I never said it made Meryl a bad person. What I said was that I understood Rose’s frustration and inability to accept that many people did not know the full extent of Harvey’s deviance. As for Meryl, I have no idea what she did or did not know. Abusers are deeply manipulative people. He may have completely deceived…

I think she’s in a lot of pain. Before all the HW stuff broke, I listened to her episode of “What’s the Tee?” with RuPaul and, even though I thought Ru was being a paternalistic at times, you can just hear so much pain under all of her fury. Specifically I remember thinking how she seemed to talk about the robbing of…

She looked like a young Rachel Maddow more than the actual young Rachel Maddow:

I think she has so much anger about the situation that she’s misplacing it. It’s got to be hard, honestly. She had remained silent for so long (not of her doing) and now, to see so many coming out, getting support, being believed....it’s got to mess with her, it’s got to make her angry.

I can see both sides of this. Having known abusers, I absolutely believe he could snow anyone he wanted to. That said, Rose knows Harvey had a reputation as a pig. Glenn Close and others have discussed hearing “gossip” for years. Doesn’t mean Meryl heard it, but I can understand why Rose has a hard time accepting that…

Maybe her “bubble” as you put it consisted of staying in her own lane by way of living a quiet life out of the spotlight. I think you fail to grasp how cunning predators can be...do you honestly think that asshole didn’t know how to conduct himself around MS? By all means y’all go on and tear down other women.…

Perfectly said. I may not agree with Rose’s saying this or that, but a) who cares what I think? and b) she’s been through a trauma and is now re-living it, in public, every day. She gets all the rope she needs with that, I think. AND, when people came for Corey Feldman’s weirdness in describing his experiences,…

I think it might be PTSD. I would never diagnose anyone but I’m close enough to know that it can really fuck you up

Exactly! I mean no offense, but she looks maybe 12 in that photo. He looks like an adult. Not an old adult, but an adult. She looks like a child.

That would explain it. Thanks.

He was hired 16 years ago, so 2001. The settlement came in 2006 so unless he put in his resume that he molested teenagers, I don’t know how the university would know. She hadn’t filed yet so it wouldn’t appear in a background check and the terms of his contract may make it neigh impossible for him to be fired. The…

Just have to say that, like the women who spoke out against Roy Moore’s attacks on young teens, she looks really, really young in this photo. Also, she looks like a young Rachel Maddow!

When people ask why she didn’t fight back I will post a video of those goats that fall over when they get startled.

The most current thinking is actually that everyone freezes—it’s a split-second (basically indiscernible) moment in which you take in all the information and the animal part of your brain makes a decision based on what’s most likely to keep you alive. That decision is fight, flight, or submit (akin to playing dead, or…

Also, as far as sabotaging, one can already seen signs of it. Every woman that comes out after this has been branded as someone looking for fame and fortune.

Also, contrary to what you’re saying, the freeze response comes after fight or flight aren’t options anymore. It’s actually fight or flight, and then freeze. If there is no time for data-gathering, freeze may be the first response. Freeze is actually when the higher mental processes stop functioning normally, which is…

I think he’s just saying that social media movements are here and gone, all feelings in one moment and then forgotten a week later. He wants something more sustainable and thoughtful.

I believe what he is saying is that we need to process and focus on the social problem rather than focus on the emotional impulses of the initial reaction. For instance, plenty of people have gotten angry at the string of men that have been revealed to be predators, but what exactly is being done about it so that…

What she said about women’s gossip (in certain circumstance) as a form of warning to other women was extremely interesting. Would like to hear more about that through an anthropological lens.