High-Profile Sexual Abuse Epidemic

[ricosuave]

Matt Lauer...

https://etcanada.com/news/275712/mat...ent-complaint/

[troutman]

Garrison Keillor Accused Of 'Inappropriate Behavior,' Minnesota Public Radio Says

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...m_content=2057

Garrison Keillor, the creator and former host of A Prairie Home Companion, has been accused of inappropriate behavior with someone who worked with him, according to Minnesota Public Radio, which has announced it is cutting ties with Keillor and his production company.

[longsuffering]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Just keep ignoring the stats in order to continue with your own narrative, eh?



Seriously, that's a defense now? "Well gee, you know I don't think about the gay much but when I do, I kind of thing they should be eradicated."



And again, as pointed out by several posters now, Canada continues to progress to a point where less and less people believe these things, whereas Russia is heading in the opposite direction, but please, enlighten us with more of your compelling anecdotal evidence and false equivalencies.

Saying that it's not fair or right to paint 146 million people with one brush is now a narrative?

I'm done with you. The last thing I'll say is that your irrational hatred towards Russians is much worse than their lack of acceptance of the LGBT community.

Your roots wouldn't happen to be in one of the Baltic countries would they?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by longsuffering

The last thing I'll say is that your irrational hatred towards Russians is much worse than their lack of acceptance of the LGBT community.

This is a fairly insane statement, it seems to me, in light of the fact that Rubecube's "irrational hatred towards Russians" (even if his attitude can be fairly characterized that way) isn't likely to result in anyone's untimely death.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...gays-chechnya/

[PsYcNeT]

No no you see, both Rubecube hating on Russia and Russians ostracizing, oppressing, and killing LGBTQ are equally bad.

Truly, both sides are at fault.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by longsuffering

I'm done with you. The last thing I'll say is that your irrational hatred towards Russians is much worse than their lack of acceptance of the LGBT community.

So you think hating someone because of what they choose to believe, the words they choose to say, and the actions they choose to take, is worse than hating someone because they find different people than you attractive?

Got it.

Fun fact, I found out today that I am worse than lynch mobs and nazis.
Gee, wasn't expecting that.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

No no you see, both Rubecube hating on Russia and Russians ostracizing, oppressing, and killing LGBTQ are equally bad.

Truly, both sides are at fault.

In light of the discussion last week that was going on in the FOI forum on moderation and the issues that arise in these political threads, if anyone was looking for a good example of a sarcastic pile-on style post that adds absolutely nothing at all to what was previously said, well, exhibit A.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

In light of the discussion last week that was going on in the FOI forum on moderation and the issues that arise in these political threads, if anyone was looking for a good example of a sarcastic pile-on style post that adds absolutely nothing at all to what was previously said, well, exhibit A.

Psycnet's custom user title should be "Exhibit A", just to remind us of this.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

No no you see, both Rubecube hating on Russia and Russians ostracizing, oppressing, and killing LGBTQ are equally bad.

Truly, both sides are at fault.

Some of you seem to be enjoying this just a little too much.

"The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks."

Its kind of creepy.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I know he's not Russian and has nothing to do with Russia but this is kind of big news as he's been a staple of a successful morning show for decades. Sounds like this had been under investigation for a while so he must have done something that crossed the line to the point where immediate termination was necessary.

It's almost like this is what we should be discussing here and not the leftist racist attitudes towards Russians.

This is a pretty big name to drop.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

Wow...Matt Lauer is gone...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/2...00.Uau3J-D8H6E

Originally Posted by ricosuave

Matt Lauer...

https://etcanada.com/news/275712/mat...ent-complaint/

I'm glad he's gone. I'm very sad for the person or persons he hurt, that got us to this point that he's gone, but I'm glad he's gone. There have long been accusations about him regarding turd stain bullying behavior and in discussion with friends about him, many of us figured there was a good likelihood he would harass women too, if not outright assault them.


There was a post about Lena Dunham earlier in this thread. Ran across this today, reading a post about Keillor's firing, on FB. She needs to be as gone as Weinstein, Lauer, all of them.

Link

Lena Dunham may be the first person to fabricate details of her alleged rape, then proclaim all women’s claims need to be believed, and then publicly accuse a young woman of lying about having been raped.
Finally, the star and creator of “Girls” has been exposed as the empty vessel she is.

“Girls” was never the smart, generational criticism Dunham always claimed; really, it was just a smuttier, younger “Sex and the City.” Nor is there as much daylight between Dunham and her shallow, entitled character Hannah Horvath as she’d have us believe. “I think I might be the voice of a generation,” Hannah tells her parents in the first episode. “Or at least a voice of a generation.”

It was supposed to be a joke, but all too quickly Dunham embraced this notion herself, no doubt emboldened by the real estate afforded her in New York Magazine, the New Yorker and the New York Times. So what if she was a 25-year-old with no real life experience? What she had to say clearly mattered.

Until, that is, Nov. 17, when Dunham and colleague Jenni Konner came to the defense of Murray Miller, a writer on “Girls” accused of rape. A police report had been filed. Yet here came a statement no one asked for, brimming with smug superiority. “While our first instinct is to listen to every woman’s story,” they wrote in part, “our insider knowledge of Murray’s situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year.”

