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

No. I'm going to clean my house while waiting for my editor to call to go over pages and think about what to eat for lunch.

 

Horrible Bosses, a satire of male power dynamics in the professional world. What a fucking riot.

 

Well, I sure as shit didn't confuse a movie called "Horrible Bosses" with a movie called "Celebrated Bosses."

You make a dumb as dirt assertion, you should expect to be called out for it.

 

Yeah, but it's still better than twitter.

 

Way to go, analyzing the title, sport.

 

Not two pages ago, @RickStain explained that when we laugh at Roger Sterling on "Mad Men," essentially satire of loutish male behavior in the workplace, we're simply rationalizing our laughter by saying we're laughing at him.

Was that a "dumb as dirt assertion," too?

 

She engaged in sexual touching without consent. How is that not assault?

 

The title of the show is “Mad Men,” Dick, not “Funny Men.”

 

Yeah, you sure nailed this one, Ebert.

Seriously, @SnarkShark's Film Criticism could be a recurring spot, like a skit on SNL. You could take really hard-to-understand movies like Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and make sure we get the point.

Or better yet, @SnarkShark on Citizen Kane: "Man, I guess he really liked that sled."

 

That's not sexual assault?

Anyway, I'll just offer two statements:

-- Male-female dynamics just aren't the same as female-male dynamics, no matter how much some would wish that everything is exactly the same as everything else.
-- The existence of fictional depictions of sexual power dynamics does not prove or disprove anything. And, to insinuate that no one shows fictional depictions of men exhibiting questionable sexual behavior is laughable.

 

That's inarguable, and I don't think anyone here has argued otherwise. I'd hope not.

But I don't think that it matters a whit when it comes to defining what is and is not sexual assault. Certainly the law doesn't make this distinction.

 

Why do you continue to engage with us plebs after you have deemed it a waste of time? You have better, globe-critical work to do, after all.