When I heard about this I thought I’d hate it. But watching this I kind of love it.

I think this is a good point. I don’t say it’s likely, but it is possible. And these bills are affecting women’s lives and returning, again and again, to the courts, because of it.

I hadn’t meant to rank them best to worst, just choosing each situation they’d be best in. But I like your logic. Hadn’t considered formal dancing with Hemsworth until now. And you are right.

Friends! We are only weakening ourselves by quibbling!

I am for narrowing it to three Chrises and having them rule as a triumvirate. We don’t have to choose! As long as we don’t choose Pratt!

They’re doing it because they think they have a chance. They think they have a chance because conservatives picked the last Supreme Court justice instead of liberals. Conservatives picked the last justice because Hilary Clinton lost.

She invited him to smear him . . . over twenty years later? Using a social movement that didn’t exist? Ooof. Long game.

JS_Canada: “As for Reinholz (who was not a work with Brokaw), she was hit on. So? What did it corroborate, that Brokaw likely hit on Vester too? We already knew that.” 

“What I suspect is there was discourse happening, he was flirting, incorrectly believed the woman was flirting back, and went in for a kiss. He was corrected and stopped. If this is what happened, should he be demonized?”

I don’t want him to be exposed for anything. I’m just not going to get mad at women for telling the truth. It’s as much her life as it is his.

“He had power, but he never exercised it against her (even helped her), and she should have taken that into consideration.”

That would have been a fantastic statement for him to make—that his personal life never caused him to be unfair or discouraging to a colleague. But he didn’t do that. He wrote a multi-page email…

The scandal is not making a pass, the scandal is the delight you and others have in these take downs for the most trifling offenses.

“Speak to it with your friends, speak to NBC, speak to him if you need to get it off your chest, but going to the press for a rejected pass is beyond the pale.”

I love it. Trying to commit adultery with a colleague is one thing . . . but telling a true story to a newspaper! Beyond the pale! Interesting morality you got…

When you have a lot of power in the workplace, you need to do a lot better than making “clumsy passes” at someone whose career you have a huge say in, even in the 1990s, but that is only part of the problem.

Also, if it’s no big deal then Brokaw has nothing in the world to worry about, right? It’s no more of a big deal than him getting drunk at a Christmas party and singing “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” off key or always carrying a piece of his baby blanket in his pocket when he breaks a big story, right? It seems…

Yep. NBC put these women’s reputation on the line to protect its own reputation.

That’s why women are coming forward. It’s really getting through to each woman that it’s never just her.

What’s fun about the situation is this: If comparing SHS to Ann Dowd is an insult, then Ann Dowd is ugly. The people who are screaming and crying about Wolf’s speech cannot say that. So all they can latch onto is someone mentioning smoky eye shadow, and even they know that’s ridiculous. They are trapped by their own…

Exactly. “They have to *earn* my vote! What? It’s my duty as an American to do what’s best for my country? Fuck that! A person running for president has to cater to me and only me!”