Moira Donegan created the “Shitty Media Men” list to address a moral injustice. Now, one of the accused seeks retribution—and says he’s suing her for the same reason. lilapearl reports:
. She acknowledged the document was “vulnerable to false accusations” and pointed to a disclaimer at the top that read, in part, “Take everything with a grain of salt.” Describing herself as “incredibly naïve,” she wrote that she “only wanted to create a place for women to share their stories of harassment and assault without being needlessly discredited or judged.” What happened next surprised her, she wrote.
Donegan responded in a statement. “The weeks and months following the creation of the document were some of the most painful and frightening of my life,” she said. “It seemed inevitable that I would be fired, ostracized and worse. I was waiting for my life to fall apart and I was afraid. At my lowest, I lashed out at an old friend who was very important to me. I was not kind to Jo and the loss of their friendship is still something that I greatly regret.
By the time he founded The Rumpus in 2009, Elliott was in his late 30s and had built up a cult following as a writer. Fans admired his ability to turn his emotional damage into art. Most of his work explored the psychological harm caused by his difficult childhood — by his father, who beat him, and by his time living in group homes and on the street. Elliott once wrote he became a writer because of “an urge to release a scream” that was stuck in his throat.
One incident likely affected his public image more than any other. In the fall of 2009, the novelist Claire Vaye Watkins was in the final year of her M.F.A. program at Ohio State when Elliott came to give a reading. Watkins’s professor told the cohort Elliott needed a place to crash, and Watkins, who’d never met him, offered to let him stay at her apartment.
She offered Elliott some advice. “Conduct yourself with grace in the court of life,” she recalled telling him. “Do it and be it and people will see it — prove it wrong in your life rather than the court of law.” She wasn’t surprised that he didn’t take her suggestion. “He’s intellectually principled,” she said.
His lawsuit suggests he might pursue an alternative strategy if the case goes to trial. It argues that Donegan and the list’s other contributors either knew or should have known he could not have committed rape because of his extensively documented sexual preferences. In its filings, Donegan’s team scoffed at this notion. “As a factual matter, this ‘too submissive to rape’ defense is obviously absurd,” Kaplan wrote.
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