Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

yeah i heard about this from jay smooth. seems shitty. pacifica not exactly known for its fantastic management decisions....

Pacifica is an absolute mess that still manages to have individually brilliant stations and programs -- this will meet with member station resistance for sure. That said, they've always had a soft spot for creepy white dudes and I'm a little surprised Gary Null hasn't gotten me tooed yet.

One of the top #metoo groups on Facebook appears to have been a long con in which women shared their personal stories of sexual violence and a group of admins later turned them into "erotica" and used them as fodder for further harassmenthttps://t.co/g30tAVHLak by @lmatsakis

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) July 19, 2018

christ

So I don't normally support the death penalty but

Facebook is a great place to spend your time and you should definitely not delete your account.

Big news locally: http://kuow.org/post/five-women-accuse-seattle-s-david-meinert-sexual-misconduct-including-rape

Hiring crisis communications PR firms is definitely a thing that people who have never sexually assaulted anyone do

A skin-crawling read

Hardwick back: https://www.spin.com/2018/07/chris-hardwick-amc-return-cleared/

Most of Meinert's businesses divesting themselves of him: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/25/29718279/david-meinerts-business-empire-fractures-following-rape-allegations

i’m sure that investigation was super thorough 🙄

https://people.com/movies/olivia-hussey-reveals-she-was-raped-in-the-charles-manson-murder-home/

x-post: yeah, Loeb & Loeb don't just have a lot of experience in similar investigations; they have a lot of experience making shitloads of money off of Hardwick's in-laws.

lmao

https://www.loeb.com/experience-williamrandolphhearsttrust

https://www.loeb.com/experience-representhearstfamilytrustees

What should happen is that people who have greater pull should refuse to work with Hardwick.

I can’t imagine willingly watching or listening to one thing Chris Hardwick has been involved in since Singled Out went off the air 20 years ago.

I imagine there’s a lot of crossover between that audience and men who call in bomb threats to video game developers because they took out Sonic’s camel toe or something

Stark.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/business/ken-kurson-jared-kushner.html

Now I am googling Sonic's cameltoe.

Let us know what you find

You would think with the amount of furry/fursona shit on the internet that 70% of the population is into it.

Good article above kink, consent, and certain progressive men:

https://longreads.com/2018/07/25/the-rub-of-rough-sex/

*about

Heads up

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-accused-sexual-misconduct-ronan-farrow-expose-1130268

K.K. profiled in the NYT above was a friend of mine in the '90s. This was before Guiliani and all the rest.

I'm glad for his ex-wife, at least.

http://i.redditmedia.com/XeJ6GincDR9a8CJc_a-ph_Zupy4jV7i4-7Vwm68So74.png?s=6d0636e80a4d65aa8ace4055ff5df978

K.K. profiled in the NYT above was a friend of mine in the '90s. This was before Guiliani and all the rest.

I'm glad for his ex-wife, at least.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 27, 2018 12:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I knew KK in '90-'93, and subbed for the drummer in his band a bunch of times. He asked me to drop out of college to join his band, which...would not have been a good idea, for many reasons. I found him generally creepy and unpleasant to be around. He was a staunch liberal in those days, though.

Moonves piece is out:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/les-moonves-and-cbs-face-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct/

Headlines I didn't need from all of this:

Who is Illeana Douglas, the actress who accused CBS executive Les Moonves of sexual misconduct?

TO DIE FOR remains criminally underrated

Aw man, I love Illeana Douglas. I'd like to kick this rich, old white man's ass myself. With each passing day of this situation, i'm more and more convinced that rich, old white men (not money alone) are the true root of all evil. And yes a few have been African-American but the overwhelming majority are the aforementioned ROWMs. Crap acronym too. I sincerely hope Miss Douglas emerges from this strong and happy.

https://i.giphy.com/media/l4FGuE8LtZg2wKmZi/200w.gif

Sweet gif Bizarro!

God Moonves is such a piece of shit

bdsm is really problematic for me these days. i understand very well why people want to submit. i have never understood, however, why people want to dominate. also, the older i get, the more i find that none of the "safe, sane, consensual" troika are either/or propositions. if bdsm is about pretending, ssc is part of that pretense.

Probably not the thread to go into a deep discussion on this topic, but I strongly disagree with all of that.

yeah, you're wrong

X-post yes, Vegemite grrl, he certainly is.

Was there a bdsm part to the Moonves piece?

I was wondering this too, didn't get the connection

jim, don't know what to tell you, but it seems really off base to me in a number of ways.

i have never understood, however, why people want to dominate.

really?

Right, do you have to relate to a (extremely common) sexual fetish for it to be valid?

this seems like the wrong thread for this

might I suggest the one about losing a coughdrop in that most sensitive of orifices?

True, sorry

xp

Might be related to the BDSM/Consent article I linked to right before Moonves, related specifically to Eric Schneiderman.

The Moonves/Douglas story, along with everything since Weinstein, makes it seem like women who act don't just "fall off the radar" because of aging but because of stories like these. Since she's mentioned in the article, makes me wonder why Penelope Ann Miller (big on Broadway, then in Carlito's Way et al) faded away.

Ok, makes more sense after reading that. It's definitely a tricky thing to sort out, and perhaps there are cases that represent a legitimate grey area, but I'd say the most straightforward solution is to give much more credence to women who come forward with stories of abuse. We, as a society, are much too eager to buy into this myth of the vengeful woman who wants to sully a good man's name.

Ah, the Schneiderman thing seems like ages ago now.

The Moonves/Douglas story, along with everything since Weinstein, makes it seem like women who act don't just "fall off the radar" because of aging but because of stories like these.

yeah, and then people use the fact that they fell off the radar as "proof" that they must obviously be lying

yeah its a hideous vicious circle