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GeneChing

10-26-2017, 10:07 AM

Here’s Steven Seagal putting his hand on 16-year-old Katherine Heigl’s breast (https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/349447/steven-seagal-katherine-heigl-photo-grab-breast-jimmy-kimmel/)
In News by Drew Salisbury / October 24, 2017

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There’s no shortage of creeps in Hollywood, as the last few weeks have made abundantly clear (if you weren’t already well aware, that is). While trying to crown the worst abuser in Tinseltown would be an endeavor akin to identifying the smelliest turd floating around in a Porta John, audio recordings uncovered Monday by the Daily Mail (and years of documented gross behavior) make a strong case for samurai-cum-******* Steven Seagal.

While it has circulated for some time and was even pointed out in an April 2017 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, a reader brought our attention to the above photo of Seagal with a then-barely 16-year-old Katherine Heigl promoting “Under Siege 2.”

Heigl turned 16 while filming the movie, which was also her big-screen debut. Here’s how she described the 43-year-old Seagal’s behavior on the set to Kimmel (emphasis ours):

The last day of shooting, and again, I had just turned 16 on this movie. And he said, ‘You know Katie, I got girlfriends your age.’ And I said, ‘Isn’t that illegal?’ And he said, ‘They don’t seem to mind.’ And I said, ‘Mom!’ I’m not making that up.

While Heigl seemed to laugh off the incident years later (or perhaps more accurately, as she tellingly put it, “block it out”), it’s wild to think that this was (and continues to be!) considered acceptable behavior. Seagal was photographed putting his hand a teenage girl’s breast in 1995, and I can guarantee you not a single word was probably written about it. Even just months ago, Kimmel was mining it for laughs. That’s pretty ****ed up!

Heigl told Kimmel despite everything she still “loved” Seagal — a performance worthy of an Emmy if I ever saw one, and very possibly driven by anxiety about hurting her career. It wouldn’t be the first time talking about sexism and misogyny in the industry got her branded as “difficult.”

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[screenshot: Jimmy Kimmel Live!]

Seagal (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again) & Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

Jimbo

10-26-2017, 03:48 PM

Thanks, Gene, I hadn't known about that. I guess Seagal, in addition to abusing women, is a pedophile.

Here's something I now remember from the Oscars a few years ago, but had forgotten, because back then I was only vaguely aware of the name 'Harvey Weinstein' in association with The Weinstein Company and their Dragon Dynasty DVDs, like their Shaw Brothers releases. It turns out that MacFarlane's 'joke' was actually meant as a very real jab at Weinstein. That the celebrity audience laughed as they did shows that Weinstein's misbehavior towards women was well-known among Hollywood's elite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCNvREKTnQc&sns=em

Jimbo

10-31-2017, 08:31 AM

Kevin Spacey...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQititPvWvA&sns=em

Jimbo

10-31-2017, 09:44 AM

If this could happen to an adult Terry Crews, it could happen to anybody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUsmBVFaiI&sns=em

Jimbo

11-01-2017, 06:59 PM

It's now clear that the terrible Rush Hour franchise was far from director Brett Ratner's worst sin. The video is concise, but the article I linked right below goes into more accounts with much more detail.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-brett-ratner-allegations-20171101-htmlstory.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8osDSn5ncA&sns=em

GeneChing

11-06-2017, 09:09 AM

More are coming forward against Seagal. Wonder when legal action might commence...if ever...:o

Julianna Margulies Recalls "Horrific" Hotel Room Meeting With Steven Seagal (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julianna-margulies-recalls-horrific-hotel-room-meeting-steven-seagal-1055000)
8:52 AM PDT 11/4/2017 by Meena Jang

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Julianna Margulies

The 'Good Wife' actress shared she also drew the ire of Harvey Weinstein when she refused to enter his hotel suite alone after learning from her experience with Seagal.

Julianna Margulies on Friday morning spoke candidly about her harrowing experience with Steven Seagal during a visit to Sirius XM's Just Jenny.

Speaking to host Jenny Hutt, the former Good Wife star revealed she narrowly escaped a hotel room meeting with Seagal, who has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, before things could take a turn for the worse. Margulies, then 23 years old, said she was persuaded to meet the actor late at night by a female casting director who insisted he wanted to go over a scene.

"I lived in Brooklyn, and I said, 'Oh, I don't do that. I don't travel. I don't have money for a cab.' And I didn't," Margulies recalled. "And she says, 'Don't worry, we'll reimburse you.'"

The actress claims Seagal was armed with a gun when she arrived.

"I got to the hotel around 10:40, and she [the casting director] wasn't there. And he was alone and he made sure that I saw his gun, which I had never seen a gun in real life," Margulies continued. "I got out of there unscathed. … I never was raped, and I never was harmed. I don't know how I got out of that hotel room."

Margulies told Hutt she felt she had been "set up" by the casting director, and learned from the experience that she should never go into private meetings alone.

The actress added, "Because of my experience with Steven Seagal in that room, which was horrific, I refused to meet Harvey Weinstein in his hotel room when another woman brought me, saying, 'You will absolutely get [a] screen test.'"

On a separate occasion, Margulies claimed the film mogul, whose accusers now total over 70, attempted to lure her to his suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills through a female assistant to discuss a film role she had auditioned for.

"She said, 'I'm going to drop you off at the Peninsula,' and I said, 'I'm not going up there alone.' I saw how she started to sweat. She was like, 'Don't be silly, I'm just going to drop you off. It's going to be fine.' And I said, 'Nope, then I'm going home,"" the actress recalled.

When the assistant reluctantly agreed to escort Margulies up to Weinstein's room, he opened the door in a bathrobe.

"I could see that there were candles lit in the room, and there was a dinner for two. And I saw him stare at her, daggers. And I turned to see what she had done to deserve that, and I caught her in a shrug, like, 'What could I do?'" said the actress. "He looked at me, furious, and he took the door and he said, 'Just wanted to say, "great audition."' And he slammed the door. Of course, I didn't get the part."

Margulies admitted that if she hadn't experienced that initial meeting with Seagal and didn't have an established career at the time, "I would've gone in, absolutely."

The actress slammed the notion of victim-shaming, saying, "It's not to be shrugged off."

Turning the focus to women who enable men to abuse their power, Margulies noted, "It's not always the men that are awful. … We have to start holding these people accountable."

Seagal (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again) & Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

GeneChing

11-09-2017, 08:48 AM

Maybe they'll replace Seagal with Christopher Plummer for China Salesman (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70325-China-Salesman). Too soon? :o

Portia de Rossi Claims Steven Seagal Exposed Himself to Her in Private Audition (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/portia-de-rossi-claims-steven-seagal-exposed-himself-her-private-audition-1056423)
4:33 PM PST 11/8/2017 by Patrick Shanley

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Portia de Rossi

The actress on Wednesday wrote about the incident on her personal Twitter account.

Portia de Rossi has accused Steven Seagal of exposing himself to her.

The actress on Wednesday posted to her personal Twitter account that, while auditioning for a role in a film starring Seagal, the actor "told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants."

De Rossi then said that she called her agent who was "unfazed" and replied, "Well, I didn’t know if he was your type.”

Seagal has previously been accused of misconduct and harassment, including allegations by: former actress and Inside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero, who claims the actor invited her to audition in his private home and conducted the audition in a silk kimono; actress Rae Dawn Chong, who claims that sometime in 1989-90, she was sent by her agent to Seagal's hotel for a 9:30 p.m. audition, during which he exposed himself; and Juliana Margulies, who similarly claims she met with the actor in a private room where he harassed her and was armed with a gun.

A request for comment from de Rossi was not immediately returned.

After de Rossi spoke out, wife Ellen DeGeneres took to Twitter to say, "I’m proud of my wife."

Seagal (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again) & Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

GeneChing

11-09-2017, 10:45 AM

More on Ratner (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch&p=1305798#post1305798)

Brett Ratner Accuser Who Deleted Facebook Post Speaks Out (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brett-ratner-accuser-melanie-kohler-speaks-1056093)
8:05 AM PST 11/8/2017 by Jackie Strause

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Melanie Kohler on 'GMA'

"We're here to send a very strong message that [the lawsuit] is not going to stop Melanie from speaking," says a lawyer for Melanie Kohler, whom Ratner is suing over a social media post claiming he raped her.

Melanie Kohler says she is willing to tell her story about Brett Ratner in court if it comes to that.

Speaking on Good Morning America, the Hawaii native who had accused the filmmaker of rape in a since-deleted Facebook post said, "If I have to risk my life and what I've worked so hard for in my life in Hawaii to be the voice that helps other women come forward, then I am prepared to do that."

More than a week before the Los Angeles Times published an explosive report from six women, including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, claiming they were sexually assaulted or harassed by Ratner, Kohler claimed in an Oct. 20 Facebook post that the Hollywood director-producer "was a rapist on at least one night in Hollywood about 12 years ago" and "preyed on me as a drunk girl [and] forced himself upon me." She later deleted the post.

During a Wednesday sit-down with ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos, where she was accompanied by her lawyer, Kohler explained why.

"I posted on Facebook and was just starting to feel healing about it all, and about an hour and a half after I posted, my cell phone rang," she said. Ratner's lawyer, Marty Singer, told her that if she didn't remove the post, he had authorization from Ratner to sue her for defamation, she said. "I was scared and shocked."

Correcting what she had said in her initial post about not telling anyone about the alleged incident, Kohler said her best friend did recall her relaying the experience. "It's so embarrassing. It's so humiliating. It's not something that you ever want to relive again and it just felt like there was nothing that I could do," she explained. "I didn't think the police could help me. I didn't know if anyone would be willing to go up against someone so powerful and it just was easier for me to not relive it."

Ratner then filed a complaint in Hawaii federal court denying Kohler's allegations and categorizing the social media post as libel per se. His lawyer, Eric Seitz, argued that the statements are entirely false, fabricated and fictional and that Kohler published them maliciously. Ratner claims to have suffered emotional distress, worry, anger and anxiety and that his personal and professional reputations have been injured.

Kohler's lawyer said she felt the lawsuit was not about her client, but was instead filed by Singer and Ratner to "send a message to other women" and deter them from speaking out. "We're here to send a very strong message that it's not going to stop Melanie from speaking and it's not going to stop other women from speaking," said attorney Robbie Kaplan, who added that they are prepared to call "at least three dozen witnesses" and have the resources to fight back if the case proceeds. Amy Kaufman, the co-writer of the L.A. Times report, said on Twitter that the paper is investigating claims from over 45 women.

Speaking out now because she "can't get through the day without being reminded of it," Kohler said she wants women to feel comfortable speaking out about a person who is "more powerful than you, has more money than you and when everything feels stacked against you."

In response to the segment, Singer told GMA in a statement, "Brett Ratner vehemently denies the outrageous derogatory allegations that have been reported about him, and we are confident that his name will be cleared once the current media frenzy dies down and people can objectively evaluate the nature of these claims."

In response to Kaplan specifically, Singer added, "It is nonsense that the defamation lawsuit filed against Ms. Kohler is a tactic of 'trying to silence women.' No such thing is occurring."

In light of the allegations that have come to light against Ratner, Warner Bros., where Ratner had a first-look deal, severed ties with the producer.

Natasha Henstridge details day Brett Ratner allegedly sexually assaulted her (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/02/natasha-henstridge-details-day-brett-ratner-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-her.html)
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Natasha Henstridge spoke out about director Brett Ratner allegedly sexually assaulting her back in the 1990’s. (Reuters)

Natasha Henstridge, who was one of the women named in the Los Angeles Times' exposé regarding Brett Ratner’s alleged sexual misconduct, detailed the day the director reportedly assaulted her.

Henstridge, 43, told the Los Angeles Times Ratner forced her to give him oral sex when she 19 years old in the early 1990s.

Henstridge said she was trying to leave his apartment in Manhattan when he blocked her from going. “The Whole Nine Yards” actress said Ratner began to masturbate and then forced her to perform oral sex on him.

“He strong-armed me in a real way. He physically forced himself on me,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “At some point, I gave in and he did his thing.”

Henstridge told the Daily News the incident occurred near where she lived at the time in New York City.

"I remember I ran home crying, so it was just within a few blocks,” she told the Daily News.

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Brett Ratner has been accused of sexual misconduct by six women. (Reuters)

Henstridge said the incident left her feeling “helpless, sad and responsible.”

"At the time it happened, I was a model, living in that world where there was an emphasis on sex appeal and beauty, and as a kid, part of me felt I was deserving of what happened," she said.

The actress said she did not consider going to police and instead, pushed the alleged assault to the back of her mind.

The “Species” actress said she was afraid to reveal her experience with Ratner at first but described the article’s release as “cathartic.”

"For weeks, I struggled with speaking up. Then at one point, I thought (the article) wasn't going to come out because of legal pressure. And as afraid as I was, I then felt more afraid it wouldn't publish. So I'm feeling relieved in that way," Henstridge said.

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Olivia Munn claimed Brett Ratner sexually harassed her. (AP)

"I'm sure I will get to that place of peace eventually," she said. "I'm so grateful (to the other accusers). It helps you realize you're not the only one. And there is power in numbers."

Other women who came out to accuse Ratner of sexual misconduct were actresses Olivia Munn, Jamie Ray Newman, Katharine Towne, Jorina King and model Eri Sasaki.

Ratner’s lawyer, Marty Singer, said the “Rush Hour” director “categorically disputed” the allegations made by the women.

"I have represented Mr. Ratner for two decades, and no woman has ever made a claim against him for sexual misconduct or sexual harassment," Singer told the Los Angeles Times. "Furthermore, no woman has ever requested or received any financial settlement from my client."

Following the allegations, Ratner sued a woman who claimed he raped her and “stepped away” from Warner Bros.

"In light of the allegations being made, I am choosing to personally step away from all Warner Bros.- related activities," Ratner said in a statement. "I don’t want to have any possible negative impact to the studio until these personal issues are resolved."

I hope he's out for Rush Hour 4 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?63743-Rush-Hour-4)...if that even ever happens.

Jimbo

11-09-2017, 12:56 PM

The latest from Corey Feldman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFvSmyed0eY&sns=em

I've noticed there are still some people who believe that this is all just some big money-making scheme by Feldman. That shows how utterly stupid some people are. NOBODY, especially a guy, says they were molested --- for as many years as Feldman has been putting the word out about it --- as a profit-making scheme. It's also not so easy to come out and name names, especially the names of powerful men, as many people seem to think it is. There are not only legalities involved, but Feldman's own personal safety as well. He's been talking about Hollywood pedophilia FOR DECADES and almost nobody was listening.

GeneChing

11-10-2017, 09:40 AM

Like I said, politics is worse (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch&p=1305537#post1305537). Only politicians are generally better at defending themselves against allegations because that's what they do.

Sex Allegations Against Roy Moore Send Republicans Reeling (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/us/politics/mcconnell-roy-moore-sex-teenagers.html)
By RICHARD FAUSSET, JONATHAN MARTIN and CAMPBELL ROBERTSONNOV. 9, 2017

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Roy S. Moore, the Republican candidate for United States Senator in Alabama, was accused of making sexual or romantic overtures to teenagers. Credit Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times

ATLANTA — Republicans in Washington seemed near panic Thursday in the light of a news report in which four women said Roy S. Moore, the Republican nominee for a United States Senate seat in Alabama and an evangelical Christian, had made sexual or romantic overtures to them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican majority leader, said Mr. Moore should step aside ahead of the Dec. 12 special election if the allegations were true.

But in Alabama, the fallout was uncertain for a candidate who is considered a hero in some circles for his conservative cultural stances. Mr. Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was twice removed from that office for his positions on gay marriage and a Ten Commandments display. On Thursday, he strenuously denied the allegations the women made about him in on-the-record interviews included in the report, published by The Washington Post.

And it was clear that many in his conservative base were in no mood to desert him in a race for a Senate seat Republicans consider crucial to maintaining their majority in the upper chamber.

John Skipper, 66, a former chair of the Mobile County Republican Party, declared the allegations “total contrived media garbage.” Mr. Skipper said that he would still support the candidate and that he figured most of the Alabama Republicans he knew would probably do the same.

“Most of them will not be shocked,” he said, “and will rather be expecting these shenanigans being pulled by the Democrats as standard operating procedure.”

Whether Mr. Skipper’s prediction proves true remains to be seen. But the report unquestionably introduced new waves of uncertainty and turmoil into a race for the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, the attorney general.

The women cited in The Washington Post article said that Mr. Moore had pursued them in the 1970s and 1980s when he was a lawyer in his early 30s.

Mr. Moore was defiant, denying the charges and attacking the news media.

“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and The Washington Post on this campaign,” he said in a statement. He later attributed the news to “The Obama-Clinton Machine’s liberal media lap dogs.”

Judge Roy Moore @MooreSenate
The Obama-Clinton Machine’s liberal media lapdogs just launched the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I’ve EVER faced!

We are are in the midst of a spiritual battle with those who want to silence our message. (1/4) #ALSen
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Brett Doster, an adviser to Mr. Moore, said the candidate would “absolutely not” drop out of the race, calling the charges “a fabricated November surprise.”

Others in Alabama shrugged at the allegations. “There’s nothing to see here,” said Jim Zeigler, the state auditor and a longtime supporter of Mr. Moore. “Single man, early 30s, never been married, dating teenage girls. Never been married and he liked younger girls. According to The Washington Post account he never had sexual intercourse with any of them.”

But Mr. Moore’s candidacy appears to be in grave danger. Senate Republicans moved en masse to distance themselves from their nominee almost as soon as the news article was posted.

A statement from Vice President Mike Pence said: “The Vice President found the allegations in the story disturbing and believes, if true, this would disqualify anyone from serving in office.”

That statement was repeated by numerous Republicans, including the president who was traveling in Asia.

“Like most Americans the president believes we cannot allow a mere allegation, in this case one from many years ago, to destroy a person’s life,” Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in statement from Danang, Vietnam, where the president is attending an economic summit meeting. “However, the president also believes that if these allegations are true, Judge Moore will do the right thing and step aside.”

“If these allegations are true, his candidacy is not sustainable,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Republican. Mr. Cornyn said he wanted to know more before withdrawing his endorsement of Mr. Moore.
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GeneChing

11-10-2017, 09:41 AM

John McCain ✔@SenJohnMcCain
The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying. He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of.
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The party, already reeling from the election losses they suffered on Tuesday, is defending a two-seat majority in the Senate and faces a handful of difficult elections next year.

Mr. Moore’s candidacy had already worried party leaders who had embraced Mr. Moore despite his long record of incendiary comments about gays, Muslims and African-Americans.

Alabama election law indicates, with little ambiguity, that the deadline has passed for candidates to be replaced on the ballot. The state election code says a candidate who wishes to withdraw from a race must do so 76 days before Election Day. The Alabama vote is in little more than a month.

“It’s too late to substitute a candidate,” said John Merrill, the Alabama secretary of state, a Republican. “Judge Moore will be the candidate on the ballot with this election cycle remaining on the schedule it’s currently on.”

Republican lawyers and strategists in Washington were engaged in a furious search on Thursday for creative ways around that restriction, seeking a loophole that would allow the party’s leadership in the state to anoint a new candidate. The prospect of a write-in candidacy, for a third candidate, was also under consideration, according to party aides.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, who ran her own successful write-in campaign in 2010, said: “If in fact what I just read is true, he needs to get out of this race immediately. I think it’s pretty clear cut.”

She called for Senator Luther Strange, who was appointed to fill Mr. Sessions’s seat but lost to Mr. Moore in a bitterly contested Republican runoff in September, to run as a write-in.

One of the women, Leigh Corfman, told The Washington Post that she was 14 when Mr. Moore, 32 at the time, drove her to his home in Gadsden, Ala. He took off her shirt and touched her bra and underwear while also guiding her hand over his pants, Ms. Corfman told The Post.

“I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she told the newspaper.

CNN reported that it had spoken with Ms. Corfman’s stepfather, who said the family “stands by” what was reported in The Post.

Republican leaders are in a politically perilous situation, saddled with an embattled nominee unwilling to step aside in one of the country’s most conservative states. The charges reignited hostilities between Mr. McConnell’s political allies, who poured millions of dollars into the campaign to stop Mr. Moore, and President Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who rallied support for the former justice.

