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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Double Down, Oct 5, 2017.

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  1. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    This is basically what Weinstein did. But it’s funny! Best scene ever!

     
  2. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    This is a wide-ranging discussion about sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct and how it is understood, discussed, and characterized in the media. We are capable of exploring multiple threads. In fact, it seems essential.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

     
  4. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    I didn't see horrible bosses but I feel pretty comfortable assuming it isn't good.
     
  5. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Yesterday in church this woman behind us decided that when the choir was singing was a good time to chat up her pew neighbor. She did it several times. Had at some point I stuck my right shoe up her ass, would that have been sexual assault or just assault? Or a sacrament?
     
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    We have talked about this. It is not assault when a woman violates a man. That is particularly the case if you "know her a little" and "she was drunk."

     
  7. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    The reverse relationship, an almost naked male boss propositioning a female worker—the scene would never be made, because it’s not socially acceptable and hawt. It’s gross.
     
  8. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Conceded. But without examples of cases going under reported where the initiator was not male, there isn't a whole lot to go on here.

    The best I can do is relate the story of a friend of a friend who has carved out a minor side gig playing generic mooks in superhero stuff. He says that women in positions of power over him are rare, but when they occur they tend to have the same caste structure and sexual expectations as men, but more likely to take no for an answer.
     
  9. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Men bawdily and forcefully propositioning women being played for laughs isn't a thing? It's everywhere.
     
  10. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Hilarious!

     
  11. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Feel free to provide examples.
     
  12. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    How I Met Your Mother became a network staple and made Neil Patrick Harris a breakout re-star entirely on a character who was only slightly less consistently awful than the other male characters.

    Your exact scenario is more or less the plot synopsis of Mad Men
     
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