Another goes down: Matt Lauer. I just heard this when I got up early and turned the TV on. I was glad to hear a commentator on CNN a couple of days ago address that there is abuse by people in power across the work place and men and women are victimized. Yet in the end few have any rights and if things become intolerable (which happened to me) the only choice is to get another job.
I haven't heard just what it was that he did, but it is confirmed that he was fired over it. There was a time when I looked forward to Prairie Home Companion but in the last several years of Keillor doing it, I had lost interest in it. He was replaced on PHC a couple of years ago, and I had thought Garrison Keillor had retired. Apparently not, because he was fired. Source: Microsoft News
I like men too. Though there can be jerks out there. Females can be jerks too. I worked at a nursing home where the administrator was rumored to like to find dates at work and the further rumor was she was dating a male therapist. I asked him and by his over reaction denial, I knew it was true. Predictably, it didn't work out and this administrator fired the therapist. This building incidentally is the one I quit because I found the abuse, including hers intolerable.
All this reminds me of the Salem Witch hunts. Any man who has ever touched a woman in any way is in danger of losing his job and reputation. I'm sure some of them are not angels but this smacks of mass hysteria.
Younger men assert their power physically .....older men wish they had the power to be physical. Either way it is never a win win situation.
I agree, @Shirley Martin. Although many of the people who are being hit are ones who I don't mind seeing destroyed, since they'd be first in line to do the same to a conservative, it bothers me that everyone's lives are being scrutinized, and then ruined on the basis of mere allegations, even allegations from thirty or forty years ago. I don't care what someone's politics are, a life shouldn't be ruined based on an allegation. People can say whatever they like. People do lie, and they do it for a number of reasons, including political motivations, professional jealousies, a sense of revenge over past slights, or being bribed by a newspaper or political entity to make an allegation. For that matter, some people even come to believe a lie over time.
@Chrissy Cross Ah! I knew it all along, despite any talk to the contrary! You are normal, er........or rather, not "unusual", within the purported 90% of us who appear to "fit" nature's intended ways. Why must I always be confronted by moral inconsistencies which seem to reveal my hidden, rarely exploited, REAL beliefs? Why, today, we must talk in "double-speak", adhere to the status quo as demanded by the "chosen few". We must not reveal our inner stand, for fear of appearing inconsistent or against "Political Correctness". Know what? I don't give a single rat's ass if others are intimidated PC-wise by my feelings, nor will I at this late stage of my life become the hypocrite expected of me by "social majority". I AM ME. Take it, like it, hate it, castigate it, turn away from it, fight it (and me), or cringe behind blinders, the "turned tide" will rest assured turn again. I can't say God will demand it, or public moral stance will affect it, or laws will "reform it", but sure as sh!t stinks (to quote my college Calculus instructor), the time will return when "normalcy" will rule, PC or no. Frank
@Kitty Carmel Well, I swan! Seems "normally"-aligned folks (ladies at least), think along lines of "suppressing the absurd". Obviously, your experiences there were not to be collectively called "marvelous". Thank you for further enlightenment. Frank