{"id":360517,"date":"2018-05-10T07:21:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T06:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thin-red-line-flirting-v-harassment\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T06:21:46","slug":"thin-red-line-flirting-v-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thin-red-line-flirting-v-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Red Line: Flirting v Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_101934\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101934\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-08-at-5.07.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><br \/>The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>just dropped the dime on NY Attorney General\u00a0Eric Schneiderman, reporting that four women have accused him of sexual and physical abuse.\u00a0\u00a0Two of the women,\u00a0Michelle\u00a0Manning Barish and Tanya\u00a0Selvaratnam, publicly accused the prominent \u201cprogressive\u201d of repeatedly hitting them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent.<\/p>\n<p>Schneiderman, who led a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and supported \u201c#MeToo!,\u201d said, \u201cIn the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0In the wake of\u00a0<em>The New Yorker\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>revelations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse\">Schneiderman resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the scandal involving Tom Brokaw, the former anchor of\u00a0NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Nightly News<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>and a former NBC correspondent,\u00a0Linda Vester. In an interview with\u00a0<em>The Washington Post\u00a0and\u00a0Variety<\/em>, Vester reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We were in the Denver bureau, and there was a conference room. I\u2019m standing there, and Tom Brokaw enters through the door and grabs me from behind and proceeds to tickle me up and down my waist. I jumped a foot and I looked at a guy who was the senior editor of\u00a0<em>Nightly<\/em>, and his jaw was hanging open.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody acted like anything wrong was happening, but I was humiliated. I didn\u2019t know Brokaw other than to say hello in the hall&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/09\/thin-red-line-flirting-v-harassment\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York | CC BY 2.0 The New Yorker\u00a0just dropped the dime on NY Attorney General\u00a0Eric Schneiderman, reporting that four women have accused him of sexual and physical abuse.\u00a0\u00a0Two of the women,\u00a0Michelle\u00a0Manning Barish and Tanya\u00a0Selvaratnam, publicly accused the prominent \u201cprogressive\u201d of repeatedly hitting them, often after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}