After sexual harassment scandal, Georgia GOP adopts rules...

Going public with [HASH]SexualHarassmentAllegations is always scary, and even more so when the alleged perpetrator is a powerful figure. One of the great successes of the [HASH]MeToo movement has been to slowly but surely shift the culture towards believing survivors, but as we’ve seen, there is still a large contingent of knuckle-dragging misogynists who refuse to join us in these slightly more enlightened times. I’m not saying it’s because they’re all guilty of harassment or assault themselves… but the Venn diagram most certainly has some overlap.

Down in [HASH]Georgia, the [HASH]Government was rocked this fall by a series of stories by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about over 200 accusations of sexual harassment across the [HASH]StateGovernment and their poor handling. One of those allegations was against a former [HASH]StateSenator, a [HASH]Republican named David Shafer who allegedly harassed a lobbyist in 2011. That must have spooked his former colleagues, who on Tuesday announced new rules that will make it harder to report sexual harassment and could scare many people off from doing so.