As someone who was repeatedly harassed by men (both who worked with me and some customers) when working at Starbucks, Ms. Fonda, please don’t give them any ideas. A change of job doesn’t equal a change in assholery.

1. That’s still too cushy of a job.

On the one hand, I completely agree with Fonda that these guys need to suck it up and deal with the consequences of their actions BUT...on the other hand my heart kind of sinks when I see service work like this put down and disparaged. She’s right but there are a lot of human beings that find themselves having to take…

Assuming Starbucks will hire them, that is. Hey, I hear McDonalds is soft on harassers and abusers!

Don’t those poor Starbucks employees have enough problems?

Its a timing thing at this point - they need to get him appointed before the mid terms.

You don’t get it - that would be tantamount to admitting they were wrong about something. And modern conservatism has only one guiding principle at this point - “Never back down, never admit fault, and never say you were wrong. EVER.”

It’s never understandable. He would’ve been at least 15-16 at the earliest so he damn well knew what he was doing.

The most baffling thing I find about the “good boy who made mistakes” take is that it can somehow exist alongside the “if she’s telling the truth, why didn’t she go to the police?” takes.

I knew I was joining the conversation when I replied, no worries. And my statement that I wasn’t condoning prostitution was added because I thought that people reading my first post might somehow think I was.

Does the White House counsel know he may have just implied that damn near every man on earth (himself and his boss included) has been abusive to women? 

I agree. My rather long post was by no means an endorsement. As you said, it can’t be abolished, but making it illegal simply invites more crime and corruption.

That kind of works along the same lines as “Prosecutors will be Violated.”

Places where prostitution is legally regulated actually do have safer, more controlled conditions. Most of these places require the workers, madams and pimps have to register - if they don’t they are subject to prosecution.

Ugh. Sadly, I think your experience is far closer to the median than mine.

I worked at a big corporate nightmare when I was pumping and they made a sad little shame-closet for us milch cows (a manager’s term I overheard for our pumping room). It was a card-secured security door leading into 6 little cubbies with busted ass office chairs, a ledge and an electrical outlet a piece. Said cubbies…

I like you to much to lie to you like that.

Here, here.

Well, that too.

I think you mean, “I defiantly will.”