“This is what happens when you let reckless, incompetent idiots like Steve Bannon go out and recruit candidates who have absolutely no business running for the U.S. Senate,” said Josh Holmes, a former McConnell aide.

Mr. Bannon did not immediately reply to text messages or phone calls, but Breitbart posted an article with Mr. Moore’s statement shortly before The Post published its report.

Steven Law, the head of a McConnell-aligned “super PAC” that led an onslaught against Mr. Moore in the Republican runoff, did not wait for a guilty verdict before he excoriated Breitbart for “defending ‘consensual’ sex between a 32-year-old and a 16-year-old.”

Private polling by both parties has shown that while Mr. Moore retains a passionate following among conservatives, he is a deeply divisive figure among more moderate Republicans, and some party officials now worry that the charges will convince moderates to stay home or vote for the Democratic candidate, Doug Jones, a former United States attorney.

The Jones campaign said in a statement that “Roy Moore needs to answer these serious charges.”

Cleveland Poole, the chairman of the Republican Party in rural Butler County, said those most likely to defect were not ardent Moore supporters but voters who already have doubts. “They are going to be put off by it and might well stay home,” he said.

In a statement, Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, called the allegations “deeply disturbing,” and said she would withhold judgment until “we know the facts.” Senator Richard Shelby, the dean of the state’s congressional delegation, told reporters in Washington that if the charges were accurate “he wouldn’t belong in the Senate.”

Mr. Doster, the adviser to Mr. Moore, said the candidate’s campaign chairman, Bill Armistead, had talked to members of Alabama’s congressional delegation after the report broke. “Everybody has been supportive,” Mr. Doster said.

But a Republican familiar with the conversation said the House members on the call had told Mr. Armistead it was imperative that they aggressively respond to the article or risk losing support from the party’s elected officials.

Randy Brinson, president of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, said he expected voters would mostly give Mr. Moore the benefit of the doubt.

“Until I see something different, I would support Roy Moore because of what he says he’s going to do and who he is as a person,” Mr. Brinson said.

Mr. Zeigler said the account given by Ms. Corfman was “the only part that is concerning.” As Mr. Zeigler described it: “He went a little too far and he stopped.”

Had the girl been 16 at the time and not 14, he added, “it would have been perfectly acceptable.”

For Democrats, the prospect of a wounded Mr. Moore was a gift.

“This is revolting and the Republican Party and everybody’s who endorsed Roy Moore needs to disavow his candidacy right now and ask him to withdraw,” said Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who leads the Senate Democratic campaign arm.

Until recently, few Democratic officials believed that Mr. Jones could topple Mr. Moore in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, and Democrats have debated fiercely whether to commit resources to the race. Now many think they have a chance to shrink the Republican majority to a single seat and potentially snatch the majority next year.

Correction: November 9, 2017
An earlier version of this article misstated Roy S. Moore’s election track record. He has both won and lost statewide races.

Richard Fausset reported from Atlanta, Jonathan Martin from Washington and Campbell Robertson from Pittsburgh. Alexander Burns, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Nicholas Fandos contributed reporting from Washington. Want to know why I say worse? Read the next one.

GeneChing

11-10-2017, 09:45 AM

Acts of Faith
Alabama state official defends Roy Moore, citing Joseph and Mary: ‘They became parents of Jesus’ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/11/09/alabama-state-official-defends-roy-moore-citing-joseph-and-mary-they-became-parents-of-jesus/?utm_term=.11ac7810bbaf)
By Michelle Boorstein November 9 at 5:52 PM

An Alabama state official on Thursday dismissed a Washington Post report alleging that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore had initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl decades ago, saying there was an age gap between the biblical Joseph and Mary. The Post also alleged that Moore had pursued three others when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s.

“Take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus,” Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler told The Washington Examiner. “There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual.”

In the Bible, Mary is the mother of Jesus, and Joseph became her husband. Beliefs about the specific story of Joseph and Mary and Jesus’ birth vary widely in Christian history and across traditions. Mary is referred to in scripture as a virgin, but there is disagreement about what that means. Generally, however, Christians believe that Mary was a virgin when he was born. Joseph is usually referred to as Jesus’ “father” or a father figure.

The Bible does not state Mary and Joseph’s specific ages, but she is usually understood to be a teenager, and Joseph was an adult.

Moore is a judge and the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, one of the most solidly evangelical states in the country. He was twice elected to and twice removed from the state Supreme Court after refusing to follow church-state laws. In 2003, he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building. In 2016, he was suspended after ordering judges to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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Alabama’s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Roy Moore, speaks with reporters as he visits the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 31, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Multiple evangelical leaders slammed Ziegler.

“Bringing Joseph and Mary into a modern-day molestation accusation, where a 32-year-old prosecutor is accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl, is simultaneously ridiculous and blasphemous,” said Ed Stetzer, a pastor and church consultant who holds the Billy Graham Chair of Church, Mission and Evangelism at Wheaton College. “Even those who followed ancient marriage customs, which we would not follow today, knew the difference between molesting and marriage.”

“Women were chattel back then, they were traded — of course they married men who were much older and had multiple wives,” said the Rev. Amy Butler, senior minister of the Riverside Church, a historical and prominent interdenominational church in New York City. “It’s completely ludicrous to equate the sex assault of a minor with an ancient culture. It’s ludicrous . . . It makes me want to rip the church back from these people.”

The topic is addressed in the Gospel of Luke (1:26-38):

“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, ‘Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.’ But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. The angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I am a virgin?’ The angel said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God.’”

Earlier this year, Moore received high-profile endorsements from conservative leaders such as psychologist and radio host James Dobson, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown.

In an email to supporters on Thursday, Moore told his supporters: “The forces of evil are on the march in our country. We are in the midst of a spiritual battle with those who want to silence our message.”

Moore, who is a Southern Baptist, has denied the allegations.

“Their goal is to frustrate and slow down our campaign’s progress to help the Obama-Clinton Machine silence our conservative message,” he wrote in his email to supporters. “That’s why I must be able to count on the help of God-fearing conservatives like you to stand with me at this critical moment.”

According to the Pew Research Center, 86 percent of Alabama residents identify as Christian, and 49 percent are evangelical. White evangelicals have become much more likely to say a person who commits an “immoral” act can behave ethically in a public role. In 2011, 30 percent of these evangelicals said this, but that shot up to 72 percent, according to a survey published last year by the Public Religion Research Institute.

Clarification: This piece has been updated to clarify Christians’ beliefs about the virgin birth. The title of the Billy Graham Center has been corrected.
I've read the Bible. I've read the Gospels several times. There's some pretty shocking stuff in the Bible, but I never got a defense for molesting a 14-year-old out of it. :mad:

GeneChing

11-13-2017, 10:00 AM

Gal Gadot will only be ‘Wonder Woman’ again if Brett Ratner is out (https://pagesix.com/2017/11/11/gal-gadot-will-only-be-wonder-woman-again-if-brett-ratner-is-out/)
By Emily Smith November 11, 2017 | 5:04pm

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“Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot is continuing to battle accused Hollywood sexual harasser Brett Ratner by refusing to sign up for a super*hero sequel unless the moviemaker is completely killed from the franchise.

A Hollywood source tells Page Six that Gadot — who last month backed out of a dinner honoring Ratner, where she was due to present him with an award — is taking a strong stance on sexual harassment in Hollywood and doesn’t want her hit “Wonder Woman” franchise to benefit a man accused of sexual misconduct.

Ratner’s production company RatPac-Dune Entertainment helped produce “Wonder Woman” as part of its co-financing deal with Warner Bros. The movie has grossed more than $400 million internationally, and Ratner’s company will take a healthy share of the profits. A Warner Bros. insider explained, “Brett made a lot of money from the success of ‘Wonder Woman,’ thanks to his company having helped finance the first movie. Now Gadot is saying she won’t sign for the sequel unless Warner Bros. buys Brett out [of his financing deal] and gets rid of him.”

The source added of Israeli-born Gadot, “She’s tough and stands by her principles. She also knows the best way to hit people like Brett Ratner is in the wallet. She also knows that Warner Bros. has to side with her on this issue as it develops. They can’t have a movie rooted in women’s empowerment being part-financed by a man *accused of sexual misconduct against women.”

This past week, Warner Bros. announced it was severing ties with Ratner amid multiple sexual harassment allegations leveled against him by actresses including Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge. Ratner has vehemently denied the allegations through his attorney, Marty Singer.

Earlier this month, Gadot posted on Instagram: “Bullying and sexual harassment is unacceptable! I stand by all the courageous women confronting their fears and speaking out. Together we stand.

“We are all united in this time of change.”

Reps for Gadot and Ratner did not comment.

A rep for Warner Bros said only, “False.”

Wonder Woman 2 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70375-Wonder-Woman-2) & Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

GeneChing

11-13-2017, 10:05 AM

...I know, Monty Python lyrics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJnd9rSAQ8) are inappropriate here, but it's Monday and it's more Seagal. :(

Steven Seagal accused of telling actress to sit on his face (https://pagesix.com/2017/11/10/steven-seagal-accused-of-telling-actress-to-sit-on-his-face/)
By Emily Smith November 10, 2017 | 9:07pm

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A Hollywood exec has told how she was sexually harassed by Steven Seagal as a budding actress on the set of his 1991 movie “Out for Justice.”

The exec, who asked not to be named for fear of repercussions, said Seagal lured her to his trailer for a “costume change,” then propositioned her by phone, crudely demanding, “You are not comfortable sitting on my face for an hour?”

She alleges that her first day on the set, Seagal insisted that all the new actresses gather for him to “check us all out.”

The former actress said, “Moments later, a wardrobe assistant led me to Steven’s personal trailer, to his bedroom, and asked me to change into a corset. Then, Steven opened the door [and] tried to barge in. I said, ‘Excuse me, I am changing in here,’ but he insisted, ‘I need to see what you look like.’ I told him that I wasn’t comfortable and began screaming for the wardrobe person. He just smirked and said, ‘It’s OK, I like nice girls, too.’ ”

The next night, Seagal — who was married to Kelly LeBrock, who’d just given birth to their second child — called the woman at home, saying Gregg Allman had recorded music for the soundtrack. “Steven told me, ‘You should come by and listen to some of the tracks. I’m staying at the [Hotel Bel-Air].’”

Again, she said she didn’t feel comfortable, and alleges that Seagal responded, “You are not comfortable about coming over and sitting on my face for an hour?’”

The ex-actress said, “I told him, ‘You’re married,’ and he just said, ‘Ah, you are no fun.’ I worked for two weeks, then they let me go. If I’d gone to the hotel room and slept with him I would have had a much better role.”

She recounted the ordeal to a fellow actress on the movie, who wasn’t surprised, “ ‘He didn’t give you a pager?’ she asked. ‘He has given them to a few actresses, and when he pages, you have to go immediately to his hotel room, even if it is 3 a.m.’”

Jenny McCarthy, Portia de Rossi and Julianna Margulies have also accused Seagal of inappropriate behavior.

His rep didn’t get back to us.

Seagal (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again) & Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

Jimbo

11-14-2017, 10:21 AM

I used to think Takei was OK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPUNcs0GFc&sns=em

*Continued next post...

Jimbo

11-14-2017, 10:25 AM

*Continued from previous post...

In this recent Howard Steen interview, Takei pretty much admits to such things.

**Warning: Ribald humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLtw9Tpg9Pg&sns=em

GeneChing

11-14-2017, 11:02 AM

No image, but an embedded vid behind the link.

Alicia Vikander Among Nearly 600 Swedish Actresses Calling Out Sex Abuse in Film, Theater (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alicia-vikander-600-swedish-actresses-calling-sex-abuse-film-theater-1057037)

10:54 AM PST 11/10/2017 by Scott Roxborough

Inspired by the #MeToo movement that sprung up in response to the sexual assault and harassment allegations against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, the letter calls out the Swedish industry for failing to protect women from sexual abuse and for profiting from the work of known abusers.
Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander has put her name to an open letter signed by nearly 600 Swedish actresses calling out sexual abuse in the Swedish film and theater industry.

Inspired by the #MeToo movement that sprung up in response to the sexual assault and harassment allegations against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, the letter calls out the Swedish industry for failing to protect women from sexual abuse and for profiting from the work of known abusers.

“Directors, you have failed. Producers, you have failed. Production companies, you have failed. Theatre managers, you have failed. Politicians, you have failed,” it reads. “It is your responsibility to ensure that nobody is sexually abused at the workplace.”

Asserting “zero tolerance against sexual exploitation and violence” the signatories demand that employers, from film companies and theaters to book publishers and Swedish television networks, “stop protecting, hiring and making money on perpetrators” of sexual violence.

The letter was published in Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet along with numerous anonymous first person accounts of specific incidences of abuse.

"In one film I acted alongside one of the most prominent film actors, both in Sweden and abroad,” reads one testimony. “At a party he followed me into a hotel room, pushed me hard onto the floor, threw himself over me, held me tight and laughed with a dark look in his eyes. The thought 'he is going to rape me' ran through my head, but somehow I managed to get him off of me and ran.”

“At one of my first jobs, in the theatre elevator, I was pushed up against the wall by an actor in the same production and told to come to his dressing room at three o'clock, otherwise I would not continue working at the theatre,” reads another.

A third: "I was 23 years old and laid on a mattress to rest between rehearsals. One of the conductors came in, asking if he could rub my back. I immediately felt that I didn’t want to, but I couldn’t say no. He sat on top of me and started to massage my back. He then took out his ***** and began to masturbate. When he was about to climax he lifted up my shirt and ejaculated on my back. Then he got up and left. Before the show started that night, he took my arm and said that it was nice and it was our secret."

Alongside Vikander, the signatories to the open letter include such well known Swedish actresses as Sofia Helin, star of the original Swedish version of TV series The Bridge, and veteran actress Marie Goranzon (I Am Curious, Yellow).

The letter ends with a warning to abusers or those who seek to protect them.

“We will no longer be silent,” it reads. “We will bring those responsible to account and let the justice system run its course when needed. We will put the shame where it belongs — with the perpetrator and those who protect him. We know who you are.”

The group has started its own hashtag for supporters of their efforts, #tystnadtagning (#silenceaction in Swedish).

It's not just Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch) according to Alicia Vikander of Tomb Raider (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69467-Tomb-Raider-reboot).

GeneChing

11-14-2017, 11:07 AM

Jenny McCarthy Reshares Steven Seagal Harassment Claim (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jenny-mccarthy-reshares-steven-seagal-harassment-claim-1056931)
7:02 AM PST 11/10/2017 by Jackie Strause

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Jenny McCarthy

The actress, who first spoke out about her alleged casting-couch experience with the actor-producer in 1998, retold the experience on her Sirius XM radio show.
Jenny McCarthy has joined a handful of women to come forward and allege they were sexually harassed by actor Steven Seagal.

The actress and former Playboy model recalled a 1995 audition for Under Siege 2, which Seagal starred in and produced, while speaking on her Sirius XM radio show Thursday — something she had previously told to Movieline in 1998 — adding that "a lot of people" had already heard her tell the story.

"I stand across from him and he plops onto a sofa that’s near a fireplace," she recalled. "And he points at the sofa cushion next to him saying to me, 'Take a seat. Relax.' I said, 'No, thank you. I’m just really excited to read for this part. And I have so much energy I need to stand.'"

McCarthy said she wore a loose muumuu outfit so the casting people would "actually look at my face and watch me work," but that her meeting ended up being only her and Seagal.

She said the actor told her there was nudity in the part and that he couldn't tell what her body looked like in the oversized dress she was wearing.

“In my head I’m like, 'Okay. here we go. Sound the alarms, this is not a test, this is the real thing, activate all defense systems,'” she said. “But I so wanted to legitimately read for this part that I wasn’t going to give up yet. So I told him, ‘Listen. My agent says there’s no nudity. I specifically asked her and she said no.'"

She says he told her there was "off-camera nudity," which didn't make sense to her, and asked her to lower her dress. She said she only wanted to read the scene but that he asked again for her to lower the dress “so I can see your breasts."

She paused, says her eyes filled with tears and then yelled back at him, "Go buy my Playboy video — it’s on sale for $19.99." She said he followed her to her car and instructed her not to tell anybody, "or else."

“It was so disheartening,” she said of bursting into tears in her car and fearing his words. She said she was disheartened and ready to move back to Chicago at that point. “I was the last girl that day. How many girls had to take off their clothes? How many girls had to do more? It just so grossed me out.”

Jenny McCarthy's casting couch experience with Steven Seagal (https://soundcloud.com/siriusxmentertainment/jenny-mccarthys-casting-couch-experience-with-steven-seagal)

A rep for Seagal had previously denied the claims to The Daily Beast, saying, “Warner Brothers casting for the film Under Siege 2 has confirmed that Jenny McCarthy never auditioned for a role on Under Siege 2. Her claim is completely false.” THR has reached out for comment.

McCarthy joins actresses Portia de Rossi and Julianna Margulies in speaking out about Seagal, allegations that come during a shift in the Hollywood climate. Seagal was first accused of misconduct and harassment by Inside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero, her allegations sparking others, like actress Rae Dawn Chong, to come forward. The allegations are threaded together by stories of a private meeting or audition with Seagal that developed into the actor either allegedly exposing himself or sexually harassing the actress.

Seagal, along with former Amazon content chief Roy Price, director James Toback, actors Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Piven and Ed Westwick, and, most recently, comedian Louis C.K., have all had allegations leveled against them in wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, which broke early October.

Seagal (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again) & Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

GeneChing

11-14-2017, 02:13 PM

After reading Vikander's news above (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch&p=1306009#post1306009), I was pondering exactly this question.

Why Do So Many Hollywood Men Self-Pleasure for a Captive Audience? (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-do-hollywood-men-pleasure-a-captive-audience-1058102)
11:56 AM PST 11/14/2017 by Rebecca Sun

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Louis C.K. and James Toback

Many thought the act was a rare pathology — until the industry scandal. Experts explain this gross epidemic.
Louis C.K.'s Nov. 9 confession to masturbating in front of multiple women without their consent, following similar graphic allegations against Harvey Weinstein, James Toback and Brett Ratner, shifts the stereotype of the sexual exhibitionist from subway flasher to Hollywood heavyweight. Although the urge to force others to witness sexual acts can be found in individuals at all socio*economic levels (and in all industries), experts say a unique combination of several factors enables that type of predilection among Hollywood's most powerful.

First, whereas the gratification of basic urges — like lust — is typically checked by social layers, "power basically knocks out those constraints," says UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner, author of The Power Paradox. "Power leads people to take the shortest, easiest path to expressing their desire, no matter what the social consequences. And when men have sexual desires, the most immediate way to gratify those is to masturbate."

The cutthroat nature of the entertainment industry also serves as a type of natural selection. "If you look at what it takes to have success in politics or the arts, it's so highly competitive that it almost requires lack of empathy and a predatory nature to get to the top," says Alexandra Katehakis, clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles. "To throw yourself into the public eye, you've got to have a thick skin, which is often accompanied by some pathology, and that pathology is a narcissistic personality that feels highly entitled. You mix that with power and control, and you've got somebody with antisocial behaviors."

L.A.-based psychologist Debra Borys agrees that narcissists are overrepresented in Hollywood and adds that the industry's gatekeeping structure lends itself to abuse. "There tends to be less institutionally codified means of rising and getting through a gate," she says, noting that showbiz's nontraditional meeting venues like hotels and trailers also play a role. "Very few people succeed, and they know it. That gives the people in management more power and makes the people trying to succeed more vulnerable."

OK, but why that act specifically? These factors contribute to "an environment where this may be easier to get away with, or may happen more, for people who already have the proclivity," Borys continues. "But I don't think it creates monsters." In other words, these high-profile incidences may be making headlines, but for these sex experts, it's old hat.

"It's not like it's happening more often," says San Francisco-based sex-trauma specialist Quandra Chaffers. "Frotteurism and exhibitionism have always existed. People are starting to adopt more language to explain what's happened to them. They have ways to talk about people forcing them to watch." In other words, the real surprise is not that it's happening, but that it's been happening all along.

This story appears in the Nov. 15 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

GeneChing

11-14-2017, 02:24 PM

House and Senate Are ‘Among the Worst’ for Harassment, Representative Says (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/sexual-harassment-congress-capitol-hill.html)
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR and KATIE ROGERSNOV. 13, 2017

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Katherine Cichy says she was harassed by her direct supervisor while working for a Democratic senator’s office in 2013. Credit Mason Trinca for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — A senior Senate staff member is accused of trying to tug open a junior aide’s wrap dress at a bar; she said he asked why she was “holding out.” A former aide says a congressman grabbed her backside, then winked as he walked away. A district worker said a House member told her to twirl in a dress for him, then gave her a bonus when he liked what he saw.

