Well, he actually used the word ‘sorry’, so I guess that’s a step up over Louis CK’s statement? But it sure does seem like he’s feigning ignorance — how could he not know what he was doing was plainly wrong at the time? It’s more practical to assume he thought he’d get away with it as long as he kept Louis and himself…

Aw, that would be nice, even if it cannot make up for what she went through.

If Democrats are in power when Clarence Thomas dies or retires, they should ask her if she wants his Supreme Court seat. Her writings have been very pro-women as a law professor.

Biden makes the obvious point that this was a watershed moment. I was working for a large corporation when this happened, and you should have seen all the managers running around, looking very scared.

Here comes the liberal circular firing squad.

I know this shouldn’t matter because a victim should be believed regardless of his or her career or education level. But in reality people do care about those things. And she was a fucking law school professor by the time of these hearings! She got her JD from Yale. Not only would any man with that background be…

Atonement doesn’t look like waiting almost 30 years for someone else to bring it up to address it, Joe.

Crazy how much people overthink how complicated this all is.

He asked a person who answered to him at work to watch him masturbate. There are about five things wrong with that, right there. If you can’t see them, then maybe you really should go and read a sexual harassment handbook.

I dunno how that is NOT harassment. Have we crossed the sexual rubicon to the point that asking a woman to watch you jerk off is acceptable behavior? Take it out of the colleague realm for a moment, Cabbie asks. Passenger says no thank you. Everybody cool with that? How about a waiter? “My name is Eliot and I’ll be…

You really don’t see the problem with asking a colleague in a professional situation if they’ll watch you masturbate? He has power over the careers/opportunities these women are exposed to. Do you do that at work? Walk into the lunch room and ask the first woman you see if she’ll look at your dick?

Crazy how much people overthink how complicated this all is. It’s really easy to understand!

Well I will say no one really teaches you what does and does not constitute harassment. I personally would not get involved with anyone who I directly interacted with at work. But I have never worked in an office where this did not occur.

Ugh, same. I’ve said to guys (new friends )who wanted to hangout that I only wanted to be friends and was not interested in anything sexual. If that wasn’t what they were after I understood, but I wanted to be clear. They still tried to fuck me. I’m not friends with men anymore.

I’ve had many, many encounters like this. Men don’t like hearing no, gay or straight.

God. Damnit.

It saddened me to see so many people commenting in the other story that they don’t believe Takei’s accuser, even when they believe accusers in other cases.

His denial does sound a lot like Spacey and Hoffman’s.

I would dispute that for every Weinstein or Moore there’s an innocent guy getting accused. If any of these accusations are false, they’re extremely rare. And I’m not sure Clash’s innocence was ever actually proven. It seems he was just cleared legally because the statute of limitations had expired and one of his…

We believe victims, right?we can’t cherry pick who we believe when we don’t want it to be true.