And yes, “prat” is the British word for a foolish or ridiculous person. Sometimes the headline writes itself.
According to Page Six, Spencer Pratt responded to Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney talking about how they began dating while Kimmel was her boss by asking: “Isn’t this what Harvey Weinstein did?”
No. No, it is not, Sir.
What makes McNearney’s account interesting is that she does talk about the power imbalance. As she put it when Kimmel acknowledged he hadn’t thought about it the same way: “The person in power usually doesn’t.”
And that, folks, is the conversation.
A relationship involving unequal workplace power can be complicated, questionable, or even unethical without being equivalent to coercion, assault, or serial sexual predation.
There was a legitimate conversation sitting right there about power and consent.
Spencer Pratt somehow pole-vaulted over it directly into Harvey Weinstein.
What a prat.