😞 Taking Leave /// Whatever

This meant that the absolute best case scenario of this whole situation was that he didn’t have the sense or wisdom to understand that making a move on a woman 40 years his junior, economically dependent on him, and whom he had met just literally hours before, was an extremely questionable idea. And by extremely questionable I mean dude what the fuck how do you not understand the actual consent issues involved here. The answer I came to is he probably did understand, and that when all was said and done, the “absolute best case scenario,” which is still very terrible, was not where we would end up. And indeed, that’s not where we are today.

Finally got around to reading this and appreciate Scalzi’s willingness to stick up for what’s right. We see too much defending and deflecting these days and not enough calling each other out on our bullshit, especially among friends.