#MeToo 2

I hadn’t seen that allegation which wasn’t in most of the reports. Clearly there was a power imbalance with many of the women but that would always be true if someone of his stature wanted to have any sort of encounter/relationship with someone in that industry.

 

I guess we need to throw Chris Noth in the hopper here as well. The allegations seem at least credible and repeat over time in a similar manner. The three women who star in SATC came out in support of the women today. He's lost his role on The Equalizer and the agency that represents him has dropped him. His marriage looks to be under considerable strain as well. He's claiming that there was no sexual assault, they were consensual encounters, but it appears that his wife was not aware of them.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis respond to Chris Noth sexual assault claims as fallout continues

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10333177/Chris-Noths-wife-Tara-Wilson-pictured-time-accused-rape.html

 

Noth is 67? Damn.

 

That's kind of the point. For the most part, it has been men that have wielded that power and used it as a bargaining chip. It's sexual harassment and more often abuse and assault. That's the point.

 

Along with C.K.'s outsized influence in comedy (mentor, producer), there were allegations his manager leaned on the victims. The manager denied the allegations.

This article explains the power involved.

The sexual harassment allegations against Louis C.K., explained

 

New York Post, come on down!

Ex-Editor Scorches NY Post in Shocking Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

 

Maybe the least surprising one of all. He’s a colossal asshole and bitter old drunk along with being a political hack.

 

I do need to work on expressing myself more clearly.

 

Having worked with him in Australia, I think you're being kind.
I've detailed some of it on these pages, and I'm sick with breakthrough COVID so I have to be careful of not getting all loopy ... but in order, I saw him pull out his dick IN A NEWS MEETING, lost track of the awful things he called women and indigenous people, and heard him proposition people who worked for him way too many times to count. I mean, it was a nightly occurrence in the pub.
This is a man who controlled what much of Australia read (News Ltd papers ruled every major city, from the Northern Territories to Perth over to Sydney), and later, the New York Post. And he got away with it for decades.

 

Like a parlour trick. We'd be discussing possible front page stories, or the latest rugby news, and he had a little shaving sink in his office. He'd stand over it, unzip, pee ... all while talking to a room full of editors. I was only in the news meeting a few times, but saw him do it twice. Just vile. It's been written about before, though the Murdochs kept bumping him up, promoting him to NYC or wherever he desired.
And this is by far one of his least offensive moves.