[Mega Thread] The all encompassing sexual misconduct thread

I think we're seeing how pervasive sexual harassment is.

 

Female congressional candidate leaves race after sexual harassment allegations resurface

A Democratic candidate hoping to flip a hotly contested congressional seat in Kansas has dropped out of the race after allegations that she sexually harassed a male subordinate resurfaced during her campaign.

Andrea Ramsey, 57, who was running to unseat Republican Kevin Yoder in a district that includes Kansas City in 2018, is one of the few, if only, women in public life to step down thus far amid a national conversation about sex and power dynamics in the workplace.

www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/15/female-congressional-candidate-leaves-race-after-sexual-harassment-allegations-resurface/?utm_term=.9a400e6f516d

 

we shouldn't give any credence to a singular accusation without physical evidence or witness/corroboration

once you get multiple accusations from disinterested parties, then the credibility starts to increase

 

What do you mean without corroboration? Bill Clinton has a single accuser of rape. No physical evidence, no witnesses, but I believe she is telling the truth.

 

as do I, but if no one else had ever accused him of anything, I wouldn't believe (or disbelieve) her, it's simply not enough to draw any conclusions

 

But in his case the opposite happened. He had a series of accusers that were not credible which undermined Broaddrick's claim. Had those never happened she might have been believed.

 

Not only that, she changed her tune and has refused to testify about it when it mattered. She has spoken about it, but it was actually investigated and her story changed. In fact, in an affidavit, she swore under oath that Bill Clinton did not rape her and did not even make unwanted sexual advances toward her in the seventies.

But a couple of years later she was back claiming that he raped her again. So, I don't know whether or not her claims that aren't under oath should hold more credibility to the statements that she made in her sworn affidavit.

At best the claim that Clinton raped her is questionable.

 

Or if when she made a sworn affidavit, she hadn't said that the idea that he made unwanted sexual advances towards her were false, people might have been believed.

 

More to come at Fox?

O’Reilly Accuser: Timebomb of Info on Sex Harasser Executives in ‘Highest Positions’ at Fox News Is Counting Down
By David Ferguson / Raw Story

“Tick tock, tick tock,” wrote conservative commentator and Bill O’Reilly sexual harassment accuser Juliet Huddy on Saturday. “Executives who not only covered up for sexual harassers/predators (statements by 21st Century Fox co-chairman Rupert Murdoch, who said on Friday that the sexual harassment and abuse scandal at his network is merely “nonsense,” and that it’s a “political” attack on the network “because we’re conservative.”

LawAndCrime.com said that in a post that she deleted from Facebook, but then posted on Twitter, Huddy wrote, “Rupert Murdoch is not just a media mogul. He’s a perpetrator, complicit in wrecking careers of hardworking, talented people while protecting their tormentors.”

She continued, “The more we shame disgraceful executives like Murdoch, the faster we send the message that sexual harassment will not be tolerated.”

In a statement to Law and Crime, Huddy said, “It’s ironic that O’Reilly, Murdoch and others have suggested that I, along with the other accusers, are part of some left wing conspiracy. [One], I’m fiscally conservative and socially liberal so let’s just get that out of the way. [And two], based on everything I have seen and has been reported, the participants in this, The Grand Conspiracy, are the executives at Fox.”

She said that Murdoch himself is not accused of harassing women, but that he was instrumental in covering up and burying stories about O’Reilly, former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and others.

Huddy is one of multiple women to whom Fox News has paid out tens of millions of dollars in settlements related to O’Reilly alone. A parade of other women have come forward with accusations of harassment, sexualized bullying and a “locker room” culture at the network.

 

When did I ever proffess love for social science and lib arts proffesors?

 

The way your mind works is fascinating. So because a professor in New York had a sexual harassment lawsuit, New York is bad, and professors are bad. What's amazing is that this isn't the first time you've tried to use singular examples to cast aspersions on larger general segments of the population.

 

Harassment? Sounds more like corruption that could put him in prison for years.