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

Perhaps the most shocking detail...he was CAST in a movie.

 

I wonder who, besides FOX News, @Azrael thinks should have a disclaimer run with their coverage of this issue.

Looks like we can add the Times and NPR to the list.

NPR is investigating allegations by two women who said the head of its news department made unwanted physical contact with them while he was employed by another news organization nearly two decades ago.

The women, both journalists at the time of the alleged incidents, made the accusations in recent weeks against Michael Oreskes, senior vice president of news and editorial director at the Washington-based public broadcasting organization.

In separate complaints, the women said Oreskes — at the time, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times — abruptly kissed them while they were speaking with him about working at the newspaper. Both of them told similar stories: After meeting Oreskes and discussing their job prospects, they said he unexpectedly kissed them on the lips and stuck his tongue in their mouths.

 

If nothing else, I think the #metoo movement will make some men realize how awful other men behave, and will maybe be more inclined to say something or step in when a woman is experiencing threatening behavior.

I was talking to a woman this weekend who said she once fell asleep on a bus and woke up to a man licking her hand. With a bus full of fellow passengers. Like, what in the living fuck?

I'm all for punching Nazis and non-consensual hand lickers.

 

Although the perps always seem to be men, this happens to women AND men who use public transportation.

 

The stories that get me are how much the men who don't do awful things will carry water for the men who do.

A friend told me she was groped by a man at a party, and all her mutual friends said that he just gets that way when he drinks and she should let it slide.

 

LA Times has six women on the record accusing director Bret Ratner of doing awful shit, Olivia Munn being the biggest name (Ratner is named as the director she wrote about in her book who jerked off while eating shrimp cocktail in front of her in his trailer), but also Natasha Henstridge.

Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct

 

Also, Jeremy Piven:

Jeremy Piven accused of sexual assault by actress Ariane Bellamar

 

A gem from his Wikipedia entry:

On August 4, 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Ratner would produce the 84th Academy Awards with Don Mischer. However, Ratner resigned on November 8, 2011 after remarking that "rehearsal is for fags."

 

Wait, that's wrong? Oh, shit, that was my go-to move when I was single.