this is the correct answer. 

Dear good Sir,

You don’t think the power imbalance and direct line of authority calls into question whether or not there was truly consent?

From the text messages, it sounds like Hill was emotionally abusive and manipulative. In other words, the “consent” was probably one aspect of the control. Hill admits her relationship was toxic in the text messages. Does that change anything for you as far as which one was worse?

Even she admits it was completely inappropriate. Sounds like she’s owning up to the fact that she knows she did something wrong AFTER she got caught. She SHOULD have to answer for her bad decision. Whether or not she should have to resign over it...well, Al Franken resigned (with many people on both sides of the aisle…

Well, that’s certainly one way to spin it. Another way to put it is that it was revealed that she’s a woman in a position of power who had an unethical and problematic relationship with at least one subordinate. I have no doubt that the people on this site would be clamoring for a resignation if she were a man, and I…

Yes. And from the leaked text messages by the staff member/third person in the relationship, Hill sounds like an abusive partner. Given the age difference and power differential, there is no way this relationship was kosher.

Oh no a lot of women on Twitter, many of whom loudly proclaim themselves feminist, are flat out saying this is simply a “consensual affair” that’s no big deal and completely brushing off the subordinate part of it and the usual argument that this creates an inherently inappropriate power imbalance. A complete reversal…

I’m perplexed at all the “double standard” cries from ostensible feminists on Twitter about how unfair she’s being treated over “consensual” affairs. She had sex with subordinates; feminists have argued for years this creates a power imbalance that calls into question how consensual said relations can truly be. Why…

She slept with a subordinate. That’s bad news, regardless of whatever her husband did or didn’t do. 

Your primary issue with the book is that it’s not about the content of the article that he published, but instead is about the process of creating that article.

I actually waited for a review of She Said, but it's still nowhere to be found on Jezebel. Weird, right? Why review a book written by women and about women if you can bitch that a man didn't write this book instead? 

I mean, that’s great. Don’t read it if you don’t want to. But his reporting told the victim’s stories, and this is a different thing.

Except this book is about all the people who were paid to line up and protect HW & Matt Lauer & Donald Trump & Bill Clinton - and while it covers the tremendous abuse these women faced, it is about the lengths that people (men & WOMEN!) went to to protect the abusers....I still don’t understand the push back.

But bitching and complaining is more fun. I’m sorry, but we complain all the time about men not stepping up and here we have a man who did just that. If he wrote a book about the victims, Megan would have complained about that too.

Seriously, the point of the book is that Ronan got a hell of a lot of pushback on the story where normally it does not occur. It sent up flags but Farrow kept on because he had deadlines and still pursued them.

This review, in my reading, is like getting upset at Spotlight for not telling the stories of the victims from their own perspectives. That movie doesn’t set out to do so, but does set out to tell another compelling story about the same topic, but from a different angle. Both sets of stories give a fuller picture of…

It’s like being mad at All the President’s Men for focusing on Woodward and Bernstein instead of doing a deep dive on the Nixon presidency.

Wasn’t the journalism itself about the victims’ experiences? This is the meta book about the journalism. I guess you wanted a meta book about the women’s experience in the journalism? It’s hard to read between the gratuitous swipes against Farrow’s sins, like a brief aside acknowledging he felt competitive, or stating…

“Catch and Kill is paced like a thriller, and Farrow, the detective at the center, positions himself as the main character....”