and yes, women are held to a different standard as bosses. We're held to different standards for everything. But some boss behavior is always horrible. Throwing things, yelling, demeaning an employee in front of other employees, making you dread coming to work, are all horrible, no matter whether done by a man or a woman.

Of course this is about the accusations that Amy Klobuchar was one of those horrible bosses. She has been defended on the ground that the same behavior that would be described as tough and demanding by a male boss is considered unacceptably awful by a female boss, and that the accusations are either sexist or a right-wing attempt at ratf*cking, or both. But female bosses can be objectively horrible. Whether Klobuchar is (or was) one such boss is a fair question and one that's been haunting her since before she was elected to the Senate. I will withhold judgment, however, until somebody has enough guts to attach their names to their complaints.