to Weinstein corporation by the media; 2) theory is being subsumed under deconstruction and relitigated as some bogeyman art, as if Brian Leiter’s strain of analytic philosophy were anything but self-serving indignation; 3) feminism and prominent feminists are being outright attacked by a legal team steeped in the rhetoric of men’s rights, arguing with reactionary notions of “discrimination”; 4) tropes are being exploited that problematically paint our minoritarian style of humanities research as perverse, sectarian, hypocritical, and even worthless.

Let's take these in order.  

(1)  A handful of articles in the popular media are being written assimilating Ronell's treatment of Reitman to the Harvey Weinstein scandal that sparked what is now called "metoo," but not many:  "metoo" has already claimed lots of male victims (think the ridiculous Leon Wieseltier) who were not rapists like Weinstein.  What brought Ronell into this orbit was the unethical effort by her friends to try to bully NYU out of disciplining her given her alleged fame and international stature.  I was responsible for exposing this disgraceful behavior, hence the anger of the acolytes.

(2) I've referred to "theory" consistently as what they call "bad philosophy" in literature departments, and that's what it is:  ask 99% of the philosophers at the best universities in the country.  Deconstruction is a big part of that, as Marjorie Perloff noted with direct reference to Ronell.  I'm not familiar with my "strain of analytic philosophy," and most analytic philosophers aren't either.  My intellectual lodestars are, in order, Nietzsche, Marx, Quine, Hart.  I'm unrecognizable to most analytic philosophers, though I do try to honor Nietzsche's dictum from The Gay Science:  "Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity.  Those who would like to seem profound strive for obscurity."

(3)  Dr. Reitman's lawyers, the only "legal team" I'm aware of in this matter, have filed a complaint against NYU and Prof. Ronell that everyone can read.  There are allegations of gross misconduct by Ronell in the complaint; none have anything to do with "Mens' Rights" nonsense.  As I wrote previously:  

[I]f even half the allegations in the complaint filed against Ronell are true, then she engaged in abusive and unprofessional behavior with her student, for which she should probably lose her job; if the allegations are not true, then she is the victim of a frivolous lawsuit and a malicious campaign of harassment.  What actually happened will be settled through an adjudicative process far better than any university's Title IX process.

(4)  I wish I understood the references to "tropes" and "problematically" but I can express my own view that given what I've learned about Ronell the last couple of months and the "intellectual" performance of her defenders, I think there is  serious question about what's going on in the German Department at NYU–a question made more vivid by the account of the former Chair about Ronell's destruction of the academic program there.

I'm sorry that Mr. Cheung, who is no doubt an innocent, got sucked up in this academic charade.  There are real departments of Germanic studies at other serious resarch universities.  I hope he lands in a better place.