Jeffrey Toobin and the Worst Zoom Call Ever (NSFW)

I'm surprised there isn't a thread about the Zoom D*** Incident already, but this article breaks it down pretty well.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-10-20/jeffrey-toobin-embarrassing-zoom-exposure

Somehow this otherwise intelligent 60-year-old man decided to Take it Out, point his camera at his crotch and masturbate while on a Zoom call with his esteemed colleagues. His excuse is that he thought he had switched to a different call during a break. Note this was a meeting playing out election scenarios with Toobin as the courts (what a metaphor....).

What is surprising - other than we're 7 months into this pandemic for this first high-profile incident - is how many men are defending Toobin. Would they say the same if he'd done this at the office? How are people arguing it somehow *isn't* sexual harassment to see a colleague wanking on a work call?

darkprincealain said:

I was horrified to hear that on yesterday’s View, the cohosts were talking about it as if it was arguable whether Toobin was at the workplace, which to my mind is made plain by the fact that it was a work related Zoom meeting. I think this is inexcusable, and most people know if they switch to a different work call, that probably on that call private parts wouldn’t be acceptable either. None of the excuses I’ve heard so far hold any water for me.

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Given how he had the camera, if there was another call it was definitely *personal* - which, why the hell was he doing a sex call on his work computer?

Not only is it definitely the workplace, but my 6-year-old is in my home office right now blissfully playing games on my tablet now that virtual school is done for the day. Imagine the s***storm if one of the people on that call had a kid walk in on that?

ETA: Here's an article from The Cut that hopefully isn't paywalled: https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/media-reacts-to-jeffrey-toobin-zoom-dick-incident.html