Which is just shorthand for “you don’t have a right to privacy.”

This is all precisely what I was going to say. I tried to add anything but you covered it all. Bravo.

I knew someone who dated him years ago. Let’s just say I believe Andrea.

I think the more salient point is that the network clearly did not take her concerns seriously and on multiple occasions ignored them or swept them under the rug.

I tried to explain that to someone this morning who acted like this was a case of ‘live by the sword, die by the sword.’ There’s no functional difference between saying “Andrea Tantaros got what she deserved because of her politics” and “the college student got what she deserved because she drank too much at the frat…

Okay, that’s fair. I really didn’t mean to imply she couldn’t tell and I believe her.

Yeah, his referencing his own history of abuse really bugs me in this context. What, exactly, IS he saying?

i agree that i dont think he would do anything with purposeful intent (as much as i very much dislike him as a politician) but it’s possible that even as a survivor he has been socialized to see that kind of touch toward a woman as harmless.

Honestly I have a problem with you saying that “maybe his intentions were misunderstood” as if a grown women is incapable of understanding when she is being sexually harassed tbh. I tend to believe women who come forward with harassment allegations, the blow back from doing so is so damaging to their career that it…

That isn’t true. Brown favored letting hospitals deny emergency contraception to rape victims. The cause of male survivors of sexual violence may have been “dear to him” but not the cause of the vast majority of survivors of sexual violence, women and girls.

Victims of sexual abuse can very often also end up as perpetrators.

The Andrea Tantaros lawsuit is one of those things that really tests my principles to the core. I could not stand her for the entire time she was on Fox. She said some of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard a talking head say. Yet, I feel bad for her if she was inappropriately approached/touched by Brown, or sexually…

Oh that’s rich considering he took off his clothes for a magazine spread!

Eh, he has said/done some pretty sexist stuff in the past. Off the top of my head (I’m from MA, so) I remember him making some sexist comments about Elizabeth Warren regarding her not being qualified to be a professor at Harvard and that he was happy she didn’t “take off her clothes” to pay for college, intimating she…