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# 'No need to defend me.'
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/no-need-to-defend-me/
- Published: 2013-10-18T21:12:22.000Z
- Updated: 2013-10-18T21:12:22.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Uncategorized, Bora Zivkovic, sexual harassment, #Migrated-1787483357778, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:09

https://twitter.com/BoraZ/status/390614469933813760

While studying at the Asian College of Journalism, I and some 11 other students were told about the awesome man named Bora Zivkovic and his work as a blogger with *Scientific American*. To learn about a man with such talents with writing and articulation as he possesses - talents that I have envied and aspired for for years - conduct himself so horribly is a shock, and the fall of a hero. 

I understand that there is a greater problem at play here - about predators being everywhere and predation being ubiquitous - but I think I need to be able to personally confess that, while wincing against the stab of sexual harassment being prevalent, I also winced because it had to be Bora Zivkovic who had conducted himself thus.

What happened? [Read this](https://medium.com/the-power-of-harassment/3e809dfadd77?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page). And [then this](https://medium.com/the-power-of-harassment/857e2f71059a?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page).