Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q on CBC, fired.

[Sampiro]

I just read the Cicconne blog post.

Ghomeshi’s smart, successful, charming on-air, and not bad looking; amazing he is so completely awkward even by the admission of his supporters and a total creep with women even by his supposed friend who wrote the open FB letter. I think it’s safe to say his career has reached its apogee and is in descent mode.

(Also tends to date way out of his age group- likes 20-somethings, but, he’s hardly unique in that and if that’s a neurosis then most successful single middle aged men probably have it.)

[Sampiro]

And count down until Kal Penn plays a popular NYC radio host accused of beating women on a L&O.

[Northern_Piper]

Interesting article from a lawyer who specialises in Canadian employment law:

The real reason Jian Ghomeshi is suing CBC

Ghomeshi has no right to sue his former employer, and yet here he is proceeding with filing his $55-milliion lawsuit. It looks bizarre until you realize that what the lawsuit is really about isn’t winning in court: It’s about Ghomeshi being able to say whatever he wants in legal documents with total protection from being sued for libel himself, while intimidating women from going public with allegations of assault at Ghomeshi’s hands.

What we know is that Ghomeshi has filed a lawsuit despite the fact that, as a unionized employee, he has no recourse to sue - and that he and his lawyers must know that. Ostensibly curious indeed!

…

But if Ghomeshi knows, as he must, that his civil case will be quickly dismissed, there appear to be two good reasons to file the suit anyway: One, it gets his story onto the public record, without any possible recourse. Statements of claim are privileged; through this claim, Ghomeshi, like any litigant, can get anything he wishes onto the public record with absolute legal impunity. The arbitration process where his case must ultimately end up due to his unionized status, is entirely private.

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But in this contest of wills and narratives, there is an even more compelling reason for him to sue civilly. If the anonymous accusers are weighing whether to go public, a $55-million action must give them pause.

Who is going to risk being potentially sued for defamation by a party who has already assembled a team of lawyers and PR agents and showed a readiness to take on even the comparatively powerful CBC for $55-million? Given that they have already been painted by Ghomeshi’s version of events as being into BDSM kink - something they may not even be, or may not want known to friends and family - how quickly will any accusers come forward publicly now and risk being joined to this outsized action?

[Northern_Piper]

And a Washington Post article indicating that the kink community is not rushing to the barricades to defend Ghomeshi; holding back to see what information comes out about the allegations of lack of consent:

Ousted CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi faces skepticism from the kink community

[Northern_Piper]

@Sampiro

[QUOTE=LC Strawhouse]
The Billy Bob Thornton interview did seem that way on the surface, but when I heard Billy Bob’s side of the story I realized that he had a good reason to act the way he did - see here for some commentary on that point.

The whole thing could have been avoided if they’d agreed on a safety word.
[/QUOTE]

I love it when Sampiro pops up out of the cyber-woodwork and starts posting again here!

[LC_Strawhouse]

I find it almost beyond belief that people are acting so shocked and blindsided at the allegations. I had this guy pegged as a slimy Svengali a mile away and the news didn’t seem the least bit unbelievable to me.

I also think many of his “fans” coming out of the woodwork include many people who had never paid any attention to him before but are now taking up his cause just to annoy feminists…

[orcenio]

Jian Ghomeshi: 8 women accuse former CBC host of violence, sexual abuse or harassment - Jian is lying to himself if he thinks his problems are just limited to the CBC.

He has a serious issues with many different women, it’s quite wonderful that they have all came publicly forward as this will make it VERY difficult for any other woman to be abused by him again.

[pulykamell]

@LC_Strawhouse

I find it almost beyond belief that people are acting so shocked and blindsided at the allegations.

Well, from my standpoint, my only knowledge of him was as the host of Q, a show I enjoyed on NPR and he seemed a very personable and interesting host. Hell, I didn’t even know how to spell his name or what he looked like until last week (when looking him up for a post I was going to make in the Canadian accent thread.) So, yes, this did seem quite surprising to me, as I would not have pegged him as a creeper only knowing his radio persona and voice. Things are not looking so good for him right now–I want to withhold an opinion until I hear more, but he certainly seems like a slimeball (and more) to me the way things are coming out. I find it rather unlikely that eight separate women are just making shit up for the hell of it.

[orcenio]

@LC_Strawhouse

I find it almost beyond belief that people are acting so shocked and blindsided at the allegations. I had this guy pegged as a slimy Svengali a mile away and the news didn’t seem the least bit unbelievable to me.

