On Wednesday morning, however, viewers awoke to the news that Lauer also engaged in workplace sexual misconduct so grave that NBC fired the million-dollar star.*
This routine of watching successful men stripped of their power feels depressingly familiar in the two-and-a-half months since exposés revealed Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein as a serial predator who harassed and assaulted women. (Weinstein maintains his encounters with his victims were consensual.) Read more...