Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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

my guess as to why the times might investigate clinton is because she's very famous and positions herself as a defender of women's rights, so a story about how she failed a victim of sexual harassment might have some relevance

this does not negate any of your other, valid points tho of course

discrediting a private citizen who lost an election a year plus ago just seems a bit fishy timing wise but what do i know

(and who’s a woman)

(like i know the man bites dog aspect but come on)

anyway wynn is building a casino here in MA and the gaming commission has announced an investigation of him

nicole eggert has been tweeting a lot about how her former CHARLES IN CHARGE costar scott baio took advantage of her as a teen

Ask @scottbaio what happened in his garage at his house when I was a minor. Creep. https://t.co/YrQydBKd0a

— Nicole Eggert (@NicoleEggert) January 27, 2018

Didn't Erin Moran at least hint at some awfulness re: Baio? Or am I misremembering?

i don’t remember but i found this while looking

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-april-scott-baio-amends-callous-comments-made-1493133783-htmlstory.html

Facing criticism for his comments, Baio first took to Twitter to build his defense on the fact that he said "if you use drugs and alcohol," before moving on to blame critics for only hating him because of his support for the president.

🙄

three more women have come out with allegations against jeremy piven

https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/jeremy-piven-sexual-misconduct-allegations-follow-up

I am reading Scott Baio's response to Eggert and he is only burying himself further.

Seems like the MAGA goons are defending him full force

Well, yeah. How can America get great again without Scott Baio?

i mean they pretty much have shown that they’re ok with whatever happens to women as long as they can cling by their fingernails to whatever power they still have

^^ otm ^^

HRC just responded to the NYT story:

https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/posts/1811310308925490

Alex Press in Vox (!) on "carceral feminism"

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/2/1/16952744/me-too-larry-nassar-judge-aquilina-feminism

Leaping off that article to the below, which is one of the saddest things I have read recently. I seriously did not know how bad sex trafficking is in the US where men are paying to have sex with children because they just can't pass up an opportunity that presents itself??? And that the justice system has no real way to prosecute them when the victims are traumatized/abused children who are unreliable witnesses and it's hard to prove that the men didn't know they were underaged.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2018/01/30/sex-trafficking-column/1073459001/

Upenn revoking honorary degrees from Steve Wynn and, in a timely fashion, Bill Cosby.

In future all honorary degrees will be rigged to self-destruct (triggered remotely by the university's board, as needed).

they can't all be upstanding citizens who not only coach and win a lot of games involving a leather ball but also have enough time to shield a child molester.

that sex trafficking piece is in a tight race with the Splinter health care piece from yesterday for upsetting stories, yes

please revoke every degree given to james franco

v weird seeing stuff with franco that was taped before the golden globes still going up weeks later. mainly thinking of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egzvLWeMK_U&

Robert Wagner. i hold out hope that one of these mf'ing men admit to what they have done.

i hope my alma mater does the same with cosby, who received his degree the year i got my bachelors

wagner? are we talking about natlie wood?

yep: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalie-wood-death-robert-wagner-person-of-interest-says-investigator/?linkId=47633160

i was a little glum earlier when i thought they were talking about james garner rather than robert wagner

Alex Press in Vox (!) on "carceral feminism"

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/2/1/16952744/me-too-larry-nassar-judge-aquilina-feminism

― Simon H., Thursday, February 1, 2018 9:09 AM

interesting article. I think most reasonable people would agree that we should be cautious about throwing more people in jail as a result of expanding definitions of gendered offenses, but it doesn’t really seem like that is imminent here in the US. for now the biggest issue seems to be creating an environment where women feel safe reporting crimes committed against them

that article seems to be more focused on existing problems rather than warning about possible future ones. ppl being evicted, trapped in their jobs, abused by police and so on are clearly pretty big issues

The takeaway that I got from the article is that since the justice system tends to mostly work for certain crimes and for people of a certain class/race/gender, as much as some of us would love to lock up or fine sexual predators/harassers this is not practical. Instead we have to address wealth inequality, the patriarchy, power inequality between the sexes. Which I agree with.

whats going on w Rose McGowan? apparently she was heckled by a trans activist and decided she doesn't want the stress and now people are dragging her on Twitter for not wanting to put herself in this abusive situation. people are acting like she owes them something. it is pretty sad.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/rose-mcgowan-cancels-appearances-1202686011/

Yeah I see the usual twitter assholes calling her a TERF

the stuff she said looks bad in print but on the video it seems like a reaction to being shouted at for quite awhile

woe betide the half-woke

woe betide the half-woke...

the real battle then becomes: who gets to define the all-woke and half-woke, combined with the fierce rise of the woker-than-thou.

ain't no such thing as halfway woke

there absolutely is

happens to me every morning

"woe betide the half-woke" is actually a pretty deep sentiment in the present cultural environment imo - I grew up around Marxists who hated liberals much, much more than they hated conservatives, and I'm friends with plenty of people like that right now; the tendency to think of a partial ally, or a flawed ally, or an anything-less-than-100%-onboard-with-the-program ally as more deserving of enemy status than an enemy -- this is totally familiar territory for anybody who's spent time in communist part meetings, but it's got reach now. I consider this really unhealthy, even though I do think it's very healthy for white liberals to be reminded that meaning well in your heart is bare-minimum stuff, not you-get-a-cookie stuff. but the act of denying the cookie isn't really worth the camera time it's getting rn imo

*party obv

At least in the pre-internet days you could have a private life and a social life that was separate. Life these days is an eternal Central Committee meeting.