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Guy A. Person
May 23, 2003

Based on these quotes:

quote:

to trust a boss when he complimented me and not cringe when he asked for my number

quote:

Otherwise you’re falling into the Mike Pence School of Gender Relations that says men can’t be trusted with women’s phone numbers.

it does sound like there was some telephone based harassment. And the Pence allusion makes me think that it wasn't just calling to berate/bother her with requests about the show.

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Kuiperdolin
Sep 5, 2011

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

She raped his family on the beach.

Steve Vader
Apr 29, 2005

Everyone's Playing!

Klungar posted:

https://twitter.com/meganganz/status/919957356624076800

Based on the above tweet thread of her's, it seems that Harmon had a thing for her and sent her inappropriate/harassing messages on her phone and kept trying to work one-on-one with her at his house despite her objections, going as far to say "Relax, Ganz. I'm not gonna rape you."

Yeesh, I didn't see that one.

How bad do we need that movie, then?

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Who’s HW

Guy A. Person
May 23, 2003

I'm guessing George Herbert Walker Bush

Arist
Feb 13, 2012

who, me?



Harvey Weinstein, almost certainly

Guy A. Person
May 23, 2003

Arist posted:

Harvey Weinstein, almost certainly

Oh yeah whoops

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
I remember Ganz tweeting something about the working conditions in the Community writer's room after season 2 ended and while she played the "Harmon is an insane boss!" off for laughs then, it already hinted that he was pretty awful.

thebardyspoon
Jun 30, 2005
He's been well known to be really hard to work with for years hasn't he? I remember hearing about bullying/screaming/weird outbursts and suchlike when I first got into Community, back around season 4. Not a stretch to picture him awkwardly asking someone on staff out, being shot down and then his toxicity becoming even worse.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

thebardyspoon posted:

He's been well known to be really hard to work with for years hasn't he? I remember hearing about bullying/screaming/weird outbursts and suchlike when I first got into Community, back around season 4. Not a stretch to picture him awkwardly asking someone on staff out, being shot down and then his toxicity becoming even worse.

Harmon himself has casually recalled that in the early days of Community he would show up to the writers room in a bathrobe and greet them with "'sup faggots?"

esperterra
Mar 24, 2010

SHINee's back




Even back on the DVD commentaries for Community, all the jokes about him being a drunk rear end in a top hat boss I took 100% seriously tbh.

Steve Vader
Apr 29, 2005

Everyone's Playing!

Dreylad posted:

I remember Ganz tweeting something about the working conditions in the Community writer's room after season 2 ended and while she played the "Harmon is an insane boss!" off for laughs then, it already hinted that he was pretty awful.

Yeah, I remember her saying something about feeling shell shocked all the time and crying in her shower, but I'd taken it to mean that he was slave-drivey and hypercritical and less that he was being creep-sleaze. Now it's both!

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
I hope Harmontown is back on this weekend. :pray:

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

Steve Vader posted:

Yeah, I remember her saying something about feeling shell shocked all the time and crying in her shower, but I'd taken it to mean that he was slave-drivey and hypercritical and less that he was being creep-sleaze. Now it's both!

There were a few behind the scenes clips for season 1 that I don't know if they made it into the DVD's. One of which was Harmon calling Ganz into his office for some script rework and when she walks in he slams the script out of her hands, screams in her face, and then starts laughing hysterically.

He seems to have reflected on, and improved his behavior, but Community Dan Harmon was the epitome of the guy that doesn't get that bullying people "ironically" still involves you being a poo poo head.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

He seems to have reflected on, and improved his behavior, but Community Dan Harmon was the epitome of the guy that doesn't get that bullying people "ironically" still involves you being a poo poo head.

That's a great way of putting it. You're still making someone the butt of your joke, it's just a slightly different punchline. "haha can you imagine if I was SERIOUSLY making this a toxic work environment and not doing it as a joke?"

KVeezy3
Aug 18, 2005

Airport Music for Black Folk
The episode that was the biggest indicator of Harmon's weird thoughts about relationships with women was the Blade episode. The way he depicted Britta's psychology with Blade vs. Troy was bizarre and served to engage in male fantasy. Which was a shame, because I thought the Vaughn and Britta/Annie relationships were depicted pretty well for a comedic sitcom.

KVeezy3 fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jan 7, 2018

Sefer
Sep 2, 2006
Not supposed to be here today

thebardyspoon posted:

He's been well known to be really hard to work with for years hasn't he?

What immediately comes to mind is that bit from the Harmontown documentary where Sarah Silverman says she's his biggest fan and still fired him.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
So Dan talked about what he did to Megan Ganz on his podcast

https://twitter.com/meganganz/status/951373399929978881
https://twitter.com/meganganz/status/951373403625177088
https://twitter.com/meganganz/status/951373406141743105

http://www.harmontown.com/2018/01/episode-dont-let-him-wipe-or-flush/

I thought it was interesting he said he destroyed the show, so we finally know the real reason he got booted. Knowing all that, I wonder why the gently caress they brought him back.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Wow, that’s really good of her.