This is just one of the many problems with Dunham: She speaks, usually unbidden, with complete moral and philosophical authority — until she’s called out online, at which point she furiously and pathetically backpedals. She’s a total hypocrite who claims we’re the ones who have issues with her body and slovenly dress, yet she strains to appear sexy and glamorous on the red carpet. She wants desperately to be liked while claiming she doesn’t care if we like her. She’s a narcissist who possesses no intellectual rigor, no belief system, no relationship with the truth.

“I’m an unreliable narrator,” she wrote in her 2014 memoir “Not That Kind of Girl.”

So begins a chapter called “Barry,” named for the student she claimed raped her as a college student at Oberlin. Barry, Dunham wrote, was an unstylish white Republican (of course) who had a mustache, wore cowboy boots and hosted a radio show. A girl he’d once had sex with, Dunham wrote, said Barry left her bedroom spattered “like a crime scene” in blood. Dunham wrote that she had “a few versions” of the story in her mind, but other people — including, curiously, a “Girls” writer named Murray — helped her see she’d been raped.

The only problem with this story? Just one guy in Dunham’s timeframe, on her campus, fit this description. His name was Barry. He’d never raped her. Whether Dunham knew or cared about the damage she’d done — falsely accusing a man the media quickly identified, giving unfair leverage to those who would (ahem) doubt future victims’ stories — became, typically, less important than her experience of the whole media maelstrom. “[I] had hoped beyond hope that the sensitive nature of the event” — meaning her ostensible rape — “would be honored, and that no one would attempt to reopen these wounds or deepen my trauma,” Dunham wrote. Instead, “I have had my character and credibility questioned at every turn.”

How ironic.

In this #metoo moment, Dunham’s social and political tone-deafness only underscores how out of touch she is: A product of wealthy artist parents, a downtown New York upbringing, a homogeneous world of rich white friends insulated from life’s hardships, Dunham was ushered into Hollywood via nepotism in her early 20s. She is everything Middle America resents about coastal elites, rightfully so. She’s not nearly as smart as she thinks. She doesn’t know what feminism means.

This is a woman who said she’d never had an abortion, “but I wish I had.” In her memoir, she wrote about obsessing over her baby sister Grace to an alarming degree. “Basically,” Dunham wrote, “anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.” She wrote of masturbating in bed next to Grace and that she’d once pulled apart Grace’s legs to find pebbles up her toddler sister’s vagina.

She posed pantsless for well-known sexual predator Terry Richardson. She accused Odell Beckham Jr. of horrible thoughts because he didn’t talk to her at last year’s Met Gala. “It was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, ‘That’s a marshmallow. That’s a child. That’s a dog.’ ”

Lastly, and perhaps most damning of all, she gave away her rescue dog when he became, she said, too much. Lena Dunham has had innumerable chances, but time and again only proves her horribleness.

Not just the men, clearly. Lena Dunham, take your leave.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

It's almost like this is what we should be discussing here and not the leftist racist attitudes towards Russians.

This is a pretty big name to drop.

Okay, I'll bite. First, Russian isn't a race. Second, how is pointing out the statistically-verified, commonly held beliefs of a society racist exactly? I've never said "I hate all Russian." I said their culture and society was garbage and I was specifically referring to the dominant culture in 21st century Russia. Exactly none of that pertains to race.

[northcrunk]

Lena Dunham is messed up. To do what she did to her little sister takes a special kind of psyco.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Okay, I'll bite. First, Russian isn't a race. Second, how is pointing out the statistically-verified, commonly held beliefs of a society racist exactly? I've never said "I hate all Russian." I said their culture and society was garbage and I was specifically referring to the dominant culture in 21st century Russia. Exactly none of that pertains to race.

I'm a 1/4 Russian. Why do you hate me for something I am not in control of. Try replacing Russian with Muslim and see how you sound.

[rubecube]

MOD EDIT: No insults please.

[tjinaz]

Originally Posted by rubecube

MOD edited post

he is just asking how broad your brush truly is.

[Hart50]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Okay, I'll bite. First, Russian isn't a race. Second, how is pointing out the statistically-verified, commonly held beliefs of a society racist exactly? I've never said "I hate all Russian." I said their culture and society was garbage and I was specifically referring to the dominant culture in 21st century Russia. Exactly none of that pertains to race.

Wow, aren’t we being pedantic today. How about instead of calling you a racist we’ll call you a bigot?

[northcrunk]

MOD EDIT: Removed insults.

[nik-]

Two observations I've made

1. Netflix made a big show about pushing out Kevin Spacey for his actions and they're currently seeing no issue with running a documentary about a guy who beat the hell out of his girlfriend in Chris Brown. It's a pretty ####ty hypocrisy on their part.

2. Russian society sucks.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by longsuffering

Saying that it's not fair or right to paint 146 million people with one brush is now a narrative?

I'm done with you. The last thing I'll say is that your irrational hatred towards Russians is much worse than their lack of acceptance of the LGBT community.

Your roots wouldn't happen to be in one of the Baltic countries would they?

Does CP have a "post of the year" award?

I want to nominate this one.

But ironically.