As the nation at large deals with lurid stories of sexual harassment, Congress is only beginning to grapple with tales of sexual aggression that have long been fixtures of work life on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, the Committee on House Administration will convene a hearing on harassment in Congress, putting the halls of the Capitol under scrutiny alongside the hotels of Hollywood, the kitchens of New Orleans, the board rooms of Silicon Valley and the suites of New York’s media giants.

In the run-up, about 1,500 former Capitol Hill aides have signed an open letter to House and Senate leaders to demand that Congress put in place mandatory harassment training and revamp the Office of Compliance, the legislative branch’s opaque in-house adjudicator.

“The Congress of the United States should be the one work environment where people are treated with respect, where there isn’t a hostile work environment,” said Representative Jackie Speier, Democrat of California, who will testify on Tuesday about her efforts to deal with harassment in the Capitol. “And frankly, it’s just the opposite. It’s probably among the worst.”

In more than 50 interviews, lawyers, lobbyists and former aides told The New York Times that sexual harassment has long been an occupational hazard for those operating in Washington politics, and victims on Capitol Hill are forced to go through far more burdensome avenues to seek redress than their counterparts in the private sector.

Under federal law, complainants must undergo a confidential process, where co-workers who might be able to provide corroborating evidence are excluded. They often must wait about three months before submitting an official complaint, yet must file one no later than 180 days after the episode. Once filed, victims must submit to up to 30 days of mandatory counseling and complete another 30 days of mediation.

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M. Reese Everson tried to report a member of Congress for flirting with her while she was a fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

If mediation fails, the person then must wait 30 more days before seeking an administrative hearing or filing a lawsuit in Federal District Court.

“The system is so stacked,” said Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer who often works on sexual harassment cases. “They don’t want people to come forward.”

With such rigid policies, even the most dogged complainants may find no avenue for resolution. In one case, a fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, M. Reese Everson, brought a complaint against a House member to the Office of Compliance. But she said the office told her it could not handle her case because, as a fellow and not a full-time employee, she did not fall under its jurisdiction.

She ended up filing her complaints with the District of Columbia government, where they have languished for over two years.

Few deny the growing sense that Congress is, for many women, a hostile workplace. Last Thursday, the Senate approved a resolution that would create mandatory anti-harassment training for all Senate employees and interns, and would require training every two years. At least two other pieces of legislation that would make the changes even broader are in progress.

Kristin Nicholson, a former chief of staff to Representative Jim Langevin, Democrat of Rhode Island, said Congress had not gone far enough. “We think training needs to be in-person to be more effective,” said Ms. Nicholson, who now directs the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University, “and we’re asking for reforms to the opaque process for reporting and resolving harassment claims.”

In interviews, a few who were harassed said they were never even informed of the Office of Compliance’s existence.

Rebecca Weir, a 39-year-old lawyer in Washington, had never heard of the office in 2001 when she said former Representative Gary Miller, Republican of California, asked her to twirl for him in his Diamond Bar, Calif., office.

“He said, ‘My God, you look amazing today. Just stunning.’ And he was kind of leering at me, and then he asked me to twirl,” Ms. Weir recalled. “I was stunned, but I was young and dumb and here’s a member of Congress that I’m working for asking me to twirl in his office. So I did.”

Ms. Weir said Mr. Miller’s chief of staff called from Washington soon after with some news.

“‘Well Rebecca, I don’t know what you did, but Gary just called me and said you can have a $1,250 bonus, effective immediately,’” Ms. Weir recalled.

On Monday, a woman who identified herself as Mr. Miller’s wife, Cathy Miller, denied the allegations. “I know my husband,” she said before adding that the claim was “yellow journalism.”

There also was no mandatory training in place on Katherine Cichy’s 27th birthday in 2013. Ms. Cichy, then an aide for now-retired Senator Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota, was walking through Union Station with colleagues when Ms. Cichy’s direct supervisor repeatedly called her “hot.”

Ms. Cichy reported the episode to her chief of staff at the time, who she said made light of it, saying, “It is what it is.”

Months later, Ms. Cichy took a job in another office. The man who harassed her stayed in Mr. Johnson’s office, as did his former chief of staff, Drey Samuelson, who said on Friday that he had warned the offending employee, “I would fire him, and it never happened again.” He said that he did not make light of the episode.
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GeneChing

11-14-2017, 02:24 PM

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Laura Murphy, the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office, said she endured a number of sexually suggestive incidents as generations of lawmakers cycled in and out of Congress. Credit Al Drago for The New York Times

“Bottom line,” Ms. Cichy said, “my boss told me I was hot, and I had to sit in a room every day and work with him. And they didn’t do anything about it. Nothing.”

For female lobbyists, sexual suggestions appear to be part of the price of access.

In her 40 years on the Hill, Laura W. Murphy, the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office, said she endured a number of sexually suggestive episodes as generations of lawmakers cycled in and out of Congress. In the 1980s, a House member, whose name she would not share, tried to kiss her in the produce aisle at a Capitol Hill grocery store. In the early 2000s, she said a lawmaker asked her for a working dinner, then propositioned her for sex.

“At first it was about work,” Ms. Murphy, 62, said. “But then it devolved into a very blatant overture to have sex.”

Like many women, Ms. Murphy did not report the episodes in part because she believed her career could be negatively affected and because she was not sure where she could turn.

All of the women now coming forward are putting pressure on the Office of Compliance, whose processes date back to the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. Between 1997 and 2014, the United States Treasury paid $15.2 million in 235 awards and settlements for Capitol Hill workplace violations under the office’s byzantine procedures, according to a recent Washington Post analysis of the Office of Compliance.

Susan Tsui Grundmann, the office’s executive director, said that the office had received an increase in requests for harassment training in the past two weeks, and that the five-member board had repeatedly recommended since 2010 that Congress put in place regular mandatory harassment training.

Bradford Fitch, president and chief executive of the Congressional Management Foundation, a group that helps lawmakers and staff run their offices, said sexual harassment was vastly underreported in congressional offices.

This has been the case for decades: In 1989, Alice Cain was 22 and three months into a job as a chief of staff’s assistant for Paul Simon, who was then a Democratic senator from Illinois, when one of his top donors groped her and forcibly kissed her at a fund-raiser held at a Washington hotel.

Ms. Cain, who is now 50 and works for a nonprofit organization, said that several other women in her office had similar experiences with that donor, whom she declined to name out of respect for his family. But she said it was years before the women spoke to one another about the episodes.

“If I go into my boss’s office and say, ‘Oh, this guy did this to me’ — I don’t want to lose my job,” Ms. Cain said. “I think all of us made that calculation.”

She said she decided to share her story belatedly “for the 22-year-olds now.”

Others are reconsidering past experiences, episodes previously brushed off as playful or not a big deal, that register now as assault.

Hannah Hudson was in her early 20s and working for a Democratic congressman from Oklahoma in 2009 when she was joined on a work trip by staff members from a Republican senator’s office. At a work outing, she said, a senior aide for that senator tried to tug open her wrap dress, which she had pinned closed, asking, “Why are you holding out on us?”

Ms. Hudson, who is now 32 and works as a photographer, did not think to report the episode. She said she tried to brush it off because she felt that what had happened to her was not as bad as what had happened to others.

She does remember feeling grateful when a male colleague who silently witnessed the episode pulled her aside privately to ask if she was all right.

“How much of a patriarchal society do we live in that the person who came up to me in private and said, ‘Oh, are you O.K.?’ is the hero?” she asked.

She paused.

“That’s the nice guy in the story.”

Kitty Bennett contributed research.

Back to my point about politics (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch&p=1305537#post1305537), I'm wondering if we should take the 'Hollywood' out of the title of this thread because it's not at all limited to that. I don't really care to sully our forum with too much politics, but sexual misconduct is such a trending topic now, and I know it's not just me and Jimbo who are concerned about it.

GeneChing

11-15-2017, 11:54 AM

Design Sifu & I caught the screener of Justice League (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69640-Justice-League) last night (we'll have a review up on Friday). :cool:

NOVEMBER 15, 2017 7:31am PT by Ashley Lee
Gal Gadot Speaks Out on Brett Ratner and 'Wonder Woman' (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/gal-gadot-speaks-brett-ratner-wonder-woman-1058481)

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Gal Gadot

"There's so many people involved in making this movie, and they all echo the same sentiments."
Gal Gadot has spoken on her stance regarding Brett Ratner.

The star of Wonder Woman was recently said to be refusing to sign on for a sequel if it involved Ratner, who has been plagued with sexual harassment and misconduct allegations. Ratner's RatPac-Dune Entertainment co-financed the initial superhero hit through its slate financing deal with Warner Bros., but such ties have since been severed.

While speaking with Today's Savannah Guthrie, Gadot commented on the removal of Ratner from the Wonder Woman follow-up. "At the end of the day, a lot has been written about my views and the way that I feel, and everyone knows the way that I feel because I'm not hiding anything," she said. "But the truth is, there's so many people involved in making this movie, and they all echo the same sentiments."

"Everyone knew what was the right thing to do, but there was nothing for me to actually come and say, because it was already done before this article came out," she added.

Earlier this month, six women, including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, detailed their experiences with Ratner in a Los Angeles Times exposé (Ratner's attorney Martin Singer denied all of the accusations in a 10-page letter to the Times). Warner Bros. will honor the financing deal through the end of its contract in March, as RatPac-Dune Entertainment is financing several films on the studio's upcoming slate: Justice League, the Owen Wilson-Ed Helms feature Father Figures, Clint Eastwood's 15:17 to Paris, the ensemble comedy Game Night, the Tomb Raider reboot and Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One.

Wonder Woman 2 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70375-Wonder-Woman-2) & Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

Jimbo

11-16-2017, 09:05 AM

I'm wondering if we should take the 'Hollywood' out of the title of this thread because it's not at all limited to that. I don't really care to sully our forum with too much politics, but sexual misconduct is such a trending topic now, and I know it's not just me and Jimbo who are concerned about it.

Hi, Gene.

Yes, sexual misconduct does go way beyond Hollywood/the entertainment industry (EI). However, it does seem that when it comes out in the EI, people take notice/interest. Probably because they want the salacious details on who/what/when/where, etc. Accounts of this have been happening for years, but for some reason only began taking off with Bill Cosby, then of course with the Weinstein thing. Because of the latter, that has now made this subject so prominent, and no longer apt to be buried in the back page; that accusations of sexual misconduct/molestation are opening up in politics, sports (Olympic gymnastics), etc., etc., are being brought to light.

Now, I'm not saying that every single sexual harassment allegation is true. Obviously, false allegations exist. BUT, IMO, in these types of cases, leveling a false accusation against the types of people now being openly accused for the first time would be a terribly risky and stupid proposition. Meaning that most accusers stand little to gain and a lot to lose by falsely accusing men (and also some women) in power, or who at least have power over their chosen target(s). Those types of people who would level false accusations out of spite, or to gain some notoriety, are just as bad as perpetrators, as they damage the credibility of accusations that are true.

There is also a lot of victim blaming going on in cases where it's pretty clear that the allegations are true. I don't think that such blamers have any concept of what abuse victims have endured, and how much courage it takes to come forward. I've personally known people (women AND at least one man) who were sexually abused/raped as children, and have seen the effect it's had on their lives. Which is why I feel so strongly about this subject.

I still think it's odd that what Corey Feldman and other, mostly male former child actors have been saying for years is being overlooked in all this; pedophilia against boys by powerful men. It's also occurred outside of the EI; remember the Sandusky/Paterno scandal? This #metoo movement is still being seen as only a women's and girls' issue, when in reality the rabbit hole goes much deeper than that. I said this in my first post. It doesn't help that Rose McGowan seems to be blaming every male on the planet for either committing or abetting the rape and harassment of women.

GeneChing

11-16-2017, 09:33 AM

True - Hollywood is in the spotlight by definition. And also true that it's been accepted there - the 'casting couch' has been with it since the golden era of Hollywood studios. Although I'd argue that people tend to take notice when it's a politician or a religious leader because the hypocrisy is so glaring. We don't really expect Hollywood figures to abide by a moral code beyond what we'd apply to any citizen, not like the 'paragon of virtue' that is expected of a religious leader. And we all assume politicians are inherently corrupt, so that's more of an affirmation.

So we'll let the post title stand, but I'm still going to post harassment cases outside of Hollywood here, just because it would get too muddy to start another thread.

GeneChing

11-16-2017, 10:04 AM

Jenny McCarthy: Steven Seagal followed me to my car, asked me not to tell (http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/11/15/jenny-mccarty-steven-seagal-followed-me-to-my-car-asked-me-not-to-tell.html)
By Matthew Wisner Published November 15, 2017 Media & Advertising FOXBusiness Opens a New Window.

Jenny McCarthy recounts alleged sexual harassment at an audition with Steven Seagal

Actress and 'Blondies' creator Jenny McCarthy on her new line of cocktails and the alleged sexual harassment she faced in Hollywood.
The sexual harassment scandal in Hollywood that initially began with allegations against Harvey Weinstein continues to expand, revealing a seemingly industry-wide issue. Movie director Brett Ratner now faces multiple allegations while “One Tree Hill” creator and executive producer Mark Schwann was accused of sexual harassment by cast members including Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton.

Actress, model and “Blondies” creator Jenny McCarthy, who was also an MTV host like Hilarie Burton, discussed the alleged sexual harassment she faced in an audition with Steven Seagal when she began making the transition from modeling to acting.

“I went into an audition and wore a long muumuu-type dress that he [Seagal] could pay attention to my eyes. I did, I looked like Mrs. Roper, you know because I wanted to be taken seriously, I was Playmate of the Year at the time and not many people take a Playmate of the Year seriously at all,” McCarthy told the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings with Maria.”

According to McCarthy, Seagal commented on the dress.

“He asked if I would lower my dress because my dress was too baggy and I said ‘no.’ And he said ‘well, there’s nudity in this movie.’”

But when McCarthy countered that there was no nudity in the movie, she says Seagal replied “there’s off-camera nudity.”

She says she then left after telling Seagal, “no…go ahead and pick up my Playboy video, it’s on sale.”

But Seagal reportedly followed McCarthy to her car and said “don’t tell anyone.”

After the audition McCarthy says she called her mom and vowed to tell the world once she became famous.

When asked if she was surprised to hear about the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, McCarthy responded, “Not at all, I’m surprised it took so long though for the world to really start talking about it.”

If it seems like I'm harping on Seagal (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again) the most with the Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch) scandals, it's true. He's a martial artist. He's one of us. So I find this most repugnant. It's also true that in America, we're innocent until proven guilty, but the preponderance of evidence on Seagal's character is overwhelming. We need to clean our own house.

Jimbo

11-16-2017, 10:04 AM

Absolutely, Gene. Although it has 'Hollywood' in the title, this thread is open to all such stories.

Do you remember a few years ago, there was a fundamentalist Christian politician (a congressman??) who was virulently anti-gay, yet was caught trying to initiate gay sex in a public restroom by pushing a note under the stall divider to another man? I also seem to recall another, similar politician, with similar beliefs, getting caught trying the same thing, under similar circumstances.

Hypocrisy indeed.

I don't believe anything that any politician and most religious leaders say, because most say what they do to promote whatever self-serving (or sectarian or party-serving) agenda they have. Even on the odd occasion they speak some truth, it's always mixed with falsities. This is true for both Republicans/conservatives and Democrats/"liberals". The whole political party thing is merely smoke and mirrors, anyway.

GeneChing

11-16-2017, 10:13 AM

I think you're referring to Republican senator Larry Craig. He solicited an undercover cop in the men's room at the airport.

Jimbo

11-20-2017, 09:06 AM

With that scumbag Charles Manson now dead, I'm reminded of the fact that Bruce Lee was one of many who were investigated in the Tate-LaBianca murders. Roman Polanski had been a student of BL, and BL had mentioned having lost a pair of glasses, possibly on the Benedict Canyon estate.

What does this have to do with prominent people and rape and/or pedophilia?

In the linked article, read a few paragraphs down, where BL told then-publisher of Black Belt magazine, Mito Uyehara, about the lifestyle of Polanski and his rich friends in Switzerland, where Polanski had flown BL to for private lessons. It seems that BL was well aware of Roman Polanski's propensities for young, underage girls years before Polanski was forced to permanently flee the U.S. for having sex with a 13 year-old girl.

And until very recently, many 'A-list' Hollywood celebrities (including Meryl Streep) still continued to praise Roman "Pedo" Polanski as a great man who should be pardoned.

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/vault/exotics/bruce-lee-investigated-manson-murders

GeneChing

11-20-2017, 09:33 AM

Bruce knew and worked with Sharon Tate.

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28200000/Bruce-with-Sharon-Tate-bruce-lee-28246925-420-500.jpg

Jimbo

11-20-2017, 10:11 AM

Bruce knew and worked with Sharon Tate.

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28200000/Bruce-with-Sharon-Tate-bruce-lee-28246925-420-500.jpg

Yes, indeed. Bruce did the fight choreography for The Wrecking Crew, and trained Sharon Tate and Nancy Kwan for their fight scene. I don't know if Bruce taught Sharon any more beyond that (possibly).

BTW, The Wrecking Crew was the actual debut movie appearance of Chuck Norris, as well as Joe Lewis and Kenpo karate pioneer Ed Parker as henchmen, in which they were beaten by Dean Martin.

Jimbo

11-27-2017, 11:20 AM

Terry Crews' experience was mentioned earlier in this thread, and here he goes into detail about it. Terry Crews is 100% correct on this. What he says about Hollywood/the entertainment industry is applicable to any other environment/profession/pursuit. This entire interview is worth listening to. And once again, if this can happen to someone like Terry Crews, it can happen to anyone. This is also proof positive that sexual harassment is not only a women's issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jNFymV3J-M&sns=em

GeneChing

11-27-2017, 12:07 PM

Posting this one because of the Black Belt (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ranking-belts.html) reference.

TRUMP HAS A 'BLACK BELT IN SEXUAL IMPROPRIETY' ACTOR BILLY BALDWIN TELLS PRESIDENT'S SON (http://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-black-belt-sexual-impropriety-actor-billy-baldwin-tells-presidents-721324)
BY GRAHAM LANKTREE ON 11/24/17 AT 7:50 AM

Actor Billy Baldwin publicly slammed President Donald Trump for being a master of sexual impropriety during an online argument with Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., on Thursday.

Baldwin told Trump Jr. - and everyone else on Twitter - that over 20 years ago, the future President of the United States gate-crashed a private party and hit on Baldwin's wife-to-be, Chynna Phillips, attempting to entice her onto a helicopter ride to his casino.

“Your Dad is a 5th degree black belt when it comes to sexual impropriety allegations. In fact… I once had a party at the Plaza Hotel… your father showed up uninvited & hit on my wife… invited her on his helicopter to Atlantic City. She showed his fat ass the door,” Baldwin tweeted at Trump Jr.

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Baldwin’s angry tweet was a response to Trump Jr.’s posts about allegations from several women against Democratic Senator Al Franken, who they said touched them inappropriately.

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Trump Jr.'s criticism of Sen. Franken’s behaviour led people to accuse him of a double standard, because at least 16 women have accused President Trump of conduct ranging from harassment to sexual assault.

In October 2016 an outtake emerged from a 2005 Access Hollywood interview, in which Trump said that you can do whatever you want to women “when you're a star.”

“Grab 'em by the *****. You can do anything,” Trump is heard saying in the tape after relating a story about making advances to a married woman. "I moved on her like a *****,” Trump said.

Nearly a dozen women came forward in the later days of the 2016 election campaign accusing Trump of sexual misconduct, including a former contestant from his show The Apprentice and a journalist who interviewed him for People magazine.

Billy Baldwin is the brother of actor Alec Baldwin, who has also been critical of Trump and often makes guest appearances on Saturday Night Live playing the president.

A source who claims to have been at the Plaza Hotel party spoke to the Daily News on Friday. “Trump came barging in and started saying, ‘Let’s get in my helicopter, let’s blow this party and get out of here,’” they said.

