Uh---a minor point about Ms. Tweeden's veracity---

[kag]

77. I disagree.

I don't believe most of these comments constitute "victim blaming" (maybe one or two, but not most). What I'm hearing is that yeah, Franken did a spectacularly stupid thing once, made a woman feel pretty shitty, and shouldn't have done it.

Coincidentally those happen to be the same sentiments that Franken himself expressed in his public apology to Tweedle.

But there ARE a few things that make this accusation substantially different than the ones against Moore or Weinstien or even Spacey. The most obvious one is that as yet there have been no other accusations and nothing to indicate that this is a pattern of behavior rather than an isolated incident. Also, this is the only time we've had the accused person requesting an investigation. What that tells me is that while what he did ten years ago was dickish and stupid, the way he's handling it now is honorable and respectful of his accuser (again, unlike Moore).

I don't think that pointing these things out constitutes "victim blaming".