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Day off the Dead art by José Guadalupe Posada.
“Testosterone poisoning” has been a joke for some time now. But it’s no joke to women harmed by it. This summer, Roger Ailes got the boot at Fox News for a lengthy history of sexual harassment. Then the Harvey Weinstein story broke in October and #MeToo became a phenomenon. With stories of Roy Moore and teenage girls threatening his Senate bid and shaking up the GOP caucus in Washington, it seems we are on the cusp of a cultural shift a long time in coming. Women feel empowered, finally, to bring their stories out of the shadows in the way cell phone videos made visible police violence against black Americans. So many skeletons.
But the cultural moment has had that knife-edge quality that hinted it might tip from healthy reckoning to moral panic. Erin Gloria Ryan writes at Daily Beast that radio host Leeann Tweeden’s story about Al Franken (and his public apology) feels like the first, while a second allegation agsinst Franken worries her for different reasons.
Former KSFO conservative talk host Melanie Morgan now alleges she was “stalked and harassed” by Franken who, she says, called her several times to continue a policy debate they’d begun on Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect.”
It’s just that Morgan’s account “reeks of naked political opportunism, of weaponizing victimhood in a way that is so morally bankrupt that it threatens to derail the entire #MeToo conversation,” Ryan writes. Brian Beutler, she adds, days ago expressed similar reservations about how the “believe Women” movement might get derailed by Breitbart, which has already dispatched journalist/hit men to Alabama to discredit Moore’s accusers:
That’s why this all seems so perilous. We are on the cusp of a cultural shift that revanchist forces would just as soon kill. Skeletons love their closets.
Fox News on Wednesday banned Kiss frontman Gene Simmons from its building and network for life for behaving like Gene Simmons, so there’s that.
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Men behaving badly ⋆ Epeak World News
men behaving badly by bloggersrus
Home/Editors' pick/Men behaving badly
Day off the Dead art by José Guadalupe Posada.
“Testosterone poisoning” has been a joke for some time now. But it’s no joke to women harmed by it. This summer, Roger Ailes got the boot at Fox News for a lengthy history of sexual harassment. Then the Harvey Weinstein story broke in October and #MeToo became a phenomenon. With stories of Roy Moore and teenage girls threatening his Senate bid and shaking up the GOP caucus in Washington, it seems we are on the cusp of a cultural shift a long time in coming. Women feel empowered, finally, to bring their stories out of the shadows in the way cell phone videos made visible police violence against black Americans. So many skeletons.
But the cultural moment has had that knife-edge quality that hinted it might tip from healthy reckoning to moral panic. Erin Gloria Ryan writes at Daily Beast that radio host Leeann Tweeden’s story about Al Franken (and his public apology) feels like the first, while a second allegation agsinst Franken worries her for different reasons.
Former KSFO conservative talk host Melanie Morgan now alleges s
he was “stalked and harassed” by Franken who, she says, called her several times to continue a policy debate they’d begun on Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect.”
It’s just that Morgan’s account “reeks of naked political opportunism, of weaponizing victimhood in a way that is so morally bankrupt that it threatens to derail the entire #MeToo conversation,” Ryan writes. Brian Beutler, she adds, days ago expressed similar reservations about how the “believe Women” movement might get derailed by Breitbart, which has already dispatched journalist/hit men to Alabama to discredit Moore’s accusers:
That’s why this all seems so perilous. We are on the cusp of a cultural shift that revanchist forces would just as soon kill. Skeletons love their closets.
Fox News on Wednesday banned Kiss frontman Gene Simmons from its building and network for life for behaving like Gene Simmons, so there’s that.
roger ailes sexual harassment Testosterone Weinstein
Mueller investigation news: Sam Patten flips, will cooperate with special counsel’s office
Four swing state Republican governors are not wild about their party’s candidates to replace them
Republicans see political upside in killing of Iowa woman