Baldwin and Phillips were married in 1995. Trump owned the Plaza Hotel between 1988 and 1995, when he sold off a controlling stake as part of a bankruptcy deal.

After pushing his way into the small party, the source said, Trump looked Phillips “up and down” and “tried to coerce her into getting in his helicopter.”

“(Phillips) laughed uncomfortably at the prospect and said thanks but no thanks,” said the source.

GeneChing

11-27-2017, 12:13 PM

'KILL BILL' STAR UMA THURMAN DECLARES #METOO, SAYS WEINSTEIN DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE A BULLET (http://www.newsweek.com/what-happened-uma-thurman-kill-bill-actor-blasts-harvey-weinstein-declares-721303)
BY TUFAYEL AHMED ON 11/24/17 AT 6:32 AM

Uma Thurman is going full Kill Bill on Harvey Weinstein.

The actor shared a powerful message on Thanksgiving Thursday, revealing that she, too, has been a victim of sexual harassment and called out Hollywood producer Weinstein, who was one of the people behind her hit film Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies.

Thurman shared a screenshot of her vengeful Kill Bill character The Bride and captioned it: “I am grateful today, to be alive, for all those I love, and for all those who have the courage to stand up for others.

“I said I was angry recently, and I have a few reasons, #metoo, in case you couldn’t tell by the look on my face.”

Follow (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb2h0hBlV3T/)

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H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G

I am grateful today, to be alive, for all those I love, and for all those who have the courage to stand up for others.
I said I was angry recently, and I have a few reasons, #metoo, in case you couldn’t tell by the look on my face.
I feel it’s important to take your time, be fair, be exact, so... Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators - I’m glad it’s going slowly - you don’t deserve a bullet) -stay tuned
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The #MeToo hashtag has been used by victims of sexual harassment on Twitter in the last several weeks to speak openly about their experiences and call for the accountability of alleged culprits.

The actor, 47, hinted that a more detailed disclosure was to come, concluding her message with a particularly withering remark to Weinstein. “I feel it’s important to take your time, be fair, be exact, so... Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators - I’m glad it’s going slowly - you don’t deserve a bullet.)"

"Stay tuned,” Thurman added.

The actor has most recently responded to the dozens of rape and sexual assault accusations against Weinstein in a brisk red carpet interview ahead of the premiere of her Broadway play, The Parisian Woman, in mid-October. A seething Thurman told Access Hollywood she has been “waiting to feel less angry” before coming forward with her own story about sexual harassment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4gK8DuuWY

Among Weinstein's nearly 90 accusers are actors Rose McGowan, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. Paltrow liked Thurman’s post Thursday and commented with a fist bump emoji. It’s not clear if Thurman is implying that she, too, was the victim of sexual abuse by the producer. Representatives for the actor did not immediately return Newsweek’s request for comment.

Weinstein was instrumental in some of Thurman’s biggest movie collaborations with Quentin Tarantino. The producer distributed Tarantino’s first directorial effort, Reservoir Dogs, and later Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.

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After numerous women came forward with allegations of abuse by Weinstein in October, Tarantino admitted that he “knew enough to do more than I did.”

Tarantino told The New York Times he was aware that Weinstein had inappropriately touched his then-girlfriend, the actor Mira Sorvino, in 1995, a story she recounted to The New Yorker in October.

However, the filmmaker said he had heard other stories about Weinstein’s alleged predatory behavior but did not consider them too seriously. “I chalked it up to a ’50s-’60s era image of a boss chasing a secretary around the desk. As if that’s O.K. That’s the egg on my face right now."

An Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch/page3) meets Kill Bill (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?18892-Kill-Bill)

David Jamieson

11-27-2017, 01:59 PM

point of interest:

If America wasn't so rooted in puritanism none of this would matter and also, none of this would have happened!

The line is very blurred when it comes to what is appropriate(a pick up line, a physical gesture that is expressive, but not overtly sexual).
That is wholly because of the whole hate of sexuality that permeates the spiritual realm of America and get's diametrically opposed to the social more ultimately.

this doesn't advocate rape, which is of course overpowering and forcing someone to do something they really don't want to without question.
And as for taking advantage of kids, I think those people should be chemically castrated and have their sexuality essentially removed from them because they are broken.

Yes, some people are broken and should be regarded as such and disallowed from having access to having that broken attribute rise to the top.

2 cents

Jimbo

11-27-2017, 02:23 PM

I recently recalled something I was told back around the mid-1990s. It was in court reporting school (I used to work as a stenographer). The woman who told me this was also a student at the school, in her 40s at the time.

She said that during the '70s she worked as a flight attendant, and on one flight, Senator Ted Kennedy and family members were passengers. She said he was drunk, and during the flight he cornered her in the area where the drinks were kept on the plane. She said he was talking dirty to her and kept trying to kiss her and feeling her up. She said she gently pushed away from him several times, but that he only laughed and kept at it. She said he smirked when he told her, "Do you know who I am? If you tell anyone, nobody will believe you." She said he eventually returned to his seat. She also said that Kennedy's kids were out of control, entitled little brats.

Her word for Ted Kennedy was "creep".

MarathonTmatt

11-27-2017, 06:37 PM

My 2 cents..

First, it is a shame that things like this happen on such a scale in the first place. But with that said, I am really hoping that this issue will come further and further into the attention and mind's of people everywhere, and that whatever perpetrators are involved (the Harvey Weinstein's, etc.) will be exposed en masse. There needs to be a giant cleansing of these abusers in powerful positions in general. I hope this issue reaches a critical mass and that enough people are prosecuted by the court systems and go to jail. It just goes to show how big the problem is when that "nice" reporter from PBS (public broadcasting system), Charlie Rose, gets fired from his job due to sexual allegations and misconduct.

One reason why I think that this problem is so rampant in society today is because the "cult of materialism." There is a good video featuring Jim Carrey at the "Golden Globe Awards":

https://youtu.be/a9J8GaeDqVc

The first time I saw this speech by Jim Carrey it was broken down by someone who seemed to be a Christian evangelist. Irregardless of one's belief systems or spirituality, the uploader had a point: here is a "cult" of materialists worshipping false idols. Again, no wonder this kind of a problem is rampant in "Holly-Weird". Heck, it is a problem in the Catholic Church too (probably in many denominations of churches actually), one of the reasons why I am not overly fond of organized religion. I remember seeing a video of the Pope from the 90's, riding in his procession of cars down the Vatican with his golden staff, golden necklace, and decked out in jewelry. A woman from the crowd tried to touch his garments, probably thinking she would be blessed or something if she did so. She was tackled onto the ground by one of his body guards. That just shows me right there, "nope, nothing holy what-so-ever about the so-called Pope."

Well, anyway. Not to get too OT. I think the Earth is going through some changes right now. An awakening of consciousness even. These people are being called out and exposed for what they truly are: filthy, greedy, guilty pigs. Hopefully there is a balancing of the scales. Let's hope that these issues keep getting the attention it needs to bring these wrong-doings to light.

Jimbo

12-06-2017, 10:44 AM

Thanks for contributing, Matt. I very much agree.

And Gene, I am now seeing that the whole sexual harassment/rape/molestation thing IS worse in politics than anywhere else. Where else can someone (Moore) be a serial sexual harasser and/or pedophile and have a majority/extremely high percentage of colleagues (in the same political party) and constituents still fully supporting him? "He says he didn't do it, so I believe him." Of course. What else is he going to say? "I did do it, but you should still vote for me."

Nowadays, people put the blinders on, as long as the accused is 'their man' or in their political party. Let it be anyone else, and it's "Let 'em burn in hell!"

And there have been sexual assault accusations against Trump since long before he ever became a presidential candidate. But while Teflon Don is always quick to point the finger at others who are accused, he himself always gets a pass. It's gotten to the point of absurdity, and would actually be funny if it weren't so real. Trump now says that wasn't his voice on the tape with Billy Bush, even though he already admitted it was him last year. And his hard-core supporters believe him regardless. One thing Trump said IS true: Trump could walk up to some random person in New York City and shoot him openly in plain sight, and his supporters would still love him. Now change that scenario to him sexually assaulting any woman.

At least Hollywood is taking this seriously and serious actions are starting to be taken. Even though I believe it comes from a monetary motive instead of a moral/ethical one. Hollywood is the epitome of artificial self-righteousness.

David Jamieson

12-06-2017, 11:26 AM

Could all be a dog and pony show to get people worked up and finally oust trump for his multiple acts of sexual harassment?
I mean, that's an out there idea, but I've seen examples of CIA crazy moves in the past especially when they get in bed with the pentagon and have an idea.
There is also a surprising amount of people who really don't care about it and there is a huge spectrum of what is being labeled as harassment.
No actual criminal charges per se either. Lot's of emotional stuff though. Weird. Not to diminish sexual assault victims either, because I think that's being done by those who are making accusations over innuendo from 30 years ago. It seems the train is being used to force old congressmen out of office who can't even remember the events but they leave anyway because they are too old and too tired to deal with it.

The Taylor Swift way was the most transparent I think. It was immediate and resolved in court. Boom! Not sure how trial by public humiliation is even allowed to become a thing.

Also, does anyone else notice that Trump is almost never in the Oval office anymore? He's always in the dining room surrounded by others in his admin etc.
I think they are keeping him on a super short leash and trying to stuff as much in their pockets as they can before they dump him, force him to resign or drag him out in cuffs.

Let's get some popcorn and see what happens?

mickey

12-07-2017, 12:25 PM

Greetings,

David Jamieson may be on to something. The real agenda to Occupy Wall Street was to prevent a second Obama term. Could the funk that is being generated/orchestrated throughout the media really about preventing a second term of Trump?? I mean, since when does the media cut off it's arm, in this case d!ck, without being able to grow another one?

mickey

GeneChing

12-07-2017, 01:06 PM

...should we post that article? Well, here's a link: THE SILENCE BREAKERS (http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/)

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/person-of-year-2017-time-magazine-cover1.jpg?w=1000&quality=95

And Gene, I am now seeing that the whole sexual harassment/rape/molestation thing IS worse in politics than anywhere else. Where else can someone (Moore) be a serial sexual harasser and/or pedophile and have a majority/extremely high percentage of colleagues (in the same political party) and constituents still fully supporting him? "He says he didn't do it, so I believe him." Of course. What else is he going to say? "I did do it, but you should still vote for me."

Right?! And they said it was gay marriage that was going to lead to pedophilia. :rolleyes:

The Taylor Swift way was the most transparent I think. It was immediate and resolved in court. Boom! Not sure how trial by public humiliation is even allowed to become a thing.

OK, confession time. I'm a T-swizzle fan. :o
I moonlight in the concert industry, and she puts on a great show. Plus she really won me over with her Bad Blood video (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?36569-Kung-Fu-Music&p=1284026#post1284026). And her testimony seals it:

Taylor Swift’s Best Comebacks During Her Cross-Examination at Her Sexual-Assault Trial (http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/taylor-swifts-best-comebacks-at-her-sexual-assault-trial.html)
By Jordan Crucchiola

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The day after Taylor Swift’s mom told the court that she wanted to “vomit and cry” upon learning about her daughter’s alleged groping at the hands of a radio DJ named David Mueller during a meet and greet, Swift herself took the stand to testify at the trial — which is a countersuit, as Mueller sued Swift first over her groping allegations, which allegedly led to him losing his job. But while her mom reportedly became emotional giving testimony about the 2013 incident, it sounds like Swift stayed beyond cool during her time on the stand, taking any chance she could to cut the opposition attorney, Gabe McFarland, down to size. Leaving behind any formalities like “sir,” Swift simply called Mueller’s attorney Gabe, and delivered a series of what can only be described as dry one-liners in response to some of his questions. Let’s take stock of these responses, shall we?

* After the alleged incident, Swift continued her meet and greet despite feeling stunned, because she says she didn’t want other fans to know what had happened. When Mueller’s attorney told Swift she could have taken a break if she was feeling so truly distressed, she shot back with, “And your client could have taken a normal photo with me.”

* McFarland also tried to redirect accountability to Swift’s bodyguard, who he said could have reacted to protect her if an assault really did occur. She reminded McFarland that her bodyguard, Greg Dent, is not the one who supposedly assaulted her, saying, “I’m critical of your client sticking his hand under my skirt and grabbing my ass.”

* Upon referring to the photo of Mueller and Swift from the night in question, McFarland told Swift that there is nothing visibly inappropriate going on. Swift, however, did not leave her media blackout or one of her many homes she owns in the United States to be gaslighted in Denver. “Gabe, this is a photo of him with his hand up my skirt — with his hand on my ass,” she told him. “You can ask me a million questions — I’m never going to say anything different. I never have said anything different.”

* Further using the photo as evidence of no wrongdoing, McFarland told Swift that the front of her skirt showed no signs of displacement. Swift came through with the facts for him: “Because my ass is located in the back of my body.”

* Mueller attended the meet and greet with his then-girlfriend, Shannon Melcher. McFarland pointed out to Swift that she was closer to Melcher than Mueller in the photo, at which point she reminded McFarland that no, she’s not confused about which hand might have been “latched” onto her: “Yes, she did not have her hand on my ass.”

* When the lawyer asked how Swift felt about Mueller losing his job at a radio station following their encounter: “I’m not going to allow you or your client make me feel in any way that this is my fault,” Swift said. “Here we are years later, and I’m being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are the product of his decisions — not mine.”

* Swift’s best response may have come when she explained why no one else saw Mueller grabbing what Swift called “a handful of my ass.” Swift with the logistics: “The only person who would have a direct eye line is someone laying underneath my skirt and we didn’t have anyone positioned there.”

* This whole thing started because in 2015, Mueller sued Swift for millions of dollars in compensation for the loss of his job and damage to his reputation following the alleged assault. Mueller claims Swift’s team slandered him to his former employer, and therefore got him fired. At that point Swift countersued for sexual assault, seeking literally $1 in damages, and she asserts neither she nor her team are responsible for his termination. When McFarland asked Swift if she thinks Mueller got what he deserved, she said this: “I don’t feel anything about Mr. Mueller. I don’t know him.”

Gabe clearly did not do his research before cross-examination, otherwise he would have known that Taylor Swift is the master of shady comebacks — after all, she did release her entire, long-awaited catalogue onto Spotify the same day Katy Perry released her latest album. Taylor doesn’t come to play, ever.

Jimbo

12-07-2017, 01:17 PM

David and mickey:

Or it could be that Trump is a "useful idiot" being used by the real power behind the scenes to pass agendas that otherwise would have had far more opposition from the mainstream public. Since Trump has so many @ss-kissers in government and worshippers among his supporters, to them, nothing he does can be wrong. If Trump were to say, "I want someone to literally kiss my @ss," his cabinet would be jostling and shoving each other out of the way, hands raised, all yelling, "Mr. President, Sir! Let me be the one!" Then Paul Ryan would apply Chapstick and say, "I 've got first dibs! Mr. President, exactly how would you like that @ss kiss, Sir?"

mickey

12-07-2017, 03:58 PM

Greetings Jimbo,

The one thing that I can say about Trump is that he is NOT on the inside track with anyone. There has been continued concerted effort to control him from within the government and to control perceptions of him through media. These guys are NOT his friends at all. His stand on human trafficking probably sent a rippled gasp to those powered elite that eventually found its way to Hollywood.

mickey

mickey

12-07-2017, 04:23 PM

Jimbo

12-07-2017, 05:32 PM

More,

Jimbo,

Two weeks before you started this thread, I was going to start a thread on Stanley Kubrik's "Eyes Wide Shut" that softly dealt with mind control and s3xual programming, a la MK- Ultra, for the power elite worldwide. When I saw your thread, I realized that the energies are hitting us similarly. The damage control that is being played out is in keeping the public from seeing just how deep this matter goes. It is very deep. And if it can be directed against President Trump in a way that dethrones him and gives them a chance to breath again, Great! This problem is not the deepest in Hollywood. It is global.

mickey

Thanks, mickey!

I do agree that this stuff goes WAAAAAYYY deeper and much higher than people are aware of. TBH, I wasn't sure I was ready to breach the subject that Eyes Wide Shut was trying to portray. As you say, it was dealt with softly, as I'm certain the reality is much worse than the movie.

Bringing it back to a Hollywood example, I've often considered the extremely bizarre, over-the-top behavior/meltdowns of many of the former Disney child stars. Are their extreme meltdowns a result of more than the pressures of fame/public life/recreational drugs? Such as some type of programming breaking down?

OTOH, even if Trump isn't on the inside track in Washington, it's a mistake to say that Trump isn't one of the elites. The difference is he OPENLY lacks empathy, impulse control, and is OPENLY narcissistic in the extreme. These and others of his traits clearly mark Trump as a sociopath or psychopath. Many others with those very same traits might be better at giving the outward appearance of 'normalcy' (i.e., faking it), like most(?) of the other presidents and world leaders. And anyone higher up behind the scenes doesn't have to worry about how they appear to the public, exactly because they stay behind the scenes.

mickey

12-07-2017, 07:55 PM

it's a mistake to say that Trump isn't one of the elites....... Many others with those very same traits might be better at giving the outward appearance of 'normalcy' (i.e., faking it), like most(?) of the other presidents and world leaders.

When the recording of then Donald Trump was made public, it was obvious (to me, at least) he was talking about the world that Kubrik softly alluded to, a world of seggual submissives. Clearly, he had opportunity to be a part of the elite and he turned it down. People were shocked at what he said during that recording; yet no one in government nor media expressed shock at what he was seeing (eyes wide shut). I believe his stand on human trafficking had a lot to do with what he saw at that function and it was his way of driving a stake back into the hearts and giblets of the people who were/are trying so hard to take him down. He knows how to fight.

When it comes to media presence. Most politicians have had time to think about certain events it because they get the news a few days before the general public does. It appears that President Trump has not been given that courtesy and receives the info when the general public receives it, making him appear completely unpolished.

Jimbo, if you have a moment, close your eyes and simply listen and visualize what he is seeing during that infamous recording. It is hard hitting. When I first heard the recording, I went, "My God! That world is real!"

mickey

Jimbo

12-07-2017, 08:55 PM

I don't know, mickey. When I heard that recording, I wasn't shocked at all. All I heard was that Trump thinks he can do anything to anyone he wants to because he's a 'celebrity'. I did not see it as him alluding to some 'Eyes Wide Shut' scenario.

IMO, the people in power at all levels are pretty much all bad guys (and gals). If they hadn't wanted Trump to win, he would not have won, regardless of votes (which he supposedly lost the 'popular vote', anyway). Not that Hillary would have been any good; she's one of them. That doesn't make Trump a hero, though. He only does something if it's to benefit himself, his bank account, or his ego. Even if he's not really a part of 'the club', Trump is definitely a part of other 'clubs'.

Jimbo

12-08-2017, 11:19 AM

Also...

Last night I looked around on YouTube for a video that gives a good, general overview of the hidden depravity of Hollywood. If anyone is interested in exploring this further, I strongly recommend checking out these videos:

Hollywood Exposed (The Banned Documentary) Part 1

Hollywood Exposed (The Banned Documentary) Part 2

Ignoring the brief interruption during Part 1, in which the guy who compiled the various clips asks for people to subscribe, these are disturbing in the extreme, and I'm certain extend FAR beyond the Hollywood entertainment industry. IMO, this brief, 2-part documentary comes the closest to revealing the depths of the depravity in its various forms. And mickey: Eyes Wide Shut and Stanley Kubrick are mentioned in the second part.

Note:

I did NOT embed or include links to these videos because I don't know if some of the content is appropriate to be posted here, even in THIS thread. Plus, I didn't WANT them directly linked. Also...when I watched them last night, I felt physically (and energetically) uncomfortable (slightly nauseated). Even having had some awareness of these things already, to see them talked about so graphically on video; in particular, the accounts from alleged eyewitnesses, plus some of the footage, insured that, although IMO this is important info on the subject, I will not be watching them again.

GeneChing

12-13-2017, 09:02 AM

Crap. I've known Bey for over a quarter century. We've done some business and corresponded for years. I've never met him face to face. Anyone in the business of HK film knows Bey. He's been an important figure there for years. I really hope these accusations aren't true.

