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Hey guys, I just wanted to post the following article (even though it's a couple weeks old) about the MIT professor who was defending Epstein Students Are Demanding MIT Fire a Professor Who Visited Epstein in Prison https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne8yvk/students-are-demanding-mit-fire-a-professor-who-visited-epstein-in-prison A personal note about this particular article: my younger sister was among the few students at MIT who dropped his class because of the way he chose to handle this issue with his students, and she ended up writing an op-ed in MIT's student newspaper. This article quotes her extensively, both from the op-ed and in other comments. I gotta say, I was pretty drat surprised and shocked when I read it - my sister and I haven't talked much lately (not out of dislike, we just both have fairly busy lives and live in different places and have a 13-year age gap) so I was very shocked and surprised to see this article! I actually checked to make sure it hadn't been posted by someone else. I really can't quite say just quite how much pride I felt (and still feel) at what she did in terms of speaking out. The fact that she was the only single student or teacher in the entire goddamn university who stood up in the first place and actually said publicly, "Hey, this really is not cool, and here's why it's not cool." It's just seriously brave to do that, and she's smart enough to understand why most people (victims of sexual assault especially) would be unable or unwilling to stand up like that. Not to mention having the confidence to do it in the first place, and articulate her point at all. But really - I don't think I could possibly feel any more proud of her at all, even if I'm just her older brother.
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British directors has created 96 guidelines for filming sex scenes: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/21/rules-for-screen-sex-scenes-issued-to-british-directors
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Nov 24, 2019 16:43
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Hopefully they recommend not randomly cutting to the guy's face during the scene. Always awkward.
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Nov 24, 2019 17:37
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-Blackadder- posted:And looks. Too much power concentrated in too few hands, combined with too little accountability. IMO Hollywood bosses verbally abusing and treating their subordinates like garbage is unsurprising and both it and the sex abuse are fruits of that same tree.
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Sucrose posted:Too much power concentrated in too few hands, combined with too little accountability. IMO Hollywood bosses verbally abusing and treating their subordinates like garbage is unsurprising and both it and the sex abuse are fruits of that same tree. This is also a school thing. Acting coaches and teachers can be huge dicks because everyone wants to be an actor.
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Nov 25, 2019 07:03
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If only we could have realised the casting couch stuff was rape earlier, luckily there's definitely nobody doing it any more.
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twerking on the railroad posted:This is also a school thing. Acting coaches and teachers can be huge dicks because everyone wants to be an actor. see: james franco
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-Blackadder- posted:Anyone who's spent any time working in Hollywood can tell you that movies like Swimming with Sharks might as well be documentaries. surprised I haven't heard of this one
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kaworu posted:Hey guys, I just wanted to post the following article (even though it's a couple weeks old) about the MIT professor who was defending Epstein Thanks for sharing that! Lots of respect to your sister for speaking out the way she has.
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-Blackadder- posted:And looks. It's rife throughout show biz of all kinds (especially the music industry) and even most of the arts. Pretty much any industry which separates the 'talents' from the 'bean counters' and has a system where starry-eyed up-and-coming hopefuls have to impress financial gatekeepers in order to get their foot in the door will always have powerful people behind the scenes being absolute monsters and abusing the hell out of everyone they can.
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kaworu posted:Hey guys, I just wanted to post the following article (even though it's a couple weeks old) about the MIT professor who was defending Epstein Good for your sister, be sure to let them know how proud you are of them.
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https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1200488111224098816?s=19 Losing 1 year if income and the systemic elimination of all yourself and all your family are basically the same thing.
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Skwirl posted:https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1200488111224098816?s=19 Eh there’s another line to the joke that makes it obvious he’s mocking that kind of self pity More generally, however, I don’t care what Louis CK is doing. He’s getting a lot of publicity by making jokes that piss off people who want him deplatformed or w/e so this is basically his plan
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Nov 30, 2019 00:07
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“Got your snowflakes right here snowflake” *jacks off*
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Soon Louis ck’s act will be like Gallagher’s in that you need a plastic sheet to protect yourself I. The front rows and also it’s done by a chudbrained old dad
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Once again, the trend of going to a “cancelled” comedian’s show and writing down their jokes and then reporting on their jokes as though they are not jokes is dumbest and most dishonest form of comedy journalism possible and is a plot from the ground up to generate as many clicks and views as possible. Louis C.K. Has literally always done horrible, crass, vulgar comedy. You’re not catching him debasing himself to appeal to a more right wing audience or whatever the gently caress you’re insinuating, it’s just embarrassing. Or as female POC comedian Rae Sanni of Black Lady Sketch Show puts it https://twitter.com/raesanni/status/1200613170865262596?s=21 Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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Nov 30, 2019 13:25
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Louis CK committed a crime. If you go to his shows write it all down and post it. He deserves it.
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Why are half of the posts in this thread about a single stand up comedian who doesn't even work in Hollywood 
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Why are half of the posts in this thread about a single stand up comedian who doesn't even work in Hollywood He just finished writing a directing a movie, he's written and directed movies before. Don't be dense.
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Bust Rodd posted:Once again, the trend of going to a “cancelled” comedian’s show and writing down their jokes and then reporting on their jokes as though they are not jokes is dumbest and most dishonest form of comedy journalism possible and is a plot from the ground up to generate as many clicks and views as possible. Because even if it's a joke it still has the same undercurrent to it "I don't like this place because they were mean to me about my sexual harassment." Like even in the replies to that you posted, people are pointing out that the issue is that he's making himself the victim of what he did and quietly encouraging his fans to act like shitheads and complain about 'cancel culture' and things like that. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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Dec 1, 2019 01:29
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King Vidiot posted:He just finished writing a directing a movie, he's written and directed movies before. Don't be dense. He's also done a bunch of acting. Also, Hollywood is a metaphor, Harvey Weinstein lives in New York.
