Herman Cain is having a problem, and it won’t get any better by telling reporters that he won’t discuss it.
I don’t want to get into a big analytical thing about sexual politics here, but from the descriptions so far of what Cain did, he made an assumption that I think is all too common among men of a certain mindset. Cain apparently made inappropriate comments to women in the context of a working situation. I have no doubt he shrugged it off and forgot about it until it came back to bite him and probably wondered what the big deal was all through the negotiations of settlements. …