Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

I don't think all harassers are as bold or view themselves as powerful as one that'd harass Terry Crews

cedric appears to have recently escaped a certain religious institution/cult

wtf

Producer interviewed by Mair and just now on C4 is Alison Owen, who is Lily Allen’s mum. She said that she never had a firsthand account of HW’s antics, and even though she found him gross at that private screening, nothing he did in her presence was call-the-police actionable, and all the stories people shared were FOFish and basically hearsay.

Whoa I just looked at Cedric's twitter - glad that he's still with his wife, but distressed nonetheless that they're being harassed by Scientologists. Hope he's right about dominoes continuing to fall. LOL'd at this:

Here we have LRH trying to audit the compulsion to rape out of a fucking tomato. Poor tomato must have raped in a past life. Not its fault pic.twitter.com/K2G03sA0Mb

— CEDRIC BIXLER ZAVALA (@cedricbixler_) October 11, 2017

also important:

the lead in this beloved series is a Scientologist who turns a blind eye to the abuses of her own church. She is “of David”. Miscavige. pic.twitter.com/A5aexhyIsD

— CEDRIC BIXLER ZAVALA (@cedricbixler_) October 11, 2017

all the stories people shared were FOFish and basically hearsay.

FOFish as in 'fact or fake'?

Fertile. Of Fred.

Friends of friends.

fuck yah cedric

Can't wait for when Scientology eventually, finally goes down

A profile in courage

pic.twitter.com/z8cyxrd693

— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) October 11, 2017

As someone just said in response, "you opened the oscar's that year by forcing a famous gay men's chorus to sing "i saw your boobs""

I hate SM so much, way to use this to give yourself a pat on the back you useless unfunny fuck

"Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein."

Yeah, definitely a hard swing and not any kind of trivialization of the issue.

Everybody's just rushing to their time machines to condemn Harvey Weinstein

Except highbrow critics, who have been there since Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees got buried.

Lmao yeah right some “hard swing”

a hard swing = what rose mcgowan has been doing for years. it’s not a fucking joke. If you want to attack someone or bring them to justice just fucking say it.

"Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein."

we can probably assume harvey weinstein found this joke titillating

Would be incredible if someone made an accusation at an awards ceremony.

that's the weakest swing at Weinstein imaginable. out of context it also twists it around to where the women are putting themselves out there, rather than having someone force himself upon them.

Otm. also, yea it would be incredible & extremely unlikely anyone would make an accusation at the Oscars. I’m saying if he actually wanted to attack HW bc he “loathed” him so much, he could’ve made a statement. like, before the story broke

How is that unlikely? Half of all moviewood is infected with this shit. This is bound to come up, despite yr Murican 'Oscars are a show don't ruin it w/ politics or sexual misdemeanor'. It will come up, if only by the 'comic' presenting it. And however bad those comics are, it should come up. It needs to be mentioned. There is no alternative.

Comic=comedian, soz

Lol im definitely not in the “keep politics out of the Oscars” camp, I’m just saying it’s highly unlikely, & certainly was in 2013

I agree this has opened the floodgates & there will be much “atoning” in a few months at the globes, Oscars, etc

I don't think he was obligated to make a direct accusation at the Oscars, particularly if Barth wasn't willing. But I don't think his joke did anything to help either.

"Police Respond To 911 Call From Harvey Weinstein's Daughter, Who Reportedly Said Her Father Was Suicidal"

http://laist.com/2017/10/11/weinstein_police_911.php

;_;

That's rough. Calling your daughter "Remy" is equally rough though tbh.

why?

Rose M. bringing receipts re: Bob Weinstein and LiLo

Anonymously sent to me. They all knew. It starts here. pic.twitter.com/24s1LRTDxk

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 11, 2017

Bob was doing it too? Or abetting Harvey? Confused

seems like he may have been abetting

🤢

The context of that email was LiLo's agent contacting her to meet w/Bob in a hotel room regarding a cameo in one of the Scream movies. The response:

Bob Weinstein is a POS. They allllll knew. pic.twitter.com/zWJZf52ywq

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 11, 2017

Please go easy on Lindsay Lohan. Being a child actor turned sex symbol twists the brain in ways you can’t comprehend.

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 11, 2017

i am so moved by the women coming forward to tell their stories

he is not just a creep he is a powerful, physically intimidating and volatile creep who is using ALL of his available faculties against women

Asia Argento’s story got to me, bc it shows the complexities of abuse and that this kind of abuse in the workplace is not only “one & done”, never again for women. You still have a life, you may still work with or for these creeps. And for those creeps the debasement & humiliation is how they *initiate* relationships. It starts with sexual abuse & harassment and CONTINUES with increased power & overtures and acting as though nothing has happened til these women are just numb and emotionally worn down like stones on the beach because it takes so much energy to be on high alert.

It is oft repeated & bears repeating always that I and millions of women have heard and/or experienced stories like this our whole life.

But to hear a story like Asia’s, or any woman’s and to to judge them as anything *other* than brave is a) mystifying & b) upsetting

just the stories about how they had to literally escape the room, it's horrifying. he's a fucking monster.

if he decides to eat a bullet I'll feel for his kids but otherwise won't shed a single tear

co-sign. he's nothing but a symbol for systemic rot but no mourning involved

No way he'll eat a bullet, though, at most he'll move to Europe and live lavishly for a long time.

yup

he's too much of a pussy to do it

not a great place we're going here

enh

I don't know that I'd even feel for his kids. Hard to imagine a person like this as any kind of decent father.

je ne regrette pas rien

i don't care about harvey weinstein's mental wellbeing but "too much of a pussy to commit suicide" is... not a thing that needs to be said in any context

all I can say is that if men ever feel kind of weird or skeevy about their own behavior around women, tell them to *ask a woman*

there were so many weird attitudes that I heard, from my peers and older men, that were just an ongoing generational misogyny

and honestly I feel like hollywood, which should not be like this (and it doesn’t excuse any behavior at all), is exactly that system.

Yeah can we please stop with the suicide BS.

The Argento story has been fucking me up.