Restaurant-gate - @SarahHuckabee getting kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant - plus an interview with @Sethrogen got me thinking about politeness, slavery, date rape, #MeToo, gaslighting, and what it means to be a Southern gentleman. 1/ Politeness serves those in power. As a child I spent much of my time with an extended family of affluent white Southerners who, I came to realize, valued politeness above many other qualities: kindness, honesty, fairness, and justice. 2/

The #MeToo Pulitzers make me happy. Without the reporting of @jodikantor & @mega2e & @RonanFarrow, I can't imagine the rest of us coming forward. I will forever be grateful to them and the women who spoke to them on and off the record for starting this seismic shift. I wonder if the Weinstein victims and accusers feel a sense of resolution. I don't.