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

Exception to every rule.

 

Excellent point.

 

Ansari is going to get laid like a bandit.

Every star fucker on the planet now knows the conditions that come with accepting a date with him. He’ll have no more wasted dates.

From now on, he just needs to buy a bottle of wine, Rush through dinner, and get them back to his place for some sex.

What a deal. Every dater comes pre-qualified.

 

And, he knows to buy red.

 

Colorado Indecent Exposure Laws

 

Hollywood is definitely going to care less if the people you treat poorly are random star fuckers vs. other members of the entertainment community.

If Grace was an actress, extra, or production assistant on his show, and was not anonymous, the reaction to Ansari might be different.

 

I think this is true, but it might not be. Right now, he mostly makes his own shit. But if I were a casting director, I'd have to think pretty hard about casting him right now. Because if the audience doesn't want to see him anymore, it would be a mistake to put him in your show or movie. And if people don't cast him for that reason, they are effectively saying "your behaviour means you can't work anymore."

 

I have no way to prove this, of course, but I am willing to at least wager/hypothesize that most sexual assault accusations mirror the Grace-Ansari events more than they mirror what we typically think of as sexual assault. What if Grace had left out the tick-tock and instead just asserted that she had been sexually assaulted by Aziz Ansari? The reaction isn't nearly as sympathetic toward him and dismissive toward her, right? We'd believe her, right?

 

- Much of the reaction to Anzari is similar to Lena Dunham. Believe and condemn everyone, but when it's someone you know and like, or feel like you know and like, it's complex.

- Weinstein's endorsement of a gun free world is awfully self-interested. If any of these women had been armed he might be dead.

 

If Grace was not anonymous, period, the reaction might be different. Grace is just a cipher right now. It's easy to attack a cipher. This is someone we like vs. a phantom. We can graft whatever traits we need to onto Grace.

 

You're right about this, once the women in the lede came out the next day and said it was non-consensual. That was not clear from the initial NY Times story, is what I meant.

 

There's also a degree to which men have been (subconsciously) waiting for a case they could plant a flag and say "*This* is too far. It goes here and no further." Privilege perpetuating itself and being uncomfortable with losing too much control over norms.