Victator Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 1 hour ago, jaedmc said: Louis C.K., Andy Signore, Joss Whedon. I'm waiting for Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt to join the list of schlubby dudes that got clout and nerds rally behind, who are also terrible to women. Whedon didn't do anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Not of this caliber, but he's not exactly been shown in a positive light as a person this past year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 I've never heard anything about Patton Oswalt of this type of thing thankfully. There's been issues that some people don't like him over and some really have no business even giving a public opinion on(his personal life), but nothing overtly horrifying or scandalous. He's usually owned up when he's genuinely screwed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Between the standby from Kai and everything that's happened this past month, I'm surprised nobody has come out with personal accusations against Joss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I'm interested in the fact that, in spite of actual video of him groping an 18-year-old interviewer on TRL, Ben Affleck has been relatively unscathed. I wonder whether it's because he immediately owned his past bad behavior and there's nothing more recent to pin on him or if he somehow picked targets better than Weinstein (or Casey, for that matter). EDITED when I went back to check my work and saw that there are more and more-recent allegations against him...the question still stands, though: why hasn't he gotten the momentum of so many others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 53 minutes ago, Cliff Hanger said: I'm interested in the fact that, in spite of actual video of him groping an 18-year-old interviewer on TRL, Ben Affleck has been relatively unscathed. I wonder whether it's because he immediately owned his past bad behavior and there's nothing more recent to pin on him or if he somehow picked targets better than Weinstein (or Casey, for that matter). EDITED when I went back to check my work and saw that there are more and more-recent allegations against him...the question still stands, though: why hasn't he gotten the momentum of so many others? Yeah, I'm not trying to figure this out after the whole thing with Casey last year where he was on an Oscar campaign while another person who was found innocent was being blackballed. Granted, there is obviously a racial component that was a big part of it. However, the media and critics were still like.... HOW ABOUT MANCHESTER BY THE SEA AIN'T IT GREAT?! I'm still a bit baffled by the Skip Gates (or as the black historians I follow call him: Henry "Skip the Truth" Gates) fiasco, but he found his way out of that by issuing an apology. That itself was overshadowed by Gates himself apologizing for cutting that part out of his documentary series. So Ben's solutions seem to be immediate apology and/or tossing a ton of money to charities, and people seem to be fine with that. Plus, people seemed to be so consumed by his family life amidst his divorce and hanging out with his kids that anything else is just another footnote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I now feel fully vindicated for posting about Louis CK last month and how he's a gross fucking creep. Sometimes Gawker and it's sister sites aren't just "pushing a narrative" too hard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 They appear to have still been wrong on some rumors they went with, just not the overall story. Tig is what gave it any veracity. I mean if I ran some rag and accused someone of being a pedophile and started naming victims, but got half of them wrong, but the story conclusion right, that is still shoddy journalism. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Ben Affleck has benefited from not being the absolute shittiest guy in the current shitty guy party. When you've got rapists, pedophiles, and people who just whip their dicks out and jerk off in front of strangers - his brand of harassment becomes run of the mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 He's still a dumbass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 50 minutes ago, Casey said: I now feel fully vindicated for posting about Louis CK last month and how he's a gross fucking creep. Sometimes Gawker and it's sister sites aren't just "pushing a narrative" too hard. The Times actually provided names and verified information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Because their actual journalists(mostly?) and not people trying to be them and failing often(minus Deadspin for some reason a lot of times.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 1 hour ago, jaedmc said: people who just whip their dicks out and jerk off in front of strangers You forgot the "getting completely nude" part. (That is so fucking bizarre...) So anyway, what did Affleck purportedly do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Phantoms, yo. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Patton does get dragged into this morass because of Louis being a guest at his wedding this past weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Something something Reindeer Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 54 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: You forgot the "getting completely nude" part. (That is so fucking bizarre...) So anyway, what did Affleck purportedly do? He didn't even have a hooker today!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Louis C.K. is a racist piece of shit anyway so fuck him. Let him burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 He was top headline on The Daily Show, which is promising. Maybe. At least they're willing to reference it. (The Paradise Papers not showing up in either that or The Opposition all week long is pretty sad though, but that's for a nonexistent political subforum) EDIT: Jordan Klepper brought it up head of the show too, along with the pedo in Alabama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Have there been any high profile US names besides Bob Kraft? Only ones I have seen really named are QE2 and Lewis Hamilton and some weird dealings involving the Arsenal minority shareholder and Everton majority owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Mickey Arison who owns the Heat... But we're way off topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 54 minutes ago, odessasteps said: Have there been any high profile US names besides Bob Kraft? Only ones I have seen really named are QE2 and Lewis Hamilton and some weird dealings involving the Arsenal minority shareholder and Everton majority owner. Madonna, George Soros, Wilbur Ross and Rex Tillerson. And Bono, but he’s not American - just a wildly famous musician whom everyone knows, so that should be getting attention too. Also, some Russians who have business connections to Donald Trump Jr. and Mark Zuckerberg. Really wish we had a place where we could talk about politics and world issues in a civilized manner. It would be nice. But, yeah... we’re so far from the original topic at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Jezebel put up an interesting piece where they talk about reporting out the story and how things went down from their end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 And in not-really-shocking news the distributor for Louis CK's movie has declined to release it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Just a heads up try and keep the politics out. I know it's been difficult to separate because so much is happening at once, and you guys have done a great job. But I've been on this board for something like 10 years now. It never goes well. And that's coming from someone who used to fight to keep a politics thread open. So anyway just keep it to Hollywood and try to avoid any liberal/conservative commentary the best you can. And no it's not up for debate. 10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: You forgot the "getting completely nude" part. (That is so fucking bizarre...) So anyway, what did Affleck purportedly do? Ben likes to grab women by the boobs and butts without consent. There was one gal on TRL years ago. And John Mulaney's wife Annamarie Tendler said he grabbed her ass and played it off like he was moving her out of the way so he could get by. His brother Casey sounds like he's even worse and still won an Oscar. No joke, I have to watch the madness of this Woody Allen movie. There's so much art imitating life imitating art that I can't help but want to see what these douche bags concocted. I feel bad that other people who had nothing to do with it have all their work ruined because of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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