Why Abusive Men Keep Rising to Power — Even After #MeToo | Reah Bravo
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Eric Skwarczynski
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Reah Bravo is an American speechwriter currently living in Brussels. Earlier in her career, she worked in broadcast journalism producing political and other news segments for the PBS program Charlie Rose—a stint that ended in 2008, when she joined the nearly half of all sexually harassed women in America who leave their jobs. She holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Fellow in Bahrain.
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| 0:00.0 | Believe it or not, it's been eight months since I first sat down with today's guest, journalist |
| 0:03.7 | and author, Rea Bravo. In our last conversation back in September, we discussed her book |
| 0:08.5 | Complicit, how our culture enables misbehaving men, which is now available both in hardcover |
| 0:13.9 | and a brand new paperback edition with a new preface. You can find a link to grab a copy in the show |
| 0:19.3 | notes of this episode. Since that first |
| 0:21.1 | recording, it's hard not to feel incredibly frustrated watching abusive men continuing to rise |
| 0:26.2 | in positions of power. Our very president, Donald Trump, has been found civilly liable for rape, |
| 0:31.7 | has been accused numerous times for sexual assault, and yet he still holds the highest office |
| 0:36.3 | in the land. Andrew Cuomo, despite the |
| 0:38.6 | allegations that ended his career as governor, is currently running from mayor of New York City. |
| 0:43.4 | Connor McGregor was also found civilly liable for rape and accused multiple times of assault, |
| 0:48.3 | and he just launched a new business and announced a run for presidency in Ireland. |
| 0:52.8 | Hell, Bill Maher even gave a platform to infamous |
| 0:55.0 | Woody Allen on his podcast recently for Christ's sake. It certainly feels as though the breaks |
| 0:59.5 | have been pumped on the Me Too conversations happening culturally. There seems to be less |
| 1:03.4 | and less resistance when these men rear their very ugly heads. There's so much to talk about |
| 1:07.9 | and I knew I wanted to talk to Rea to get her unique perspective on this. |
| 1:12.2 | That's exactly what we're doing on today's episode. |
| 1:14.6 | We're picking up right where our last conversation left off. |
| 1:17.6 | So stay tuned right here on the Preacher Boys podcast. |
| 1:20.1 | Oh, ain't nobody safe |
| 1:30.3 | Ain't nobody safe |
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