He man woman haters club. You do realize this type of stuff happens to women on the daily and it's way more common than anything you just mentioned, right? Women in the country can't walk down the street and buy a cup of coffee no matter try and advance their career. If you can't understand why that story is important YOU are the problem.

My dude, which PR firm do you work for?

I said it was important Kara. You do not lend value to your argument to call someone a "woman hater". I am pleased to see the increasing focus on the poor treatment of women by predator men being addressed and I have seen the data to support the fact that every time a society increases the protection freedom and education for women the overall society improves, without exception that the fact. A better world is made with more women being empowered to contribute and assume leadership. But minds like yours are another matter, your mind is emotional and reactionary, and that flaw has nothing to do with what's between your legs. I realize more than you assume.

Buddy, you compared sexual harassment to a lifetime movie, and just called a woman emotional and reactionary. If you can't see how that's wrong, I don't know what to say...

I said "your mind" was emotional. So you're wrong there. It reads like a lifetime movie. My point is the value of the Spotlight team vs. the story overall. It's like using a blow torch to toast your bread, a chainsaw to cut the butter and a fork lift to carry the plate to the table. The spotlight team could be used to more difficult investigating tasks. I wasn't clear enough earlier, my apologies.

The shit alleged in the Whitehead/Sabatini report is insidious in academia and biotech. Academia and biotech are the primary driving force of the economy in the Boston metro area. Far more people in the Boston metro area are impacted by this type of sexual harassment on a day-to-day basis than anything else you cited. Also, it isn’t a zero sum game. Newspapers can write about many things. Other papers will write about national issues. Only local papers are going to did into local stories of corruption (and yes, long running, systematic sexual harassment is a form of corruption).

I'm sorry the Globe isn't using all its resources to validate your vague conspiracy theories

Good point.

so you're saying instead of investigating a local sex scandal a local paper should be investigating documents about offshore money laundering from mostly foreign people?

You're one of those dumbfucks who screams about the Panama Papers not knowing they have almost nothing to do with Americans.

Brb gonna make a thread asking why the Weston Middle School paper isn't doing enough to investigate George Santos

I thought it was really interesting. I don’t think it makes any sense to label long term relationships sexual harassment. Right up until the end of the relationship, the woman in the affair was hoping that that the relationship would actually deepen. I know workplace harassment is a serious problem but let’s not get hysterical. How many science couples do you know that meet at work? I can think of three sets of married friends who met at work.

It was a good point, many good points, no need to down vote the recognition that someone has changed their perspective. Ah the internet..

Except it isn't true. The Panama papers affect literally everybody. Not to be callous because it's obviously an issue that is important but I've never been sexually harassed at work. So the comment you're replying to is just making stuff up and spreading whataboutism to derail the topic at hand

It was a great story and worthy of our time. It seemed the woman making the accusations was upset that the professor didn't want something more serious with her and took him down because of that, which is wildly unfair. I also think it's a lesson to not sleep with people related to your work environment. (Unless you plan to seriously date them.)