We decide between two men who have been credibly accused of sexual assault. I'm sure this has been the case before in other elections. The difference now being we just know about it. 

“I do not discount Christine Blasey Ford’s story, but the timing is interesting. Brett Kavanaugh has been in the public eye for decades. Now that he’s about to be a Supreme Court Judge, this is coming out. Hmmm”

She’s got receipts and it still won’t be enough.

I get that. And you nailed it with the word ‘creepy’ and that was exactly the missing factor in that stranger’s neutral, admiring compliment. It’s the sexual undertone (at least for me) that makes the difference (especially in the workplace) as evidenced above.

The whole thing is worth a watch, whether you’re a theater nerd or a secret theater nerd who knows all the lyrics to Oklahoma but would never sing them in front of you, for your sake (hi!). To be perfectly honest, I’m not even all that familiar with Sondheim, though my favorite episode of Documentary Now is the one…

Thank you. Men and women compliment me all the time at work (I do my best to dress well), and none of those comments even go near the Sex Pest Harassment category.

Goes to show how deep institutional racism can go. I’d like to know how long it took them in average to test any workers that developed symptoms vs black workers in the same situation.

If nothing else, they should have taken her more seriously as a medical professional. It  makes  no  sense.

Worked there for decades. Of all people, they should have gone out of their way, or pulled some strings for one of their own, or something.

Exactly.

It is happening in other places. Sorry, I am way too exhausted to look up source data. We all know the drill though.

This is super-heartening to someone of my age who was raised (and mostly lived) in a time in which we were supposed to be flattered by this sort of attention. And we questioned our own damn selves when we felt discomfited and somehow shamed when it occurred.

I don’t think saying you shouldn’t compliment someone on their appearance at work really counts as acknowledging he did wrong.

This isn’t really a problem with single-payer or health insurance, though.  The woman wasn’t rejected because she couldn’t pay for care.  This is about racial biases in healthcare, and simply switching to single payer doesn’t solve that problem.  That’s something that needs to be addressed directly.

Had someone in the area go in for testing. He had symptoms, lived with multiple other people who’d contracted it...diagnosed him with pneumonia...didn’t give him a test. Fortunately, he didn’t get worse and seems to be recovering, but more than one person he’d been around died from COVID-19.

This is all sorts of racism/incompetence. She’s in the demo, AND she works at a hospital where she is more likely to contract it, and they wouldn’t test her?

I wonder how many other people experienced this. Because you know it’s not just this one story.

This is a good article as to socio-economic status and Covid-19. Also, how people can look and act reasonably healthy, and then die within minutes. People are walking and talking as normal but they know something is desperately wrong. Often the doctors dismiss them unless an x-ray is taken and then they see to their…

We really need single payer healthcare. The system we have now is worthless and far too many people die who didn’t need to die.

Sometimes, fuck everything.