This is how you lose credibility.
Its been HOURS since Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Esty announced she won't seek re-election. Not one diary. Be honest — if this had been a Republican, there would be 3-5. Male Republican, 5-10. There is a portion of the readership here that is hell bent on blaming everything bad in the world on men while ignoring and glossing over every failing by women. This story just highlights how much it is BS.
PEOPLE make bad decisions all the time.
PEOPLE. Not men, not women, not whites, not minorities. PEOPLE.
This site is supposed to be about more and better Democrats. When one of our own shows they are not better, we should be just as vocal calling them out as we do calling out the opposition.
Etsy ignored evidence that someone she trusted was harassing a fellow staffer. She is not the first prominent female Democrat to do so. She won't be the last. Humans have failings. They make mistakes. Since we can't stop mistakes from happening, we have to say we will not tolerate mistakes being covered up, swept aside or minimized. Own your mistakes, face the consequences.
But know this — if you are going to scream about equality and fairness and then pretend mistakes are not made by all, not just white men, you will not be listed to because you have no credibility.
Representative Easy did the right thing….eventually...in the face of no other option. She should be treated no differently than her male colleagues who reluctantly and with no other option managed to do the right thing and resign/withdraw from reelection.
Call balls and strikes as you see them, not how you want them to be.