Posted on 01/30/2020 4:45:47 PM PST by Mount Athos
Edited on 01/30/2020 5:30:43 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
In October 2017, I was one of roughly 70 men included in the [bleep] Media Men list, a crowdsourced spreadsheet of anonymous, unvetted allegations of sexual misconduct and assault. No words can describe my astonishment and horror at finding myself accused of “harassment,” “stalking” and “physical intimidation.” In the decade leading up to the list, my work was regularly published by more than a dozen outlets and I was frequently offered work. After the leak, that work screeched to a stop.
More than two years later, the media continue to embrace MeToo’s powerful personal narratives as a reliable source of content and controversy. Now a cornerstone of liberal orthodoxy that few dare to challenge, there has been surprisingly little effort to dig into its complexities, unless the accused is someone powerful and prominent like Al Franken.
What makes this event intolerable isn’t just that the allegations against me are false. It’s that I have no idea who made them.
Not one editor asked me about the list’s allegations. I just stopped getting work. Colleagues, readers, and even friends who once supported my work no longer do. Editors and writers I reach out to are either distant or uncommunicative. Almost immediately after its release, a close friend of 10 years cut me off and hasn’t spoken to me since. Day after day, I’m tortured by the thought that even more people will learn of the allegations. Working three low-paying jobs means I’m always busy — and broke. Plus, any woman who does the usual, pre-date research online could stumble upon the list. It was easy to think everyone who has seen the list assumes I’m contemptible and deserve what happened to me. Everyone deserves better than to be assumed guilty of unsubstantiated charges from anonymous sources.
I don’t know this guy, but it sounds like he may have slept with dogs and was surprised he woke up with fleas.
Get a better class of friends, pal.
Yup. You're a dumbass.
Change fields now. Get a blue-collar job in the petroleum industry. Make lots of dough and forget your past.
Don’t associate with liberal, feminist women.
The writer of the article appears to be associated with this blog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_Suzy_Kolber
Let me tell you, it doesn’t take much these days.
I’ve had a woman make wild claims about me, and I had not idea I was offending her at the time. Further, the things she claimed were downright laughable.
Sadly, you have to sit there with a straight face and nod your head, or you are dismissing her without a full hearing.
You’d be surprised how quickly a few women can turn the whole staff against you. I’ve seen it happen to others. Luckily it didn’t with me.
The funny thing is the guy you have seen berating women over the years to the point it made YOUR skin crawl, isn’t the guy they decide to go after.
“It made no sense. Baffled, I reached out to the former coworker I had assumed was my accuser, a female reporter in my office whom I felt sure had at times found me rude or inconsiderate. She said she didn’t write my entry and didn’t know who did. No one else makes any sense to me whatsoever. What’s more, The Post was my last office job. All the media work I’ve had in the decade since was done remotely.”
This guy is a cuck. He may have thought he was better connected than it turned it, but he was drinking from the feminist trough. I doubt he gave a damn about his comrades falsely accused of sexual harassment during the witch hunts of the late nineties. White liberal males who aren’t billionaires think they don’t have to play by the feminist rules. This guy just learned something.
More (for what it’s worth):
KSK took its name from an incident during a December 20, 2003 game broadcast between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots, in which former Jets quarterback Joe Namath drunkenly made advances on ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber.[4]
Characters[edit]
Various NFL players or personalities appear on the site as recurring fictionalized characters. On April 14, 2008, Michael Tunison revealed his identity as a writer for The Washington Post on the blog. He was then fired by the Post for, in Tunison’s words, “bringing discredit to the paper.”[7][8]
Closure[edit]
On July 31, 2015, Tunison, by then KSK’s editor-in-chief, published the final piece he would write for the website, entitled “Smell Ya Later Forever, KSK”.[9] In this op-ed, he lamented that he was “burned out” from being the site’s only full-time employee, having to compete with much larger sports news websites, and from the lack of editorial control he felt from Uproxx, the company which bought the website in 2011. He remarked, most notably, about a post from May 2015 that made fun of Budweiser’s “#UpForWhatever” marketing campaign, which he was ordered to remove by senior management due to the potential of upsetting one of the website’s sponsors.[9] Despite this, however, they allowed another post on the site to remain active, which saw British comedian John Oliver making fun of exactly the same campaign. Most of the website’s other writers chose to leave with Tunison, though David Rappoccio remained behind to continue his popular drawings of modified NFL logos.[10] All sports content from August 2015 forward is now published under the umbrella of Uproxx Sports as a whole.[10]
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Seems the dude liked to dish it out but doesn’t like taking it. Not that life is fair or anything like that. Like I said, get a better class of friends, guy, and learn to lean back from the punches.
Never let your dingle dangle in the dirt.
We now are in a new era of neo-Victorian morality.
The last such paroxysm to sweep America was The Prohibition Movement, which like-wise ruined lives and turned on the group movement of accusatory women. Men lost jobs, were kicked out of their church congregations for being seen in private having a beer or getting tipsy, or being accused of drunkeness. All that was necessary was the accustaion then, as it is now.
Men are basically dirty, bjects of ridicule and manipulation
The good thing is that such a movement as “Moi Aussie” cannot be sustained. ordinary people grow to detest the sustained caterwauling necessary to continue it.
The result.
Never go into any room in a work setting or a religious setting where a man is alone with a woman. Safeguarding is de rigeur.
Do not trust any newly acquainted women intimately, do not get cozy on line, do not post confidentially at of all, remember that for now, the good old days of freely relating to the opposite sex are over, unless you travel to a country that still has a culture of common sense and freedom.The Netherlands are an example.
For if a women here does not get from you what she wants, hell will be the result.
Use your journalist skills. Find who published the list. Extract revenge in the form you think is most demonstrative. That’s the only way this crap stops.
I was thinking Stockholm Syndrome. I am also willing to bet his instinct that is was the female colleague at the Compost was right on the mark. Yet, there he is, whining while pretending to believe her.
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