Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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.

The people harrassing Rose McGowan because she had an emotional breakdown are monsters.

I feel like the flaws was always why McGowan was so important and powerful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html?smid=fb-share

is this going to fuck up tarantino's career?

It had better

Man, that car crash footage!

I don’t get why they needed to use a fucked up car. She definitely is entitled to serious compensation for that.

Thurman says that in “Kill Bill,” Tarantino had done the honors with some of the sadistic flourishes himself, spitting in her face in the scene where Michael Madsen is seen on screen doing it and choking her with a chain in the scene where a teenager named Gogo is on screen doing it.

Jesus.

Like I can imagine an actor/director relationship where jumping in for stuff like that would actually make sense, but in the context of everything else mentioned in this story, just, goddamn.

Tarantino has always been the worst American filmmaker. Not that that is relevant to this. But still.

I am surprised that someone with QT's narrative fetishes is a sick fuck.

now i understand her terse response just a little better
how gross
haven't read the full deets but the info contained itt is more than enough to get the picture

His movies are incredibly hateful — gushing tributes to vulgarity with just enough ironic distance to establish his own sophistication. The paradigm, for me, of the worst possible way to make art.

Of course he would treat his actresses as objects. His entire approach — his empty formalism — involves a fundamental lack of respect for cinema, for storytelling, for human experience and vulnerability.

Treeship otm

well put indeed

making death proof after that is unbelievably fucked up

didn’t he also personally choke out diane kruger onscreen in inglorious basterds?

Yes, those are his hands strangling Kruger.

There's really no need to align his awful movies with him as a person; he's quite obviously an awful bastard in his own right.

That footage is something else.

maybe. the movies would be bad even if he was a great guy though.

Exactly.

I just rewatched Kill Bill 1&2 a month ago. I still found really great parts of the movie but the entire hospital scene with Buck was some extreme pervy/predator bullshit.

but at the same time LBI i don't think the movies are bad in a way that is totally disconnected from his own behavior. you can deduce from an artwork what the creator is like but at the same time the art doesn't come from nowhere. the trendy nihilism of those films -- which seemed so revolutionary in the 90s -- said something about our society and not something good

*you can't deduce

It's circular. There is so much surplus rape/sexual assault in mainstream movies and tv (how else to advance a storyline or provide complexity to a woman's character development???) that it feeds into men being shitty to women in real life, then the shitty men producing it onscreen. Rinse, repeat.