Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

the shit that board member spouted about how great president simon is was really something

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/us/larry-nassar-judge-sentencing/index.html

two things that can be true:
1) nassar deserves a harsh prison sentence
2) the judge engaged in irresponsible grandstanding that might make her sentencing decision vulnerable to appeal

i was thinking the same thing about her comments going too far, legally. though that dude does seem like an irredeemable asshole if there ever was one

judges do that shit all the time in far sketchier situations

yeah, but good lawyers pounce on that stuff during appeal. not everyone can afford good lawyers or afford to pursue appeals.

i was kinda wondering that myself, xpost k3v

Hopefully he kills himself soon so it won’t matter

michigan state president resigning

I think they would not appeal in order to not have him sit through all the victim testimonies again. Also, every single educational org, public company, non-profit, etc should be required to re-review sexual and provide a report on all sexual assault complaints going back 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX3k9jZ5N8o

yerac otm

so not clicking on Cosby

Also, every single educational org

hey they already have mandatory harassment webinar participation what more do you want

Nassar's statement was delusional and a little surprising in its brazenness. Also know as: being a white man.

As it happens my student media department has a sexual assault forum this afternoon, and we had to scramble this morning to replace the University of Rochester case with Michigan State.

Crap, I am so used to being able to edit other site posts that I am making so many annoying typing mistakes on ilx.

Who is british? How big is this President's Club scandal?

I couldn’t tell if it was big but it certainly sounded baroque

Lots of good talk about this on the British politics thread; scandal involves quite a lot of very powerful ppl, all involved are running for cover.

hey they already have mandatory harassment webinar participation what more do you want

my only exposure to ex-pres simon was when she spoke at my new faculty orientation where indeed the importance of the mandatory sexual harassment webinar was repeatedly emphasized

Story of the day in Ontario, with an election a few months away (probably something on the Canadian politics thread).

http://www.570news.com/2018/01/25/ontario-tory-leader-patrick-brown-resigning-amid-allegations-conduct/

Dozens of People Recount Pattern of Sexual Misconduct by Las Vegas Mogul Steve Wynn

Magician David Copperfield allegedly drugged and assaulted a 17-year-old model in 1988 https://t.co/XLn7y0TMvZ pic.twitter.com/5uVyBtsDZr

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) January 25, 2018

more like David Cop-a-feel

i have a Vice where they interview him on his private island.

david copperfield story least surprising thing ever to me

the other steve wynn is not amused
https://a4-images.myspacecdn.com/images03/35/8d21860efaf34bb1a196b724e702c4d7/300x300.jpg

"Now watch me try and make this story ... disappear!"

Where did that "making this face" thread go?
https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2018/01/26/Production/WashingtonPost/Images/Sexual_Misconduct-Steve_Wynn_22003-85723-0089.jpg?uuid=t7P2KALKEei7A3InaUVPgg

you mean the "potatoes that resemble humans" thread?

"this facial expression"

there's a lot going on with that face

NYT: Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008 via @NYTimes https://t.co/k6lPC3Ffvg

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 26, 2018

so out of character

not surprised about this. it came out last year that Lena Dunham had told them about Weinstein and they ignored that as well. she's been doing this since 1975. it may be the recurring theme in her career.

lena dunham told clinton? told who?

Lena Dunham told Clinton personally in 1975 that Weinstein was a creep.

Nassar's statement was delusional and a little surprising in its brazenness. Also know as: being a white man.

― Yerac, Thursday, January 25, 2018

um

Curious what happens with the Wynn report. Unlike even Weinstein and other corporate leader's, guy's a billionaire.

ugh autocorrect *leaders

Karmic payback for sticking his elbow through Picasso's Le Rêve and still making a crazy profit.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/23/the-40-million-elbow
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/26/175412881/years-after-the-elbow-incident-steve-wynn-sells-picassos-le-r-ve-for-155-million

as someone pointed out this should be followed by a times piece on dean baquet “shielding” glenn thrush, which happened, you know, LAST YEAR. i’m so over clinton as emmanuel goldstein

(the clinton “shielding” piece i mean)

I cannot take anyone seriously who still, STILL brings up Clinton. It's automatically a parody. The NYT needs to get their shit together.

jfc guys, hillary clinton does not get a free pass for making a poor decision just because 90 percent of the things the media say about her are stupid, and it was not wrong of the NYT to report on this. if you disagree, ask yourself how you'd feel if the story were literally any other politician choosing not to fire a top adviser who'd sexually harassed someone.

Yeah, you missed the point of what Maura was saying.

yeah thanks for missing the point dude. hope you’re as hard on baquet. or any other number of men who also engaged in “shielding” but who haven’t been deemed the demon beast by right wing types.

i’m fine with more reporting on this. but the wealth could maybe be spread to people who are actually in office??

sorry i "missed the point," i guess, but i think thrush should have been fired too and i have no problem condemning the nyt for not doing that

yeah well maybe you should take a second and think about why the times might investigate clinton instead of *gestures at lots of men*

clinton derangement syndrome is real and at least some of its causes are intimately involved with all of the other shit in this thread