The President Of The Time's Up Movement Resigned Over Allegations Of Sexual Assault Against Her Son

[left-of-center2012]

The president of Time's Up, the legal defense fund created more than a year ago to fight systemic sexual harassment in workplaces across the country, has resigned after her son was accused of sexual assault.

Lisa Borders announced she was leaving her post on Monday after four months on the job "to address family concerns that require my singular focus."

Last week a California woman accused Borders' son, Garry "Dijon" Bowden Jr., of touching her, kissing her neck, and brushing his erect penis against her body during a "healing session." The allegations were first reported in the Los Angeles Times.

According to his lawyer, Bowden maintains he was giving the woman a healing massage as she had requested. The lawyer, Alan Jackson, showed the Times text messages in which the woman reportedly thanked Bowden for the massage calling it "gentle and authentic and loving."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/the-president-of-the-times-up-movement-resigned-over

[Red Raider 85]

1. Ah, the irony!

[Squinch]

2. This title makes it sound like she sexually assaulted her son.

[NurseJackie]

5. I thought the same thing. Poorly written.

[NurseJackie]

6. Here... fixed it. (I'm only an amateur, and I did better than the "professionals")

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NEW: In Response To Son Being Charged With Sexual Assault, President Of The Time's Up Movement Resigns

[mr_lebowski]

3. If I were giving massages of this nature, I'd have a damn checklist spelling out exactly what sorts

of semi-intimate contact the person receiving the massage was desiring, and they have to initial each one (or not, of course, in which case it doesn't happen), and sign at the bottom.

1) Closed-mouth kissing and/or nuzzling for the upper back/neck region
2) Incidental contact with clothed groin area of massage therapist

etc, etc, etc.

You're pretty damn dumb to not cover yer rear in that way if you're going to be giving massages of that kind, I gotta say. As a man, I mean.

[ismnotwasm]

4. Yeah

I occasionally go to a standard massage therapist who overshares—I’m a good listener— and so comes across as just a tad creepy, he’s really a good guy, and a great masseuse, but conversationally a bit strange. Can’t imagine what he’d do in a more intimate setting.

[in2herbs]

7. I love to get massages but stopped because the constant babbling was interfering with the

tranquility I was trying to achieve. Now I stick to acupuncture.