I told my story about Chris Matthews. I'm celebrating that he no longer has a platform.

[Zorro]

“Ugly horsefaced skank.” “Fat bitch.” “Die in a fire.” “Why would Chris Matthews hit on you? I thought he was straight.”

These are among the messages I’ve received from strangers since I wrote an article for GQ last week cataloguing some examples of the MSNBC anchor’s demeaning treatment of women over the decades, including his sexist comments to me. The piece seems to have been one of the catalysts for Matthews’s early retirement Monday night. I was surprised by this outcome, but I do not lament it.

The genesis for my column was Matthews’s grilling of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren after the Democratic debate last week. The anchor had pressed Warren about why she believes a woman’s (corroborated) accusation against Mike Bloomberg over the word of the former New York mayor.

When my editor emailed to ask if I’d like to write about the exchange, and Matthews’s long history of misogynist behavior, she didn’t know one important fact: I had had my own uncomfortable experiences with him. Indeed, I had written about them, without naming Matthews, in a 2017 essay about an older, famous TV host who made lascivious comments to me in the makeup room before I appeared on his show. I wrote the piece at the time not to have my own “#MeToo” moment but to spark a nuanced conversation about the gray areas of the movement — the behavior that doesn’t quite rise to the level of reportable sexual harassment, but still regularly undermines women in the workplace.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-told-my-story-about-chris-matthews-im-celebrating-that-he-no-longer-has-a-platform/2020/03/03/1c797dfe-5d9a-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html

[BeckyDem]

1. Long over due. Good riddance.

[hlthe2b]

2. I give these women credit. Most of us-- if we've worked in male-dominated professions-- have

dealt with this kind of thing but choose to try to forget it, because we internalize our failure to deal more effectively with it. It is and remains painful.

Takes courage, that's all I'll say.

[spooky3]

4. +1

[spooky3]

3. Thank you, Ms. Bassett, and others for speaking out.

The fact that so much hate is provoked by articles like yours is Exhibit 1 that you are correct and that we have to fight it.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. that first paragraph proves to me that the internet is just completely overrun with Russian trolls

who would give two shits that Tweety "Clinton's Cock Hunt" Matthews finally was removed for his senility and creepy behavior? And why would anyone begrudge a woman telling her story about his creepiness. These aren't real people on the other end of those tweets, they are bots, or paid trolls, or broken simulacra of human beings.