“…A sweeping investigation into workplace behavior at Nike has resulted in the departures of five more top-level executives, raising to 11 the number of senior managers to leave the company as it continues to overhaul its upper ranks amid widespread allegations of harassment and discrimination against female employees…”
This is all so depressing. A wag on Twitter yesterday said that Not All Men were bad apples, but women could be pardoned for rounding up.
I don’t view it as depressing. I view it as hopeful. Things are changing.
We still have decades to go, but things are changing.
I forgot to link to my letter in yesterday’s New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/sexual-assault-charges.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-world-still-spins-around-male-genius/559925/?utm_source=twb
This article focuses on Mary Karr and David Foster Wallace and also mentions Schneiderman.
Great letter @Hanna
I totally agree!
As you can tell from my previous post i live in the Denver metro area, a morning radio talk show was discussing Cosby and our cities connection. It was his belief from stories of the victims, that a local top modeling agency provided women to Cosby. He provided the modeling agency with work from one of the many projects he was involved. A woman was in charge of the modeling agency.
The men who do these types of assaults for years have lots of help and support from those who want work, support the cause, prestige of being associated with the famous/political, etc.
And NBC’s internal investigation found no issues. So i guess the employees of this news organization are incompetent that they couldn’t find a man who sexual harassed his employees for years right under their noses.
I don’t think this story about sex and consent for college students.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/10/style/sexual-consent-college-campus.html
My critique is based on this statement from the introduction:
“On college campuses, a combination of alcohol, inexperience and differing expectations about how one is “supposed” to perform only heightens the confusion.”
Are alcohol, inexperience, and confusing gender roles unique to, or even more prevalent on, college campuses vs. all the other spaces 18-22-year-olds occupy? It is classism to focus solely on the sexual experiences of college students while ignoring young people not in college, whose use of consent is apparently not relevant to the conversation. We see this pattern because we preferentially care about protecting rich white women vs. all others. Here on CC, we focus on universities for obvious reasons, but this piece is in the STYLE section, not the education section, so there’s no thematic justification. I would write to the Times about it, but I think I’ve used up my shot this week.
I have to agree and the stories in that article are but a microcosm heard over and over again. Thousands upon thousands of kids not on college campuses manage to navigate the bewildering sex life of a young single person.
Momofthree, I think you missed Hanna’s point. Kids not in college are just as likely, if not more so, to face" the combination of alcohol, inexperience and differing expectioations about how one is ‘supposed’ to perform", but with out the social support systems that kids in college have in place. Your comment seems to indicate that two things: 1.That kids not are in college manage to manage all this without being sexually assaulted, which is patently false, and 2. That colleges somehow enhance kids likely hood of being assaulted. We see more reports of sexual assault among that college kids because they have to support systems to report and be believed.
Undergraduate students in residential colleges drink a lot more than their same-aged peers not in college. So that’s one way that 18-22 yo students are different from 18-22 yos not in college, and can explain the part about alcohol.
No I totally agree with Hanna’s point. Kids not in college do not have the plethora of support systems college students have.
Well you obviously are unaware that Title IX covers high school and elementary school students as well as college students.
ETA: And I would further contend that in the last 9 months women have had unprecedented support when it comes to the issue of sexual assault.
Of course I know that although the supports for kids in high school are no where near the number of support positions per capita in colleges. Once kids are out of high school and don’t go off to a college they really have none to very minimal support systems. Apples and oranges.
Horrible trends collide: In an appalling mashup of #MeToo and school shootings, the Santa Fe (Texas) school shooter killed a girl and nine other people, and wounded ten more, because the girl rejected him.
@“Cardinal Fang”
I was going to sign on here and post the same thing! It’s most definitely on topic for this thread! 
Wasn’t there a kid in California last year who killed a bunch of folks because he was rejected by a girl? Something has to give.
A LOT of mass shootings involve a guy feeling or being actually rejected by a girl, but sometimes they are just generally “involuntarily celibate”.
The vast majority of mass shooters also have domestic violence histories.
The man who killed several people near UC Santa Barbara wanted to punish women for not liking him.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/25/elliot-rodger-manifesto-video_n_5387595.html
There was a girl in Maryland last March who was targeted and shot at school by her ex.
http://www.scarymommy.com/maryland-shooting-victim-jaelynn-willey-dies/
@greenwitch thanks for the link, that was the one I was referring to in California. I thought it was last year, and I see it happened 4 years ago!