“I am astonished by what I’m about to write: I keep laughing. The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.” E. Jean Carroll in NY Mag: Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life. (Tellingly, Carroll prefaces the story by explaining that she knows it might make Trump more popular among his supporters. Even more telling, her story barely made it to the front page of any major newspapers. Everything we worried would happen in regard to normalization has happened, and then some.)

+ Deadspin: When The Robert Kraft Case Fell Apart, The Women Were Left To Pay The Price.