Comedian Aziz Ansari has responded to allegations of sexual misconduct by a woman he dated in 2017. “I believe that I was taken advantage of by Aziz,” the woman told babe.net. “The next day, I got a text from her saying that although ‘it may have seemed okay,’ upon further reflection, she felt uncomfortable,” Ansari said. [Perspective: What the Aziz Ansari allegations teach us about consent]Ansari has publicly declared himself a feminist and co-wrote a New York Times bestseller with a prominent sociologist about dating and love in the digital era. (Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post)“I think it was around the time Roger Ailes was getting all these reports filed against him, and the same way it happened for Bill O’Reilly,” Ansari told Vulture in May 2017.

Source: Washington Post January 15, 2018 17:58 UTC