# A possible explanation for recent spate of misbehaving celebs

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-explanation-for-recent-spate-of-misbehaving-celebs/805943 "2018-01-05T20:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![dstarfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dstarfire/32/5762_2.png) [@dstarfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dstarfire)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-explanation-for-recent-spate-of-misbehaving-celebs/805943/1 "2018-01-05T20:23:50Z")

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Apparently, 2017 was the chinese year of the cock.

Sure, they CALL it a “rooster”, we those Chinese are well-known for their perversions and hedonism.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-explanation-for-recent-spate-of-misbehaving-celebs/805943/2 "2018-01-05T20:51:13Z")

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What makes you think anything changed recently? I doubt there has been any increase in celebs behaving badly, just less tolerance of it.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-explanation-for-recent-spate-of-misbehaving-celebs/805943/3 "2018-01-05T21:23:31Z")

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This is the year of the dog. Maybe we’ll have more women coming out as predatory perverts?

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-explanation-for-recent-spate-of-misbehaving-celebs/805943/4 "2018-01-05T23:45:15Z")

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Apparently when something gets reported makes it recent, rather than when it happened. At least to people who are paying no attention beyond headlines.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-explanation-for-recent-spate-of-misbehaving-celebs/805943/5 "2018-01-06T02:39:51Z")

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[Moderating]

Even aside from the ethnic slur in the OP, I can’t see this thread going anywhere good.