AG Eric Schneiderman? Really, bro? Come the fuck on man.
Yeah, the LATEST in a long line. Men, famous ones, who are all up in #MeToo, who also abuse women. What the fuck.
The New Yorker:
ric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, has long been a liberal Democratic champion of women’s rights, and recently he has become an outspoken figure in the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. As New York State’s highest-ranking law-enforcement officer, Schneiderman, who is sixty-three, has used his authority to take legal action against the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, and to demand greater compensation for the victims of Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. Last month, when the Times and this magazine were awarded a joint Pulitzer Prize for coverage of sexual harassment, Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet, praising “the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they had endured at the hands of powerful men.” Without these women, he noted, “there would not be the critical national reckoning under way.”
Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own. As his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to nonconsensual physical violence. All have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel that doing so could protect other women. They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he “never made any of these threats.”
Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.
I’m not going to rehash what I wrote here and what I wrote here. I’m still the fucking hardass I was on this with Al Franken. I’m going to be so here. Resign, Mr. Schneiderman.
And I shall not be doing “whataboutism” here either because what would be the fucking point? One will note that within minutes of the story dropping, Democrats called for his resignation. Granted, Cuomo is shook given the strong challenge he’s getting from Cynthia Nixon, but he was fast. I am well aware of the governor of Missouri, a state whose legislature determined the man was a rapist, isn’t resigning and the GOP establishment is just like “eh.” We all know how disgusting the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—a man who fooled around with a woman, a woman who resembles his daughter and who spanked him with a magazine whilst his third wife was pregnant with his fifth child not to mention all the sexual assaults he’s accused of 1— is laughing all the way to the bank about this and his fans think this is great. We hold ours accountable. Republicans, who claim they’re better and more moral than us because of their universal collective religion (“not perfect, just forgiven”, the shittiest most passive-aggressive phrase ever), don’t. They obviously approve, or at the very least don’t give a shit, and soon, yes, they will get theirs.
And between Ross Douthat thinking “well maybe we should give the incels a fair shot at some sex” in the New York Times last week (I shan't link to that shit, I mean my gods, it was that bad), and the incels themselves feeling they’re owed sex even though they otherwise suck as human beings, and reading about domestic violence and abuse and on and on...men? Yeah, we gots to work on this because it’s not acceptable. Now listen, I really like being a man. But this? Come on, dudes. It’s long fucking past time that collectively, we did better.
as I was banging these out of the keys, this happened.
Bye, Mr. Schneiderman.
1- so we all know that if the occupant of 1600 right now were black and I wrote that very same em dash, he’d have been gone a really long time ago, yes? Good. We’re all on the same page then.