Why didn’t he simply resign if he felt uncomfortable with what his boss was asking him to do? Why didn’t he just come out and say he would not do what the boss was asking for? As dozens of people noted immediately on Twitter, if you switch genders, that is the experience of many women in sexual harassment cases. Unsurprisingly enough, today’s hearing shows that power can discomfit and silence men as well as women. But at least for today, the tables were turned, and men could glimpse what women have often endured.

Source: New York Times June 08, 2017 19:18 UTC