I mean people keep focusing on Roenick, but the real story is Kathryn Tappen. Through no fault nor action of her own, she now has to issue public statements about a coworker referring to having a sexual encounter with her. Can you imagine how awkward that is? Issuing a statement condemning the remarks of a guy you're still likely going to work with? And to even address the subject at all, in any kind of public way? That's so, so unfair to her.
She'll have to deal with idiots on Twitter, random hecklers on location, all referencing this nonsense. His reckless words have now caused her to have to deal with this bull**** for however long it is until people forget about it and stop being ****ty humans (which, in the age of the internet, is never). So **** JR, I feel absolutely zero sympathy for him, he brought it on himself, and the person that we really ought to be feeling bad for here is Tappen. And, JR's wife, I would presume, though she ostensibly willingly married the guy and probably knew what she was getting into.
I won't get into whether or not he should keep his job, but he should be reassigned to where he will not have to work or interact with her, because there's a damn good chance she will never again be comfortable around him (I have been the chief EEO investigator at two jobs and have dealt with so many harassment issues, I know the impact even minor things can have on the victims).
