In this case in particular, she made no assertions of promises from Lauer about career benefits. She basically said she was asked to lunch, business was not discussed, and she was naked in his dressing room later than day.

Lauer did nothing legally wrong. And she was beyond the age of consent. By a lot. She made a mistake - I don't think she needs to be crucified for it. As for Lauer, he cheated on his wife, and that's between them. If it were true that all there is to the Lauer "scandal" are stories like this, in my view, there is no scandal.

Otherwise we are getting a little to "safe spacey" for my tastes. Young people make mistakes all the time (as do older people, but young people make mistakes of naivety and enthusiasm), and sometimes, that leads to bad relationships. I knew high school and college men and women who got involved with older people and sometimes regretted it. That can happen outside the workplace.

Lauer may be a scumbag, and its up to NBC if they fire people for being scumbags but most people have some skeletons. And the message for the wide eyed 20 somethings should be much more about living with your own mistakes. Getting involved with Matt Lauer for her was dicey. She admits to feeling unease moving down that path. Of course she did. It is not up to society to save young people from themselves in their youth Society can not judge too harshly though.

In this case, that goes for Lauer, too. Whatever happened to the commitment of my lefty friends to keeping govt out of the bedroom? Does that depend on current thinking about political correctness?