You’re right, but I think this will almost certainly be the final nail in the coffin for Woody Allen’s career. With all the actors and actress coming out apologizing for working with him, and donating their salaries, I don’t see him recovering when Dylan Farrow becomes a much larger public figure. Awareness will be so…

She is someone I thought of early in the Weinstein mess because as a kid the only thing I knew about Sharon Stone was that she had a reputation for being “difficult” - a word that has been totally re-contextualized in my brain this past few months.

He’s still missing it and has now moved on to “it’s impossible to know that every person who’s accused is guilty therefore we shouldn’t try the perpetrators” which is a bizarre standard of proof considering that’s a risk for literally every crime.

One particular brainy reporter asked the police spokesman at the press conference, if he was concerned about the consequences for the people charged in this case. He was quite polite about his “...Err. No.”-answer.

He seems to miss (initial post, not the novel, at least) that taking sexy pics isn’t the problem, it’s the posting of them online. Distribution, not possession.

Damn dude. If you have all the time to write that post I think you can google “why is revenge porn illegal.”

My dude, based on how strongly you’re defending revenge porn, I’m like 99% sure you’ve posted some. The Devil doesn’t need advocates, he does just fine on his own.

I did not read the novel that you just wrote; my eyes glassed over half way through, but I did get this part.

If you do that, you aren’t “just a dick”. It’s a serious violation of that other person; like being passed around to random men against her will. How you can’t see that is really disturbing.

Dude. No one is suggesting that possessing consensually-taken nude photos is criminal. Distributing the photos without the consent of the naked person is what’s criminal. This is not difficult.
 

This is a blog comment. Pith, if you want people to participate in conversation.

I don’t have a problem with long ass posts but man, this was quite a doozy. How am I supposed to respond to all of that? I’m not using circular logic, I’m responding to what you said. By your own description and the legal status of ‘revenge porn’ as it stands currently, you are likely a criminal in your own…

the relationship ends poorly, and I go and post them online...then I’m a dick. Just a dick.

From there, the content was shared hundreds of times, resulting in charges filed against 1,004 people.

Well if the Danish can put together a case file as intricate as this I fail to understand why we can’t.

I 100% agree. There has to a space for penance & forgiveness with people who have collaborated on Allen’s films. I mean, it’s gotta be a sliding scale, based on how willfully blind they would have needed to be to keep working with him, but we shouldn’t hold our noses high in the air just because we knew better sooner…

I agree with you. And things that seem like HUGE warning signs in retrospect just don’t register.

Abusers create a “good person” alibi by making sure there are always one or two (or ten or 100) people who they aren’t monsters around. And when someone seems to come out of the woodwork to say “hey, this dude did X to me” all these people do exactly what they’ve been groomed to do and jump to the abuser’s defense.…

I meant in a larger sense. Katie Couric didn’t need to say anything about Matt Lauer and Meryl Streep didn’t need to say anything about Harvey Weinstein. By opening their mouths and spewing this disingenuous garbage, they are derailing the important conversation we need to continue having about normalizing the abuse…

I’m so done with this. So. Done. She knew. Meryl knew. Everyone knew. They all, we all, need to confront our complicity in men’s bad behavior. Whether you’re a mother whose grown son is shit to his sisters in your presence, whether you’re a wife whose husband makes inappropriate comments to your nanny, whether you’re…