He caused a lot of distress and suffering by making the board actually have to do something about his behaviour that they have know about forever.
It’s unforgiveable really.

i regret that i have but one star to give

I think the closer analogue is someone like Bill O’Reilly. Weinstein is a cultural influencer like O’Reilly, though off camera instead of in front of it. There was an energetic effort from the left to get O’Reilly fired, while with Weinstein there’s been universal condemnation but no effort by activists to oust him.

“I mean, if Weinstein’s contributions in monetary terms were so small, why take them? Either he exerted influence on political people who kept their mouths shut because of the perks, or he had no meaningful influence and they still said nothing, because it is impossible that people like Clinton et al did not know of…

While I agree that there is little chance Weinstein personally donated anywhere close to what the Kochs donated to Republican candidates, the fact of the matter is that the Democrats accepted the money. The question is who knew about Weinstein’s abhorrent proclivities when they accepted it. Both parties are know to…

I’m kind of annoyed that there are so few comments remarking on this. That is a terrible press release, and if this were coming from the RNC, people here would be (rightly) tearing it to shreds.

The amount of shit I got on this site for pointing out that Hugo was a rapist every time he posted his regular rant on this site...

That DNC statement is terrible. There’s no specific mention of Weinstein’s actions at all.

Oh I didn’t know she did that. I was really disappointed that she interned at Girls - one of the most horrible tv shows of all time. I have a feeling that the Obamas didn’t know about his reputation - and also, Malia has secret service on her.

Weinstein, not unlike Bill Clinton, both have a pathological history of abusive behavior towards women. Birds of a feather... This is NOT a partisan problem, sexism is a pervasive problem that slithers along both sides of the aisle. Tim Murphy is another recent and highly disappointing example. In the Weinstein case…

Perhaps, but I feel that there’s a difference between getting a meeting with Obama and having a relationship with the wider family.

but it’s this “in crowd, we all knew who he was” that’s so distasteful. The media keeps it silent because they’re all co-dependent on Hollywood for content, or because they like having info no one else has, I don’t know. I mean even Gawker didn’t go very far with Harvey, did they?

Lol, in the sense that they both suck moneyed cock, there is no difference. It’s just that Democrats sometimes give the little guy a reacharound when they’re fucking him. Republicans just nut and leave.

And yet addicts like Charlie Sheen and Johnny Depp secure regular work. A man has to be Mickey Rourke level before his habits are considered an insurance liability. Rose’s “issues” are garden-variety, although you’re right that she’s not bankable i.e. profitable enough for anyone to want to work around her problems.…

Prefacing this with the acknowledgment that outrage and ridicule over this kind of behavior is absolutely warranted, I’m having trouble generating a ton of it at this point because I thought this was basically who we all assumed Harvey Weinstein was 20 years ago—and certainly 15 years ago when thinly veiled parodies…

I apologise if this has already been discussed somewhere, but I haven’t seen it - anyone feel a little queasy that the Obamas let Malia intern for him? Of course THEIR daughter was going to be safe and treated with utmost respect, but surely they had heard some of these rumours, right? They had to have an inkling that…

Seriously! Harvey Weinstein is not a veteran of the Mad Men era who cut his teeth in his industry in the decades before the term “sexual harassment” was a term people used. This guy graduated high school in 1970, give or take a year, which means he went to college when the Women’s Movement was in full swing and that…

I must have missed the court order appointing her as his attorney.

I don’t know what tea Garson THINKS he’s spilling but, if Catrall didn’t sign a contract, they were still in negotiations, whether 6 months passed or not.

Kim Cattrall called the Sex and the City people “toxic” and her castmates are like “Challenge accepted!”