Ok good but
I searched a bunch of other Editor-In-Chiefs’ names and they were all in there, some hundreds of times. So there is an element of feeling like chopped liver.
Kind of like when I went on Howard Stern for the first time and he did not objectify me or even ask me to show my boobs.
Have you also searched for yourself in the Epstein files, just in case? And let's talk about who IS in there and how we feel about that. If you like!
Jane, they knew you weren’t a conduit for girls or reputation washing. That’s a win.
Can you imagine how you’d feel if you had accidentally brought someone (say, a young employee) into his orbit? I referred 2 of my undergraduate students to a late middle aged musician and scholar I thought I knew pretty well as a research contact. He hit on both, blatantly and uncomfortably. Not threatening, not criminal, just ick + the reminder that he could assist them with their projects. The second one told me. When I asked the first one if he had hit on her, she said yes, and that she had assumed I knew he would. I had no idea he was into much younger women. I was only interesting to him because I could (and did 2x!) send him those young women. It’s been 20 years and I still feel guilty about it and nothing actually happened, beyond discomfort. And I made sure that he was never trusted around students again.
Chopped liver 🤣 did you read Tina Brown’s Substack on being in them? It’s a good one.