Fox Is Investigating Neil DeGrasse Tyson After Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
Three women have accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Fox Is Investigating Neil DeGrasse Tyson After Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
Three women have accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior.
I knew that was coming eventually. He’s made a career out of ****ting on politically correct stuff.
Because the real police require physical evidence which can be traumatic to collect from a freshly minted assault victim so they go to those they trust; sadly it doesn't sound like they should have trusted those people either. I lived in OKC when one of the Gaylord family was accused of rape; by the end of the trial the young woman was portrayed as a willing whore (as female victims usually are - just the nature of the legal game). Even with compelling evidence - she had been on her cycle with a *ahem* feminine hygiene product in use that required a physician to extract when the young man had finished relocating it. There was not one single female on the OU Campus who missed the message and the lesson of the story.
he invited his underling to his apartment at around 10:30 P.M. to “share a bottle of wine” and “unwind for a couple of hours.”
Here is the article laying out the two, additional accusations:
Patheos: Two More Women Accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of Sexual Misconduct
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosac...use-neil-degrasse-tyson-of-sexual-misconduct/
IMO, the only accusation that qualifies as a "sexual misconduct" accusation is the oldest, from grad school. But first, the other two:
He was looking for Pluto on her tattoo, at a party, and there are pictures:
I'll let the pictures' 1000 words explain why, IMO, this accusation as #MeToo fodder is a 1000 lbs of bovine scatology.
The second accusation is that Dr. drGrasse made a pass at the woman after she accepted an invitation into his home, and this is her description of the circumstances:
Um, hello, for the "Netflix and chill" generation, this is the oldies' "Netflix and chill" invitation to hook-up, booty call, have sex, shag,etc.
To be clear, accepting such an invitation (either version) is not consent for sex, but it sure as hell is not NO. To think that accepting such an invitation conveys anything except, "maybe, we'll see" by either party is utterly asinine.
The last and worst accusation (actually, the first both in order published and chronologically when it occurred) is an Cosby-esque drug rape alleged to have occurred in 1984, when both were students. The woman alleges the rape robbed her of her dreams of obtaining a degree in astrophysics on the way to becoming the first black woman astronaut. It so affected her that she dropped out, pursued spiritual astrology instead of astronomy, changed her name, etc. And, apparently told nobody about this assault for 26 years, when she did a public "ambush" accusation of Dr. deGrasse at a NOVA event in 2010.
Another blow to her credibility are the attendance records the publication uses to show that they attended at the same time, indicate that she continued to attend for EIGHT YEARS following the alleged attack. She also says that she was similarly raped by professors/students other than Dr. deGrasse during that time, but stayed silent on those as well.
I have no idea what actually happened, but this accusation by, IMO, a "crazy" woman that plays to the narrative of how her life went so far off the rails that she had envisioned carries little to no credibility for me, and I'm no Dr. deGrasse fan.
(Note: if deGrasse actually is/was another Cosby, not just figment of a delusion, then more woman will come out with similar, though more credible, stories)
Couldn't happen to a better person...
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/12/law-school-launches-title-ix-investigation-into-prominent-professor/
The louder they scream about the hashtags, the worse they are...
I don't know who he is, why he's in trouble, or really anything else.
He was on a tear that the Dems should pack the court after Kavenaugh.
I don't want to appear to be "defending" Dr. deGrasse' behavior as "stellar" or even appropriate, because I don't condone it. He appears to me to be "that guy" who let's his nether regions do the thinking for him at inappropriate times. It's not a "good look".
BUT, lumping this together as a fourth allegation of "sexual misconduct", or in some news stories, "sexual assault" is equally indefensible. Taken at face value, this anonymous, fourth accusation is that while drunk at a work-related holiday party, he made a pass at a woman and was turned down. Inappropriate because he is married and at a work-related function, which is never the equivalent of a pick-up bar.
Equating this to an allegation of drug-induced rape is preposterous, iMO. By my accounting, there has been exactly one allegation of sexual assault (with zero or near zero credibility). This latest might be categorized as alleged sexual harassment, had the woman been a fellow employee, but she wasn't, she was a guest at the party.
What this means in General on #MeToo:
I see this as damaging to the #MeToo movement, which has been co-opted, and it's a shame. I applauded it when it started and was focused on men who prostituted their positions of power or prominence to force women to chose between their careers and sex. Or, worse, to remain quiet about outright rape.
This ain't that!
This is treating WOMEN as though they are weak little GIRLS who cannot use their words to stand up against the inappropriate and need to be "protected". We expect MEN, for example when pressured to do something unethical, immoral or illegal, to just say NO, and to say it in no uncertain terms. I'm at a loss to see how this is different unless those pushing this narrative view all WOMEN as weak little GIRLS.
And, that's pathetic and dis-empowering.