Harvey Weinstein’s Hong Kong Associate Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women (Report) (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-weinstein-s-hong-kong-associate-accused-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women-report-1066921)
4:48 PM PST 12/12/2017 by THR Staff

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Bey Logan

Bey Logan, who worked as Asia vp at The Weinstein Co. from 2005 to 2009, has been accused by seven women of sexually inappropriate behavior according to a local investigative news report.
Bey Logan, a former Hong Kong-based Weinstein Co. vp and close associate of Harvey Weinstein, has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women.

In an exposé from Hong Kong investigative news site HK01 published on Wednesday morning local time, seven women accuse Logan of sexually inappropriate behavior. The Logan report is part of a three-part investigation by writer Selina Cheng on sexual harassment in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

A British-born martial-arts enthusiast, Logan moved to Asia in the 1990s in the hopes of breaking into the Hong Kong film industry. Logan worked on a number of local films in the 2000s, before working for TWC from 2005 to 2009 as Asia vp. Since 2009, Logan has worked sporadically with Weinstein, co-producing 2016's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Sword of Destiny, and has often accompanied the producer on his visits to Hong Kong, Beijing and other Asian cities.

Among the seven women making allegations against Logan is Indonesian-Chinese former actress Sable Yu, who starred in the unfinished Logan-helmed film Snowblade.

In 2011, Yu was the lead actress in Snowblade, a genre film involving "martial arts, violence, and nudity," according to Logan's own description in a written statement sent to HK01. Yu tells HK01 in an on-camera interview that Logan made her strip to her underwear on a daily basis so that he could inspect her body "for whether or not she had gained weight," apparently due to the amount of nudity the film required.

On another occasion, Yu tells of a time Logan tweaked her nipple in front of the whole crew, an act that made her "livid." "This is very degrading to a woman," Yu says of the incident. "I felt that somebody literally threw **** in my face."

Yu tells HK01 that Logan, whose wife is a lawyer, habitually threatened her with legal action when she tried to quit the film due to the psychological pressure.

Logan apparently also exposed himself and more to Yu, she says. Yu recounts that once when the two of them were in an office alone, Logan told her that he was having an erection, and asked her, "Do you want to see my big dick?" After she declined, he proceeded to take out his ***** and grabbed her hand to touch it. "Do you want it?" he asked again, to which she also refused. Yu told HK01 that because she thought at the time it did not count as a serious violation of her body, she did not resist more vigorously.

Hong Kong-based writer and producer Joe Fiorello corroborates to HK01 that Yu told him at the time about her concerns about the amount of nudity in Snowblade, as well as the nipple-tweaking and exposure incidents.

Yu also told HK01 that she was traumatized by the Snowblade experience and that she's still seeking help from both a psychologist and a psychiatrist to this day.

Yu was not alone. The HK01 report includes six other women who reveal their encounters with Logan that veered toward either the sexually inappropriate or direct harassment. One of them, an Australian-Chinese actress based in Beijing who chose to remain anonymous, said she worked as Logan's interpreter on the set of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Sword of Destiny in the Chinese capital in 2015. After a 20-hour day working on the Great Wall of China, Logan offered up his hotel room to the actress for a short rest, as she was not allocated one due to her Beijing residence.

The actress recalls being woken up by Logan's presence in the bed. He then kissed her, tried to take off her clothes and put his head between her legs. She pushed him away and stopped him. "He wanted to perform oral sex on me, and took off my underwear," she tells HK01. "I said, 'no, don't do that.'" She said she felt his erection, and he told her, "I need something." The actress says she immediately left the hotel after saying no to Logan.

Another woman, who also wished to keep her identity private, and who also experienced an "unpleasant" meeting with Harvey Weinstein, tells of the time when she and Logan were on location in Foshan, China. The women tells HK01 that Logan forcibly kissed her and pinned her down on the bed in her hotel room. She eventually escaped by answering a phone call.

After the main investor of Logan's Snowblade pulled out in 2011, the project was halted and left unfinished. However, from 2012 until early 2017, Logan continued to host casting sessions for the female lead of the film. Allegedly, according to five women who attended the casting sessions and who spoke with HK01, he would often ask them to be half or fully nude.

When pressed about these allegations, Logan said in a telephone interview with HK01, "I definitely never forced myself on anybody, never had to force myself on anybody."

He added: "The complaints that you have… is the things that I tried to do, rather than anything that actually happened."

In the same telephone interview, Logan described Yu as "crazy" and that he had "too many girlfriends." "I had consensual relationships with girls who perhaps fell in love with me and, you know, I wasn't being serious, that kind of thing, which I think is quite common," he said.

"That is something in my own heart I have to atone for," he added.

In a later written statement to HK01, Logan wrote: "I regret that any actions I might have taken could have caused distress to anyone. I was insensitive because my position and the industry's culture had allowed me to consider my behavior then acceptable."

Logan also wrote that "most of the accusations now made and elicited in this article are either untrue or taken out of context... I categorically deny any criminal wrongdoing," he wrote.

"I will now step back and take time to reflect on my behaviour and the values which I should uphold," he added.

Thread: An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)
Thread: An old Bey Logan interview with Chan Wai Man (copying this here because it's the only thread with Bey's name in the title, but I'll update on the Open Secret thread). (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?60052-An-old-Bey-Logan-interview-with-Chan-Wai-Man)

GeneChing

12-13-2017, 09:08 AM

Here's a link to Bey's statement that he issued on Facebook last night (https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211288426827951&id=1278294946&set=a.1439901479045.2065330.1278294946&source=48).

It's all over the press now.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S FRIEND BEY LOGAN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT BY MULTIPLE WOMEN IN HONG KONG (http://www.newsweek.com/harvery-weinstein-friend-associate-accused-sexual-assault-bey-logan-746639)
BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 12/13/17 AT 9:57 AM

Seven women in Hong Kong have accused Bey Logan, a close friend of Harvey Weinstein and former Asia vice-president of The Weinstein Company, of sexual harassment.

The allegations against Logan, who Weinstein has described as his “friend and colleague,” were revealed in three investigative reports published by HK01 magazine.

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Bey Logan pictured with some friends. The Hong Kong-based film producer, who was close friends with Harvey Weinstein has been accused by seven actresses in Hong Kong of sexual misconduct.
BEY LOGAN FACEBOOK

The report details the accusations of seven Asian actresses, including Sable Yu, who starred in Snowblade, an unfinished film that was backed by Logan.

Among the allegations, Yu claims Logan touched her breast on set in front of a film crew. “This is very degrading to a woman,” Yu said. “I felt that somebody literally threw **** in my face.” The actress added that the executive threatened her with legal action when she tried to quit the film.

Yu also told HK10 that Logan made her strip to her underwear on a daily basis so that he could inspect her body while filming Snowblade in 2011. The report described an incident in Logan’s office, where he asked Yu if she wanted to see his *****. “He took his [*****] out and grabbed my hand to hold his [*****],” she in an interview.

Another unnamed actress, said Logan sent her to Weinstein’s room at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, when the disgraced media mogul was in town to talk about starring in an Asian version of “Project Runway”. Sexual advances were then made by Weinstein inside the room, it is claimed.

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Harvey Weinstein attends the Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi on October 15, 2007.
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The HK01 report also contained various other accounts by actresses who had experienced similar harassment. One described being asked to go to castings naked and another claimed Logan had “forcibly kissed her and pinned her down on the bed” in a hotel room.

“Over the years of my adult life, I have made advances to women. Sometimes they were rebuffed and sometimes they were reciprocated. I have had a too-carefree attitude towards physical encounters with women. I have made inappropriate comments lightheartedly or after a few drinks,” Logan said in a statement on his Facebook page.

“I now see I was wrong and I have made mistakes for which I can’t forgive myself, and must live with them. I regret that any action I might have taken could have caused distress to anyone.

“I was insensitive because my position and the industry’s culture had allowed me to consider my behaviour then acceptable.” he added.

Bey Logan (https://www.facebook.com/bey.logan/posts/10211290310195034)
4 hours ago
Regarding accusations made against me and covered by a recent article. At the time when the reporter confronted me, I was shocked and uttered responses off the record which come across as defiant and defensive. I apologize for the same. I have given my written statement and take this opportunity to express my regret for the hurt and embarrassment caused to my family and friends. My wife and I have separated, and I sincerely ask that the family's privacy be respected during this difficult time. Bey

關於近日對我提出指控的一篇報導。當有關記者對我提出質詢時，我感到震驚。在認為是不作紀錄下，我說了些魯莽冒昧的駁辯。對此我鄭重的道歉。我已經發表了書面聲明，並藉此機會對我的家人和朋友做成的傷害和尷尬表示遺憾。我和妻子已經分開，我真誠地請求各位，在這個困難時期，尊重我家庭的隱私。 Bey
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Since leaving the Weinstein Company in 2009, Logan has continued to work with Weinstein on various projects. The two friends co-produced Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny in 2016 and often met up when Weinstein visited Hong Kong, China and other Asian cities.

No compaint to police has so far been made regarding the allegations.

GeneChing

12-13-2017, 09:17 AM

Harvey Weinstein’s Hong Kong associate Bey Logan accused of sexual misconduct (http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2124161/harvey-weinsteins-hong-kong-associate-bey-logan-accused)
British-born martial arts enthusiast insists he never forced himself on women, and has expressed regret for any action that may have hurt others

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 13 December, 2017, 6:05pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 13 December, 2017, 11:25pm
Niall Fraser
niall.fraser@scmp.com
http://twitter.com/meoldchina64

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Hong Kong has become embroiled in the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal after multiple women alleged they were victims of sexual misconduct by an associate and former top executive of the Hollywood mogul’s operation in the city.

British-born martial arts enthusiast Bey Logan, a former Asia vice-president of The Weinstein Company, has been accused of “inappropriate behaviour” by seven women, including Indonesian-Chinese former actress Sable Yu, who starred in the unfinished Logan-helmed film Snowblade.

The Post understands that Weinstein himself – who visited Hong Kong regularly for business over a number of years – has so far not been the subject of any direct accusations of sexual misconduct by women in the city or the wider Asian film industry.

Among the allegations are claims that Logan touched Yu’s breast in front of a whole film crew and that the executive – who worked for The Weinstein Company from 2005 to 2009 – “habitually threatened” her with legal action when she tried to quit the film due to psychological pressure.

Responding to reports published on Wednesday in the Hollywood Reporter and a local Hong Kong news website, Logan, who had earlier issued a statement expressing regret for his actions, told the Post: “At the time I was confronted with the accusations, I was shocked and uttered responses off the record which came across as defiant and defensive. I apologise for the same.

“I have given my written statement and take this opportunity to express my regret for the hurt and embarrassment caused to my family and friends.”

None of the allegations made so far have been reported to the police or any other law enforcement agency.

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Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been embroiled in multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Photo: Reuters

Logan, who considers Weinstein a “friend and mentor”, is also understood to have communicated with the producer in recent days regarding the accusations he now faces.

The former executive is also believed to have spoken to Weinstein when allegations of sexual misconduct first emerged against the movie mogul. The scandal later sparked a full-blown international movement by men and women claiming to be victims of sexual misconduct by film stars, producers and studio executives, under the “Me Too” social media campaign.

The extent of Weinstein’s links to Hong Kong and Asia were illustrated earlier this year when a eulogy he wrote following the death of prominent entrepreneur and socialite David Tang was published in the Financial Times.

In the opening lines of that piece Weinstein, referring to Logan by name, wrote: “When I first went to Hong Kong 25 years ago, I came as a lover of Hong Kong cinema, especially martial arts movies. I met my friend and colleague, Bey Logan, who is a walking encyclopaedia of that genre.

“I also met many other incredible people like Jackie Chan, John Woo, and the great producer Peter Lam. It was just an extraordinary group, but of all these people, no one stood out more than Sir David Tang (who wasn’t a ‘Sir’ at the time).”

Since 2009, Logan has worked sporadically with Weinstein, co-producing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny in 2016. He often accompanied the producer on his visits to Hong Kong, Beijing and other Asian cities.

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A Facebook picture of Bey Logan with actress Sable Yu on the set of Snowblade.

Sable Yu told the news website HK01 that when she was the lead actress in Snowblade, a film involving “martial arts, violence, and nudity,” Logan made her strip to her underwear on a daily basis so that he could inspect her body “for whether she had gained weight”.

On another occasion, Yu claims Logan tweaked her nipple in front of the whole crew, an act that made her “livid”. “This is very degrading to a woman,” Yu said. “I felt that somebody literally threw s**t in my face.”

Yu also alleged that Logan, whose wife is a lawyer, habitually threatened her with legal action when she tried to quit the film due to the psychological pressure.

Logan is also accused of “exposing himself” and Yu said she was traumatised by the Snowblade experience and was still seeking psychological help.

Allegations of sexual misconduct were made by six other women cited by the website, including an anonymous Australian-Chinese actress based in Beijing, who said she worked as Logan’s interpreter on the set of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Drago n: Sword of Destiny in the Chinese capital in 2015, and was the subject of explicit advances by him in a hotel room.

Another woman, also unidentified, was said to have experienced an “unpleasant” meeting with Harvey Weinstein, and claimed that Logan had “forcibly kissed her and pinned her down on the bed” in her hotel room. She eventually escaped by answering a phone call.

A separate allegation involved casting sessions in which women were required to be either half-naked or fully nude.

Addressing the reports, Logan told the website: “I definitely never forced myself on anybody, never had to force myself on anybody”, adding: “The complaints that you have … [are] the things that I tried to do, rather than anything that actually happened.”

In a later written statement Logan gave to the Post, he said: “Over the years of my adult life, I have made advances to women.

“Sometimes they were rebuffed and sometimes they were reciprocated. I have had a too-carefree attitude towards physical encounters with women. I have made inappropriate comments lightheartedly or after a few drinks.

I have had a too-carefree attitude towards physical encounters with women ... I have made mistakes for which I can’t forgive myself BEY LOGAN
“I now see I was wrong and I have made mistakes for which I can’t forgive myself, and must live with them. I regret that any action I might have taken could have caused distress to anyone.

“I was insensitive because my position and the industry’s culture had allowed me to consider my behaviour then acceptable.”

On Weinstein himself, Logan said: “Like everyone else who worked at or with The Weinstein Company, I have been shocked at the alleged behaviour of Harvey Weinstein towards women. “Throughout the years I have known Harvey, I have not witnessed, nor did anyone describe to me any details of, alleged sexual assaults.

“Looking back, I should have been more vigilant and could have done more to protect the women who were placed in a vulnerable situation.”

Logan added that he wanted to “take this opportunity to express my regret for the hurt and embarrassment caused to my family and friends”.

This is just to include this on the Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists) thread but I'll be monitor it on the Open Secret: Hollywood (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch) thread.

Jimbo

12-13-2017, 09:34 AM

I remember Bey Logan from way back when he was editor of the U.K. publication Combat Magazine, around the late '80s/early '90s. A British friend of mine in Taiwan gave me a bunch of the magazines that a friend back home had sent to him. IIRC, Logan was also in some extra features on some of the Dragon Dynasty (Weinstein Co.) Shaw Brothers releases.

I can't say I'm really surprised. He sounds like that category of entitled Westerners with yellow fever who go over there thinking they can do whatever they want, because Asian women are more 'submissive' to white men (which, if you know anything, is mostly a stereotypical myth; many Westerners find out the hard way). Would Bey Logan have tried that with a non-East Asian woman back in the U.K.? I'm betting probably not.

mickey

12-13-2017, 01:14 PM

Greetings,

It seems that I was right about this Weinstein thing really being about Trump. I should get paid for this.

On Bey Logan:

So that is how he keeps his face so smooth and shiny. And I thought it was Retin A.

S@X, MONEY, POWER. It goes beyond race and culture.

mickey

Jimbo

12-13-2017, 02:17 PM

Corey Feldman reveals the name of an alleged abuser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6jFmjad37s&sns=em

David Jamieson

12-14-2017, 01:12 PM

If being good, doing good and being courageous was easy, everyone would be doing it.
A significant portion of upper level business execs could easily identify as sociopaths or psychopaths.
In power circles, there is a lot of narcissism and in general, we all function out of self interest to some degree.

I am never surprised by vitriol combined with what amounts to cowardice.

Hollywood has always been a deplorable place where people went and KNEW they would be asked for sexual favours in return for money and fame.

Not that this excuses that, but it fits with the very nature of being human.

Good luck trying to get people to think and act in a particular way. That ain't going to happen and a little while down the road, the only difference will be how insurance policies are written and what a settlement size looks like.

I'd like to not be cynical here, but hey, the sky is up, the ground is down and hollywood (hell, the world!) is still filled with deplorable people doing deplorable things.

GeneChing

12-18-2017, 09:10 AM

DECEMBER 15, 2017 8:33AM PT
‘Crouching Tiger’ Actress Accuses Harvey Weinstein Asia Associate of Sexual Misconduct (http://variety.com/2017/film/news/crouching-tiger-juju-chan-harvey-weinstein-asia-bey-logan-sexual-misconduct-1202642166/)
By Vivienne Chow

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Actress JuJu Chan has accused Harvey Weinstein’s Asia associate Bey Logan of making an unwanted sexual advance and later pressuring her romantically during production of The Weinstein Co.’s 2016 film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.”

Chan told Variety that Logan, a friend of Weinstein’s and a consulting producer with TWC, “forcefully kissed” her one evening after a party and later complained during shooting of “Sword of Destiny” that she refused to be his girlfriend.

Logan vehemently denies the allegations by Chan, who is the latest woman to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Earlier this week, the Hong Kong online news site HK01 published allegations by seven actresses that Logan had sexually harassed them. Only one of the accusers, actress Sable Yu, has been willing to give her name to HK01.

In response to HK01’s report, Logan denied any criminal misconduct but apologized for having had a “too carefree attitude towards physical encounters with women” in the past.

Chan, who stars in upcoming action film “The Invincible Dragon,” said Logan’s unwanted advance toward her occurred in 2009, soon after she had returned to Hong Kong from studying in New York and was attempting to break into the movie industry.

She said she was introduced to Logan at an event, and he was looking for an actress for the reshoot of his film “Blood Bond.” She said Logan invited her to an audition, which was conducted in a normal and professional manner.

Chan did not sign up for the film, but ran into Logan later on at a party. She was on her way out when Logan asked to share a taxi. During the cab ride, “he forcefully kissed me on my lips,” Chan said.

“I was so young and was in shock. I just graduated. I did not know how to react,” Chan said. “I pushed him away. He said goodbye and left.”

Chan said she tried to avoid Logan afterward despite his status as a producer with Hollywood connections. But several years later, she was cast as one of the main characters in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny,” which Logan produced.

Chan said Logan, who has appeared on camera as well as worked behind it, blamed her for not casting him in a previous project she was involved in, even though she did not have casting authority.

“When it was clear that the [“Sword of Destiny” producers] wanted to include me in their film, he called me offering me a really low pay to do a side role, while also insulting my abilities. I rejected his offer,” Chan said. “In the end, the casting director for the film contacted me directly with an offer that I accepted. Bey was obviously upset to see me on the set.”

More than that, Logan appeared upset about her refusal of his romantic overtures, Chan said.

“He didn’t want me to be in the cast. I never gave him a chance to be close to me. I’m not ‘his girl.’ He tried to kick me out of the movie,” Chan said, adding: “He said to me: ‘Almost all girls I work with are my girlfriends. Why can’t you be my girlfriend? You are the only girl who refused.’”

Towards the end of the shoot, Chan said, Logan asked her to be in his next movie, “Lady Blood Fight.” Chan told him to speak to her manager.

Logan denies Chan’s allegations. “I was a co-producer on ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: Sword of Destiny,’” he wrote in an e-mail to Variety. “I did not have authority to and did not make the casting decisions. I did not determine the artists’ pay or engagement terms. Such matters were handled by the relevant line producers. I did not have authority to and did not make any attempts to ‘kick’ anyone out of the movie. I have never made any propositions to her.”

Chan also said that Weinstein himself approached her during the after-party of “Sword of Destiny’s” Beijing premiere in February 2016.

The Hollywood mogul “came over to me and asked me if I could meet him in his [hotel] room to spend some ‘private time’ together. I said no, why did we have to meet privately? My manager was there, too, and she could come up,” Chan said. “He was unhappy and I walked away.”

Chan said it was difficult for Asian actors and actresses to come forward with accounts of sexual assault and harassment. “They are afraid of being blacklisted. It is so difficult to get a role and when people are desperate, they don’t think. They just let things happen,” Chan said.

