Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

i guess it could be said that it doesn't matter if someone did or did not like the guy beforehand, since if we know anything about abusers it's that they're often extremely charming and likable, and sometimes seemingly very unlikable curmudgeons treat their friends and family with complete decency and respect and love.

that's not a shot at anyone here

at the very least i think we can maybe foresee that the person who is most "shocked" about these claims will be Chris Hardwick himself!

The palpable relief when the accused celebrity is someone you never liked and the open hand-wringing when it's someone you did are both ... not the important point.

true

For what it's worth, my "quell surprise" has more to do with unease with adult self-proclaimed nerd culture than it was signaling my brilliant taste at not liking the guy.

I just read up on him. I knew him from Singled Out and Talking Dead but had no clue he was big in certain circles. I'm glad people are reading her essay.

People are already quitting Nerdist over it. I highly doubt he gets to keep his TV gigs. So that's something, I guess.

I guess that makes two podcast networks run by abusive creeps

some of the qualities that made me not like his podcast--the constant boostering for workaholism, the control freaky approach to comedy and culture consumption--is what make the story, if not unsurprising, at least within the realm of "I can see that."

xpost didn't he leave Nerdist months ago? People are quitting because he started it, I guess?

Yeah, it's the association.

Who's the other podcast-network creep?

Dustin from Feral Audio

"the"

(but you might be thinking of Nick Robinson?)

Yes I was referring to Feral Dustin.

Hardwick sold Nerdist six years ago, so anyone who resigns from it today is making an emptier gesture than hand-wringers on message boards.

Sold it in 2012, completely left it last fall.

nerd culture... is bad

it is essentially what happens when people think all the kids except charlie were treated poorly by willy wonka

Yeah, Charlie was treated pretty rotten by Willy Wonka too!

an emptier gesture than hand-wringers on message boards

new board description

Wringing hands while typing is a special skill which should be valorized imo.

nerds handling this about as well as you'd expect

lmao pic.twitter.com/T5oWddIqC8

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) June 15, 2018

ok def. couldn't help but laugh at that

Well, that sums up the last couple of years. Put it in a time capsule.

I guess I should've realized after the death of satire that irony would be next.

that would be:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/14/17463404/millie-bobby-brown-meme-twitter-deactivation

I haven't listened to Hardwick's podcast in several months, but I hope he hasn't knocked his wife up yet like they were planning so she can gtfo with her Hearst money before it's too late.

that would be:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/14/17463404/millie-bobby-brown-meme-twitter-deactivation🕸

Twitter is such an absolute cesspool.

For what it's worth, my "quell surprise" has more to do with unease with adult self-proclaimed nerd culture than it was signaling my brilliant taste at not liking the guy.

― Three Word Username

whenever i hear the words "nerd culture" i reach for my jockstrap

Shitty nerds have administered more nut punches and atomic wedgies to nerddom than generations of jocks ever did.

If you haven't been a nerd by the time you are 25, you have no heart; if you are still a nerd after 25, you also have no heart.

I'm all for discussing the toxic elements of nerd culture but lately I've also seen dudes insist that nerds are the problem in a self-distancing way that seems to ignore that men are the problem

if you all say nerd 100 times itt it turns into a reddit thread

I've also seen dudes insist that nerds are the problem in a self-distancing way that seems to ignore that men are the problem

YES. thank you.

he’s denied everything, not that that closes the book

I'm all for discussing the toxic elements of nerd culture but lately I've also seen dudes insist that nerds are the problem in a self-distancing way that seems to ignore that men are the problem

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 16 June 2018 06:50 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh...still at this eh

nerd culture = monoculture

monoculture is misogynistic therefore nerd culture is too

he’s denied everything, not that that closes the book

He specifically denies "sexually assaulting" her, but her own account describes the emotional abuse that led to her passively allowing him to use her prone body for sex whenever he chose - which he verbally mocked at the same time as taking advantage. If it were in court, this would likely be considered consensual activity.

He has not denied that he blocked her from having friends, socialising on her own terms, having independent interests, TALKING IN PUBLIC, nor that he extensively conspired to have her denied multiple employment opportunities after breaking up.

His statement also appears to confirm that he considered, and still does, a single instance of kissing another person to mark her as a scarlet-lettered harlot, unworthy of his glorious love and mighty semen.

There is a Mel article that is circulating, this part resonates

" ...yet men of his sort keep taking up arms against “social justice warriors” in order to retain the old mentality of living under siege. A nerdy woman threatens their stranglehold on the archive, as well as Hardwick’s flimsy pretext for success: being a dude who knows a fair amount of Doctor Who trivia."

this makes me feel bad, because i'm a dude who knows a fair amount of doctor who trivia but somehow never managed to conquer the podcast world

i mean it's probably the lisp but damn, people have been calling me an underachiever since bart simpson

"He has not denied that he blocked her from having friends, socialising on her own terms, having independent interests, TALKING IN PUBLIC, nor that he extensively conspired to have her denied multiple employment opportunities after breaking up."

I thought this meant he owned up to this but from the statement I read he simply didn't address it.

yes

every time I've seen or heard Hardwick deliver Dr Who trivia he gets it entirely wrong, but that's not a matter for this thread

actually wait, I just remembered an instance where it is, but I have to catch a plane

siege mentality is an aspirational lifestyle for these guys. it's a great fantasy... convince yourself that you're at war, and suddenly the exigency of war is available for you to act without thinking, and funnily enough your reflexive strategies turn out to be congruent with your desires.

you see it in MRWs, fundamentalists, anti-immigration politicians, gun nuts, preppers, police, libertarians... everywhere.

Here is the original article that quote was from. https://melmagazine.com/chris-hardwick-and-why-geek-culture-cant-shake-its-misogyny-c9eba7eb0952

besiegers who insist they're being besieged

I first assumed due to Doctor Who context that by "Mel article" you meant an op-ed by Bonnie Langford.

Nerd culture today is consumerism as religion, harassing women from Star Wars off social media, daily revelations of abuse, & VR billionaires creating tech to crush immigrants.

Meanwhile a football player protests violence against Black people & the President mocks him.

— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) June 16, 2018