There is no legal distinction between “technically not guilty” and “actually not guilty”.

Tools like the dude you’re responding to always want to have it both ways. If a company is doing something they enjoy (like cheesecake modeling), then the company can do whatever it wants and you should STFU if you don’t like it. If a company is doing something they don’t enjoy (treating women like people), then…

He also keeps tripping all over his dick on his Twitter and making it worse. Claiming Kotaku lied and never reached out to him and then admitting they did, whoops, was a particular high pint.

While this is accurate, he admitted, under oath, to the underlying conduct (drugging and raping women).

Meh, their contracts almost definitely have termination clauses. It’s just that the people who enforce them are sympathizers and will make sure they have a soft, profitable landing.

I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that HR was nowhere to be seen when this shit happened.

Yes, there are people who think it’s hilarious to joke about drugging women in order to make it easier to have sex with them, and who don’t see that as “real rape”. You’re looking at multiple screenshots from such people. And the ‘oh it was his sweater’ explanation is complete horseshit.

“Most people” didn’t include these dudes, who named a room the Cosby Suite. The sweater color explanation holds zero water.

That is true in a rational sense, but if these companies were rational, we wouldn’t have the culture we do. The excuses will be that he learned his lesson, it was a long time ago, are you going to let a few accusations make him unemployable for life, he has all these great skills and he’s the best candidate, blah blah…

Sadly, they’ll just cash out and keep their heads down for a while until one of their fellow bros at another company offers them a new gig.

This isn’t an “independent firm”. It’s a BigLaw firm that handles white-collar defense for big corporate clients exactly like Blizzard. I admire your optimism, but they are going to do exactly nothing that might be helpful to the state of California in its complaint, and they will use this ‘independent’ investigation…

It would be good if it were true, which it’s not. Dude himself had to settle a harassment lawsuit and they’re not going to fire their C-suite buddies.

Because putting anger towards something that remotely matters means caring about something that remotely matters, and all that comes with that caring. Hating trivial shit gives them the high of being in a community of like-minded people, as well as a channel for all their shitty feelings about themselves by pouring it…

The excuse that you got to meet people at a titty bar is just so very ‘80s though. Are the youths recycling that one?

I don’t disagree with you that a lot of people went along, but it’s very easy to tut-tut when you’re not part of the culture and haven’t, for example, seen people get smacked down for trying to make a difference.

Yes, there’s some hilarious backpedaling. Looks like Blizzard management finally realized their dick-swinging response to the DFEH suit didn’t land quite the way they thought.

“Relative compensation” means they want to avoid the cutesy game of pretending that Bob and Khadija get paid the same because they have the same salary, but not disclosing that Bob got five times the bonus she did.

The bosses are completely responsible for what happened. Not only were the bosses some of the prime assholes engaging in harassment and sexual assault, they are the ones who set the rules, hire and fire, impose consequences, and act on HR recommendations. The culture sucks at Blizzard because the bosses want it to be…

It’s duckspeak. They don’t really believe any logical path to it being Pelosi’s fault. They just want to hear “Democrats bad” over and over. The actual words used to build that phrase don’t matter.

Funny that medical ethics is still OK with forcing even unnecessary medical procedures on nonconsenting people if they can wring some Greater Good excuse of out of it - for example, the longstanding practice of using anesthetized (i.e., unconscious) female patients as practice models for medical students learning how…