“Good... people??” -God
“Good... people??” -God
The director and writer of “The Pick-Up Artist” has been accused of sexual misconduct? Color me shocked.
The fact that Logan and the LADB are not only back, but apparently soak up a significant amount of screen time, is the sole reason I have yet to even attempt to watch the revival.
Animation seems to draw a certain class of people who are either really good-hearted and cheery people or complete misanthropes, it seems to be how you came into animation. For some it’s a passion that absorbed them, for others it’s a retreat from reality where power fantasies provide their basis.
As a middle-aged nerd, I keep getting more and more pissed off at the level of misogyny in the media and hobbies I love. I will work to put a stop to this wherever I find it, and I hope my fellow nerd guys will, too.
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.
Why the hell is this guy still responding to these individual accusations. Even if he somehow is innocent of every one of these accusation and is the victim of a vast conspiracy (he isn’t) there is plainly no saving his reputation at this point. If he manages to avoid procecution for all this stuff he needs to cut his…
To be fair, Harvey Weinstein is a sex predator and a pathological liar. This statement is just Harvey being Harvey. Can you really blame him for being himself?
Hm, what made him pick her out specifically to respond to? I wonder.
He was not invited by any student organization or academic organization, the university tried to refuse to let him rent out the auditorium and he came back with a first amendment lawsuit (typical). The university also isn’t legally allowed to raise the prices for speakers based on the content of speech, so Spencer got…
Sadly, that is the point that many people speaking out lately have been focusing on. It is not isolated to a few industries, but pervasive across most of them. It does strike a chord, though, when it directly effects people you really admire and whose work you enjoy.
Since having gone to film school in the early ‘90s, have been friends with (or at least known) a good number of animators. What I know for certain:
Now people can see in real time what a terrific, tremendous job President Trump is doing for those lazy, ungrateful Poo-airto Reekins!
Not that Trump would realize how bad it looks, but lord, maybe pardoning America’s Rootin’-est, Tootin’-est, Racist-est shur’if may not be the best thing in light of all the accusations of Trump being... Well, y’know... Racist.
Yeah, this is a trial balloon. If the response is anything less than thunderous condemnation, we’re fucked.