My god.Ī quick recap: Vice's Motherboard reported that author, New Yorker staff writer and CNN contributor Jeffrey Toobin had been suspended by the New Yorker following an incident in which he exposed himself during a workplace video call. Then you wake up to see "#MeToobin" trending. A Zoom call! You go to bed thinking the trending topic "Zoom Dick" will have a short shelf life after the fremdschämen howls are expelled from our collective system. And yet on an otherwise unremarkable Monday you find yourself wandering into a discourse about exactly how much grace to extend a venerable member of that venerable publication's staff who has been reportedly, allegedly, according to people familiar with the event, observed - in a story Vice broke, to breathless speculation about the questions readers both did and decidedly did not want answered - abusing himself, in the Merriam-Webster "old-fashioned" definition sense, during a work Zoom call. You try to live a life of culture and refinement, as my friend Greg likes to say you even re-up your lapsed subscription to The New Yorker every time the discount rolls back around and have the tote bag collection to show for it.
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