Her professor told her she could not turn off her video during the four-hour session and told the entire class the new mother wanted to do 'inappropriate things during class.”Īs a mother of three grown sons, who breastfed them all decades before video conferencing, the act of feeding your children in your own home is not inappropriate. What is not mentioned often is the inherent white privilege and sexism embedded in the defense of his action. I find his public display of his privates not only improper, but immoral - and maybe illegal.īut then again, a man’s genitals are not deemed a threat but a woman’s breasts are.Ī new mother was forbidden from breastfeeding her infant during a virtual stats class at Fresno City College recently. USA TODAY Entertainment: New Yorker writer and CNN pundit Jeffrey Toobin suspended while nude Zoom incident is investigated Much of the ongoing media reaction has centered on what Toobin called his “ embarrassingly stupid mistake.” Some white male pundits dismiss the uproar as prudish, while others call for the end of his public career. Vice reported this week that Toobin, a lawyer, New Yorker contributor and CNN analyst, was seen masturbating on a Zoom video chat between work colleagues. Needless to say, none of the six of us ever had “the talk.” 'Embarrassingly stupid mistake' In our lifetimes, sex, sexuality - and most definitely orgasms - were never on the conversational menu with Mom.
But we knew if we brought the word error to her attention, she would be mortified. My sisters and I guffawed, my mother was oblivious. “Wash those, there are orgasms all over it,” she instructed, pointing to the celery stalks of course intending to say organisms. One evening, my three sisters and I were in her kitchen on Ashland Avenue, cutting up vegetables for a salad to serve at a family dinner. Towards the end of her life before she passed in 2002, she confused similar words when she spoke. Jeffrey Toobin and his Zoom incident would have made her implode, or close to it. My late mother, steeped in traditional Catholicism and modesty, leaned pretty far right in her values and had strong expressions on what she considered moral and absolute. There have been many moments in the last 18 years when I have said aloud, “Thank God Mom is not here for that.” Watch Video: Jeffrey Toobin fired after nude Zoom debacle
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