When you take a college class, there is an expectation that you do not receive special academic attention based on how good-looking you appear to some arbitrary people. Usually there isn't any need to have rules for this situation because
1. Teachers and TAs are forbidden from discriminating and signalling romantic/sexual interest during the course.
2. Those in the course are typically either being graded or auditing the course out of academic interest, and so romantic/sexual interest is rarely the primary factor for grouping up and helping each other out.
As such, this is rarely the norm when it comes to academic attention, in contradiction to
> This is simple reality
In response to complaining, you say
> It's as if the college women tutored are denied agency and are children of the school.
But the right thing to do in such a situation is exactly what they have done: to exercise their agency by raising their discomfort to the one that seems to be liable for setting the norms of their course, the professor. The other thing I've seen happen is students exercising their agency by avoiding the course altogether, albeit since the situation I've discussed is so rare, I'm thinking about an analoguous situation where a professor was notorious for giving preferential academic attention to attractive women.
> What the hell is going on that the teacher feels she should control the "dating privileges" of her female students and be empowered to block male heterosexual student access to her class.
Because the majority of her class who are taking in good faith thinks that this is detrimental to their student experience... the complaint isn't against men who are also taking the course in good faith.
> empowered to block male heterosexual student access to her class.
I find it a radical suggestion that people ought to be allowed access to a course when their goals are not in line with the course's goals.
> I find the behavior and intended actions of the teacher in question very strange. It's as if she wants to run a "pre-crime" unit, where the male students are already guilty, and her female students need to ask for her permission for who they can or can't date.
... no? She's not trying to control their students' dating lives. Her actions are against behavior that violates unspoken norms about the environment in which her course is conducted, violations for which she has received complaints for.