{"id":93429,"date":"2020-10-20T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/media-men-are-defending-jeffrey-toobin-for-masturbating-on-a-work-call\/"},"modified":"2020-10-20T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:27:03","slug":"media-men-are-defending-jeffrey-toobin-for-masturbating-on-a-work-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/media-men-are-defending-jeffrey-toobin-for-masturbating-on-a-work-call\/","title":{"rendered":"#Media men are defending Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating on a work call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf05a5e878\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf05a5e878\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/media-men-are-defending-jeffrey-toobin-for-masturbating-on-a-work-call\/#You_dont_have_to_defend_sexual_harassment_Ever\" >You don&#8217;t have to defend sexual harassment. Ever.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/media-men-are-defending-jeffrey-toobin-for-masturbating-on-a-work-call\/#Analysis\" >Analysis<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/media-men-are-defending-jeffrey-toobin-for-masturbating-on-a-work-call\/#This_weeks_top_technology_stories\" >This week\u2019s top technology stories<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> men are defending Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating on a work call<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-sub-head\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"You_dont_have_to_defend_sexual_harassment_Ever\"><\/span>You don&#8217;t have to defend sexual harassment. Ever. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content-wrapper\">\n<h3 id=\"h-analysis\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Analysis\"><\/span><strong><em>Analysis<\/em><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday, media Twitter was utterly agape at the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> that one of the more esteemed reporters of a generation, Jeffrey Toobin of the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, exposed himself in front of a number of other generationally-acclaimed journalists on a Zoom call.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the news was a (probably intentional) masterclass in obfuscation, with the <em>New Yorker, <\/em>CNN (where he also works), and Toobin putting out statements calling it alternatively \u201caccidental,\u201d an \u201cincident\u201d and a \u201cpersonal matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was only after <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/epdgm4\/new-yorker-suspends-jeffrey-toobin-for-zoom-dick-incident\">Vice<\/a> revealed he\u2019d been masturbating on the call did everyone understand the full scope of the accidental, personal incident. <\/p>\n<p>While the coronavirus pandemic has created a situation where home and work life have blurred a touch, there\u2019s no denying what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened. An employee publicly masturbated in front of coworkers during a work meeting. That\u2019s it, that\u2019s all there is to it. <\/p>\n<p>Unless you happen to be a man, in the media, who instead of tweeting \u201cdamn, don\u2019t jack it in front of anyone,\u201d or \u201cdamn that is sexual harassment,\u201d instantly chose to defend Toobin and therefore defend sexual harassment, allowing Toobin\u2019s insistence that it was an accident to carry the narrative. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter, who is worried what it might mean for CNN to be absent one talking head out of its lineup of 1,000 in the run-up to the 2020 election. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jeffrey Toobin has been sidelined at a pivotal moment in the run-up to the presidential election. The reason: He exposed himself during a Zoom call with New Yorker colleagues in what he says was an accident. Here&#8217;s our full story <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pHHNURlxnR\">https:\/\/t.co\/pHHNURlxnR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1318377113037189121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As detailed in this good thread, many sexual harassers play down what they\u2019ve done as \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixielauren\/status\/1318404085775798275\">accidental<\/a>\u201d to avoid accusations and prosecutions, so what Toobin says here should have no weight whatsoever. And even if you absolutely utterly believe his version of the events, he was video sexting in the middle of a work meeting with his colleagues, which is FUCKING ABHORRENT. <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d like to believe that many of the men in media, which has faced <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shitty_Media_Men\">numerous incidents of sexual assault and harassment<\/a>, would think not to defend this. Or would have learned something in the past three years. You\u2019d be completely wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Vox\u2019s German Lopez wrote on Twitter, \u201cNot sure someone getting caught doing something almost everyone does should be a national story,\u201d which is a willful misreading of the Toobin story.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not sure someone getting caught doing something almost everyone does should be a national story.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 German Lopez (@germanrlopez) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/germanrlopez\/status\/1318313163302076416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p> Ditto the <em>Atlantic\u2019s<\/em> Conor Friedersdorf, who blamed<em> the pandemic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Occam\u2019s Razor suggests someone humiliated himself through a combo of technological error, pandemic circumstances, bad judgment, &amp; bad luck, it seems like we should react w\/ empathy, politeness, &amp; forgiveness, as we would want to be treated, rather than punitive mockery,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When Occam&#8217;s Razor suggests someone humiliated himself through a combo of technological error, pandemic circumstances, bad judgment, &amp; bad luck, it seems like we should react w\/ empathy, politeness, &amp; forgiveness, as we would want to be treated, rather than punitive mockery<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conor64\/status\/1318333691999911936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Which willfully ignores the much more apt Occam\u2019s Razor, which suggests that when someone who has been <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/cnn-jeffrey-toobin-made-shockingly-sexual-proposition-well-known-media-figure-claims-article-1.198127\">previously accused of sexual harassment<\/a> commits sexual harassment, it was probably sexual harassment. <\/p>\n<p>When Twitter users suggested that Friedersdorf might also masturbate during work calls, he replied to them all with the same copy-and-paste comment about having a \u201cPuritan mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The most terrifying thing about the Puritan mindset is when someone says *don&#8217;t throw stones at the person who did the bad thing* and someone in the crowd turns on that person and says *he must have done\/thought a bad thing too*. Do you want to be that person in the crowd?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conor64\/status\/1318387538344595456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to be the type of person who accuses me of jacking off at work?\u201d Friedersdorf essentially asks. Which, well, I don\u2019t have to be. I\u2019ll just link to the tweets in 2019 where he got mad at people shaming comedian Louis C.K. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Love or hate that set or CK, starter material performed in a small market club is what comics do w\/ material that isn\u2019t ready by their own admission, not material that reflects what they value putting before the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Posting such sets w\/o permission hurts comedy, upsets ppl <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ztqmml9Cyz\">https:\/\/t.co\/ztqmml9Cyz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conor64\/status\/1081007024664567808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When one person repeatedly rushes to the defense of men accused of masturbating in front of people in their industry, what does that suggest?  <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"This_weeks_top_technology_stories\"><\/span>This week\u2019s top technology stories<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>In the 2020 election, killing Section 230 is the only bipartisan issue <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Trump blasted TikTok for collecting \u2018vast swaths\u2019 of data\u2014his 2020 app does the same thing <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Will a Biden-Harris administration break up big tech?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Right-wing militias have adopted QAnon with frightening ease <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6 signs it\u2019s time to get a new phone (Sponsored)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailydot.us18.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=557794e049a42cb8dcdf4eacc&amp;id=14207741b3\"><em>Sign up<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to receive the best of the internet straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\">\n<p>                                                                                                <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                                        <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/young-businessman-typing-on-computer-one-271437566\">Lolostock\/Shutterstock<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                                            <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\">(Licensed)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n  <noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Covucci\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/David-Covucci_avatar_1522790172-50x50.png\" class=\"avatar avatar-50 photo\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Covucci\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/David-Covucci_avatar_1522790172-50x50.png\" class=\"lazyload avatar avatar-50 photo\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-name inline-flex\">David Covucci<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/debug\/jeffrey-toobin-zoom-media-men-defend-masturbating-at-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Media men are defending Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating on a work call &#8221; You don&#8217;t have to defend sexual harassment. 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