I also think many of his “fans” coming out of the woodwork include many people who had never paid any attention to him before but are now taking up his cause just to annoy feminists…

Ummm if you knew then why didn’t YOU blow the whistle that Jian engaged in multiple acts of non-consensual violent sex…? :dubious:

Hell, you should’ve warned me; without former partners coming forward to the press I sure-as-hell would have never knew.

[LC_Strawhouse]

@orcenio

Ummm if you knew then why didn’t YOU blow the whistle that Jian engaged in multiple acts of non-consensual violent sex…? :dubious:

Without former partners coming forward to the press I sure-as-hell would have never knew.

I had no idea he was into anything quite like this. I just could never abide his show for an undetermined reason (maybe men are better at judging creepy guys than women are?), and that unconfirmed “xojane” article floating around the internet a few years ago didn’t help. I once called him one of the top annoying Canadians on this board and got flamed for my efforts.

[Muffin]

When it comes to how Ghomeshi’s life is about to change, me thinks Big Ears Teddy shouldn’t this.

[EmilyG]

There is an article in the Toronto Star,Jian Ghomeshi: 8 women accuse former CBC host of violence, sexual abuse or harassment.

Warning: It is very disturbing.

[orcenio]

@orcenio

Jian Ghomeshi: 8 women accuse former CBC host of violence, sexual abuse or harassment - Jian is lying to himself if he thinks his problems are just limited to the CBC.

He has a serious issues with many different women, it’s quite wonderful that they have all came publicly forward as this will make it VERY difficult for any other woman to be abused by him again.

@EmilyG

There is an article in the Toronto Star,Jian Ghomeshi: 8 women accuse former CBC host of violence, sexual abuse or harassment.

Warning: It is very disturbing.

I’ve ninja-ed ya oncemore EmilyG

[EmilyG]

Oh, I am sorry about that. I did try to read this entire thread, but I guess I missed that post of yours.

[EmilyG]

@LC_Strawhouse

I had no idea he was into anything quite like this. I just could never abide his show for an undetermined reason (maybe men are better at judging creepy guys than women are?), and that unconfirmed “xojane” article floating around the internet a few years ago didn’t help. I once called him one of the top annoying Canadians on this board and got flamed for my efforts.

Yeah, well, now he goes beyond annoying and into something else altogether.

I think my mind, and the minds of most Canadians, are made up. He’s not a good person, to put it extremely mildly.

[Sampiro]

@Muffin

When it comes to how Ghomeshi’s life is about to change, me thinks Big Ears Teddy shouldn’t this.

Big Ears Teddy’s turnaround is what’s called in some professional mental health circles and psychological jargon “some effed up shit”.

I’m wondering if Big Ears Teddy has a camera in his back, because Jian totally sounds like he’d record these moments.

[Anonymous_Coward]

Tweets from @bigearsteddy from April 2014 that accuse Jian of violence against women.

https://twitter.com/bigearsteddy

Ugh. I liked Jian’s on-air persona and I love Moxy Fruvous. The whole book/cover cliche rings true here.

[Sampiro]

From the Toronto Star article (bolding mine):

She says he took his belt off, tied it tight around her neck, “yanked” it, and led her around by the belt. They had intercourse, she said, and during it she alleges he whipped her back with his belt and hit her about the head. She alleges he put his full body weight on her face during fellatio, to the point where she gagged, couldn’t breathe, and felt she would vomit. A subsequent encounter, she alleges, left her with deep bruising on her body.

Okay, with all these allegations coming from different sources I don’t have any trouble believing that Jian is sick and a sex offender (not legally yet, but in practice) and needs serious psychiatric treatment, but…

If somebody beat you and gagged you with his penis til you almost vomited, WHY THE FECK DID YOU GO OUT WITH HIM AGAIN? Is he a big enough celeb to qualify as “starfucking”? And even then I don’t understand the appeal.

[Acsenray]

@Sampiro

… but…

If somebody beat you and gagged you with his penis til you almost vomited, WHY THE FECK DID YOU GO OUT WITH HIM AGAIN? Is he a big enough celeb to qualify as “starfucking”? And even then I don’t understand the appeal.

After all the decades of public discussion about abusive relationships and still the first answer that occurs to you is “starfucking”?

Really?

[Sampiro]

@Acsenray

After all the decades of public discussion about abusive relationships and still the first answer that occurs to you is “starfucking”?

Really?

For a relationship with a celebrity, it does present itself as a possibility?
And I don’t consider a single sexual encounter a “relationship”. At this point she wasn’t remotely invested enough to not be able to walk away.

Any idea if most abusive relationships begin with an abusive encounter? I honestly don’t know.