Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

"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.

Well guess who decided to say some things.

"I didn’t stand in Georgina’s way when we discussed a separation, I encouraged her to do what was in her heart" https://t.co/ZKLyQRNNis

— Page Six (@PageSix) October 12, 2017

You think you're gonna take her away
with your assault charges and your Rogaine

Is his crisis comms strike squad not telling him to stop talking

Emily Smith is garbage

lol he literally went to page six

There's something so disturbing about him affecting this faux-enlightened "if you love somebody set them free" attitude when he literally forcibly detained women.

it'd be helpful if everyone ignored the swine's damage control attempts

It is oft repeated & bears repeating always that I and millions of women have heard and/or experienced stories like this our whole life.
yup, thank you for saying it VG

i'd also like to promote the idea of using the word predator in lieu of creep
creep is mushy, shapeless -- no one wants to be one but it's difficult (impossible) to properly define (unless you define it as "someone who violates consent in objectifying or interacting with people" which is the way I define it)
predator is more accurate, stings harder, sticks longer, and might change the way we think about the way we interact with each other
that's my hope at least

a creep is just a delusional predator
so let's just call them predators

predator it is then

:)

fuck bret stephens forever

NYT really getting the most out of their hate read columnists these days

ok i'll stick to a few particularly stupid sentences from that column

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that an industry built around pretended characters and scenarios could have pretended for so long that nothing was amiss. Perhaps it should be no surprise, either, that its concept of ethics is every bit as ersatz and inconstant as most everything else in Tinseltown.

same thing happened at Fox News, Penn State, BBC, & the Catholic Church.

The outrage over Mr. Weinstein also has a whiff of opportunism. In recent years, notes New York magazine’s Rebecca Traister, Weinstein has “lost power in the movie industry” and is no longer “the indie mogul who could make or break an actor’s Oscar chances.” Lame horses get shot.

??... the paper you write for "shot" Weinstein. he wouldn't have been fired if not for that story and Hollywood wouldn't have abandoned him.

The important truth is that he was just another libidinous cad in a libertine culture that long ago dispensed with most notions of personal restraint and gentlemanly behavior. “I came of age in the ’60s and ’70s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different,” Weinstein wrote in his mea culpa to The Times last week. “That was the culture then.”

That line was roundly mocked, but it contains its truth.

no it doesn't idiot

Hyenas cannot help their own nature. But the work of a morally sentient society is to prevent them from taking over the savannah.

holy shit lmao

they might as well have given Weinstein a guest crack at the op-ed page

Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan's Twitter account suspended

fuck you twitter! there is a fucking asshole i see that tweets hate daily, try pulling his fucking account you fucks !

i thought the bar was somewhere above threatening nuclear war with North Korea

Seriously, that was my first reaction. McGowan gets temp banned for taking a stand against serial abusers, but serial abuser in chief gets a pass? Fuck twitter.

Wow, are you fucking kidding me? Yeah, Twitter needs to be obliterated.