An uncomfortable number of people here missing the point of #metoo and people like Al Franken

[Ms. Toad]

58. Only two of 8 were anonymous.

Four were identified by name, two more were known to the reporters and identified by job description. That does not include anyone accusing Franken of looking at her the wrong way.

As to being friends with Hannity - You'd better not take a gander through my FB friends. I have quite a few right wing nut jobs. Most of them are relatives, some are students, some are related by common disease. Who you are friends with on facebook is a meaningless criteria.

Are you willing to judge Dr. Ford by the same standards? Her politics seem to be as far left as the first accuser of Franken was far right.

As for credibility - I found especialy the ones about rear-end grabbing particularly credible. I've experienced pretty much the same thing - in just as public a place - from someone who sincerely believed that the guesture would be welcome (based on my later conversations with him). Like the women who accused Franken - I said nothing at the time - and I probably would never have said anything to anyone other than my spouse and the pastoral care body of the organzation we both belonged to - until he was named to be part of that body at least 2 years later and it became necessary to object to his appropriateness for membership on that particular committee.

Even people you high esteem can engage in sexually inappropriate behavior, and I find it offensive that under very similar circumstances people on DU immediately believe Dr. Ford, a single accuser, without recognizing the hipocrisy of how - under similarly political circumstances - they immediately rejected every one of at least half a dozen accusers of Franken.