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Why are half of the posts in this thread about a single stand up comedian who doesn't even work in Hollywood because when he finds a tact that works to get him back into the limelight every other rear end in a top hat who ever sexually assaulted a woman is gonna try to squeeze through that same hole. edit: i should point out that i do think that article takes his joke about auschwitz out of context, and it does sound like a joke he would have made and could have been genuinely subversive had he not made it in the context of trying to whitewash his behavior. he's still out there trying to convince people that what he did isn't wrong, it's just impolite and crass, and that no one should lose their career over just being impolite and crass, especially not a comedian. he wants you to think that he's learned his lesson and he won't ask women to let him jerk it in front of them any more because it will get him in trouble but i haven't seen a single ounce of reflection on the actual nature of what he did: how he used the power dynamic in his chosen field to his advantage and the fact that if you are a powerful man, asking some woman you work with to let you whack it in front of them is not a situation where actual consent can be obtained. The joke about a concentration camp in full context is offensive when it's taken out of context, but the line in the NYDN article that should really make you shudder, precisely because of the context, is this one: quote:The funnyman reportedly conceded in Israel that he had masturbated in front of women, which he admitted was wrong, and doesn’t recommend doing. what he did is reduced to how the public feels about it, rather than the inherent wrongness of being someone on the level that Louis was and asking a coworker/underling/fellow performer if you can masturbate in front of them, because of how the power dynamic works. in short, gently caress Louis C.K. DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Why are half of the posts in this thread about a single stand up comedian who doesn't even work in Hollywood He's been an actor, writer and director in Hollywood for over twenty years in both TV and movies, plenty of which are extremely well-known and have been critical and commercial successes. How the gently caress do you get "doesn't even work in Hollywood" from his career? Edit: oh god is this some kind of "he mostly works in New York City" pedantry? also because it can't be said enough DC Murderverse posted:in short, gently caress Louis C.K.
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Louis CK has been an unrepentant rear end in a top hat since his MeToo moment but maybe my fellow woke friends should stop using clickbait tweets from tabloid newspapers as the source of their outrage
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No, he's obviously a valid target and a piece of poo poo as a human being, but catching up on the thread from a good bit back he seems to be by far the most common individual topic of discussion, which felt odd, considering the number of bigger fish out there.
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It's actually worth talking about how a sexual predator suffered zero legal consequences, continues to work in entertainment, has learned nothing, and thinks he's the victim. We can stop mentioning it when he stops doing new terrible things.
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:No, he's obviously a valid target and a piece of poo poo as a human being, but catching up on the thread from a good bit back he seems to be by far the most common individual topic of discussion, which felt odd, considering the number of bigger fish out there. most of them have shut up, for the most part. the only other person who is out there actively trying to do PR on their dead career right atm is Bill Cosby and lol if you think that's going to happen from Actual Prison. Spacey, Lauer, Weinstein, etc are all starting to come back out of the shadows but when they do they're still trying to be inconspicuous, trying to get reintegrated with their social circles before trying to reinvigorate their careers. Louis obviously didn't have as long a period of social ostracization so now he's first back into the career reboot pool.
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Just found out my local con invited Vic Mignoga(voice actor mostly) and pretty loving pissed about it. He would touch fans without their consent in photos, give them his personal number, done some real obvious grooming attempts. Cons still invite him as a "virtue signal" to trash people that they are on their side. They announcement had a huge "we'll be providing tons of security so don't even try anything" vibe to it as well. I really enjoyed that con last year, spent hundreds of dollars. Won't be going again.
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Billy Eillish says Drake has been texting her since she was 17
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Isn’t she uh still 17. People buying her schtick at that age is weird Also drake wanting to “hang out” with eleven has been an open thing
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Bust Rodd posted:Billy Eillish says Drake has been texting her since she was 17 on the one hand you might think "dude is the most popular rapper in the world and could have any woman he wants why would he keep texting teenagers" but then you listen to his music and realize that no matter how popular he is, deep in his soul he is That Creepy Older Guy
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Alan Smithee posted:Some people couldn’t get over degrassi Shows real good tbf
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Alan Smithee posted:Some people couldn’t get over degrassi his career peaked with it and tbh that show was entertaining as hell.
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Degrassi is cool but gently caress Drake.
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Rhyno posted:Degrassi is cool but gently caress Drake. I think the median age of the forums is somewhere in the late 20s early 30s at the youngest, so no chance of that.
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Skwirl posted:I think the median age of the forums is somewhere in the late 20s early 30s at the youngest, so no chance of that. drat lol
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Skwirl posted:I think the median age of the forums is somewhere in the late 20s early 30s at the youngest, so no chance of that. 
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Scarlett's not backing away from the ledge on her Woody Allen hot take. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/scarlett-johansson-oscars-issue-cover-story quote:First, I ask Johansson about the general phenomenon whereby she has said things which have generated substantial amounts of fuss; her reply is a spirited one. Perhaps actors who have always been in show business and formed their earliest relationships in that environment might be more than a little blind to larger social issues and the reputations of the people they're trafficking with. Also, as the article points out, despite her status as an in-demand actress, Johansson also has a few more ambitions to fulfill.
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