I mean, not to bend over backwards to praise a man for doing The Basic Right Thing but this is a literal example of a man who used all types of his privilege (white, male, wealthy, fame, name recognition, relative power within powerful media institutions) as a lever to bring a harmful and deeply entrenched…

Why shouldn’t he take credit for breaking the story? He did, along w/ Twohey & Kantor. What happened to him is half the story - powerful people going out of their way to protect abusers; people systematically trying to destroy those who spoke out (including Farrow by not renewing his contract.) How does him saying he…

I just finished Catch and Kill and at no time did it come across as a vanity project, as this article implies. In fact, Farrow is genuine and quite humble - except of course when he’s nailing the people who tried to shut him down at NBC. This article seems to be suggesting that the work is disingenuous. It is not - it…

He wrote about their stories in his articles. This is his story about how people were trying to keep those articles from being published.  That’s an important story as well.

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.

Obviously Ronan Farrow has led an extremely privileged life but this game of never good enough is just stupid. Women have been asking men to do work on these issues for years and here is a man, doing the work, and he gets shit on for what? Having feelings about it? God it pisses me off. 

Thank you for the work you do. Every agency where you’re regularly engaging with trauma should offer those services to employees! We’re in the process of doing the same where I currently work, where we deal with grief, loss, and physical trauma. I used to work with victims/survivors of domestic & sexual violence, and…

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.

God Jezebel sucks. It gives me no pleasure to point this out. A female-focused culture and politics site should be thriving in the current zeitgeist. And yet...vape snark and Daddy Bernie. 

I’d say that he’s a little more than tangentially involved, but ok.

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.

It’s really astounding the bitterness and anger spewed at a person who is the perfect example of what this site keeps saying it wants as allies.  If he isn’t a good enough ally, then who is?

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…

Did he ever claim or present this book as anything but a real-life thriller about him getting a story out after being pressured and implicitly threatened not to?

If he’d written the book from the perspective of the victims, you would have found it problematic that a man was telling their stories. The only way this book wins is if it had been written by someone else. It’s one take on a very dynamic story. I would have rather read your take on it than eleven paragraphs…

the review just comes across as mean minded. As there is already a book on it anyway, farrow took a different angle, detailing his own process as well. Is that so awful? We know that when women face sexual assault, it affects their partners, children, families, friends. Farrow admits this is where he's coming from.…

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…

I was fascinated by the book - and as the title, Catch & Kill, suggests the book is about the reporting, catching the story and the bad guys attempts to kill it. It was what I expected it to be. What was most shocking to me was ALL (the amount of) the bad behavior of men. I realize I am blessed to be untouched by…