The whole thing started with Weinstein, a liberal. And it was followed up with reports of other Hollywood liberals who were guilty of the same. Cons and libs both completely accept that Weinstein is a pig.
The trend is that pigs don't get to feel safe anymore that their piggish behaviour will be hidden or glossed over. And AFAIC that's a good thing.
"As reports flow almost daily of
harassment or worse by men in entertainment, business, and
the media, one current and three former female lawmakers tell The Associated Press that they, too, have been harassed or subjected to hostile sexual comments — by fellow members of Congress.
The incidents occurred years or even decades ago, usually when the women were young newcomers to Congress. They range from isolated comments at one hearing, to repeated unwanted come-ons, to lewd remarks and even groping on the House floor. Coming amid an intensifying national focus on
sexual harassment and gender hostility in the workplace, the revelations underscore that no woman is immune, even at the highest reaches of government.
“This is about power,” said former California Sen. Barbara Boxer, after describing an incident at a hearing in the 1980s where a male colleague made a sexually suggestive comment. The colleague, using the traditional congressional parlance, said he wanted to “associate” himself with her remarks — adding afterward that he also wanted to “associate with the gentle lady.”
Boxer said the comment was met with general laughter and an approving second from the committee chairman. She said she later asked that it be removed from the record.
“That was an example of the way I think we were thought of, a lot of us. ... It’s hostile and embarrasses, and therefore could take away a person’s power,” she said.
Boxer and the other female lawmakers spoke on the record to tell their stories in the wake of revelations about Hollywood producer
Harvey Weinstein’s serial attacks on women, as well as disclosures from current and former Capitol Hill staffers about harassment by lawmakers and aides. Those accounts, published in
The Washington Post and elsewhere, revealed that Congress has few training or reporting requirements in place to deal with sexual harassment."
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/11/179575/sexual-harassment-congress-house-of-representatives
