Thread by @NotMikeHarlow

I’ve got some things to say about this. (THREAD.)

I’m glad to see Kieran put out this absolute PROOF to clear his name from the smear campaign of his abuser, Karlyn Borysenko (@drkarlynb).

But he shouldn’t have needed to. 🧵

https://twitter.com/kieranjwhite/status/1552070033416798209

Karlyn Borysenko (who is a sexual predator) has been terrorizing this man for months because he declined her sexual advances.

After months of her lunacy, he was forced to release the DM’s. She has since escalated the defamation, vaguely claiming that the messages were “doctored”

It has been months of stalking. 200+ unsolicited emails. A nonstop smear campaign, saying he’s mentally ill, accusing him of everything from being gay (& lots of gay slurs!) to claiming he’s obsessed & in love with her. She’s even tried to file phony police reports against him.

This whole thing makes me sad. Not just because Kieran is an honest and good person who doesn’t deserve this. But because this is straight-up abuse. Plain and simple.

And yet, because Kieran is a MAN, there is a segment of people who flat-out don’t give a shit. They enable abuse

This subject hits close to home for me. 10 years ago this month, I was raped in a home invasion. At the time, I could count on one hand the number of people who cared.

There is a very real double standard in how we process abuse towards men. It’s sad that not much has changed.

This abuser is now running for Governor.

I will say this again:

Can you imagine if a male candidate for Governor came onto a female colleague half his age… then when she said no, threatened to destroy her career, stalked, smeared, & threatened her?

Would that be tolerated? 🤔

Karlyn Borysenko is a sexual predator.

She is an abuser. She is a pathological liar. And we need to get a little more brave in calling things by their proper name.

Myself being one of her MANY targets, this whole thing has shown me a lot about how people like Harvey Weinstein get away with it for so long. Predators like Karlyn gain positions of power. Enablers like the @LPNH turn a blind eye, because the predator hasn’t targeted THEM. Yet.

I hope that my friends will be left alone someday. I hope she gets the help she desperately, desperately needs. I hope people stop enabling abuse.

And I really hope that with things like what’s happened to @kieranjwhite and Johnny Depp, we can learn that #AbuseHasNoGender.