famous writer Steven Galloway is suing various people who tweeted etc their support for his accusers
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/christie-blatchford-fired-ubc-professor-steven-galloway-suing-woman-who-accused-him-of-sexual-assault
canada's defamation laws are Not Good for accusers
― sean gramophone, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
^^^ i think i mentioned it itt already but this just happened to a bunch of friends of mine in the comics industry - the piece of shit in question sued them all for libel and also sued the women who accused him. seeking something like 22 million in damages for lost work opportunities due to the damage to his reputation (nb he is basically a zine publisher)
(this is in the us btw)
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
big multi-part Jeffrey Epstein story in the Miami Herald today
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
god that's hard to stomach.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
cool that half the U.S. presidents of the last 25 years are personal friends with that guy
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
More about Luc Besson
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/luc-besson-sexual-misconduct-760959/?fbclid=IwAR1vzy5ZpAZNBvchrybUtBJ_cEv1OMWu9MkUP3J5ByqDN4MKVQ_2yN8Y9lU
― nickn, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
Another one that's way overdue for a reckoning.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
French though, so .... no consequences?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
yup
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
might have some trouble getting co-productions funded down the line, but yeah, p much
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
On part 2 of Epstein saga Fuckin...Earth is hell. I don’t think there can be any debate on that point.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
Two More Women Accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of Sexual Misconduct
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 November 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
that took a while to crop up again
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22912/former-grad-student-accuses-neil-de-grasse-tyson-emily-zanotti
― j., Wednesday, November 1, 2017 8:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yep.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, November 2, 2017 2:01 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 30 November 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
“he kept a list of overweight actresses on his phone to prove that women aren’t inhibited by portrayals in the media when it comes to health and fitness”A piercing intellect.
― chinavision!, Saturday, 1 December 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
If it wasn't clear last week, it is now: CBS won't be paying Les Moonves another penny. NYT has draft of lawyers' report, with unpleasant details. https://t.co/vB643tN1Ja pic.twitter.com/RyQCMc5Czb— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) December 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link
Investigators wrote that they had received “multiple reports” about a network employee who was “on call” to perform oral sex on Mr. Moonves. https://t.co/OcowEa4WmH— Sam Dolnick (@samdolnick) December 5, 2018
THREE new stories about Les Moonves and CBS from the @nytimes tonight: -- Lawyers hired by CBS say Moonves "destroyed evidence and misled investigators" https://t.co/qfhHN08ITK -- Top takeaways: https://t.co/iwHsDyeVZ4 -- New @JamesStewartNYT column: https://t.co/6HZRjTZN0I— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 5, 2018
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
Signs you might not be collecting your full severance package:1. your lawyer has to make a statement on your behalf to the effect that you “never put or kept someone on the payroll for the purpose of sex.”
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
Sounds carefully phrased
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 05:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-allegations-four-women
A spokesperson for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where Tyson has led the Hayden Planetarium for over 20 years, said that it has never received a complaint about him, but was also looking into the allegations.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 December 2018 07:07 (five years ago) link
lena dunham has taken to the pages of the hollywood reporter to talk about her response to the girls writer being accused of rape and folks, it is not good
When someone I knew, someone I had loved as a brother, was accused, I did something inexcusable: I publicly spoke up in his defense. There are few acts I could ever regret more in this life. I didn't have the "insider information" I claimed but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all. I wanted to feel my workplace and my world were safe, untouched by the outside world (a privilege in and of itself, the privilege of ignoring what hasn't hurt you) and I claimed that safety at cost to someone else, someone very special.To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year. I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist.
To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year. I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist.
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
a public apology is not an apology
― flappy bird, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
she’s such an ass
― maura, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
turning it into another chapter in The Life of Lena.
― omar little, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
I'd go as far as to say she's not really a feminist, as that would require not being a blinkered narcissist
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 December 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
.... necessarily so?
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Friday, 7 December 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
yeah. a blinkered narcissist can repeat feminist nostrums ad infinitum, but it would have about as much meaning as if they were singing the alphabet. the moment any of it came into conflict with their convenience, it would be instantly pitched overboard.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 7 December 2018 01:44 (five years ago) link
Aurora suffered for our SINS
― Ludo, Friday, 7 December 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link
http://loudwire.com/kiss-gene-simmons-sued-sexual-battery/
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 December 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
yikes
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-allens-secret-teen-lover-manhattan-muse-speaks-1169782
― maura, Monday, 17 December 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
Assumed this revive would be for Yael Stone/Geoffrey Rush.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
"Open and thoughtful, Engelhardt unspools a life story that took root in a strict German immigrant household and blossomed into a Zelig-esque series of adventures as she attempted to break into modeling: partying with Iman, jet-setting with Adnan Khashoggi, dining with Stephen King, working as a personal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier later convicted for soliciting an underage girl. Following her time with Allen, she went on to become a platonic muse to Federico Fellini during the auteur's late-life journeys in Rome and Tulum, Mexico, then spent years tending to egos as a hostess in the executive dining room at Paramount before landing her current gig, working as an assistant for producer Bob Evans. What's made her attractive to these powerful men, both personally and professionally, she posits, is in part what Allen appreciated in the first place: "I was pretty enough, I was smart enough, I was nonconfrontational, I was non-judgmental, I was discreet, and nothing shocks me."
― maura, Monday, 17 December 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
Jeffrey Epstein is rarely far from these stories huh (xp!!!)
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
seriously. so gross
― maura, Monday, 17 December 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
i have to read the yael stone piece. the times one was written by bari weiss ugh
I mean, Bananas?!
― j., Monday, 17 December 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/kool-ad-formerly-of-das-racist-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-four-women/
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
https://news.avclub.com/eliza-dushku-has-now-released-her-own-account-of-harass-1831216368
― omar little, Thursday, 20 December 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
the fact that a 21st century Joe Penny like Michael Weatherly would be allowed to talk like that to Eliza Dushku says quite a bit about the continuing power dynamics of Hollywood.
― omar little, Thursday, 20 December 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
i blame old people and their terrible love for NCIS
― Nhex, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
the dushku piece is worth reading https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/12/19/eliza-dushku-responds-what-happened-cbs-took-job-and-because-objected-being-sexually-harassed-was-fired/OCh7h0pwg4Aq7xfwOUasyO/story.html
― maura, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
I've been reading those pieces with a sense that something was different, without being able to put my finger on it. But I figured out what it is: The villains in the story are portrayed as being pitiful, sad and stupid. Weatherly doesn't really seem dangerous, nor does CBS, they seem utterly clueless and pathetic. And of course still misogynistic as fuck. This does actually seem like an important next step in the #MeToo movement. It portrays the mens club at CBS as behind the times, instead of just being the norm.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
perhaps you're right. although, it might be because Weatherly seems like such an obvious douche from his normal onscreen persona it's easy to imagine he's like at in real life, and he's a B-list star to boot. with Moonves, he still seems like a powerful, awful creep like the others.
― Nhex, Friday, 21 December 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kevin-spacey-facing-felony-sexual-assault-charges-alleged-incident-teen-193240674.html
― omar little, Monday, 24 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
jesus christ he tweeted a video in character, what a colossal, delusional prick
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 24 December 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
jesus
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 24 December 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
That video is so weirdly Alex Jones-y.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
weeeird
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
"Like I ever played by anyone's rules before. I never did, and you loved it."
Nobody told him that maybe he shouldn't say that?
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
it's like he decided to give a version of the Nicholson speech in A Few Good Men but forgot that the speech just made it worse
― omar little, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link