Laura Bazelon, sometimes she'll arrive at her office and she'll find these voicemails.

Some of which are obscene, some of which are saying things like, I need to be fired and sat on fire and buried underground.

What's really strange about them is most of the people who leave them are women, and they

talk in these very nice, calm tones.

So it's just kind of eerie.

They're not usually screaming or hostile, which makes them scarier in a way.

Laura's a writer and a lawyer.

She started getting these voicemails because of the work she does,

work she only went public about recently.

I came out to the world, I think, in the most public way that you possibly can,

which is that I wrote an op-ed for the New York Times.

She wrote about the work she does defending men accused of sexual misconduct.

It's why when critics leave her those messages, sometimes they call her a rape apologist.

Sometimes they say she just doesn't care about survivors.

I mean, the invective and just the vicious bile that is directed toward me personally for doing this work is really disturbing.

She's been thinking about these voicemails over the past week as she watches what's going on at Harvard University.

That's where a law professor, his name is Ronald Sullivan, lost his job as a House dean after months of student

protest. What made these students so mad is that Sullivan had agreed to defend accused

rapist Harvey Weinstein in court. It hit close to home because I also represent clients who people find reprehensible.

And the idea that I would be punished in my professional life for doing that felt really scary to me.

So when you see what's happening at Harvard, what do you see?

How do you see it differently than other people?

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