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Escobarbarian posted:

Wow, that’s really good of her.

Listening to Dan's apology/confession is pretty rough (he gets close to crying at least once), but I'm glad she likes it. Makes me believe things can work out okay sometimes. :unsmith:

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
I was ready to take it with a pinch of salt because he’s always been good at being self-effacing without learning from his mistakes but nah that’s a damned good confession.

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

Is there a transcript of it somewhere

ElCondemn
Aug 7, 2005


Escobarbarian posted:

I was ready to take it with a pinch of salt because he’s always been good at being self-effacing without learning from his mistakes but nah that’s a damned good confession.

I think people like him do a lot of “not thinking about it”, so while he may be remorseful and mean it I think he’s likely to do something like this again. I enjoy Dan but he’s a pretty flawed guy. I don’t think people should be congratulating him for what he did, but they should take his advice and look at themselves critically and think about what they’re doing.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Vegetable posted:

Is there a transcript of it somewhere

https://www.spin.com/2018/01/dan-harmon-sexually-harassment-community-writer-megan-ganz-podcast/

quote:

“I was attracted to an employee. I really want to be really careful about that language because a huge part of the problem is a culture of feeling things that you think are unique and significant because they are happening to you and saying things like ‘I had feelings for’ and ‘I fell for’ and all these things. The most clinical way I can put it in fessing up to my crimes is that I was attracted to a writer I had power over because I was a show runner and I knew enough to know that these feelings were bad news.

That was easy enough to know. I knew that they ran the risk of undercutting people’s faith in my judgement, her faith in her talent, the other writers’ respect for me, the entire production, the audience. I knew I wasn’t doing anybody any favors by feeling these things and so I did the cowardly, easiest, laziest thing you can do with feelings like that and didn’t deal with them and in not dealing with them I made everybody else deal with them, especially her. Flirty, creepy, everything other than overt enough to constitute betraying your live-in girlfriend who you’re going home to every night, who is actually smart enough and respectful enough to ask you ‘do you have feelings for that young writer that you’re talking about, that you’re paying all this attention to?’ and saying to her ‘no,’ because the trick is if you lie to yourself, you can lie to everybody. It’s really easy.

And so that’s what I continued to do telling myself and anybody that threatened to confront me with it that if you thought what I was doing was creepy or sexist or unprofessional it was because you were the sexist or jealous. I was supporting this person, I’m a mentor, I’m a feminist, it’s your problem, not mine. You’re the one who actually is seeing things through that lens.

And so I let myself keep doing it and it’s not as if this person didn’t repeatedly communicate to me the idea that what I was doing was divesting her of a recourse to integrity. I just didn’t hear it because it didn’t profit me to hear it, and this was, after all, happening to me, right? After a season of playing it that way, I broke up with my girlfriend, who I had lied to the whole time, while lying to myself. Lied to her about why I was breaking up with her, because I thought that would make having inappropriate feelings for a co-worker appropriate if I wasn’t involved.

I want you to be the one to examine this and every step of the way decide for yourself where I’m making mistakes. I don’t want to explain to you what I’ve learned. I want you to look at this and I want it to sound relatively unremarkable to you, because that’s the danger. I broke up with my girlfriend and then I went right full steam into creeping on my employee. Now it was even less appropriate, after all. Now I wasn’t in danger of being a bad person. After that season, I got overt about my feelings after it wrapped. I said ‘I love you,’ and she said the same thing she had been saying the entire time, in one language or another, ‘Please, don’t you understand that focusing on me like this, preferring me like this, liking me like this, I can’t say no to it and when you do it, it makes me unable to know whether I’m good at my job.'”

And because I finally got to the point where I said to her ‘I love you’ because that’s what I thought it was, when you target somebody for two years. And it was therefore rejected that way, I was humiliated. So, I continued to do the cowardly thing. I continued to do the selfish thing. Now I wanted to teach her a lesson. I wanted to show her that if she didn’t like being liked in that way then, oh boy, she should get over herself. After all, if you’re just going to be a writer then this is how ‘just writers’ get treated. And that was probably the darkest of it all. I’m going to assume when she tweets about it and refers to ‘trauma’ that’s probably it. I drank. I took pills. I crushed on her and resented her for not reciprocating it and the entire time I was the one writing her paychecks and in control of whether she stayed or went and whether she felt good about herself or not, and said horrible things. Just treated her cruelly, pointedly, things I would never, ever would have done if she had been male and if I had never had those feelings for her.

And I lied to myself the entire time about it. And I lost my job. I ruined my show. I betrayed the audience. I destroyed everything. And I damaged her internal compass. And I moved on. I’ve never done it before and I will never do it again, but I certainly wouldn’t have been able to do it if I had any respect for women. On a fundamental level, I was thinking about them as different creatures. I was thinking about the ones that I liked as having some special role in my life and I did it all by not thinking about it. So, I just want to say, in addition to obviously being sorry, but that’s really not the important thing, I want to say I did it by not thinking about it and I got away with it by not thinking about it. And if she hadn’t mentioned something on Twitter, I would have continued to not have to not think about it, although I did walk around with my stomach in knots about it, but I wouldn’t have had to talk about it.

