![]() And he was also capable of recommending her, of boosting her professionally, and of potentially making her career. He was more than capable of tarnishing her reputation, making life more difficult for her at their mutual company, or even trying to blacklist her. Nevils certainly knew that Lauer could open doors for her if he chose - and that he could slam them shut. Just because he wasn’t directly supervising someone doesn’t mean he lacked power over them. He was one of the most important people at NBC. How, he asks, could she have felt professionally pressured by him? It’s a faux innocence that defies credulity. ![]() Lauer argues that he wasn’t Nevils’s boss and thus had no control over her career. We also know that people who have been sexually assaulted can behave exactly as he describes. But we do know that the realities of workplace sex and power are more complicated than Lauer allows. It is of course impossible to know exactly what happened between two people in a hotel room five years ago. ![]() And I will no longer provide them the shelter of my silence.” ![]() “They have avoided having to look a boyfriend, husband, or a child in the eye and say, ‘I cheated.’ They have done enormous damage in the process. “For two years, the women with whom I had extramarital relationships have abandoned shared responsibility, and instead, shielded themselves from blame behind false allegations,” he wrote. ![]()
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