Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Petraeus & Mr Appalachian Trail (i forget his name) both walked away from their jobs (iirc?) for having what seemed like run-of-the-mill extramarital affairs
that seemed excessive to me tbh

streep is the wrong target, those posters are stupid

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/20/meryl-streep-she-knew-harvey-weinstein-posters-sabo-artist

oh

A rightwing guerrilla artist in Los Angeles has claimed responsibility for posters that depict Meryl Streep as an enabler of Harvey Weinstein, calling them revenge for the actor’s criticism of Donald Trump.

Sabo, a former US marine who considers leftism a “disorder”, told the Guardian on Wednesday he created the posters that show Streep with a red stripe across her face and the text “She knew”, a reference to accusations that she had knowledge of Weinstein’s alleged sexual abuse of women.

Sabo, 49, said he and two collaborators conceived the campaign as retaliation for Streep using her latest Oscar-tipped film, The Post, to bash Trump. “She’s swiping at us so we’re swiping back.”

w/govt employees there is the potential for blackmail which complicates things

xpost

FWIW, Streep has worked on only one Weinstein production, August: Osage County (2013).

Xp as I said Tracer it's case by case but the blackmail argument used to be used to punish gay people for being gay so

more of this creep

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fifth-woman-accuses-danny-masterson-142051271.html

good point NV

(that initially autocorrected to "god's point")

Wow - when the Streep story came out yesterday, and was pushed by Drudge etc, I was wondering if it was a right-wing thing -- especially because there was a similar guerrilla campaign against Al Franken in L.A. a month earlier.

Guessing it will be another tactic from Roger Stone et al to take down their (sometimes deserving) targets.

Sabo is a loser. You can identify his art by the laziness and location.

these guys can't wait to take credit, i mean i'm not sure that's how it's supposed to work!

poll re: members of parliament in UK

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPBBbAuX0AEC2J4?format=jpg

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, December 21, 2017 6:18 AM (six hours ago)

this is pretty interesting. given that the last question specifies "with an employee" or "with someone much younger", I take it that the rest of the questions concern private, consensual relationships among adults. maybe I'm missing some context, or do majorities of MPs think, for example, that having porn on their work computer or sexting are fireable offenses?

at least this thread probably led to a righteous 51ing.

how is having porn on your work computer not a fireable offence?!?

plausible deniability.

this is the level of security in the mother of parliaments:

My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. Including interns on exchange programmes. For the officer on @BBCNews just now to claim that the computer on Greens desk was accessed and therefore it was Green is utterly preposterous !!

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017

great ratio

such a classic self-own, one of the greats

All these men squealing about how they can’t even hit on a woman anymore reminds me of all the men who were like “it’s just locker room talk”.

yeah and it's like why tf are you in a locker room past 12th grade, if that

When men reach a certain age, their families banish them to locker rooms to live out their last days there, naked. It's part of American culture.

gah why does society keep making it harder and harder for me to be awful??!??

The Hurt Locker Room

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/blues-brothers-1980-john-belushi-steve-lawrence-dan-aykroyd-pic-4.jpg

Barbara Kruger needs to have a word with the bad Streep art dude.

the only time i met meryl streep, my general takeaway of her was as the sort of woman who would go full sophie's choice on that guy if he stepped to her in person

also: no shade suzy but i think we mixed up our posts

Baseball’s Rainmaker Forced Out After Alleged Misconduct

Bob Bowman, long considered one of the most influential executives in media and sports, was pushed out by Major League Baseball after allegations related to his workplace conduct.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseballs-rainmaker-forced-out-after-alleged-misconduct-1513882805

did we all read Streep's response to Rose McGowan?

here's where that all landed:
http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-meryl-streep-is-sorry-rose-mcgowan-sees-1513640761-htmlstory.html

of course she would see Rose as an adversary she thinks HW is God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTlydbdS0Hc

my guess is that's what set her off a bit, maybe not bc Streep knew anything but that she must have been aware HW was at the very least a total bully and she still went out of her way to praise him. though i doubt that she never heard a single thing about him being a creep to women, tbh. McGowan might also be striking back against and venting about what she perceives to be the elite of Hollywood trampling all over those below them. which is accurate.

ok, stupid question.
is anything going to actually happen to HW given all these revelations ?
other than coming out of his supposed therapy/hiding in a few months.
i realise his career is now f*cked, but surely there is enough to throw some legal gubbins at him.
or, am i expecting too much too soon.

He and the company are being sued by I don't know how any people at this point. I don't know what happened with him recently meeting with the NYPD.

was this posted?
https://deadline.com/2017/12/harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-marco-polo-associate-producer-1202230985/

i feel like she's being sardonic in that "god" youtube clip

Two weeks after their abrupt suspensions, longtime WNYC hosts Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz have been fired. In a statement, spokesperson Jennifer Houlihan Roussel wrote “New York Public Radio has terminated the employment of Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz following two separate investigations overseen by outside counsel. These investigations found that each individual had violated our standards for providing an inclusive, appropriate, and respectful work environment.”

a few serious stone faces from women in that clip.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/ford-apology-sexual-harassment.html

Sarah Jeong on infosec: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/21/16807116/infosec-community-sexual-predators-weinstein-assault

more on the WNYC firings... the in-house piece has accounts that certainly indicate "bad judgment" at a minimum.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-public-radio-fires-hosts-lopate-schwartz/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/business/wnyc-leonard-lopate-jonathan-schwartz-nypr.html

(btw if you didn't read the WNYC commenters, one of the outraged listeners invokes not McCarthy or Stalin, but EMMETT TILL.)

i feel like she's being sardonic in that "god" youtube clip

"it's satire" is the "locker room talk" for the left

that's how it struck me, i could be entirely wrong i'm not getting into a bruneauhaha with you

not saying that it wasnt. but joking about it is still making a safe space for enabling it

Really hard to imagine guys in their 70s being unable to imagine they’ve done anything wrong, on literally any topic ever.

that sarah jeong piece could have been good. but it was not. also there are way more than two guys in the field who have been called out. do your job.

the verge's risk-averse approach to reporting on anything tech makes them no better than sports or political media in their grubby devotion to precious, precious access

http://www.newsweek.com/metoo-microsoft-amazon-trafficking-prostitution-sex-silicon-valley-755611

If I were the writer of that Newsweek piece I might be annoyed that somebody had slapped a jocular "horny nest" lede on top of my serious reporting.