“I’ve also seen people not getting any roles after they gave in. There’s no guarantee,” she said. “People who use their power to have sex – [it] is not right.”

I've interacted with JuJu fleetingly. Last time she came through SF, we had hoped to meet for an interview or something, but it didn't work out in either of our schedules so we said we'd do it next time. She was professional and courtesy, and our dialog was short.

Thread: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: Sword of Destiny (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?65170-Crouching-Tiger-Hidden-Dragon-2-Sword-of-Destiny)
Thread: An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

Jimbo

12-18-2017, 10:13 AM

I believe JuJu Chan over Bey Logan. Her account is very detailed and precise. It's clear that Bey Logan and Weinstein are birds of a feather.

Back when I was doing the acting thing, our acting coach told the class, directed mainly to the women but also applying it to everyone in the room, that if you go to an audition that is private, or in an unusual location, at least take a friend along, even if they must wait outside during the actual audition. But most of all, if anything feels off or even a little suspicious, trust your gut instincts and DON'T GO IN. You can always tell your agent (if you have one) later why you skipped the audition (which is really no small thing if your agent got you the audition). The vast majority of the auditions I went to had loads of actors waiting their turn right outside the audition room, which is as safe an environment as you can get.

GeneChing

12-21-2017, 09:02 AM

Former 'Marco Polo' Producer Hits Harvey Weinstein, TWC With $10M Sexual Harassment Suit (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/marco-polo-producer-hits-harvey-weinstein-twc-10m-sexual-harassment-suit-1069855)
7:45 PM PST 12/20/2017 by Patrick Shanley

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The suit, filed on Wednesday, cites "sexual harassment," "battery" and "assault," among other violations by the disgraced former mogul.
Harvey Weinstein and his former production company, The Weinstein Co., have been hit with an sexual harassment suit worth $10 million by Alexandra Canosa, a former associate producer on the Netflix show Marco Polo.

The suit, filed on Wednesday in New York Supreme Court, cites "sexual harassment," "battery" and "assault," among other violations by the disgraced former mogul.

"The foregoing events and actions of Harvey Weinstein took place in conjunction with Plaintiff's employment, in various capacities, for Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company. Over the course of his misconduct, up to September 2017, Harvey Weinstein threatened Plaintiff and made it clear that if she did not succumb to his demands or if she exposed his unwanted conduct there would be retaliation, including humiliation, the loss of her job and any ability to work in the entertainment business," the suit reads.

It goes on to further address TWC's complacency with Weinstein's actions: "The Weinstein Company and the members of its Board of Directors, knew or should have known about Harvey Weinstein's conduct, and did not act to correct or curtail such activity. Instead, The Weinstein Company facilitated, hid, and supported his unlawful conduct. Harvey Weinstein acted as an executive, agent, management employee and officer of The Weinstein Company. As a result of the foregoing unlawful conduct, Plaintiff incurred substantial physical injury, pain, suffering, humiliation, mental anguish, and emotional distress."

Weinstein is currently facing several other lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and from various productions that were shut down following the revelation of allegations against him.

My only experience of Weinstein was chatting with John Fusco when Marco Polo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62877-Marco-Polo-Netflix-Original-Series) was in development. John told me about how he got a call from Weinstein and made some comment to the effect that when Harvey calls, you answer. That conversation stuck out in my mind because John conveyed how much power Weinstein had in the industry. Of course, this was long before the Hollywood Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch) exposed him.

Jimbo

12-21-2017, 09:49 AM

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Jimbo

01-10-2018, 11:25 AM

wolfen

01-10-2018, 04:55 PM

At these last Golden Globes, the subject of sexual harassment of women in Hollywood and elsewhere was the big subject. What disappointed me greatly was the continued avoiding/ignoring of the subject of pedophilia in Hollywood (and everywhere else). Other than a brief Kevin Spacey joke by Seth Meyers, as far as I saw, there was no mention of it.

I should clarify that I didn't watch the entire show beyond a certain point. I watched some of it to see if there would be any awkward moments (there were). But it's clear that sexual crimes against children (particularly young boys) is a subject that Hollywood is not ready to deal with. The subject is still taboo in supposedly 'progressive' Hollywood. They've made the issue into one of female victimhood and empowerment, but that only addresses PART of the problem and ignores the other half.

That was my main point in starting this thread. EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS that adult women have been harassed/assaulted in Hollywood and in other industries. Sexual crimes against children perpetrated by adult men (and some women), especially against young males, is a silent epidemic that is being lost in the shuffle, and is perhaps even being purposely buried. NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT OR ADMIT THAT IT'S HAPPENING. And that is the reason I've felt so strongly about this subject's need to be brought into the full light.

This video is great. Michael Knowles is very scathing and humorous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZiY4svxQY

Golden Globes Win "Most Insufferable" Awards

Some Red Pills:
Women recently were only able to come forward because the corrupt Hillary Clinton did NOT win the election and the American people voted for an Administration that enforced the rule of Law. In this administration, MSN editors had pressure to tell these stories, under Hillary it would have been the reverse, in fact the oppression would have been absolute.
Harvey Weinstein was a personal friend and political ally of of Hillary Clinton. It went far beyond donations.

2008 - Weinstein helped organize a star-packed fundraiser for Clinton weeks before the election (https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/06/hillary-clintons-harvey-weinstein-problem-detailed-in-new-report/): an evening on Broadway with Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway and others.
No editor would have touched the Weinstein story or any other like it with Hillary (AKA Reptillary) as President.
So this is what Freedom and the rule of Law looks like.
MAGA!
In the first few months of the Trump Administration, the new head of the DOJ launched a massive crackdown on pedophile rings. It was not reported on by the Globalist anti-Trump Media.
You cannot expect the Globalist MSN to tell any truth whatsoever about America.

Donald Trump became president on Jan. 20. And in one short month, there were more than 1,500 arrests for sex crimes ranging from trafficking to pedophilia.
Big deal? You bet. In all of 2014, there were fewer than 400 sex trafficking-related arrests, according to FBI crime statistics.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/14176/sex-trafficking-arrests-soar-under-trump-msm-joseph-curl

Remember what "Hollywood" is. It is a propaganda arm of seven to nine Globalist families who own the Entertainment News Complex. The Democratic Party is the political arm of these economic Warlords and their MSN is the tool that these Globalists use to try to put their Mandarins in Power.
Together this is a power machine. This power machine is not broken, but it had a severe setback when the American people saw the danger they presented despite their propaganda control of the MSN and the American people rejected their control.
So editors now are not so worried about being gunned down like Seth Rich and witnesses have a chance of staying alive and not committing suicide by shooting themselves multiple tiems in the back of the head as might happen under a corrupt DOJ. And the money for payoffs from the Clinton Foundation is gone - the backers fled.

The people outed 20 or 30 to one are Hollywood Democrats. Their "feminism" is fake. Weinstein would make a speech about feminism and then go upstairs and rape another woman. Most of those outed were the same kind of "feminist spokesmen".
Hollywood and Time Magazine do not care about empowering women they don't want solutions of harmony between men and women. They are using the Marxist tactic of weaponizing women against men in order to undermine and destroy the foundations of natural human culture or American Culture and allow the State (themselves) to step in and regulate human behaviour.
BTW Time Magazine was recently sold to another Globalist power in a deal engineered by the Koch Brothers. They did this because they intend to use the media as a tool to advocate open borders and illegal immigration. - policies which will be very tragic for Americans and especially American Women and children.

Right?! And they said it was gay marriage that was going to lead to pedophilia. - Gene Ching

The main sources of Pedophilia in America today are the rape cultures of Hispanic Mexico and Islam. In Mexico the (legal age of consent is 12).

I find the Time cover extremely offensive. That is like A group of Satanists choosing the "Angel of the Year". Who are they kidding?
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The MSN are responsible for not only whitewashing the negative aspects of these cultures they are responsible for bringing those negative aspects into America in their successful advocation of importing illegal Hispanic immigrants and unrestricted unexamined Islamic Immigration.
The main weapon of deceit of the MSN is not telling the whole truth. Once anyone is exposed to additional information about these subjects on the internet, the lies of the MSN become transparent and obvious. SO the MSN is desperate to kill free speech on the internet.
If a person's only source of information is the MSN they will be deaf, dumb and blind to what it actually happening in Europe. Europe is overrun with Islamic rape against the Kuffar (that is us) which is endorsed and advocated by the Koran and Pedophilia (enshrined in Islamic Law, the Sharia) and in general: misogyny, honour killings, violence and oppression against women FGM etc etc.

In fact pedophilia is de facto law in many parts of Europe as is polygamy.
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Example : In Rotherham where 1400 Brit girls were groomed by Islamic rape gangs two fathers went to a Muslim house found their underage daughters there and called the police. The police came and arrested the fathers and left the daughters there because of "political sensitivity". This behavior is the standard by the British Authorities. This is just one sliver of what is happening in Europe today and there are still many Rotherhams existing.

And BTW stay out of Canada if you can. Canada is destined to become Swedenistan or Sweden 2.0 in short order (Sweden is known as the Rape Capital of Europe and a country that has been lost to it's inhabitants and is under constant assault from Islamic Supremacists). Trudeau has successfully put in motion processes which will turn Canada into a "Post-National State", as he lovingly calls it.
To give you the flavour - Trudeau says that criticism of ISIS is "Islamophobic". There was an Islamic Terrorist attack in Edmonton recently and EVERY government organization from municipal to provincial to federal and even grass roots lied and distributed misinformation about it. Canadians are being groomed as Eloi for the Morlocks. The Globalist MSN has a total lock-down on the propaganda and information in Canada. It has all the makings of a Stalinist State.
Along with all that comes institutionalized pedophilia. Diversity is it's strength.
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Canadians don't realize it, but as the highlander said "You have already lost" They will wake up one fine morning a few years from now to discover , like the Germans,and the Swedes already have, that they don't have a country.
Diversity is the Globalist Strength and the annihilation of our Civilization.
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So the MSN wishes to make America the same as Europe, The MSN is already responsible for the murders and rapes of thousands upon thousands of US women and their Hollywood Spokespeople continue to whitewash Islam and tell mis-truths about illegal immigration. So it is complete hypocrisy for them to pretend they care about women's safety or women's rights. They are merely the propaganda agents of bloodthirsty power hungry Globalists.
Does Hollywood care about the real feminists wo are getting murdered in Iran right now? does Hollywood care about the rights of Gays who are murdered worldwide as Islam preaches hatred towards them?

The process of Islamification in America continues unabated . DJT failed to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood and stop the continuing process of the Islamification of America. Islamic hatred against the "kuffar" flourishes unabated in America and is preached openly in mosques and infiltrate many American educational and governing bodies. The Red-Green , Marxist-Islamist alliance in America is very strong. It is politically incorrect to speak against it. , Soon there will be "Hollywood" on every streetcorner in every city just like the UK, sanctioned by Islamic Law, enabled by Globalist propaganda and Marxist-globalist Politicians and white-washed by the Globalist MSN..

The Globalists are not a case of "Absolute Power corrupts" but are a case of evil power hungry mafioso pursuing absolute power.
Europe is the canary, the canary has died. Its feet are nailed to the perch by MSN deceits. Only America has the last chance to wake up and save itself.

wolfen

01-10-2018, 05:07 PM

Here are the real Feminists which Hollywood and the MSN are ignoring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qFqwmpCqIg

This is What a Real Feminist Looks Like

Why doesn't Meryl Screech stand up for Iranian Women? Why doesn't Robert DeZero go on profanity ridden tirades against the oppressors in Iran?
No payoff there I suppose.
I read even a few years ago that according to PEW research at least 70 percent of Muslimas polled in France said they would be punished physically or socially if they did not wear the Hijab or Burqa.
Well maybe Hollywood can lead us back to Europe and save them for a third time? No? I didn't think so.

BTW, the MSN has a news blackout on what is happening in Iran. It is politically incorrect news and goes against their narrative.

wolfen

01-10-2018, 05:38 PM

Andrew is Hilarious. Watch at least the first four minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgLBNb3VpjM

Hollywood and the News Media Attack Themselves | The Andrew Klavan Show Ep. 440

wolfen

01-11-2018, 04:36 AM

Here's some clips from the Golden Globes with some humorous commentary by Mark Dice. The celebrities on the surface seem hilarious but as one realizes the message here it is quite disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YXDqc-4Ee4

Celebrities Save America

What they are saying is outright insane and it seems anyone that swallows it must have lost their marbles.
The message they are giving is that the way to solve the problem of sexual corruption in Hollywood is to blame White males. In other words they are solving the problem by promoting racism against whites and sexism against men. This is actually pure Marxist methodology that is designed to destroy a Capitalist democracy. Hollywood is using personal tragedies to further promote the Globalist agenda which is dumping even more abuse on our civilization.

However we must realize that these are paid actors, they are immoral and amoral and have learned to say and do anything for a price.

I would think that some ways to solve these kinds of problems would be some kind of openness polices, legitimate avenues of complaint, and uncorrupted and unbiased trustworthy media and a commitment to promote harmony between men and women not catastrophe. That is just of the top of my head, I am sure the Millionaires of Hollywood could do better if they tried.

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It unlikely here that power turns people into something they are not and more likely that pedophiles and rapists will seek an environment and power in that environment where corruption exists so they can practice their perversions.

The problem is most likely the environment now in California. It is like a mini-PRC, a Marxist totalitarian One Party State, The politicians there did not rise to power by advocating justice and the rule of law, and have that debated in the fair court of public opinion. They achieved power by owning the propaganda system and weaponizing one group against another and actually burning them all in the end. Pure Marxism. They also imported outsiders to change the demographic, paying them off with the State's and America's wealth thus depleting everyone and burdening the Country with their rampant crime and lawlessness.
And of course these imported outsiders are of course exploited mercilessly by both the American Power elite and Mexican-Hispanic crime syndicates.
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Now you have people all over California unable to say they like DJT without getting fired or assaulted. . Just like living in the Terror ruled Gaza Strip or Cuba under Castro. (Ref Armando Valladares Perez - "Against All Hope"). You have entire elementary schools marching in hatred of DJT, marching against the enemy of the State Globalist leaders.
Seriously? Children? United in hatred? That only happens under the political direction of a totalitarian State like in China or North Korea where the Governments order Anti-American Demonstrations by the schools and workers..
They have "sanctuary cities" for the purpose of importing and protecting more illegals and and for this they unleash rampant criminals,crime and economic an social burden upon the entire population. The thirst for power trumps lawfulness and may int the end destroy everyone.
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Truly California is Commiefornia, a place where dictatorship and corruption rules. Corruption is the grease used by dictatorships.
The politicians achieved power by pitting one group against another and burning everyone in the end. Women against men, gays against straights, trans against gays, colors against whites, all offended people against anything they decide to be offended by, broken families against the family, young against old, Muslims against Christians and Islamic Jihad and Islamification against everyone. Only the warlords and their palace guard thrive. It's an age old story.

Hollywood can never be reformed until California becomes a democracy with and ideology of justice and fair lawfulness once again. Its going to remain Pedophile Central but will be over shined by what is being imported by the ideology of Islam.
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For the people that have been hoodwinked or manipulated by these forces into believing they are creating a utopia , the worst thing that can happen to them is that they will get what they wish for. One just has to read The Gulag Archipelago to see the fate of all those who are duped into helping create systems of totalitarian Socialist Control.
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When the white majority becomes a minority, I wonder which ethnic group in California is going to be the victor in the struggle for ascendancy? What will happen to all the other losers? The foundation has been laid by the Globalists and Hollywood propagandists for the victors to have a mindset to be absolutely intolerant.

GeneChing

01-11-2018, 10:30 AM

Having lived in California and PRC, it's quite different. :rolleyes:

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel creator Stan Lee, 95, is accused of groping nurses and demanding oral sex in the shower at his $20m Los Angeles home - but says he is victim of a 'shake down' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5250513/Marvel-creator-Stan-Lee-95-accused-groping-nurses.html)
Stan Lee, the 95-year-old comic book legend who co-created Spider Man, the X-Men, The Incredible Hulk and other characters is accused of sex abuse
DailyMail.com can disclose a nursing company employed to care for him stopped working with him after string of complaints
Young female nurses complained he demanded oral sex from them, groped them and walked around naked
But Lee's lawyers tells DailyMail.com he has sent a cease and desist letter to the company which employs the women, accusing it of defaming Lee
'Mr Lee will not be extorted or blackmailed, and will pay no money to anyone because he has done absolutely nothing wrong,' attorney Tom Lallas said
Lee has a personal fortune of at least $50 million and his home in the Bird Streets area has commanding views of Los Angeles
He remains a fixture at comic book conventions

By Ryan Parry, West Coast Correspondent For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 10:43 EST, 9 January 2018 | UPDATED: 16:35 EST, 9 January 2018

Comic book legend Stan Lee has been hit with several allegations of sexual assault and harassment by nurses caring for him at his Hollywood Hills home, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The Marvel creator, 95, is alleged to have repeatedly groped and harassed a string of young female nurses employed to care for him.

He is said to have asked for oral sex in the shower, walked around naked and wanted to be 'pleasured' in the bedroom.

The nursing company which employs the women and caters for celebrities and high end clients is now in a legal dispute with icon Lee, DailyMail.com has learned.

But as yet no police complaint has been made and no lawsuits filed.

A lawyer representing Lee told DailyMail.com that Lee 'categorically denies' the 'false and despicable' allegations and fully intends to clear his 'stellar good name' and suggested the allegations could be part of a shakedown.

Lee, 95, is the former president and chairman of Marvel and co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the X-Men, Hulk among many other beloved comic book heroes.

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With his new nurses: Stan Lee was photographed with an assistant and a medical worker leaving a clinic earlier this month in Beverly Hills. But other nurses who worked for a previous company and who DailyMail.com is not naming or photographing, say he groped them and asked for oral sex in the shower

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Comic book staple: Stan Lee went from a stellar career taking Marvel from a minor publisher to to the biggest name in comic books and for decades has been a fixture at comic book conventions, appearing last weekend at Wizard World Comic Con in New Orleans

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Fortune: Stan Lee's personal fortune is estimated at $50 million after a lifetime of involvement in the Marvel empire. He personally co-created Spider Man and the X-Men, which have gone on to help the total take of movies Marvel has franchised equal $23 billion and counting

Marvel is the highest grossing movie franchise in history having raked in $23billion at the box office and Lee as an executive producer boasts a personal fortune of around $50 million.

A source with knowledge of the situation, said: 'Stan is an old man who has seemingly lost his way.

'He doesn't seem to care what people think of him, he's lost his filter. There has been a stream of young nurses coming to his house in West Hollywood and he has been sexually harassing them. He finds it funny.

'He walks around naked and is vulgar towards the women, he asks them for oral sex in the shower and wants to be pleasured in his bedroom. He uses the word p***y and f**k in their presence.

'He's also very handsy and has groped some of the women, it's unacceptable behavior, especially from an icon like Stan.'

The source added: 'The owner at the nursing company has openly said to people that Stan has sexually harassed every single nurse that has been to the house. That got back to Lee and sparked this whole thing.

'It appears the owner, who has nursed Stan herself, eventually decided enough was enough.'

A rep for the nursing company confirmed that the female owner had received several complaints from nurses who had worked at Lee's house and she had complained directly to Lee.

Dailymail.com is not naming the company as to do so would identify the women.

The nurses, for whom clients pay $1,000 a day, worked on shift rotation at the house and were available to him 24/7, seven days a week.

Their duties included taking Lee's blood pressure, bringing him food and drink and making sure he took his medication.

The nursing company parted ways with Lee towards the end of last year.

Lee's attorney Tom Lallas sent a cease and desist letter to the owner of the nursing firm on December 20.

In the letter, seen by DailyMail.com, Lallas accuses one or more 'individuals' at the firm of having 'published' to others 'defamatory' claims that Lee has 'sexually harassed one or more of the Nurses who has provided Services at the Lee home.'

In a statement to DailyMail.com Lallas said: 'Mr. Lee categorically denies these false and despicable allegations and he fully intends to fight to protect his stellar good name and impeccable character.

'We are not aware of anyone filing a civil action, or reporting these issues to the police, which for any genuine claim would be the more appropriate way for it to be handled.

'Instead, Mr. Lee has received demands to pay money and threats that if he does not do so, the accuser will go to the media.

