> The truth is that it's been hard to write because this has been a deeply troubling year in so many dimensions — for men, for tech, for American democracy. A

> The truth is that it's been hard to write because this has been a deeply troubling year in so many dimensions — for men, for tech, for American democracy. American "democracy" isn't any more troubling in 2017 than 2016 or any other year before that, it's just that his party has effectively very little power. If he means Trump is still POTUS, then he's right. He's vehemently anti-Trump: https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the-dream/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the... As for men/tech, I'm not sure why it's a surprise to anyone that the type of (alpha?) male that winds up in a position of power (and/or money) would abuse and misuse it for sexual predatory behavior. This has gone on for most of human history. A very small sample of randomly chosen examples from our recent past: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167013/Sexual-predators-police-abusing-power-target-victims-investigation-warns.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167013/Sexual-preda... http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexual-violence-in-world-war-ii-new-german-study-looks-at-rape-trauma-60-years-on-a-585779.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexual-violence-... https://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/03/sexual-and-predatory-magnitude-of-the-allied-forces-after-wwii-part-ii/ https://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/03/sexual-and-predator... Learning that these types of things happen frequently != epidemic or that somehow 2017 was the year of the sexual predator.