Saturday, March 19, 2022

"Weiner scandal shows that when men behave badly, women still get blamed"/ "When fanboy culture turns against itself"

I'm posting this article in in honor of International Women's Day (Mar.8). 


Aug. 30, 2016 "Weiner scandal shows that when men behave badly, women still get blamed": Today I found this article by Zosia Bielski in the Globe and Mail:


“It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment,” Donald Trump told The New York Times. Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh topped even Trump with this noxious nugget: “[Abedin’s] going to be Hillary’s chief of staff. But she has not been chief of her husband’s staff.” And so another, even lower, attack: that a wife’s supposed frigidity forced a man to broadcast dick pics far and wide for years, across multiple platforms.

It’s painfully clear that women are still held accountable for the bad behaviour of men. 

What about Weiner’s agency as a sentient being who makes bad choices, pathologically often?

Writing in Think Progress, Judd Legum asked readers to recognize this story for what it is: 

“The story of a man who is no longer in political power and who has exceptionally poor judgment. It is not, at its heart, a story about any woman  – either Abedin or her boss, who happens to be running for president, Hillary Clinton.”

On Tuesday, we got a further glimpse into Weiner’s own thoughts about his “busted marriage,” as the New York Post shared more of his conversations with the latest other woman. During their first Twitter exchange in January, 2015, Weiner told the woman that he envied her divorced status. Asked whether he’d move to DC with his wife were Clinton to become president, Weiner reportedly replied, “That is a very big Q. Honestly don’t know what she will do.”

In the end, Weiner was leaving the decision-making up to his wife, this as he kept on doing “the dumb thing,” as he referred to his cheating throughout the riveting documentary Weiner

Having survived two scandals already, Abedin did the heavy lifting again this week, this time with a divorce that’s forced her into Weiner’s sleazy spotlight one more time.

Jo Hanna 6 days ago
This needs saying, it seems, over and over again. Women married to philandering men can't win. If they 'stand by their man', they are denigraded as floor mats, conversely, if they decide to leave the relationship, they're judged to be at fault: for working outside the home, for being frigid, for getting involved with the cad in the first place. The throwing shade is endless.
Given Hillary has been there, she will be able to give support to someone who seems to be a friend as well as an employeed. Best wishes to both women.

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Salear1970 6 days ago
Wow Stephen, what a rant. It's almost if you speak from personal experience. Reading your other posts you have no idea what it is like to be a woman in a man's world. Perhaps you should think about that.

What Jo Hana has said is spot on. Many a man has cheated and it has done little to their career while the same can't be said for a woman who cheats. The woman end up getting demeaned while the men end up getting plenty of high-fives from other men. That is sexist (a difference in reaction based on the gender of the person undertaking the act).

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Jim909 6 days ago
Are you joking? Who would blame a woman for leaving a man who is a filanderer? I have never heard that happen ever.

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Sher-e-Hindustan 6 days ago
Women are attracted to philanderers. They think he is going to be different with them. But a leopard can't change its spots. And the only one surprised is 



Feb. 10, 2022: Here is a harassment article before fall 2017 and the downfall of Harvey Weinstein:


Oct. 15, 2016 "When fanboy culture turns against itself": Today I found this article by Kate Taylor in the Globe and Mail today.  It's kind of offensive about what he did.  However, at least he apologized:

Okay, so some of us admired Star Wars: The Force Awakens and others not so much but at least we can all agree that … if you are dancing with a woman in a bar, you can’t just put your hand down the front of her pants.

Somewhere in the bewildering contemporary mash-up of permissive discourse and forbidden behaviour lies the strange case of Devin Faraci, the American movie blogger who lost his job this week because a woman accused him of sexual assault – not to mention rank hypocrisy.

Faraci is the editor-in-chief of the pop culture news-and-criticism site Birth.  Movies.  Death and a purveyor of strong opinions on many topics. He was happily tweeting about the U.S. presidential race last Sunday when he made some smart denunciation of Donald Trump’s notorious boast about grabbing women’s genitalia. 

Then a woman with the Twitter handle @spacecrone tweeted back at him: “quick question: do you remember grabbing me by the pussy and bragging to our friends about it, telling them to smell your fingers?”

Faraci effectively pleaded no contest, responding “I do not remember this. I can only believe you and beg forgiveness for having been so vile.” (Both Faraci and @spacecrone have since deleted this exchange, although she has left up tweets repeating the accusation.) 

By Tuesday, Faraci had resigned as BMD’s editor, posting a statement saying, “I will use the coming weeks and months to work on becoming a better person who is, I hope, worthy of the trust and loyalty of my friends and readers.”

