It will never cease to amaze me how men have tried to treat the Toobin situation as an example of the unacceptably punitive nature of our society and the oppression of workers, given the horrifyingly real examples of those things we ought to be discussing right now.
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1326670223718686727
Personally, I'm expected to pay attention in meetings. No one would think twice if I got fired from a job for failing to do so. If I was revealed to be doing something sex related, instead of paying attention, that my colleagues wound up having to see, who wouldn't get fired?
But Toobin's an exceptional white man, so we get sanctimony from men, as tho they're speaking up against mass incarceration, or for labor rights, when they're talking about a man who did something gross that would get literally anyone fired.
They want special elite white guy standards to apply.
There are people who are about to die of COVID-19 in jail cells, but sure, let's talk about Toobin as representing the overly punitive nature of our society. People's priorities could not be clearer.
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