I don't believe anyone automatically, whether the accuser or the accused.

[LisaM]

2. I agree; there's a pack mentality going on.

And I do think different situations warrant different responses - it also behooves us to see how the people are acting now.

I don't even like Mark Halperin but, if he is to be believed (and I presume this is provable), when the incidents occurred at ABC news, he went and sought treatment for it and did not return to that job. I think that means he should probably not be subjected to the same level of vitriol or backlash as Harvey Weinstein.

I know women are subject to all kinds of things - I've been groped by strangers, I had a guy jerk off in front of me at a bus stop, I used to work at a store where men made remarks about my co-workers (college coeds at the time). All bad. It's not the same experience as my friend who was violently raped, abducted, and held hostage for a number of hours with duct tape over her eyes (and who was brave enough to remember enough things about what happened that they caught the guy).

I really need to sort out my thoughts. I'm not going to have a knee jerk response to anything at this point.