The woman continued to discuss her accusation on Twitter and gave The Hollywood Reporter an interview, using only her first name, Caroline, and providing a few more details about herself – she’s a worker in the non-profit sector living in New York – and the incident, which dated to 2004. 

She said she and Faraci were members of a group of friends on New York’s cultural scene who met regularly for drinks; she says they were dancing together at a bar when he stuck his hand into her pants. She asked him to stop, but he did it a second time, before she moved off the dance floor. 

Two years later she confronted him online about the incident, which he said he did not recall – although friends then told her he had boasted to them about it immediately afterward.




kpare
"Faraci is one of the most influential online movie critics in the United States" This is the first, and probably the last, I will ever hear of this person.


The Great Malumba
I'm ashamed to admit, I got over half way into this before asking myself why I was reading this sheet.


sanctimonious
Agree. Faraci I did something foolish and got called out for it...but the rest?


Mar. 14, 2022 My opinion: I was going through my old physical news articles and I have cut out a lot of articles by Zosia Bielski.  I have also posted some articles by her on this blog.  She is a good journalist who mostly writes about sexual harassment and assaults.



This is from my Mar. 2021 blog post:

"#MeToo movement becomes #WeToo in in victim-blaming Japan"/ "Outrage as women in Japan told not wear glasses in the workplace"


Aug. 17, 2020 Saying: I found this on Facebook:

"You never look good when you are trying to make someone else look bad."- Unknown

Cham: Sometimes people need to be exposed for who they are hahah or maybe I should stop being petty

Tracy Au: There's a difference between trying to make someone look bad, and exposing them for who they are. It's like those #MeToo accusers and victims, they are plainly telling everybody about the perpetrators. They're not trying to make them look bad.






This week's theme is sexual harassment and assault, and celebrities:

"Rose McGowan looks back at scandalous, see-through VMAs dress"/ "Judge jails Adrien Broner after boxer posts stacks of cash on Instagram while claiming he can't make court payments"




"Two women, two decisions: going public on Harvey Weinstein"/ "The Weinstein Company files for bankruptcy and ends prohibitive NDAs"





My week:



Mar. 12, 2022 Toby Hemingway: I have seen this actor before.  I have been reignited in my interest in him since I saw him on the FBI: Most Wanted episode "Shattered."  He plays an abusive boyfriend.

He's good looking in the hot way.


The Covenant: I first saw him way back in this movie when I was 21 yrs old in 2006.  All the guys in this movie are pretty boys.  He plays one of the main characters Reid Gerwin.

I liked it.  The movie was for teens and young women.


In Time: I saw this movie, but I don't remember him in it.

Taylor Swift's "Mine" video: I saw this video when it first came out in 2010.  I totally forgot he was in this video.  I didn't remember him in this until now.  He plays the "waiter/ groom" as listed on imdb.com.

I'm indifferent with Swift, but I do like this video for the love story, and Hemingway being the bonus.

(2250) Taylor Swift - Mine - YouTube


The Crossing: In 2018, I saw this show and he played a small part as a local Gabe.  I looked him up and remembered him in The Covenant.


Toby Hemingway - IMDb


Toby Hemingway (@hemingwaytoby) • Instagram photos and videos


He works with the same actors again:

Laura Ramsey: Hemingway works with her in The Covenant and 1 Out of 7.

1 Out of 7 (2011) - IMDb


Alexa Davalos: Hemingway works with her on Feast of Love and then on Davalos show FBI: Most Wanted.

Feast of Love (2007) - IMDb


Mar. 13, 2022 Edmonton Screenwriter's Facebook group: I read one of the member's scripts and emailed him my notes.  This was average.


Mar. 11, 2022 "Why Mila Kunis, a Ukrainian immigrant, used to tell people she was Russian before the invasion: 'Everything's changed'": Today I found this article by David Artavia on Yahoo news:

Mila Kunis is opening up about the emotional toll recent events in Ukraine have taken on her.

In a candid interview with Maria Shriver, the actress and activist spoke at length about the newfound pride she’s gained as a Ukrainian immigrant herself, why she’s making it a point to tell her kids they’re “half Ukrainian and half American” and why it’s important for Americans to separate the Russian people from those in power.

“I was born in Ukraine. I came to the States in 1991 and we were the last of my family to migrate,” Kunis explains, adding that she was about 8 years old at the time.

"I very much have always felt like an American,” she continued, saying that growing up, “People were like, 'Oh, you're so Eastern European.' I was like, 'I'm so LA!’ What do you mean? Like, my whole life I was like ‘I am LA through and through.’”

“Like everyone,” she concluded. “People just [need] to focus on what is at hand right now and right now this issue can get incredibly catastrophic for the rest of the world, not just for that part of the world, and I don't want people to lose sight of that."

