Manafort is a slimy ass fuck who definitely belongs in jail - and I know this is most likely a pressure move from Mueller - but let me just say, if he is the only person who ends up doing time off this I am going to remain pissed off.

This might have been just a bit more forgivable (final verdict coming from Anthony Rapp, of course... not me), had Spacey not turned the story of him inappropriately touching and coming onto an underaged person, who deserves our sympathy and support, into something which attempts to redirect that sympathy and support…

I know everyone is an adult and can make their own decisions, but I really think the conversation on power dynamics and the pressures/what really is consensual in those situations needs to be discussed more. Im still not comfortable of men in their 40-50's “consensually” having encounters with those half their ages…

No adult should ever make a sexual advance at a 14 year old, consensual or not. Period. Let alone carry him to a bed and lie on top of him.

He also framed his sexuality as a choice. His deflection is going to do so much harm to gay people less fortunate than he is.

Jesus. It’s an incredibly weird time to be alive when a person’s defense to being accused of pedophilia is to come out. So, basically reinforcing the conservatives’ idea that Gay= Pedophile. AWESOME. Just really excellent. Do we clap at his bravery now? Fuck this guy.

I don’t know, either. He sounds genuinely contrite and is supportive of his accuser; not sure if outing himself is meant to be a distraction or he just figured the game was over.

In my eyes it is more than “glossing over.” They are complicit with an eye to financial gain. It doesn’t excuse the behavior of the predators in any way but it does beg the question of who is advocating for these working children. Are all the adults in their lives just there for money?

That clears up one of the rumors.

He told the same story without naming Spacey in 2001. If he’s been prepping a publicity stunt for almost two decades, you’d think he’d choose something with less risk of blowback on his career. Spacey hasn’t denied it, either.

This is another pretty open secret in Hollywood. He’s been at Bryan Singer’s parties a ton and that’s pretty much a nail in the coffin. Seriously though good for speaking out, we will see how this one will go. It’s insane what is happening right now about sexual predators in LA, insane, grotesque and at the same time…

lots of men have come out with their own sexual harassment stories also. i’m wondering were any of them asked what they were wearing or why didn’t they say something sooner?

The scary thing is that the likeliest explanation for why we’ve gone so long without this dam breaking is that most of the most powerful people in Hollywood are complicit, and are effectively keeping each other’s secrets. Kind of a mutual protection racket. A few dominos have started to fall, and it feels like many…

The thing is, eventually, people will speak up and it won’t matter. At least in a few cases it already doesn’t. Everyone knows about Roman Polanski and nobody is doing anything about it. Everyone knows about Woody Allen. Hell, the director of those shitty, low-rent Jeepers Creepers films was convicted of child…

This just goes to show that if you pick your victims right, they will keep quiet. That must have been so traumatic for a 14 yr old to experience that it’s no surprise he never said anything to anyone.

This is the reasoning he gave to Buzzfeed - the only reason anyone can continue to get away with this behavior is because people are afraid to speak up, so he decided to be the one to speak up. It’s incredibly courageous of him.

God. Everything is terrible. I feel terrible for Anthony Rapp and for all the other likely victims. I feel terrible that there are people who knew these things and didn’t do anything about them. And I feel terrible because there are homophobic losers all over Twitter delighted that a “hollyweirdo” is getting what’s…

I don’t care what a bunch of foreigners do when someone sneezes.

Really, it’s come to this?