I just saw a new article about Kristin Cabot, the OW who was one-half of the Coldplay cheating scandal "breaking her silence." So, in a style of someone you might be familiar with, I decided to translate her bullshit.
"I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss," she told the New York Times, while admitting he was her "big happy crush."
"And it’s not nothing. And I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That’s the price I chose to pay."
She's taking accountability for her actions by blaming her beverage, not her behavior. Notice, too, that she's only admitting to the bare minimum of what she thinks can be proven. She's trying to say that nothing happened between her and former boss before the Coldplay concert. Bullshit.
The disgraced exec noted that both she and her then-boss were amicably separated from their respective spouses when they decided to attend the concert together with her friends.
If that's the case, then why hadn't either of them legally filed for divorce until after the Coldplay concert? Or does she think that giving her husband the "I love you but I'm not in love with you" speech counts as separated?
"I was the most maligned HR manager in HR history," she said.
Yeah, no shit, lady. You're the person who is supposed to be protecting your company from liability. You're the person who is supposed to be managing complaints from people who are actual victims of workplace harassment. You're the person who should be setting the standard of behavior for everyone else. I can't help but wonder how many times you were involved in reprimanding people for the exact behavior you were engaging in?
"Some inside part of my brain might have been jumping up and down and waving its arms, saying, ‘Don’t do this,’" she admitted, but ultimately she was swayed by how "pumped" she was to be there with him in front of friends.
"In front of friends" jumped out at me because she inadvertently reveals that their relationship probably existed behind closed doors long beforehand.
I'm also wondering what kind of conversations those friends are having with their husbands, now that it's come out that they were complicit in her affair.
Despite their on-screen antics, Cabot admitted she knew ahead of time that her soon-to-be ex-husband was somewhere in the Coldplay crowd. "My immediate reaction was, ‘Holy s–t, Andrew’s here,’" Cabot said of her of ex. "We were in the middle of an incredibly — and amazingly — amicable separation. I was worried I would embarrass him. He’s an amazing guy and does not deserve that.
She was canoodling with her boss... knowing that her husband was in the venue. She humiliated this "amazing guy." And if she didn't lose her job for misconduct, then she should have lost it for being stupid.
"I think as a woman, as women always do, I took the bulk of the abuse. People would say things like I was a ‘gold-digger’ or I ‘slept my way to the top,’ which just couldn’t be further from reality. The amount I sacrificed to get where I did in my career, the amount of hands I’ve had to take off my ass over the years, comments I’ve had to swat away from men," she continued.
Now she's framing herself as the poor victim, not because she did anything wrong, but because she's a woman. But notice, too, that she can't resist the urge to flatter herself. She's just so damn sexy and irresistible that she has to swat men off of her like flies on shit.
The workplace culture in which Cabot built her career and exists today is not the workplace of the 60s or 70s. The vast majority of men are keenly aware that there are consequences to the wrong comment and the wrong move. Therefore, if it's true that everywhere she's worked, she's gotten hit on, to the point where men go so far as to get physical with her, perhaps it's because she has no boundaries and was giving men the impression that she was open for business.
"I worked so hard to dispel that all my life and here I was being accused of it."
You weren't accused of anything, Kristin-- you were caught. You probably thought that since you had (most likely) gotten away with this behavior for so long, and kept rising through the ranks, that you were untouchable. You don't regret anything that you've done; you only regret that a Jumbotron finally exposed you for being the exact sort of person that many people probably suspected you of being.
[This message edited by BluerThanBlue at 9:07 PM, Thursday, December 18th]
