If you were to hastily design an algorithm to mimic what a politically powerful 71-year-old man credibly accused of serial sexual assault might have to say about rape culture and the resignation of former Senator Al Franken, it would probably sound a lot like what Bill Clinton has come up with lately.
On Friday, Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden announced that he is hiring Ryan Lizza as the magazine’s chief political correspondent “at a time when Washington is the main event.” Curiously, at a time when the #MeToo era has also become a main event, Fielden failed to mention the fact that Lizza was available for…
In the middle of the night on November 11, 2011, Jenn Shapland, a 24-year-old graduate student in the English department at the University of Texas at Austin, received an email from her professor.
Aaron Persky, known piece of shit, entered the halls of history on Tuesday as the first judge to be recalled from his position in California since 1932.
Earlier this week, former president Bill Clinton demonstrated a predictable inability to take responsibility and show true remorse over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and further showed a complete misunderstanding of what the #MeToo movement means. In an interview with NBC’s Craig Melvin, Clinton got extremely defensive…
Bill Clinton, an accused predator, is one of the last people you’d ever expect to have meaningful thoughts about the #MeToo era. But in an interview with NBC’s Craig Melvin that aired Monday morning, Clinton proved to exceed even the lowest of possible expectations.
On Thursday morning, CNN published a story in which eight women accused Morgan Freeman of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior, both on and off set. The critically acclaimed actor and producer is described by women and witnesses as touching women inappropriately and making lewd comments. Employees at…
In December, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took what was perhaps the boldest move in the generally cautious politician’s decade-long career: She published a Facebook post calling for Al Franken, who had been accused of groping and forcibly kissing multiple women, to step down. Within hours, dozens of senators…
The New Yorker reported on Monday night that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who filed a civil rights lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Company after Weinstein’s pattern of alleged abuse became public, has allegedly been abusive to multiple women himself.
When powerful men are accused of sexual harassment, the structures that long enabled such behavior don’t just crumble away. In fact, those unholy layers of protection often quickly coalesce to shield the man. The latest example of this came on Monday night, when Page Six reported that a number of low-level female…
Longtime NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has been accused of repeated sexual harassment by Linda Vester, a former journalist and anchor for NBC and Fox News.
As familiar as I am with the pastime of giving white men maximum credit for minimum effort, even I was taken aback by this recent Vanity Fair headline: “Matt Lauer Is Planning His Comeback.”
It has been nearly six months since the women who stepped forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein helped start a national conversation on sexual harassment. Yet while we’re only just now being forced to reckon with our most famous predators, the women working in our country’s most vulnerable industries—domestic workers,…
The Politico today suggests that Democrats may be reluctant to let Bill Clinton campaign for them in the midterms, given the #MeToo movement and the party’s desire to rally women against our sexual predator president. Good!
Last month, talk show host Wendy Williams offered her thoughts about the grassroots campaign #MuteRKelly. Recently launched by Oronike Odeleye and Kenyette Barnes, the campaign’s intent is to finally shove R. Kelly out of the music industry because of a long history of abuse, from past allegations of pedophilia,…
The Trump Administration’s already-sketchy Rob Porter narrative continued to unravel on Tuesday, with a new report claiming that White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders personally arranged an off-the-record chat between Porter and a group of journalists before he officially resigned his post as White House…
Every time Jill Lewis goes back to the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater where she worked for a decade, she sees the face of a man she learned to fear because of his sexually aggressive behavior. It’s right there on the wall: one of the faces on a mural, painted to celebrate their favorite customers, in the theater’s…
The ever-evolving #MeToo movement has caused a seemingly seismic shift across many industries, but unfortunately, a vital voice keeps being marginalized: the voice of the male ally.
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Hillary Clinton responded Friday to a New York Times report about a top adviser she had kept on staff after he allegedly sexually harassed a fellow staffer by saying she was “heartened” that the woman had come forward.
