Not much Madonna love, but I’m really really bad about (good at?) picking up accents. For me, it’s an empathy thing, I think, where I unintentionally mirror others as I’m listening. 

Correct. The above story should not surprise anyone.

you young’uns probably don’t remember when Madonna first showed up on the music scene. She was a pretentious insufferable bore then and nothing has changed.

Madonna sang an impromptu version of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.”

In an unstable, unpredictable and precarious world, it’s comforting to know there’s one thing you can always rely on.

This is one of the most Contemporary Madonna-ish things she’s done in a little bit, really.

My terrible mistake, now fixed.

I have no idea what earning prestigious awards has to do with whether or not you are a sexual abuser. If fact, it seems like there is no correlation at all.

Doubt it was a caftan, pretty sure it was a robe.

Yuuuuup. Students should never know if I like them as a person or not, because our relationship is professional. I am constantly astonished by professors who become close personal friends with students WHILE grading them. It is super, super inappropriate. Similar to work situations where you might have to lay off or…

Pretty much the same. Especially a lot of it is just common sense.

Because you have sense!

Weinstein had a freakin’ caftan made of Oscars. Awards do not constitute morals or ethics.

The thing that sticks out to me about the French award part is that France has sheltered Polanski.

I found it a bit eerie that you could just search-and-replace the names in this article with those of any of the recent powerful-man-harasses-woman-at-work stories and have it be pretty much identical, right down to the “but he/she is really good at their job!” defenses.  Yay equality?  Also:  yuck.

Yup. This line really says it all to me: ‘“People know that she is very friendly and open and crosses traditional boundaries in relationships with her students,””

Lauding her “brilliant scholarship” and “intellectual generosity” and noting that the French government recently bestowed a prestigious award upon her,

I don’t think it’s ethical to blur professional and personal lines when there’s a power imbalance in a professional setting. Anecdotal, but as a supervisor, I zealously avoided personal connections with my employees and others who were not necessarily my direct reports, but were subordinate to me in my position. 

Ugh. Enough already with the damn “this person has done a lot of good, therefore they could never have done anything wrong” letters. I can understand it’s hard to accept that a friend or idol might not be who you thought they were but keep your thoughts to yourself.

“First Lady Melania Trump,the president’s third wife, a Czech former model”