Too late!
Sleazy Reader, that’s my name
I say, uh, uh, uh…
Bein’ sleazy, that’s my game
I say, uh, uh, uh…
Up and down and left to right
I stare at women…it ain’t right!
Sleazy Reader, that’s my name
I say, uh, uh, uh…
I begged someone to stop me!
Man, I’m starting to feel bad for white people. Two of their most venerated media figures, Charlie Rose and Garrison Keillor, going down due to their behavior towards women.
I’m not sure what this has to do with my post. Are you disagreeing with me? If so, on what point of my post?
And FFS, ET has lasted this long by playing on how hot, not talented, its hostesses are. View their omnipresent legs.
It’s the Jews in particular I feel sorry for - I mean, Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen, Al Franken, Brett Ratner, Dustin Hoffman, Jeffrey Tambor …
I see it as being the nature of the business. You don’t get anywhere in Hollywood being humble and putting others before yourself. You suceed by being a narcisist and putting yourself first. This is an idustry that creates its own reward shows so they can pat eachothers backs and tell eachother how great and important they are.
Take a narcisist and surround them with people that reinforce their beliefs about their self importance and you get an upward spiral where they eventually consider themselves entitled and their actions beyond reproach.
Holding famous actors, athletes, or musicans in high moral esteem isn’t very wise. They don’t live by the same rules.
More focus is needed on doctors, teachers, the military, or coaches. Those people tend to be the hero’s.
What I’m saying is that whatever forces that exist that prevent the police and the judicial system from doing their jobs, if not eliminated, will prevent your new industry specific pseudo law enforcement/court from doing theirs. Therefore, the solution isn’t making new regulatory bodies. The solution is mitigating the influence of those that prevent the police from doing their job.
I’m not sure if that is possible in the short term. Maybe when attitudes such as yours of zero tolerance for certain behavior and the energy to make it a priority become more widespread then the grassroots demand for better behavior will lead to change. But as long as the public enriches people of low character I don’t think we will change the behavior of the powerful to a significant degree.
I think history shows that additional oversight can actually be effective in some circumstances – for example, federal civil rights oversight of racist state and local governments in the 60s. The underlying issues of racism and bigotry still existed, but the federal government was still able to mitigate this to some degree through careful oversight. While fighting the underlying issues related to sexism and misogyny is also necessary, oversight could also supplement these efforts in the short and medium term to ensure that victims and survivors have an independent recourse that wouldn’t threaten their careers.
Apparently no, she wasn’t his mistress and she was 48.
So there; all your snide accusations and terrible implications are unfounded.
Kind of unfair of you to cast aspersions like that, especially when everyone knows that the real rumor is that his 20-something step-granddaughter was his mistress.
Well according to some peace organizations Obama is a war criminal, so whether that’s better or worse than being a sexual assaulter is up to you.
Y’know, never really saw him as an example of virtue, just as a damn fine actor. People have GOT to stop looking up to people on the screen/stage as paragons, they get paid for faking a character.
This is one of the bits that always ticks me off about guys denounced like this… the carrying on into recent times – I mean, sure, talk about narcissism and oportunism but how stupidly out-of-it entitled have you got to be to keep taking these sorts of liberties in this century?? Who the hell living after 1990 would think this was something fixers could keep it durably fixed?? Sure, I can deal with someone saying “oh, back in the 60s/70s (or, back when we all lived on gin and cocaine), those were other times, but I cleaned up my act, thank (Jesus/Xenu/Prozac)”. Good for ya, bro. But to just soldier on as if nothing?
Dammit, we’re talking an entire social/business ecosystem which it seems WAS okay all along with that getting grabbed by the you know where was just an occupational hazard you had to deal with. Turns out he was right all along.
That video is boorish but doesn’t seem to validate being a rapist. There are legitimate concerns out there, and I have an 18 year old going to make her way in an LA film school this fall, but there is a huge grey area betweten something that *could *be considered offensive and crossing a legal line. Dunno, maybe as a tail end baby boomer I think precious snowflake territory for that linked video.
for those that didn’t watch the video, the interview with an attractive female reporter included the lines of “are you single” “interested in older guys”? I would like to see something more than that. Christ alfucking Mighty, if I said that to a supermarket check out person of either sex, would charges be filed? (Maybe not the best analogy but it’s what I came up with on the spur of the moment. And I certainly don’t want to be negating other public indications that there is a serious issue such as repeatedly lifting someone’s skirt, etc. But this one video is hardly damning evidence of much of anything.)
So you’d be happy with the same level of opprobrium and being assumed to be guilty if you were the one accused? Thought not.
Not so fast, Mr. Psychic. If there were multiple credible allegations against me, including corroboration by witnesses, then I would expect people to think it’s likely that the allegations are accurate, and that would be entirely reasonable.
But I’ve never put myself in a positron in which there is any significant chance of having credible allegations with witness corroboration of assault or harassment.
It’s possible all these accusers, and the witnesses, are lying, and it’s also possible Freeman is an alien lizard person. I put the likelihood of those two things as only slightly different.
Good thing no-one’s said Freeman is a rapist, then.