Franken doesn’t have the reputation of being a creep. These women worked with him at SNL and I’m sure they saw and were victims of a lot of harassment. Franken worked there in the early days of SNL. Randi Rhodes said she had her problems with him at Air America, none of them had to do with sexual harassment and she…

Either way, I personally don’t think Franken’s conduct is worthy of resignation. He should be called out on it (and has), he should apologize, genuinely (and has) and he should be given the opportunity to atone and make up for what he did, and I think staying in the Senate pushing for legislation that helps women is…

If you’re calling for Franken to resign over this, then yes, you’re saying it’s the same because you want him to face the same consequences as men who have done much worse. Roy Moore for instance, no one is expecting him to go to jail, but they want him to step down from the election. So why should the punishment be…

All of that may be true, but the victim has forgiven him, and said that she wasn’t interested in him losing his job. She just wanted to tell her story, make a point about how even “joking around” shit can be traumatic, and said on the record that she is good.

Apparently the person who took that picture of Franken and Leean said it was staged, she wasn’t asleep and knew what they were doing.

All of this. It’s all reprehensible and needs to stop, but indeed, we can’t paint all of these things with the same brush. If this continues to happen, the blowback is going to be horrible, and nothing will get any better.

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…

she’s way worse than any white feminist stereotype could ever be.

OMFG. Team petty a f, that one. The best thing Jessica Coen did during her tenure here was hire Lindy West. Although I was pissed that Dodai was passed over, Emma Carmichael was much better than Jessica.

Jessica Coen once grayed me for rewriting a headline on a Jez story after she specifically told readers to come up with something better (her headline was inaccurate, and for extra irony, it was on a story criticizing XOJane for an inaccurate headline). She changed the headline to the one I’d wrote, but she still…

the price tag just makes this portrayal of rich white feminism just *chef’s kisses* perfect

In 1990, per that article linked to in the Tina Brown story, a reporter said this: “Goddamn it,” one shouted at me, “we created him! We bought his bullshit! He was always a phony, and we filled our papers with him!”

Fuck off, Lena.

If she knows something specifically, she should say what it is, not just that mealy mouthed horseshit.

Or maybe the victim is a black woman and Lena Dunham in peak white feminist style is deciding not to believe her cause feminism is for white women? Lena Dunham is a racist piece of shit garbage person.

I didn’t say it was like Weinstein’s bullying. I said what she did is like how some people came out after those other men got exposed. There were people who said similar things to what Dunham just wrote.

It’s intresting that u automatically believe the dudes lawyers and Lena

BTK was a Pastor, if memory serves.

Lol. The same type of shit was said about Weinstein, Spacey, Ratner, etc.