Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

I think it is not a good idea to start down the “you know who wouldn’t surprise me at all if they turned out to be a gross creep?” path

I've been trying to discourage too much invocation of "witch hunt" in this context, but yeah groundless speculation doesn't help.

spurlock has a movie coming out soon so i assume he wanted to get in front of the allegations lest they come up from the woman/women and tank his deal. his non apology here is pretty weak.

Yeah like his language in the piece --

The first incident she remembered as a rape and he's literally remembering them rolling around giggling in bed.

The second incident he almost portrays as him giving in to blackmail.

The cheating stuff, well I'm sure the cat's already out of the bag there.

It's trying to be The First Good Apology but it's terrible.

The time is right for collective revenge fantasy screenplays for sexual misconduct to circulate. Mary Harron directing, of course.

spurlock: cookies denied

that spurlock statement is... not good

there will soon be a Groundhog's Day remake where the main character has to keep writing an abuse apology until he GETS IT RIGHT

I think in most circumstances there's really no substitute for "I fucked up, I apologized in private and am now doing so publicly. I'm sorry. I'm gonna fuck off indefinitely."

oh no not the guy that ate a bunch of shitty food and filmed it, we really are losing our heroes

eh his permanent association with a movie i really like, the one direction documentary, means this bums me out. it's extremely cool to be an asshole about it though

Giving me flashbacks to the old Daily Show "Ted Hitler" bit - http://www.cc.com/video-clips/rk9abw/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-bloggers

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/magazine/the-reckoning-women-and-power-in-the-workplace.html?_r=0

many essays to read

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/congress-women-democrats-dress-kaptur/index.html

sounding like a 71 year old

more from espn

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/12/14/women-who-worked-espn-say-its-problems-far-beyond-barstool-sports/L1v9HJIvtnHuBPiMru6yGM/story.html

Wonder if that Hong Kong investigation will go any further than Weinstein and Logan.

Dustin Hoffman.

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/dustin-hoffman-2-1202641525/

picturing him smiling that insouciant smile and staring right into their faces while he's violating them is enough to make me throw my phone across the room

awful

i definitely believe that Hoffman's a piece of shit rapist
that said, I'm not sure what to take from the third account in that story, or if it should have been reported - it's kind of hard to buy hypnosis?

Well that does it. I'm never watching Ishtar again.

This article is great. Among other things, she articulates my inchoate worries about this moment we’re in, my resistance to the claims that we’re living through a revolution.

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/the-intellectual-situation/in-the-maze/

According to this profile, Lorin Stein was hired at FSG as an editorial assistant to Jonathan Galassi in 1998.
The same year, I was turned down for an assistant position at FSG (with a different editor) because I was "too old."
I'm a year younger than Stein. https://t.co/LCqaF1Gqk7

— Ruth Franklin (@ruth_franklin) December 15, 2017

Just seeing this after I awoke, I burst out crying. There it is, confirmation that Harvey Weinstein derailed my career, something I suspected but was unsure. Thank you Peter Jackson for being honest. I’m just heartsick https://t.co/ljK9NqICbm

— Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) December 15, 2017

Was not expecting this:

http://amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article189931514.html

didn't expect Marcy Kaptur to go there; disappointing.

Hoffman story is goddamn horrific

Telling the truth can be bad news.

This article is great. Among other things, she articulates my inchoate worries about this moment we’re in, my resistance to the claims that we’re living through a revolution.

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/the-intellectual-situation/in-the-maze/

― horseshoe, Friday, 15 December 2017 11:50 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was a different perspective thanks for posting

From my POV (caveat emptor what) the writer is reasonably dishonest in categorising the issues and her description of the concerns of the men she knows that she claims to be trying to synopsise fairly come across as an unsympathetic and partisan caricature. #notallstrawmen

i came here to say thank you for posting that horseshoe
i read it slowly because it was kind of hard to digest all at once

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/andrea-ramsey-harassment.html

A woman running to flip a Kansas congressional seat from red to blue next year is ending her campaign after allegations surfaced that she had sexually harassed, and then fired, a former subordinate.

Andrea Ramsey, 56, is a retired business executive who worked in the nonprofit sector before deciding to run for office as a Democrat in next year’s congressional midterm elections. She was one of a growing number of women inspired to seek office in the wake of President Trump’s election.

But this month, The Kansas City Star newspaper asked her about a 2005 lawsuit that accused her of sexually harassing a man at LabOne, where she was the executive vice president of human resources, and then firing him after he rejected her advances, a claim Ms. Ramsey denies. The suit was against the company, not Ms. Ramsey specifically, and it was settled in 2006.

“Twelve years ago, I eliminated an employee’s position,” Ms. Ramsey said in a letter posted to Facebook on Friday. “That man decided to bring a lawsuit against the company (not against me). He named me in the allegations, claiming I fired him because he refused to have sex with me. That is a lie.”

Well, I guess that settles that!

God God, SERIOUSLY? https://t.co/NDZFrLDXil

— Minnie Driver (@driverminnie) December 15, 2017

turned on the tv and LITTLE FOCKERS (w hoffman) was on usa. basic cable is going to keep the status quo alive

also minnie driver rules

matt damon really is an endless wellspring of bad takes huh

And, to his mind, not all such crimes are equal. “I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior,” he begins. “And we’re going to have to figure — you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?”

idk, does anyone actually disagree with this?

yea there's obviously a spectrum, a difference between al franken and john lasseter and louis c.k. and harvey weinstein and bill cosby, but matt damon's comments are just poorly worded and poorly timed. it's clumsy, like everything else he does

Well Roy Moore got called a paedophile for coming on to ppl that weren't children, so

(I've known many (far too many) women who were sexually abused pre-pubescence and that really pissed me off)

not nec relevant, but Matt Damon broke MD's heart once i think.

btw in every movement, yes, there are some loonies who say all transgressions are equal. Call them Aristotelian Twitter. (obv a small minority etc)

jfc

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mario-batali-newsletter-apology-inexplicably-features-cinnamon-article-1.3702226

see my rolling "hate reads" entries for more like that. clanging bathos is practically a newsletter genre in itself

cinnamon rolls

amazing

...that's not a clickhole spoof?

After being accused of “a shocking and egregious case of rape and sexual assault” by publicist Haleigh Breest today, Oscar winner Paul Haggis is fighting back in court against what he says were demands for $9 million payment to make “these outrageous and wholly baseless demands” go away.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/paul-haggis-denies-rape-allegation-lawsuit-1202228350/

I went googling to see if any pics from that premiere would confirm/deny the “back brace” defense and found this instead

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/01/article-2271948-1749FD4E000005DC-179_634x445.jpg

another layer to the Damon thing is that, I believe he also said that 'if it's my friend I believe them' which I assume is his defense of Casey Affleck.

#believebros

scary onlooking Michael Douglas there