Kunis and Kutcher have been putting their money and time where their mouth is.

The couple recently hit a big milestone in their fundraising effort for Ukraine, raising $20 million in less than a week — just shy of $10 million from their original goal of $30 million, which they're confident they'll achieve sooner rather than later.

"Our goal's $30 [million] and we're gonna get there," Kutcher said in an update this week.

"But we do want to say thank you to the 56,000 of you who were able to donate and supported us. Whether it was the $5, $10, $1000, whatever it was, means so much to us because it does bring in a community and a sense of belonging and an ability to help," Kunis added.

Their funds benefits Flexport and Airbnb, two organizations who are "actively on the ground providing immediate help to those who need it most," Kunis said.

"There have been over 1 million children — this is just children — that are in refugee status right now," Kutcher added. "Every bit we can do helps and we appreciate you."


Why Mila Kunis, a Ukrainian immigrant, told people she was Russian before the invasion (yahoo.com)


Mar. 14, 2022 "Meghan Markle thanked Simon Rex for turning down tabloid offers to claim they slept together": Today I found this article by Raechal Shewfelt on Yahoo news:


Simon Rex was, admittedly, in need of some serious cash when multiple tabloids in the United Kingdom wanted him to say that he had slept with Meghan Markle, a co-star on a March 2005 episode of the UPN sitcom Cuts. No, it never happened — although they went to lunch once, as friends — but the tabs were willing to give him $70,000 to say that it did.

“I was broke as f***! I really needed the money,” Rex told The Guardian in an interview published Friday. "But I'll be on food stamps before I do that."

Rex said that Markle thanked him in a letter, which he framed and keeps at his home in Joshua Tree in Southern California.

"She said: 'It's nice to know there are still good people," Rex said.

While promoting the U.K. release of his critically lauded movie Red Rocket, the actor, rapper and former MTV VJ dished on his decades-long career in the entertainment industry, which has included several movies in the Scary Movie franchise and similar fare. He said he always thought he could do more, something like the dramedy that's earned him accolades galore and calls for high-profile new projects, but not everyone agreed.

When he auditioned for director Gus Van Sant for the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, for example, it didn't go so well.

"I go in and sit down with him and Matt Damon," Rex said. "We're doing a reading and then Gus stops me in the middle and says: 'Simon, this is really bad, you're not ready.' Matt Damon is laughing and I'm embarrassed. Gus says: 'But don't worry, you have something. Trust me. Go to acting school.'"

Rex also talked about the time that he joined his Scary Movie 3 co-star Charlie Sheen on his 2011 tour, My Violent Torpedo of Truth, which followed Sheen's "tiger blood" period.

"That was a weird one, man. That was a f***ing circus," Rex said. "[Sheen] was up on stage every night talking s***. Then a pro baseball player would come on and play catch with him, then I'd do a Dirt Nasty song. It was a s--- show."

He also remembered that they traveled everywhere by private jet and the accommodations were first-class.

"Charlie would tell me: 'Order everything on the menu. Lobster, steak, whatever. Use the spa every day, get a facial, get a massage.' I said: 'I don't wanna waste your money,'" Rex recalled. "He said: 'Simon, I make more in one day of Two and a Half Men reruns than you could possibly imagine. Spend all of it.'"

Simon Rex turned down tabloids offers on Meghan Markle (yahoo.com)


My opinion: This shows that Simon Rex has integrity by not lying about Meghan Markle.  This article also shows that he is down-to- earth when he auditioned for Good Will Hunting

This also shows that Charlie Sheen is rich and generous.  Sheen should donate money to charity and get a tax receipt.

I do like Rex in the Scary Movie 3.  That is a funny movie.  I have this on dvd.  The first Scary Movie was poor.  Scary Movie 4 was mediocre. 

I want to ask Rex when he said he was broke.  You made so much money.  Where did you spend it?   

This is for anyone who's reading this: Save your money.

Mar. 17, 2022 $1 store flashback: This was in 2004 and I was working at the $1 store.  My co-workers and friends Maureen (a 30 something yr old Aboriginal woman) and Sonia (a East- Indian 19 yr old woman) were talking about Scary Movie 3 and George (Simon Rex) rapping.

Maureen: "I put miracle whip on my Wonder bread."

Tracy: "How many b---- have I slapped?  Zero.  Martha Stewart happens to be my hero."

We laugh.


This video may be offensive:

Scary Movie 3 (2/11) Movie CLIP - Rap Battle (2003) HD

(2278) Scary Movie 3 (2/11) Movie CLIP - Rap Battle (2003) HD - YouTube


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