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

The Twitter Victory Tour can be a bad look.

 

Why do you support campus rape?

 

Who could have possibly disagreed in the 1950s that the anti-communism cause was not a righteous one, right?

 

One industry that has been relatively quiet in the aftermath of Weinstein has been the music industry. I'm a little surprised we haven't yet seen a spate of accusations against musicians and/or record producers, particularly by women who may have been minors.

Part of my surprise stems from knowing two women who made claims of harassment and assault against bands to friends when they were 15 (one might have been 16, I'm not sure). One said a band that had a couple of No. 1 hits came out to meet the fans after a show. The singer said hi to her, asked "do you fuck?" and moved on to other teenage girls when she said no. The other said she and her two friends were invited backstage at a show and when they walked in the lead singer was already naked and hard. She said he walked up to her, took her hand, placed it on his dick, told her that her mouth was going to be there next and her friends could join. Her friend screamed, security knocked and the girls got out.

I have no idea if the claims were true, but I thought of them the other day and wondered how many other girls might have similar stories. It's easy to see how - much like in film - teenagers are particularly susceptible in the music industry, whether as performers or just fans.

 

If that's out there, it's actually a little surprising that the floodgates didn't open at the time of the Ke$ha litigation.

I was trying to think who I would be particularly disappointed to see hit with these kind of allegations. Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder came to mind.

 

It's one of those "open secrets" that the '80s hair metal scene was like Sodom and Gomorrah. As I'm sure most eras of music were.

 

I don't know Crystal Castles from Adam, but this story came across my Twitter feed last week. I post it mostly because it sounds BONKERS.

Alice Glass Accuses Crystal Castles Co-Founder Ethan Kath of Rape and Assault; Kath Responds | Pitchfork

 

I'd welcome this breaking wide open:

 

When exactly did the dementia set in?

Bush, then 79 years old, groped her buttocks at a November 2003 event in The Woodlands, Texas, office of the Central Intelligence Agency where Corrigan’s father gathered with fellow intelligence officers and family members to meet Bush, Corrigan said. Corrigan is the sixth woman since Oct. 24 to accuse Bush publicly of grabbing her buttocks without consent.

‘I Was a Child.’ Woman Says George H.W. Bush Groped Her When She Was 16

 

tl;dr Groupies Recall Backstage Scene

I mean ... I don’t think anyone needs to come out with any allegations here. There’s nobody who thinks this wasn’t happening.

 

C'mon man, I did a better job keeping up from Paris than you did from Missouri.

 

Ugh. Fail by me.

Sheesh, someone needs to start a subscription service that boils down big threads in 10-page increments.