Even The Wolf likely can't clean up Harvey Weinstein's pending troubles

Fergie Olver of Just Like Mom wins the "Creepy Game Show Host" Olympics, and I would suggest that it's not close. This is impossible to watch all the way through.

 

You'd say no, right? Because it was just copping a feel?

 

I don’t think that’s quite fair to @Dick Whitman’s arguments lo these last few (hundred) pages. Indeed, the two of you seem remarkably proximate wave-length wise here.

 

I like you. I don’t care that the feeling’s not mutual.

 

I'm saying that in the case of Sepp Blatter grabbing Hope Solo's ass, Dick decided that calling that "sexual assault" was wrong and an abdication of media responsibility. What's the difference between that and the situation with his friend? That it was a dick and not an ass? That it lasted longer? I think any unwanted sexual touching is sexual assault, the way that any violent touching, whether it's a single punch or a beatdown, is physical assault. And we distinguish the most heinous sexual assaults—rape—the way we distinguish the most brutal physical assaults—with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, and so on.

I'm pointing out that this isn't difficult, even for pedants.

 

I wouldn’t put that my friend was sexually assaulted in a news story and certainly not a headline, unless I were attributing it to a criminal or civil complaint, or directly quoting him. Or explaining what happened and adding, then, why it might be defined as a sexual assault.

I’m not being pedantic. I think the specific terms utilized are very important here.

 

And I don’t understand why Sepp Blatter committed sexual assault, in news headlines, but Ben Affleck did not.

 

You wouldn't. That doesn't mean you're correct. Your friend didn't move away, which would complicate things in a court of law, I'm sure, but the initial act—an unsolicited and non-consensual touching of someone's genitals—is pretty clearly sexual assault. I don't see how you can argue otherwise. Although I'm sure you'll find a way.

 

No. I think it was. We didn’t that way then.

 

So Hope Solo's case isn't because...

 

I didn’t argue that it wasn’t.

 

Dude ... he very clearly said the previous page that it was sexual assault. That he’s not willing to stick his byline on a straight news story that says it’s sexual assault doesn’t mean what you’re implying.