'Mr Lee will not be extorted or blackmailed, and will pay no money to anyone because he has done absolutely nothing wrong.'

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Widower: Stan Lee's wife Joan died in July 2017 after 70 years of marriage.

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Film franchises: The Marvel franchises, including X-Men and Spider Man have now topped $23 billion in box office takings

Shane Duffy, CEO of Lee's company POW! Entertainment, said: 'At POW! Entertainment it's our policy to not comment on personal issues relating to Stan Lee and his life.'

A new nursing company has since stepped in to care for Lee at his exclusive home in the exclusive Hollywood Hills' Bird Streets area.

The property, which boasts a pool and commanding views over LA, is believed to be worth in excess of $20million.

Julie Wozniak, a rep for the new firm Vitale Nursing Inc, insists that Lee has been nothing but 'polite, kind and respectful' since they took over.

'It has been a privilege to care for him,' she added.

Another source close to the producer also jumped to his defense.

'Stan is 95 years old and has had an excellent reputation throughout his career,' the source said.

'People think because of Stan's age he's an easy target and he can be forced into giving them money.

'I don't believe these allegations...Stan is being taken advantage of.'

Lee was widowed in July 2017 when his wife of 70 years, Joan, died aged 95. The couple had one daughter, J.C. Lee.

He remains a fixture on the comic book circuit thanks to his career which saw him go from first writing comic books, to becoming editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, its publisher and chairman, and taking it from a small publishing company to the dominant force in a multi-billion dollar industry.

But others close to the movie producer are worried about his alleged behavior and question why the fit 95-year-old even needs 24/7 care at home when he's able to travel worldwide for comic book conventions.

What's more, DailyMail.com has learned that Lee's burly minder has been accused of 'intimidating' and 'frightening' some of the nurses involved, further casting a difficult light on Lee's reputation.

The man, Max Anderson, has been Lee's right hand man for years and acts as his road manager at comic book conventions. He is often seen in photo shoots alongside Lee.

Anderson - real name Mac Anderson - has a serious criminal past.

According to court records in Riverside, California he has a 2002 felony conviction for beating and injuring his wife, for which he was jailed for 365 days and spent 36 months probation.
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GeneChing

01-11-2018, 10:31 AM

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Questions over minder: Max Anderson - real name Mac - is Stan Lee's right hand man but has convictions for domestic violence

Then in 2010, according to court records, he was found guilty of beating his son with a belt, putting him in a chokehold and slamming him on the floor.

The boy went to school with his arm in a sling which raised the alarm with teachers.

For that crime he was sentenced to 36 months probation, a fine and anger management and parenting classes.

It is understood that some nurses complained about Anderson as well as Lee.

The source said: 'Max is a big guy and some of the nurses are scared of him. 'They have accused him of intimidating them and say a lot of the sexual harassment has gone on in front of him, like some boys' club.'

The allegations of sex assault and harassment aren't Lee's only problems.

Earlier this week it emerged someone stole $300,000 from him with a fraudulent check.

Lee filed a police report on Tuesday after discovering that the money had been withdrawn without his knowledge.

Money managers for Lee discovered a check for the missing amount marked as a 'loan' that they believe may have been forged, according to TMZ.

The check in question was made out to 'Hands Of Respect LLC' which according to the gossip site is 'a merchandising company'. Sources told TMZ that 'neither Stan or his money managers wrote or authorized the transaction.'

Beverly Hills PD are investigating the possible forgery.

Then on Thursday it emerged that someone also used the comic book legend's money to buy a condo.

It appears $850,000 of Lee's money was used to buy the property in West Hollywood.

The revelation came to light after Lee's team carried out a full audit of his accounts following the discovery of the first forged check.

Been wondering what Lee was worth. You'd think with $50M, he could just buy some hookers. But then, that's not what sexual assault is about. We'll shall see if this sticks.

GeneChing

01-15-2018, 08:34 AM

Steven Seagal Accused of 1993 Rape: ‘Tears Were Coming Down My Face’ (https://www.thewrap.com/steven-seagal-rape-regina-simons-faviola-davis/)
LAPD is investigating a separate 2005 accusation against the actor
Itay Hod | Last Updated: January 11, 2018 @ 5:04 PM

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Left to Right: Faviola Dadis, Steven Seagal, Regina Simons

Regina Simons says she was 18 and an extra on Steven Seagal’s 1994 film “On Deadly Ground” when he invited her to a wrap party at his Beverly Hills home. But when she arrived, she said, he was the only one there.

“He took me into this room and then just closed the door and started kissing me,” she said. “He then took my clothes off and before I knew it he was on top of me, raping me… I wasn’t sexually active yet. People always talk about fight-or-flight. But no one talks about the freeze.”

Simons is one of more than a dozen women who have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct, but she appears to be the first to publicly accuse him of rape. She and another woman, Dutch former model Faviola Dadis, told TheWrap they filed reports about Seagal with the LAPD in the last month. Dadis said he groped her during an audition in 2002.

The LAPD detective who Seagal and Dadis said they spoke to declined to comment, citing confidentiality. An LAPD spokeswoman said the department is investigating a separate case involving Seagal from 2005 but declined further comment.

Both Simons and Dadis told TheWrap that they shared their accounts with several other people years ago before going public, and those people corroborated the women’s accounts in interviews with TheWrap.

Numerous attempts to reach Seagal for comment on this story were unsuccessful. His son, actor and model Kentaro Seagal, told TheWrap he did not know how to reach his father.

A producer who recently worked with Seagal put TheWrap in touch with an attorney he said represented Seagal, but the lawyer did not respond to a lengthy description of the accusations, or to phone calls seeking comment.

‘On Deadly Ground’

Simons — now a 43-year-old mother of two — said she had just turned 18 when she met Seagal — then in his early 40s — during an open call for his movie “On Deadly Ground” in 1993. The year before, Seagal’s “Under Siege” had raked in more than $156 million, even earning two Oscar nominations for sound production.

When her brother heard she was going on an audition for a Seagal movie, he asked to tag along. Seagal was casting for Native Americans, and Simons, who is part Navajo and part Sioux, wore borrowed tribal regalia.

As they waited with hundreds of other hopefuls, Simons said, Seagal stopped, introduced himself, and invited her and her brother to join him on set.

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Regina Simons at her audition for “On Deadly Ground.” Steven Seagal can be seen in the background

Soon, they were sitting in Seagal’s trailer. She said her brother and Seagal did most of the talking: She was a shy girl from a conservative Mormon family. When she mentioned a minor headache, Seagal offered to give her a massage. She said he rubbed her hand and neck, which seemed odd, and then went to the set. (Her brother, Ben, corroborated her account of the day to TheWrap).

Steven Seagal On Deadly Ground A few weeks after shooting her scene, Simons got a phone call: She was invited to his home for the wrap party. When she arrived, she said, no one but Seagal was home, and there was no sign of a celebration.

“I asked him where is everyone and he said that they had already left,” she said.

She said Seagal then took her into an adjacent room and raped her. She was so overwhelmed that she froze — though she cried through all of it, she said.

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“The only way I’m able to describe it is I literally felt like I left my body,” Simons explained. “I think because of the situation I was completely caught off guard. Tears were coming down my face and I know that it hurt. He was three times my size.”

She couldn’t utter a word, she said.

“I was crying when he was on top of me,” she said. “Even now, my 43-year-old mind knows how to process this and understand what a loving relationship is and what consensual sex is. And there was none of that.”

When it was over, she said she quickly grabbed her clothes and made a “beeline” for the door.

“All I remember is him asking me if I needed any money,” she said. “I shook my head and ran towards my car. I cried the whole way home.”

She said she contemplated coming forward and sought advice from her Mormon bishop, but decided against it.

“I wasn’t even allowed to date so for me it was a shameful thing,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, how could this have happened?’ So, I blamed a lot of it on myself and tried to pretend it didn’t happen.”

The bishop corroborated her story, with Simons’ permission. He asked that his name not be used, but said he would be willing to come forward if necessary.

“She had done a lot of crying and I tried to comfort her as best I could,” he said.

Simons said Seagal kept calling her. “I just told the lady I was living with to not take his calls,” she said. “And he finally just stopped.”

That woman, Patricia Alaniz, said she remembered Seagal calling for several weeks. She said she warned Simons to be careful.

“His behavior, calling so often, it felt predatory to me,” Alaniz told TheWrap. “He was a middle-aged man, married at the time, and she was young and naive. I thought he was grooming her.”

Simons said the trauma soured her on acting. She moved home to Utah, then back to the Los Angeles area, where she now works as a case advocate for Native-American families.

She said she went to counseling for years and a therapist diagnosed her with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in August. Her psychologist, who asked to remain anonymous, corroborated her account with Simons’ permission, saying she believed the incident with Seagal was the source of her trauma.

“For a first sexual encounter to be violent, it skews your views of the world, relationship and sex,” the therapist said. “It modified the trajectory of her life.”

The therapist also said her response — to freeze during a rape — is “unfortunately very common.”

Simons’ mother, ex-boyfriend and ex-husband also corroborated her story in interviews with TheWrap.

Betty Simons, Regina’s mother, said her daughter told her about the incident about a year after it happened.

“She was having these terrible migraines and she was stressed out and wasn’t excited about things,” she said. “Finally, she broke down and told me what happened.”

‘This Audition Is Over’

Last month, Dadis took to Instagram to accuse the actor of sexually assaulting her in 2002, saying that he fondled her breasts and grabbed her crotch during an audition for a part in an epic about Genghis Khan. The movie was never made.

She said she was invited to a “private audition” at the W Hotel in Beverly Hills where she was told to wear a bikini under her clothes so that Seagal and his team could evaluate her figure. She was promised that a production assistant and a casting director would be present.

But when she got to the hotel room, Seagal and his security guard were the only ones there.

Dadis said Seagal asked her to take off her clothes and walk through the room in her bikini. He then approached her and said he wanted to act out a “romantic scene.”

“I expressed that I was uncomfortable with that especially since I was in my bikini,” Dadis told TheWrap. “And then he started pinching my nipples and grabbing my crotch area with his other hand. I quickly yelled ‘This audition is over!'”

She said she tried to run out of the room but was blocked by Seagal’s security guard. “I began yelling: ‘I need to leave right now, this is B.S., I need to leave right now!’ He motioned to his security guard to let me go and I ran out.”
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GeneChing

01-15-2018, 08:34 AM

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Photo: Faviola Dadis/Instagram

TheWrap spoke to Dadis’ mother and her ex-boyfriend, who corroborated her account. Her mother, Ute, said her daughter told her what happened about a week later.

Dadis is currently being represented by civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom.

Both Dadis and Simons share an agent, but said they did not discuss their accounts before deciding to come forward. They said their agent introduced them to each other after learning from each of them, separately, about their accounts.

Seagal has been spending time in Asia and Russia, where he is a passport-carrying citizen and enjoys a cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin.

He has been previously been accused of harassment and other misconduct by actresses Portia de Rossi, Julianna Margulies, Katherine Heigl, Eva LaRue, Rae Dawn Chong, Lisa Guerrero and Jenny McCarthy. (A rep for Seagal told The Daily Beast of McCarthy: “Her claim is completely false”).

Seagal has also been accused of sexual misconduct by several ex-assistants: Patricia Nichols, Kayden Nguyen, Blair Robinson, and an unnamed assistant.

Marty Singer, Seagal’s lawyer at the time of Nguyen’s accusations, called them a “complete fabrication without a scintilla of truth.” Singer also said Seagal had “no knowledge” of Blair.

Singer no longer represents Seagal.

Seagal's 'at it again (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again)' may finally be catching up to him at Hollywood's Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch) gets exposed. I wonder if this will affect his latest film, China Salesman (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70325-China-Salesman&). I doubt they could pull a Plummer/Spacey swap on that one.

GeneChing

01-15-2018, 08:39 AM

Steven Seagal Accused of 1993 Rape (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/steven-seagal-accused-of-1993-rape-w515395)
Two women have levied allegations against the actor, who has also been accused of sexual misconduct by Portia di Rossi, Jenny McCarthy and others

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Two women have accused actor Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct, including one alleged rape. Vyacheslav Prokofyev\TASS via Getty Images

By Kory Grow
3 days ago

Two women have accused Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct, including a rape that one of the women claimed took place in 1993. The accounts, first reported by The Wrap, describe an alleged pattern where the actor would invite women to places where they expected to find multiple people, only to allegedly see only him; he'd then allegedly advance on them. The women said they both filed reports with the Los Angeles Police Department.

"I have a platform that I will continue to use to amplify those who don't have a voice," writes actress and activist

Regina Simons, 43, said she first encountered Seagal at a casting call for what would be the 1994 film On Deadly Ground. The production was casting Native Americans, and the actress, who's of Navajo and Sioux descent, borrowed regalia from her family. Seagal allegedly spotted her and introduced himself, inviting her and her brother, who'd accompanied her to the audition, on set. When she said she had a headache, she said the actor offered her a massage that included rubbing her hand and neck – which she felt was odd.

After she shot her scene, Seagal allegedly invited her to what he described as a wrap party at his home. When she arrived, she said no one else was home and that he took her into another room. "He took me into this room and then just closed the door and started kissing me," she claimed. "He then took my clothes off and before I knew it he was on top of me, raping me. … I wasn't sexually active yet. People always talk about fight-or-flight. But no one talks about the freeze." She claimed she cried the whole time. Several people, including her mother and a bishop, corroborated that Simons had told them about the assault.

Another woman, Dutch former model Faviola Davis, told The Wrap she'd gone for a "private audition" in 2002 for a Genghis Khan movie that ultimately was never made. Davis said she had expected a casting agent and a production assistant to be there, but when she arrived, she said she found only Seagal and a security guard. She'd been instructed to wear a bikini for the role, and Seagal allegedly asked her to disrobe so he could see her figure and then asked to act out a romantic scene.

"I expressed that I was uncomfortable with that especially since I was in my bikini," Dadis told The Wrap. "And then he started pinching my nipples and grabbing my crotch area with his other hand. I quickly yelled, 'This audition is over!'" She attempted to leave but the guard reportedly blocked her exit; she claimed Seagal motioned that it was OK for her to leave and she did. Multiple people, including Dadis' mother, said she'd told them about the alleged incident, which she also described on Instagram.

A rep for Seagal did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone's request for comment.

LAPD reps said they were not able to speak about Seagal and Dadis' complaints. A spokeswoman for the police told the site that it was investigating a separate case regarding the actor that allegedly took place in 2005.

More than half a dozen women in Hollywood have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct, including Portia de Rossi, Julianna Margulies, Katherine Heigl and Jenny McCarthy, among others. Similarly, several ex-assistants have levied accusations against the actor. A rep for Seagal told The Daily Beast that McCarthy's claim was "completely false," and a lawyer addressed two of the assistants who've accused him, saying Kayden Nguyen's accusation was "complete fabrication" and that the actor had "no knowledge" of another woman's claims. The Wrap reported that the lawyer no longer represented the actor.

"Is the thrill that'll gitcha when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone"

Thread: Seagal is at it again (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again)
Thread: An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

GeneChing

01-17-2018, 10:04 AM

Steven Seagal Says Accusers Have ‘Lied and Been Paid to Lie About Me Without Any Evidence’ (https://www.thewrap.com/steven-seagal-says-accusers-have-been-lied-and-paid-to-lie-about-me-without-any-evidence/)
TheWrap reported last week on a woman who accused Seagal of rape in 1993
Tim Molloy and Itay Hod | Last Updated: January 15, 2018 @ 6:56 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQyOCaBD04

Steven Seagal responded to sexual misconduct accusations against him by saying women have “lied and been paid to lie about me without any evidence, any proof, any witnesses.”

“This is just a complete tragedy,” the action star told “InfoWars” host Alex Jones on Monday. “This isn’t just me but hundreds of people around the world,” he said, adding that “many of those people are completely innocent.”

“I can tell you that 40 percent of these claims are false,” he added, without elaborating on how he arrived at that particular figure.

“There is a whole force of people gathering around the world now putting in lots of money and lots of time investigation people who are coming are coming after us,” Seagal added in a remote interview from Japan. “The people who are being paid to lie and the people who are paying them to lie are going to be exposed.”

Seagal did not respond to attempts to contact him last week when TheWrap reported the account of Regina Simons, a woman who said Seagal raped her in 1993 while she was an extra on his film “On Deadly Ground.” Her mother, a bishop at her church and a therapist, among others, corroborated that Simons had shared her story with them.

Seagal chose Jones’ conspiracy-minded “InfoWars” to break his silence. In a lengthy interview, which covered everything from Vladimir Putin to the “deep state” to the so-called “gay-mafia,” Jones claimed that he was contacted by “former high-level people in the CIA and others, saying, ‘Hey Steven Seagal wants to talk to you and we need to get him on to counter the narrative.'”

TheWrap first reported Thursday that the Los Angeles Police Department has opened an investigation into Seagal on a separate sexual misconduct case from 2005. The department declined further comment.

Simons and another women recently filed complaints against the actor with the LAPD. Simons said Seagal invited her to his home in Beverly Hills in 1993 after she appeared as an extra in his movie “On Deadly Ground.”

“He took me into this room and then just closed the door and started kissing me,” she told TheWrap. “He then took my clothes off and before I knew it he was on top of me, raping me… I wasn’t sexually active yet. People always talk about fight-or-flight. But no one talks about the freeze.”

Simons is one of more than a dozen women who have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct, but she appears to be the first to publicly accuse him of rape. Dutch former model Faviola Dadis told TheWrap she filed a report about Seagal with the LAPD in the last month. Dadis said he groped her during an audition in 2002.

The LAPD detective who Seagal and Dadis said they spoke to declined to comment, citing confidentiality.

On Monday, ex-Bond girl Rachel Grant accused the actor of sexual assault in 2002 during a film rehearsal in Bulgaria.

Through his lawyers, who spoke with the BBC, the action movie star has denied Grant’s assault accusation as well as another claim by the actress that he tried to expose himself.”I want to share what happened to me, so people will hear it and others might come forward,” Grant told the BBC.

You can watch the full interview with Seagal above.

I didn't watch the vid. If anyone does and wants to post the time codes for the best parts, be my guest.

Thread: Seagal is at it again (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again)
Thread: An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

Jimbo

01-17-2018, 10:26 AM

I watched part of it, but I cannot sit and listen to Alex Jones for very long. He grates on my nerves.

Do I believe there are conspiracies? ABSOLUTELY. It's not all 'tinfoil hats'. But every one of the pundits out there has an agenda, including Alex Jones. I don't believe there are ANY truly 'good guys' in Washington, and that includes Trump. It doesn't matter how politically correct they are or not. IMO, they're all 'bad' to varying degrees, and at the least butt-kissing enablers, if they want to play the game. Kinda like a Tarantino film, where everybody is a scumbag to some degree or other.

I also believe that there are some false accusations out there. I would hope not, but it's what's trending now. However, accusations against Seagal have been ongoing for YEARS, long before this #metoo movement ever took root. Long before Trump was president. Since long before Seagal ever began publicly discussing the 'deep state'.

David Jamieson

01-18-2018, 07:09 AM

I thought we had consensus that Steve was a creepy lech for a long time?
Not to mention, he's a weirdo of the highest order.
Way up there in his blues lama bubble wafting his own f@rts into the room.

anyway...

wolfen

01-18-2018, 12:46 PM

A source with knowledge of the situation, said: (REF:Stan Lee)

Yeah, I know about this unknown source, . he was responsible for the "Russian Hooker Dossier" and told us all about Al Capone's Vault and as I was reading yesterday he was around in Wu Zetian's day getting rid of her political enemies. He's called "The Oracle". CNN, the MSN's premier conspiracy Fake News outlet, keeps him doped up on crack in a back room somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzwFOh_m7wA

The Producers - "I'm hysterical!"

Yeah, lets all get outraged.
I'm outraged.
I'm very outraged.
This is beyond insufferable!
We are all going to die!
Trump's a RACIST!
Down with Stan Lee!
Down with the Gang of Sex!
(BTW Trump is insane)

I suppose the idea of the "Conspiracy News" , the MSN, the propaganda arm of the deep state, is that we are supposed to get upset by this jumped up distorted trivia and ignore existential threats like the War in Europe and the Red-Green assault on our civilization. Generating faux or exaggerated outrage and hysteria is one of their main political tools in manipulating their audiences.

