Your opinion is wrong and I’m embarrassed for you.

Regarding Al Franken: His actions were horrible, but at what point do we can we stop painting everyone with the same brush? He was a comedian, albeit one that I never found particularly funny. He’s clearly joking in the one picture that I saw, and grabbing someone’s butt during a photo in the past sounds like a…

There’s something satisfying knowing that every well known media and political figure who ever harassed women (or men) is having a hard time sleeping because they don’t know If they’re next.

I LIKE THIS IDEA A LOT!

Oh, yeah! Now we are getting somewhere!

He should offer to resign when Trump offers to resign.

I won’t make any excuses for him, but I also don’t think every offense requires resignation as the only possible punishment. Have the Senate censure him so that he has a public black mark for eternity, let him do acts of contrition, and then let the voters of Minnesota decide next election cycle if they want him or…

Very true.

A lot of those women saw themselves in lena and can’t grasp that they might be racist as fuck as well.

Good. I wish EVERYONE who claims to be feminist or progressive would sever ties. I’ll never forget the Jia Tolentino piece on Jezebel which in my very humble opinion did not go far enough at all, and the scores of commenters who were willing to give Lena pass after motherfucking pass despite example after…

I agree. Someone being falsely accused of sexual harassment or assault it awful and it does happen, but if you suspect or know the accusation is false then you have to be diplomatic and intentional with your own actions. Not saying anything is better than this public support without any supporting evidence. I look at…

I don’t mind that she doesn’t believe it happenef, but a public show of support was an idiotic move. Let the investigation unfurl, support him as a friend during it. What does going public help? It makes it about you. Unless she has proof to bring to light, which she should do then.

But the photo part literally looks like a joke. He’s staring straight into a camera and hamming it up. Is it inappropriate? Yes. But is cupping his hands over a flack jacket on the same level as some of the wilder shit we’ve been hearing about every day now? With people whipping out their dicks, trying to have sex…

No he doesn’t. He can resign when and if Trump resigns. I don’t want to throw women under the bus but there has to be a level of pragmatism and response commensurate to the “crime.” Public flagellation, censure, fine. But resign? No, the Minnesota voters will decide next time he’s up for election. And if the Senate…

Step down? For this??????? Are you high?

No, he’s miming grabbing her breasts. It’s gross, but it’s not assault.

Bingo. One completely unsubstantiated allegation, and one picture clearly meant as a (tasteless) joke where you can’t even be sure there was any sort of contact. Franken responds immediately with an apology, which of course isn’t accepted in these circles because no apology is ever good enough. Now they’re jumping all…

Holding a sexual predator accountable is not “self righteous”, it’s just “righteous”.

Can we at least bear in mind that the accuser is a Hannity disciple and the “journalist” in the linked tweet works for the Washington Examiner and uses a photo of herself with Trump on her Twitter feed?

So the big topic of a Republican Senatorial candidate embroiled in a sex scandal will end with a Democratic Senator being forced to resign. Like clockwork.