I’m trying to understand why that idea popped up at a boring business meeting. They were discussing plans for election night coverage. That’s just about the least erotic activity imaginable. Hmm, Maybe Imaginary Lover came up in Toobin’s music rotation. 
He’s 60 years old, certainly not too young to have the onset of dementia. I sure hope that’s not the case here.
Am I the only woman on this thread who’s getting insight into male psychology and behavior?
And not checking the camera setting on a zoom call is just disrespectful.
When I first heard that he had exposed himself on the call, I thought either he was only wearing a shirt and underwear didn’t realize the camera caught him from the waist down, or I thought maybe he took a leak with the door open and didn’t realize his camera was on. I was very prepared to give him a pass on those incidents in these weird time, BUT then I heard the details.
You guys are behaving like you’ve never heard of remote control lady toys that are intended for use in public?
Doing the deed secretly in plain view (without being caught) or whatever is hardly a solely male thing
I’ve spent entirely too much time on Zoom calls over the past 5 years because my first thought was that you can’t be on two different Zoom calls at once with the same account, and my second thought was to wonder if he has separate work and personal accounts…
Sounds like he’s got more of a case of horn-mentia, you know doing that the way he did, he he ha!
If a woman gets caught using one of those and flashing her genitalia on a zoom call I’ll be happy to suggest she gets fired too.
You are nver naked by mistake on your Zoom call, never. His pants didn’t come done. Your kid/wife/milkman can be naked and inadvertently walk in camera, but you, never.
And masturbating in front of other people, even if they can’t see it, is at best, extremely disrespectful at worst a sexual offense. It’s like jerking off inside your pants while at an office meeting. He should be fired on the spot and people on the other side of the call should be considering charges.
This isn’t your porn mag on the shelf behind or having RedTube on your favorites when you share screen.
^^ If you see post #56, your take doesn’t seem to be quite what happened. His Zoom call went on break, and he was on a different call…
As usual, the actual facts no longer matter. The only question is how long until it’s Toobin raped a woman on Skype?
I was both giggling and cringing through this thread, but this post had me crying with laughter!
I respect his opinions, but this was a really stupid and thoughtless move on his part. Know your Zoom rules, people!
Maybe he got confused and thought he was on Chatroulette
I probably have my eccentricities, but I have literally never felt the urge to masturbate in front of other people. Especially while working. Still less while working and on a conference call. No matter what the people at Bed, Bath and Beyond say.
And while this move will rub many the wrong way, this could have been handled with a lot more discretion. Why squeeze it for all that it’s worth? Unless it was handled discretely.. “Listen, at least we didn’t mention the green war paint or that you were singing the theme song from Godzilla.”
I vote we move this to the top of the list of reasons work and home should be two different places.
[Toobin] Staffers??!? I thought you said this was for stiffies. My bad. [/Toobin]
Well, there goes his home office tax deduction.
From the NYT story:
Participants on the New Yorker/WNYC call played roles simulating what might happen on election night. Mr. Toobin played the role of the courts.
Well, that explains it. He immersed himself too deeply into the role of Clarence Thomas and/or Brett Kavanaugh.
Or that he was “on medication”, like that minister who whipped it out and peed on another airline passenger.
Golf clap!