{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Geraldo Rivera\u2019s 1991 Memoir Is a F*ck Fest-Filled Bible of Workplace Harassment", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/168097336048/", "html": "<a href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/geraldo-riveras-1991-memoir-is-a-fck-fest-filled-bible-of-workplace-harassment\">Geraldo Rivera\u2019s 1991 Memoir Is a F*ck Fest-Filled Bible of Workplace Harassment</a>\n<p><a href=\"http://quoms.tumblr.com/post/168074674107/geraldo-riveras-1991-memoir-is-a-fck-fest-filled\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">quoms</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Up through yesterday, Geraldo didn\u2019t have much to do with the #MeToo movement until he waded unwisely into the conversation with a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect\" target=\"_blank\">Streisand Effect</a> tweet that Matt Lauer\u2019s sexual misconduct-related dismissal from NBC\u2019s <i>Today</i> was \u201csad\u201d because \u201cnews is a flirty business &amp; it seems like the current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship &amp; conflating it w predation.\u201d<br/></p>\n<p>Not satisfied with that, the Fox News host continued. \u201c#SexHarassment,\u201d he said, \u201cshould be confined to situations where superior imposes himself on subordinate who feels unable to complain because of power of perp or feared consequences to victim\u2019s employment.\u201d</p>\n<p>Rivera later apologized, but not before drawing attention to his own past. Internet users dredged up a clip of Bette Midler describing an assault at the hand(s) of Rivera, and today, the performer <a href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/bette-midler-geraldo-rivera-has-yet-to-apologize-for-groping-me\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted the clip herself,</a> along with the hashtag #MeToo. She publicly stated that Rivera hasn\u2019t apologized to her for the incident.</p>\n<p>The Midler clip led me down an internet rabbit hole that led to a 1991 <i>Washington Post </i>book review <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/09/06/geraldos-memoir-better-bed-than-wed/4bf93efd-c4c7-414f-b187-3e708287bb0f/?utm_term=.753caf0ea080\" target=\"_blank\">written</a> by, coincidentally, my now-colleague Lloyd Grove. Grove wasn\u2019t a fan of Rivera\u2019s memoirs, which was unfortunately titled<i> Exposing Myself.</i> His review read as if Rivera had penned the definitive work on how men behave inappropriately in the workplace under the guise of courtship.</p>\n<p>Naturally, I had to read it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>serious trigger warning for almost every possible form of sexual harassment/assault, holy shit</p>\n<p>also\u00a0<a>@kontextmaschine</a>\u200b this seems like fuel for your\u00a0\u201890s tag</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>pretty much<br/></p>"}