The last and most important thing I can say is just think about it. No matter who you are at work, no matter where you work, in what field you’re in, no matter what position you have over, under, or side by side with somebody, just think about it. Because if you don’t think about it, you’re going to get away with not thinking about it and you can cause a lot of damage that is technically legal and hurts everybody.

And I think we’re living in a good time right now because we’re not gonna to get away with it anymore. If we can make it part of our culture that we think about it and possibly talk about it, then maybe we can get to a better place where that stuff doesn’t happen.

So that’s it. Please don’t hurt her. Please don’t make this worse on anybody but me.

DivisionPost
Jun 28, 2006

Nobody likes you.
Everybody hates you.
You're gonna lose.

Smile, you fuck.

PostNouveau posted:

I thought it was interesting he said he destroyed the show, so we finally know the real reason he got booted. Knowing all that, I wonder why the gently caress they brought him back.

Easy: Megan Ganz left.

hosed up when you think about it, but there you go.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

DivisionPost posted:

Easy: Megan Ganz left.

hosed up when you think about it, but there you go.

Also because Joel McHale and other cast members demanded he be brought back and threatened to walk if they didn't, which is also pretty hosed if they were aware of all this.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Yeah this doesn’t make McHale look great

The timeline on his story is a little off because they only worked together for two years, but hey, dude was drunk 24/7, not surprised he wasn’t able to keep track of time

Klungar
Feb 12, 2008

Klungo make bessst ever video game, 'Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh World.'

Escobarbarian posted:

Yeah this doesn’t make McHale look great

The timeline on his story is a little off because they only worked together for two years, but hey, dude was drunk 24/7, not surprised he wasn’t able to keep track of time

How so? He mentioned his behavior over two seasons, presumably 2 and 3.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
He specifies that they had been working together for two years before he admitted his feelings and then began being resentful, which doesn’t really add up. Maybe he just meant “a year” because you can definitely see it in certain moments of Ganz’s s3 scripts aka Script Supervisor Annie

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Escobarbarian posted:

The timeline on his story is a little off because they only worked together for two years, but hey, dude was drunk 24/7, not surprised he wasn’t able to keep track of time

Huh?

Escobarbarian posted:

He specifies that they had been working together for two years before he admitted his feelings and then began being resentful, which doesn’t really add up. Maybe he just meant “a year” because you can definitely see it in certain moments of Ganz’s s3 scripts aka Script Supervisor Annie
????

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
I'm not sure I buy the idea that this is why he was fired.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

There’s literally a transcript you can read on this page

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!

prefect posted:

I'm not sure I buy the idea that this is why he was fired.

Well, it could be that some executives at either NBC or Sony knew about this, but then the Chevy voicemail thing happened and they saw it as "let's use this as our out before this draws any further attention to that toxic work environment and the story goes from being about two crotchety old men yelling at each other to being about one of our showrunners harassing one of his writers."

In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.

prefect posted:

I'm not sure I buy the idea that this is why he was fired.

Yeah, him harassing Ganz is terrible but I don't think Sony would drop him for that (sad as that is to say). It seems far more likely the reasons are still what they were at the time he was fired: the show was struggling for ratings, it ran into frequent productions delays because Harmon couldn't produce scripts in time, and he was having a high-profile spat with Chevy. Although the latter reason would provide a convenient smokescreen to cover up his harassment of one of the writing staff.

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Well, it could be that some executives at either NBC or Sony knew about this, but then the Chevy voicemail thing happened and they saw it as "let's use this as our out before this draws any further attention to that toxic work environment and the story goes from being about two crotchety old men yelling at each other to being about one of our showrunners harassing one of his writers."

I doubt people in Hollywood cared back then.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Escobarbarian posted:

There’s literally a transcript you can read on this page

Oh no, I listened to the podcast, I still don't understand what you're talking about

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

Last Chance posted:

Oh no, I listened to the podcast, I still don't understand what you're talking about

quote:

And because I finally got to the point where I said to her ‘I love you’ because that’s what I thought it was, when you target somebody for two years. And it was therefore rejected that way, I was humiliated. So, I continued to do the cowardly thing. I continued to do the selfish thing.

Sorry but I honestly don’t understand which part of what I said is confusing. He clearly states they were working together for two years before he told her he loved her, even though they only worked together for that period of time in total.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Escobarbarian posted:

Sorry but I honestly don’t understand which part of what I said is confusing. He clearly states they were working together for two years before he told her he loved her, even though they only worked together for that period of time in total.

Ok I understand now. It's been a long day, sorry. Yeah, it's before the transcript starts but Harmon does throw around the wrong dates (he says 2009 at some point) and he clearly doesn't know 100% of the timeline himself, so you're right.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
Alright, Joel McHale has a Netflix show now that's basically just The Soup.

So they've got McHale, Brie and Rash on the payroll now.

Do the movie, Netflix. It'll cost 1/20th of what Bright cost.

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brocked
Oct 25, 2005

All shall love me and despair!
They all appear in the first episode, too

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