Is Jeffrey Toobin’s Career Over Thanks To His Zoom Masturbation Incident?

With #MeToobin trending, I have a few thoughts:

1. Masturbating at work is neither normal nor acceptable—it’s sexual harassment.

2. Individuals who engage in sexual harassment should suffer professional consequences.

3. These Toobin defenders are telling on themselves.

— Adrienne Lawrence (@AdrienneLaw) October 20, 2020

Toobin is NOT the victim here.

He’s a privileged, white man who decided to pleasure himself at work to the detriment of his colleagues. Black men are fired for much less and without your sympathy.

If it disturbs you to see Toobin suffer actual consequences, do check yourself.

— Adrienne Lawrence (@AdrienneLaw) October 20, 2020

— Attorney and former television host Adrienne Lawrence, in comments about Jeffrey Toobin’s Zoom masturbation incident. Toobin’s indiscretion occurred earlier this week during a Zoom call between his colleagues at the New Yorker and WNYC. He has been fired from the New Yorker and is taking leave from CNN.

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Is Jeffrey Toobin’s Career Over Thanks To His Zoom Masturbation Incident?