I am a little shocked about the latest...Charlie Rose.

You and me both, really surprised. I'm old enough and have seen and experienced enough of this stuff that I shouldn't be though.

ETA: According to reports that I heard he exposed himself. To me that is an entire other category of abuse from patting an ass. Unbelievable that these guys think wagging their weenie is attractive.

Right! Eight is not just a "bad evening with too many drinks", it's a lifestyle.

I don’t watch his show(s) but I an thoroughly unsurprised, based on seeing clips of him from his CBS morning show on John Oliver.

Almost makes me wonder if Oliver knew about the rumors.

I just mean that to whip out your penis and show it to a woman is way beyond lowering your hand to touch someone’s butt while taking picture or making a suggestive remark. All are unacceptable behaviors but showing your genitals is really sick. I hadn't heard much more about Rose other than he exposed himself and that alone is disturbing. It is worse? Uck!

So many stories are coming out now everything from making a pass at a woman to actual rape. Making a pass is mostly disgusting but easily handled. Whipping your junk out is demented.

I will have to go read more as I just caught the short version of the Rose story.

Some date back to the 90s, so no.

“I thought they liked me so I flashed my dick. That’s a totally normal first move, right?”

I guess none of these men took Samantha Bee's advice when they had a chance.

A Penis PSA

It's sickening that his behavior was known and shrugged away as "Oh, that's just Charlie being Charlie.."

I don't have much respect for his apology, either...

"I have learned a great deal from these events (from getting caught with my pants down, figuratively- AND literally- speaking)
and I hope others will too (man, I hope I'm not the last one that gets outed).
All of us, including me, are coming to a newer and deeper recognition of the pain caused by conduct in the past (he was very careful to say IN THE PAST, here-- meaning, I don't do this stuff any MORE, heavens no!),
and have come to a profound new respect for women and their lives (new, meaning I guess that he had very little respect for women before?? Before getting outed, that is, not before DOING any of it...)

WHY, WHY, WHY, do men think they need to do stuff like this? Just because they CAN? What kind of a reason IS that?!?

I mean, really, I think Samantha Bee said it perfectly- SHE doesn't find it necessary to masturbate in front of ANY of her co-workers-  why does some man think he needs to act like that? Is it really that difficult to go all day long without fondling your penis in public? Maybe it is, and I just have a really low sex drive, but honestly- unless little boys are jerking off in the bathroom between classes at school and I just had NO idea, they KNOW they can go all day long without ejaculating or having some random woman look at their dick- what happens to them (mentally) when they grow up to change that?  Really, am I just missing out on the exhibitionism-at-work stuff, or what?  I knew I was a little bit dull, but are all of you doing fun stuff like walking around naked in front of your co-workers, and I'm just duller than I thought I was?

Same with Weinstein, the other producer, Moore, Trump et al ...............   People KNEW!  I am not sure people should yell it from the roof tops outing the victims, but they should try to speak to the victims.  They can report the offender without outing the victim.  There has to be a way.  Someone has to open the door first.    This has to stop!  

I know that HR is mostly there at my job to protect the company, but at least we HAVE an HR department- is THAT what's missing in the industries where this stuff seems to run rampant? Or is it because it (seems to be) mostly audition-type scenarios (although not in Congress...) where there isn't any recourse, since you just won't get hired if you don't go along? What about in Congress? if a certain Congressperson gets a little too handsy in the elevator, do the staffers have an HR department they can tell??

Me too. I had forgotten he was now a morning host, I think of his one on one interview program.