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Ned Ryerson's avatar

It wasn't a group who accused him, though, it was two women. If we're all going to be held responsible for the actions of one or two people in our group, I think we're all kind of screwed.

If a man accused me of something and ruined my life, I'd probably just cry and listen to Joni Mitchell. But it takes all kinds

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TheNuclearBlonde's avatar

I get that. I think Jesse is a master class in handling this sort of thing with class and intellectual honesty. I am probably weird but since I know I'm not responsible I don't really care that some asshole wants to blame all women for two liars. (Not sure I articulated my point well there)

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Klondike's avatar

No, you made your point well and are acknowledging a fault, a tendency toward broad-brushing especially when bitter, that I think we all have. I get what Ned's saying and I would hope that I would take the high road too. That said, just the way we're talking here about how any dude who is vulgarly dismissive of a grown woman who shat in their bed to make a point, is *also* suspect of the same taboo as the male accused? Makes me feel like there's a double standard here and I too would tend to, fairly or not, be once bitten twice shy.

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