Yeah this is where I step off the this train.

With how much this is snowballing, I feel like - and this was my reaction to Louis CK, too - there should be a distinction between long-time serial predators like Weinstein, Cosby, and Spacey, and people who committed any reported crimes decades ago and have presumably done better since then.

How is masturbating near a woman NOT about sex? The only time I ever masturbated near a woman was right before sex

I did Nazi that coming.

I only know because we still have Pirate Booty popcorn with movie tie-in at work.

If a Pirates of the Caribbean movie is released but it doesn’t have a marketing campaign does Johnny Depp still get to wear the ridiculous hat?

My mom has definitely said worse to me. I don’t think it is right but I also wouldn’t condemn someone for that unless there was a systematic pattern of emotional abuse. I agree that he has done other things that are worth focusing on way more.

You keep bringing this up like it was the worst thing he has ever said or done (spoiler, it isn’t)

No, sorry. Sometimes they act that way because they are CHILDREN. Jesus.

I always give Polanski some leeway given his tragic history, California in the ‘70s, and that I know of no other incidents since the ‘70s. Not that he should be forgiven or forgotten, but I feel it can be put behind us.

No, they literally mean to play the clarinet. Because Woody Allen actually plays the clarinet. There’s definitive proof and everything.

Can’t speak to Polanski, but Woody Allen hasn’t been convicted of anything.

Allah in the Family

You know, this whole thing is getting a little too 1984 unperson-y for my tastes. I mean it’s one thing to, say, rescind an award you’re about to give a guy, take down a monument, rename a building, a company, etc, but just retroactively erasing any mention from history is a bit much. Personally that would have a been…

Can anyone point outto me what Spacey conflated homosexuality with paedophilia?

Honestly, I’m flabbergasted by these going-ons. First of all, let me preface this by saying there is no excuse for rape or sexual harassment at any age. But it seems to me that the moment a person becomes involved in one of these cases, they are depicted as monsters, stripped from all humanity. All sense of nuance is…

Allen is definitely a creep, but this article can’t even justify itself. Twice the author writes that the age of the female character is unclear, that she is possibly 21, but then unequivocally states “Allen is currently filming a movie in which a middle-aged man has a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.” The…

That’s a very irresponsible comment to make. The idea that only ugly people can be predators is a component of our rape culture and also just rude/superficial.

Yemeni kids are getting lots of exposure to the aerospace industry right now!

Holy hell, this is a real remake that exists now and is in theaters? I knew they were making it, but I’ll be damned if I knew anything about its release given how quiet the marketing has been.