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Al Franken comes to mind. Especially because he shouldn’t have resigned
Franken could have come back but I think he resigned and has stayed gone because fuck that shit. If people want to be shitty and bay for blood like animals over stupid shit, then fuck all y'all. Can't say I blame him. Plus nobody had the balls to stand with him while it was happening.
Making sexual jokes about a coworker without their consent is called sexual harassment. Especially if you photograph this joke so your coworker can be repeatedly humiliated as it's passed around.
It was a coworker, she was another comedian on tour with him, not a soldier. If they had been working in an office he would have been fired immediately and she could have sued the company.
Humilating women isn't funny. "It's just a joke" isn't an excuse for harassment.
There's another term called "having a stick up your ass" that's coming to my mind now for some reason.
Because it's what the bad guy in every sexual harassment training video says just before his female coworker reports him to HR?
No, because the woman in the Al Franken case was a fellow performer and comedian, and that's part of their world. Recasting it as general sexual harassment as if we're blind to all the circumstances is just torches and pitchforks. I agree with the other person here who believes Franken resigned because "Fuck this shit" and not because of being guilty of anything actually evil. And no, this opinion does not generalize to "every guy accused of sexual harassment" - see my first sentence and apply actual brain cells.
Also Anthony Weiner.
Furthermore, a certain mediocre Democratic woman senator felt she needed a “me too” scalp to burnish her credentials for a run for president. As a result of her unwarranted sense of her usefulness, one of the best Senators in my lifetime says “fuck this noise” and resigned. While her useless self is still in the senate.