2018: Hires Arians again. Would not be shocking.

When you say that a person’s actions led to the circumstances in which they found themselves, you are blaming the victim. You can argue semantics all you want but you are still blaming her for putting herself in the situation. That is the textbook definition of blaming the victim.

Given that Ronan Farrow fought hard to get the Weinstein stories out there, even going up against NBC (which refused to support his reporting while he was there), I don’t begrudge him getting his new gig. It is well deserved, the same way Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey will deserve plum new gigs and pay raises for…

Blame the victim in this context would simply state: “The woman deserves what happened to her because she was a trollope who slept with a married man.” Or stating, without acknowledging the victimization that happened (or Geiten’s guilt and complicity), tough cookies for her. I don’t speak for others. But I never…

And the issue here is that by INSISTING on focusing on HER (non-abusive, non-criminal) actions, you contribute to the EXACT ENVIRONMENT you are complaining about and you are too stupid to see it.

Who cares whether she shouldn’t have had an affair with him?

You’re the one who keeps responding.

It takes two to make an affair happen, therefore both are in control of what can happen.

The blackmail? Probably. I believe her.

A person can both be a victim and also make bad choices. That happens in real life all the time. In fact, one of the reasons why those who are victims can never get justice is because of our inability to want “pure” victims who have never done anything wrong — even when such expectations are ridiculous given that…

Not at all. I have plenty of friends who have been cheated on — and some former friends who did the cheating. Certainly there are emotions at play. But there is a reason why nearly every sensible person tells other people to stay away from affairs with married men and women: Those folks can’t be trusted.

I’ll disagree with that. I believe he definitely blackmailed her. He may have even photographed her without consent (though that’s for investigators and prosecutors to figure out). On that front, given that Greitens is a man of influence and power, she is a victim and that can’t be dismissed.

Which is also true. Greitens is a slimeball, and no one is saying otherwise. He shouldn’t have had an affair. She shouldn’t have slept with him. Two things can be true at the same time.

Married men who cheat on their wives are untrustworthy. They are breaking marriage vows, betraying their spouses, and engage in all kinds of lying to cover up their misdeeds.

Still “alleged”, which means that he may have taken the photo without her consent or she let him take them and found out the hard way that he was not to be trusted.

Woody Allen’s conditioning, seduction, and marriage with Soon-Yi Previn has been known during my entire adult life. All 26 years of it.

In college, the guys in the dorm and I called Kerrigan horse-face and thought Harding would be interesting White trash to have sex with. Some of us were sympathetic because we knew folks in figure skating and knew that Harding was often treated badly by the snobs in that arena. We were dumb as fuck then.

Because White House reporters (and generally, all big-M media journalists) are in it for themselves. Every last one of them. If April Ryan or Jim Acosta is neutralized by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that means Maggie Haberman or Margaret Talev get access and favor and headlines. Which is what Beltway reporting often ends…

The woman is a woman, for sure. But she put herself in harm’s way by having sex with a married man. He shouldn’t have slept with her. But it takes two to have sex and she chose to sleep with him when she could have not done so.

Or 4) The editor knew who the woman was from his or her own sources, and put the name in there during editing without talking to the writer first. Writer finds out only after fact-checker alerts her about this.