Like Halperin. She just sat there while he masturbated behind his desk while speaking to her. And she didn't SAY anything? WTH? I don't get that. If you're a teenager, maybe. But a grown woman? It's not her fault, but geez...I think I'd say something, if only to say "What's wrong with you? I'm leaving."

What do they do just act as though nothing is amiss. I’m sitting here on Thanksgiving Eve 2017 laughing my head off. In my entire life I have never seen any man that I work with wandering around in his underwear. Even my husband didn’t wander around in his underwear. Maybe it’s an east coast thing.

not chastising them and just leaving without telling anyone what happened just embolden these guys and sends them a message that they just got away with something. Them thinking they got away with it gives them the balls to do it again. This is how they become serial harrassers.

Women need to - when something like this happens - immediately say 'no' - call them on their behavior - and report the happening right away.

Again when they don't call them on their behavoir - these guys will just try this again with some other unsuspecting woman.

I understand they're shocked. I understand if they're really young and have not had exposure (pardon the pun) to a lot of worldly things. I understand not saying anything under those circumstances. Or being a low level employee who is confronted with this by a big dog at the office. You might lose your job if you say anything.

But a grown professional woman just sitting there chatting with Halperin while she's sure he's masturbating? He probably thought SHE was getting off on that, or she would've said something. And just walking away with Conyers in his undies? Or not saying anything to Charlie Rose when he walks out naked with his mini-mouse and all dangling?

Remember this was the same timeframe that Bill Clinton was in all his troubles. Democrats were busy explaining away the fact that the President was receiving oral sex in the Whitehouse, at the workplace, from one of his employees. If Lewinsky had turned him down would it be much different than this?

There are people on this very board defending some of these antics just because the accused is on the same political team. Kick the perverts out and replace them with other Democrats! I'm not THAT personally loyal to any of these people that they should be given a pass on any of this stuff.

Hard to say for sure, but I don’t think it’s crazy to think that her making an issue out of it would have derailed the fast track she was on.

He was the chairman of some committee, but she was a pro in her own right not related to him in any way.

I'm just so disappointed and disgusted. It's disappointing to hear this about anybody I would have assumed better of, but especially upsetting to hear this kind of thing about someone I actively respected.

but it turns out to be true (except Franken...I still hold that that was not harassment or groping or molestation).

I had NO IDEA this issue was this widespread. This has been going on all around me for decades, I guess, and I never suspected, except in the odd case we'd hear about. Women didn't tell me, either.

Mind you, I had a few things happen. But nothing like what I'm reading about.

Okla judge caught masturbating in court

http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Judge-faces-charges-for-masturbating-during-trials-1945301.php

in Michigan will decide his fate. I believe the women. imo

you want to show me that? I would then report it....to everybody including the law. I would do this to any man ( woman ) who did that to me.

Would he really take that chance?

Doesn't he have "outer" offices staffed by receptionist etc? Wouldn't the receptionist have to use the door buzzard to let the door be opened?