The fact that he managed to do some awful shit, serve his time and move on makes him well-positioned to have some perspective on the raft of men who have been caught doing awful shit now. Like for example, is it possible for them to really come to terms withtheir actions, or are will they regard them as just “highs…

Taking the occasion of a woman discussing sexual harassment and assault to bring up that it happens to men too, and specifically saying, “But when that happens, the victim is usually either made into a joke or accused of being weak,” frames it as a competition: but when it happens to men, it’s worse.

California Code, Section 243.4(e): Any person who touches an intimate part of another person, if the touching is against the will of the person touched, and is for the specific purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse, is guilty of misdemeanor sexual battery.

Now he only thinks 75% of the world’s wars are caused by Jews. You have to admit, that’s progress.

Here’s the thing: male victims, including child victims, of sexual assault by women are often treated as though they are “lucky” that they were sexually abused because men/boys are presumed to always want sex regardless of the source or circumstance. That is a genuine problem.

As you point out, Cate Blanchett got her Oscar and career boost out of working with Woody Allen. Why is she entitled to Ellen Page’s respect as well?

The multiple allegations against Kevin Spacey and Terry Crews’ experience of sexual assault have also been covered by the press, so I’m not sure why you feel you need to point out that men can be victimized because “this” has been dominating the press lately. Male victims are part of “this.”

People are complicated, artists especially so.

I’d like to think so, too, but I can see why the wardrobe assistant would think that Anders wouldn’t take as large a stand as that on her first feature, or think that even Anders taking that stand would just result in both women being fired.

Directors can also be fired, especially when they make decisions that cost the producers money - like for example, firing the lead actor and necessitating costly reshoots.

Didn’t Oldman have to go uncredited to make that happen, though? I doubt Ruffalo’s multi-film contract allows for a move like that.

Feldman has been talking about this for years, so it’s really not the case that he came out of the woodwork with unbelievable claims right when we were “primed” for them.

I think part of the point is that it’s easy to not care when Iron Man fucks ladies, but a lot more people would care if he fucked men. Like if friggin’ LeFou in Beauty and the Beast danced with a lady it would be very whatever, but it’s a big deal when he dances with a man whether you’re for or against.

At least we made sure Germans don’t get to be Nazis anymore! Although that’s increasingly looking like we did that just so we could hoard all those sweet, sweet swastikas for ourselves.

Well, he at least managed to reassure me that if a white dude had been bothered by his racist comments, he totally would have apologized. Not sure that’s what he wanted to get across in his explanation of how he’s totally not racist, but that’s what I got from it.

JLaw’s comment includes a producer reassuring her that he thinks she’s fuckable as though that was her main issue with being in a naked lady lineup.

Yeah, that’s my feeling as well.

David O. Russell has also faced his own allegations of abuse from not-performers in the past, given that his teenaged niece accused him of groping her, and he admitted to groping her and the cops apparently didn’t charge him because hey, they weren’t there, man, maybe she wanted it.

I mean, it looked bad at the time, too. And people did pay attention to it, but GoT was new and beloved so everyone else just told the feminazis to shut up and stop ruining fun.

It’s the dark secret that everybody knew, but nobody wanted to say.