Stan Lee had a run in with the Clintons, so perhaps he is a target of the Globalist MSN propaganda machine or just a convenient tool for progressive leftists to wage war on Western society.. I get the impression they are happy he got robbed, there was no sympathy there.

I've taken care of relatives in long term facilities. I know the score there. The nurses have seen just about everything and they are tough beyond measure.
Furthermore the system, the practices, take away the dignity and the rights of the clients. They insist on taking over their basic human functions "for their own good" and if they give them trouble , they dope them up if they can get away with it.

They would have no trouble knocking Stan and his minder into the middle of next week. And note they had to manufacture the role of a minder because obviously complaining about a frail 95 year old won't wash.

If there was anything there it probably was a power struggle between Stan and an authoritarian nursing operation that wanted to decide things for "his own good". It looks like Stan won. Good for him. You need to have 50 million dollars to call the shots when you get old or you will be treated like garbage.

But as yet no police complaint has been made and no lawsuits filed.

Exactly! But lets not let the facts stop anyone from being outraged. That way we can forget about the grenade attack by Muslims on a police station in Sweden yesterday or the fact that Bill Clinton was a brutal Serial rapist who was kicked out of Harvard for raping an 18 year old.
(What!!! No outrage from the MSN?)

You'd think with $50M, he could just buy some hookers.

Maybe he does, who knows? If he does, he's in admirable health.
Hookers at 8 PM , Medication at 10.....it could work, the nursing staff would just have to incorporate it in the health plan.

wolfen

01-25-2018, 04:07 AM

I didn't watch the vid.

(RE; The Alex Jones Interview)

Thread: Seagal is at it again (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again)
Thread: An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

This is the problem right here Ie those doing the so called "news reporting". They are in fact spearheading hit jobs.

This is a part of the Hollywood Globalist Lying Propaganda Machine. The News-Entertainment Industry is owned by the Global Elite, only a few families. They are obvious economic mafia, yet they seem to have the population hypnotized.

In this very article claiming to describe the Seagal Interview are several lies and deceits.

40 percent of these claims are false

In the Alex Jones Interview, Seagal said that about the "100's of people in Hollywood accused" NOT "people around the world" as misquoted in the article. Taking it out of context as it was presented it sounded like he was absurdly saying that just about the claims made against him.

“I can tell you that 40 percent of these claims are false,” he added, without elaborating on how he arrived at that particular figure.

Oh yes he did. He cited Michele Malkin who has made numerous detailed studies of this issue complete with many facts and observations. Seagal believes that is is underestimated according to his experience in Hollywood and estimates 60 percent and he qualifies it as a guesstimate.

Seagal chose Jones’ conspiracy-minded “InfoWars” to break his silence.

Oh yeah, present it negatively. Which is worse, a website which has a mix of real news and titillating conspiracy suggestions or an outright lying conspiracy machine like TheWrap?

Seagal did not respond to attempts to contact him last week when TheWrap reported the account of Regina Simons, a woman who said Seagal raped her in 1993 while she was an extra on his film “On Deadly Ground.”
Yeah well what idiot would talk to fake news organization that was attempting to destroy him with innuendo, and unsubstantiated allegations from 25 years ago?

TheWrap first reported Thursday that the Los Angeles Police Department has opened an investigation into Seagal on a separate sexual misconduct case from 2005. The department declined further comment.
Not an arguemnt and nothing to see here but innuendo.

So I watched most of the interview. Alex is annoying, he frequently interrupts his guests and he likes to infer conspiracy innuendos. He is in the entertainment business. But Alex is honest and has a good heart unlike the venomous MSN News Anchors who ARE the conspiracy and lie 24 hours a day 7 days a week to pursue Globalist agendas. I recommend watching Alex's other news reporters - they ar every straightforward and usually concentrate on social issues without the conspiracy angle.

There was really nothing much in the interview except that Seagal denied the rape charges and said of one the women he had never even talked to her. He said that the women or others contacted his producers trying to get him fired from various projects and contacted his children trying to alienate them and ruin him etc.
He described ti correctly, it's a freaking hit job , nothing to do with law or due process.
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The Globalists or whatever their allies or minions took down Judge Roy Moore in an election, now it's open season to use the same techniques and allegations true or untrue, they don't care, to take down their enemies or just to destroy the fabric of American Society which is the Mission of the progressive-Marxist Democrats.

He said that ...
...100's of people were being accused in Hollywood, his evaluation 60 percent completely innocent including him. There is no idea of due process. Most of the other cases are 20-35 years old , no witnesses and they are ruining people's lives.
And in the bigger picture it is ruining America. ...
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And this last part seems to be true. It is the agenda of the progressive left to attack and destroy faith and trust in American Culture to make it easy to install totalitarian laws. This Globalist agenda using the Cultural Marxist method is proven true over and over everywhere in every aspect of Society.
Seagal tried to spin some baloney IMO saying that he was part of the investigation into this treason and also into pedophilia. To me he sounds like a stoner trying to take credit for the efforts of others.
The one thing they talked about that made sense to me , that I wasn't quite aware of before, was the connection between Globalist owned Hollywood in 'One Party Marxist California' and Communist China
They are all the same animal! They are in alliance.
No wonder they hate Russia. Russia went Capitalist and Christian.

Segal may look like a sleazy weasel but it's just another hit job of someone or some people trying to destroy his life most probably because he is a Trump supporter, the hit crews are riding the wave of the METOO movement and he makes a good target.
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But why would any sane person care! The MSN trying to take him down are far more evil and they are responsible for the rape sexual assault of millions of Americans because of the policies they have advocated and put into place with their politicians and their subversive marxist social infrastructure .
Their colleagues in Europe have made that continent a Rape Empire, and that is the future they have in mind for America.ke!

So the Seagal versus TheWrap Issue is a Sleazy Guy versus Satan.
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Frankly Scarlet Press, I don't give a darn.

Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon By Michelle Malkin (https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin/10/17/beware-the-rape-allegation-bandwagon)

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women have flooded social media with their own long-buried accounts of being pestered, groped or assaulted by rapacious male predators in the workplace.
Count me out.
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No. I do not believe every woman who is now standing up to "share her story" or "tell her truth." I owe no blind allegiance to any other woman simply because we share the same pronoun. Assertions are not truths until they are established as facts and corroborated with evidence. Timing, context, motives and manner all matter.
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It is irresponsible for news outlets to extrapolate how "commonplace" sexual abuse is based on hashtag trends spread by celebrities, anonymous claimants and bots. The role of the press should be verification, not validation. Instead of interviewing activist actresses, reporters should be interviewing bona fide experts.
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Published research has documented false rape and sexual assault rates ranging from 8 percent to 41 percent.
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Rape is a devastating crime. So is lying about it. Ignorant advocates and lazy journalists can be as dangerous as derelict detectives and prosecutors driven by political agendas instead of facts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VsRDHaMlI

Stan Lee accused of sexual misconduct (and no one buys it)

No news here, just an opinion. The opinion is "what you see is what it is" - unsubstantiated claims, an obvious hit job by a proven dishonest media, allegations of behaviour that doesn't match a public personality well known for a long time and a possible extortion attempt gone wrong.
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I guess we do know "what sexual assault is all about" - Hollywood Lies and Marxist Politics.

Jimbo

01-25-2018, 09:30 AM

wolfen

01-25-2018, 01:53 PM

This interview is from 4 years ago, and the subject of pedophilia in Hollywood, particularly against boys/young men, is STILL being ignored. This whole #metoo movement means NOTHING if it doesn't address the ENTIRE spectrum of criminal sexual abuse, as opposed to only the obvious 50% of it

What do you expect? The #metoo "movement" is marxist fakery. It has nothing to do with protecting women, it has to so with using women as a weapon to destroy Western Culture. It doesn't even address 5 percent of Criminal sexual abuse in North America let alone Europe.

Where was metoo or the MSN in Edmonton yesterday? Where were they in Michigan last week in the FGM trials? Take a good look what the feminists are ignoring In Edmonton. This is going on in Europe times 100,000 full tilt boogie. Assaults, rapes, FGM , honor killings, The Marxist Deep state ignoring it, refusing to arrest the criminals, arresting and silencing those who complain, letting the criminals go scott free or with light sentences even if they do get charges pressed.
Welcome to the "METoo - Feminists being responsible for Criminal Sexual Abuse Movement" or
"METoo - I was sacrificed as a Sexual Assault victim to advance the cause of Feminism".
Call it #MEFooledTOO

It is Europe's present nightmare and America's tomorrow. Under the Marxist Sharia Compliant Trudeau, Canada gets it in the neck first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhPHQgG-R7c

Sheila Gunn Reid: Girls testify at Edmonton Mall "refugee" sex assault trial (Day 3)

"The feminists of the metoo movement? They are not here for these girls. They are doing it all on their own."

GeneChing

01-31-2018, 09:54 AM

Woman accuses film star Steven Seagal of rape in 1993 (http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Woman-accuses-film-star-Steven-Seagal-of-rape-in-12528235.php)
Updated 9:40 pm, Friday, January 26, 2018

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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2015, file photo, actor Steven Seagal speaks at a news conference, while attending an opening ceremony for a research and development center in Moscow, Russia. A once-aspiring actress has alleged Seagal raped her at a wrap party for the film “On Deadly Ground,” claiming he undressed her and assaulted her on his bed while she focused on a photo of Seagal’s wife on the nightstand. Regina Simons called the alleged assault “very predatory, very aggressive and traumatizing” during an interview that aired Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 on “Megyn Kelly Today.” She was 18 at the time.

NEW YORK (AP) — A once-aspiring actress has alleged Steven Seagal raped her at a wrap party for the film "On Deadly Ground," claiming he undressed her and assaulted her on his bed while she focused on a photo of Seagal's wife on the nightstand.

Regina Simons called the alleged assault "very predatory, very aggressive and traumatizing" during an interview that aired Friday on NBC's "Megyn Kelly Today." She was 18 at the time.

Seagal's lawyer did not immediately return calls for comment Friday.

Simons said she was surprised to find that she was the only one invited to Seagal's 1993 party to celebrate the end of filming. She had been an extra and said "before I knew it, he was on top of me and I couldn't move." She says she froze and "felt like I left my body."

During the alleged attack, Simons said she remembers looking at a photo of Seagal and "the lady from 'Weird Science.'" At the time, Seagal was married to Kelly LeBrock, who starred in "Weird Science."

Simon said she reported her allegations to Beverly Hills, California police, where the incident occurred.

Other women have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct. Jenny McCarthy said the action star sexually harassed her during a 1995 audition, while Portia de Rossi accused Seagal of unzipping his pants during an audition.

A Seagal spokesman denied McCarthy's accusations to The Daily Beast. McCarthy told the same story to Movieline in 1998.

Thread: Seagal is at it again (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again)
Thread: An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

wolfen

02-05-2018, 03:29 AM

The MSN Lying Machine and the #METOO movement have plenty of unsubstantiated, politically motivated, slanderous attacks, with paid accusers, on prominent Hollywood Stars, like Steven Seagal but they are totally silent on the epidemic of rape, murder and abuse of women in Europe.
Not only are they silent about it, they are part of it, they are responsible for it. They are the Stalinist Propaganda Lying Machine that used its power to get the politicians elected that are implementing the polices that do this and are responsible for the slow, (not so slow anymore) agonizing death of Europe.
This is the fate of America, and what you will hear from the MSN Lying machine in America is silence, the same as the silence you are now hearing from them about Europe and about abuse from Islamification currently in America.

It is the Silence of the Scams.
Always look at the source. If it is the MSN and about politics remember they are a lying machine, and they have blood on their hands.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrsdaLUcnfQ

#120dB The Truth Behind European Immigration

120db

Young German girls victim of migrant rapes start to find their voice and raise the issue that the media and government across Europe are trying to play down and keep quite.

Ten of thousands here in the UK have suffered from these rape gangs and even more across Europe as a whole have suffered at the hands of Muslim men using Sharia Law as a justification as under Sharia Law the victims are to blame not the offenders.

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From the Comments Section:

You have no idea how brave this german girls are. For showing up in that video left wingers will try to get them fired from their jobs, they will never be able to work in any way for the government, their cars or homes may get burned by left wingers, you have a good chance to get physically attacked on you way home by Antifa and so on. Showing your face for such a topic instandly ends your normal life.

(Some of the Women talked about in the video)
Mia (15 years old) german girl butchered by one of angela merkels muslim refugees, RIP,
Maria Ladenburger,student raped and then drowned in a river by one of angela merkels adopted muslim children, RIP,
Maria M, land lady (70 years old) butchered by one of angela merkels muslim children, who scrawled "infidel" on her wall RIP,
Jolanta K (20 years old) pregnant polish woman sliced open with a machete on busy street by another of angela merkels muslim children refugees RIP,
Ebba (11 years old), deaf swedish girl deliberately driven over and killed by another muslim refugee RIP,
Batalan Nightclub, 89 french teenagers,both male and female, held captive and shot to death in a nightclub, many of the victims were sexually abused and tortured to death with knifes,eyes gouged out and with their sexual organs cut off and mutilated and placed in their mouths RIP
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Governments are out of touch with the public, we're losing all national pride, people are being treated differently by the establishment n law depending on religion or colour of skin. They are true fascists. Can't go in a shop with your hood up, unless you're religious. That alone shows the direction we've gone in, unregistered little bylaws in society that people have to follow to continue shopping. Nobody should have their face covered then, it's this selective position that society takes why people are now joining patriotic movements regardless of how they view migration, we're being destroyed from the inside all across Europe and they said they would do this too (ISIS) so our leaders must do this on purpose.

Also in the UK if there is a civil war and you flee the battle you'll be in front of military court, here we just let cowards in that flee civil wars, young strong men, who then go and terrorize our women just like this video shows, women are actually fearful, it's not about politics, it's about protecting our culture, daughters, grandmothers, mothers and children

Merkel, for betraying her nation and being an accomplice in hundreds of rapes and murders of innocent German citizens deserves to be hanged in public like Mussolini. (And so do many Politicians in America who are already responsible for the deaths, rapes and mutilations of American women)
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http://www.120db.info/
120 decibels (#120db) is the name of their movement — after the sound intensity of rape alarms now carried by large numbers of European women.
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120db Site : 120DB is
http://www.120db.info/

Women of Europe rise up against migrant sexual violence, rape jihad #120DB (https://gellerreport.com/2018/02/120db.html/)

Any nation that sacrifices its girls sacrifices its future. And that is what Europe has done.

Any civilization that sacrifices its young girls to an invading army has no future at all.

The mass rape jihad enveloping Europe has been met with a wall of silence. One would imagine the most vocal opponents would be the (pink) *****hats. You would be wrong.

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An Interview with Arianna of 120DB movement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QJ3wYi_Fug) by Britanny Pettibone on youtube.

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GeneChing

02-05-2018, 09:12 AM

There's a vid of the car behind the link.

This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html)
The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein.
Maureen Dowd FEB. 3, 2018

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Yes, Uma Thurman is mad.

She has been raped. She has been sexually assaulted. She has been mangled in hot steel. She has been betrayed and gaslighted by those she trusted.

And we’re not talking about her role as the blood-spattered bride in “Kill Bill.” We’re talking about a world that is just as cutthroat, amoral, vindictive and misogynistic as any Quentin Tarantino hellscape.

We’re talking about Hollywood, where even an avenging angel has a hard time getting respect, much less bloody satisfaction.

Playing foxy Mia Wallace in 1994’s “Pulp Fiction” and ferocious Beatrix Kiddo in “Kill Bill,” Volumes 1 (2003) and 2 (2004), Thurman was the lissome goddess in the creation myth of Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino. The Miramax troika was the ultimate in indie cool. A spellbound Tarantino often described his auteur-muse relationship with Thurman — who helped him conceive the idea of the bloody bride — as an Alfred Hitchcock-Ingrid Bergman legend. (With a foot fetish thrown in.) But beneath the glistening Oscar gold, there was a dark undercurrent that twisted the triangle.

“Pulp Fiction” made Weinstein rich and respected, and Thurman says he introduced her to President Barack Obama at a fund-raiser as the reason he had his house.

“The complicated feeling I have about Harvey is how bad I feel about all the women that were attacked after I was,” she told me one recent night, looking anguished in her elegant apartment in River House on Manhattan’s East Side, as she vaped tobacco, sipped white wine and fed empty pizza boxes into the fireplace.

“I am one of the reasons that a young girl would walk into his room alone, the way I did. Quentin used Harvey as the executive producer of ‘Kill Bill,’ a movie that symbolizes female empowerment. And all these lambs walked into slaughter because they were convinced nobody rises to such a position who would do something illegal to you, but they do.”

Thurman stresses that Creative Artists Agency, her former agency, was connected to Weinstein’s predatory behavior. It has since issued a public apology. “I stand as both a person who was subjected to it and a person who was then also part of the cloud cover, so that’s a super weird split to have,” she says.

She talks mordantly about “the power from ‘Pulp,’” and reminds me that it’s in the Library of Congress, part of the American narrative.

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Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film, “Pulp Fiction.” Harvey Weinstein was an executive producer. Credit Miramax Films

When asked about the scandal on the red carpet at the October premiere for her Broadway play, “The Parisian Woman,” an intrigue about a glamorous woman in President Trump’s Washington written by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon, she looked steely and said she was waiting to feel less angry before she talked about it.

“I used the word ‘anger’ but I was more worried about crying, to tell you the truth,” she says now. “I was not a groundbreaker on a story I knew to be true. So what you really saw was a person buying time.”

By Thanksgiving, Thurman had begun to unsheathe her Hattori Hanzo, Instagramming a screen shot of her “roaring rampage of revenge” monologue and wishing everyone a happy holiday, “(Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators — I’m glad it’s going slowly — you don’t deserve a bullet) — stay tuned.”

Stretching out her lanky frame on a brown velvet couch in front of the fire, Thurman tells her story, with occasional interruptions from her 5-year-old daughter with her ex, financier Arpad Busson. Luna is in her pj’s, munching on a raw cucumber. Her two older kids with Ethan Hawke, Maya, an actress, and Levon, a high school student, also drop by.

In interviews over the years, Thurman has offered a Zen outlook — even when talking about her painful breakup from Hawke. (She had a brief first marriage to Gary Oldman.) Her hall features a large golden Buddha from her parents in Woodstock; her father, Robert Thurman, is a Buddhist professor of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia who thinks Uma is a reincarnated goddess.

But beneath that reserve and golden aura, she has learned to be a street fighter.

She says when she was 16, living in a studio apartment in Manhattan and starting her movie career, she went to a club one winter night and met an actor, nearly 20 years older, who coerced her afterward when they went to his Greenwich Village brownstone for a nightcap.

“I was ultimately compliant,” she remembers. “I tried to say no, I cried, I did everything I could do. He told me the door was locked but I never ran over and tried the knob. When I got home, I remember I stood in front of the mirror and I looked at my hands and I was so mad at them for not being bloody or bruised. Something like that tunes the dial one way or another, right? You become more compliant or less compliant, and I think I became less compliant.”

Thurman got to know Weinstein and his first wife, Eve, in the afterglow of “Pulp Fiction.” “I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,” she said. “He used to spend hours talking to me about material and complimenting my mind and validating me. It possibly made me overlook warning signs. This was my champion. I was never any kind of studio darling. He had a chokehold on the type of films and directors that were right for me.”

Things soon went off-kilter in a meeting in his Paris hotel room. “It went right over my head,” she says. They were arguing about a script when the bathrobe came out.

“I didn’t feel threatened,” she recalls. “I thought he was being super idiosyncratic, like this was your kooky, eccentric uncle.”

He told her to follow him down a hall — there were always, she says, “vestibules within corridors within chambers” — so they could keep talking. “Then I followed him through a door and it was a steam room. And I was standing there in my full black leather outfit — boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, ‘This is ridiculous, what are you doing?’ And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out.”

The first “attack,” she says, came not long after in Weinstein’s suite at the Savoy Hotel in London. “It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.”

She was staying in Fulham with her friend, Ilona Herman, Robert De Niro’s longtime makeup artist, who later worked with Thurman on “Kill Bill.”

“The next day to her house arrived a 26-inch-wide vulgar bunch of roses,” Thurman says. “They were yellow. And I opened the note like it was a soiled diaper and it just said, ‘You have great instincts.’” Then, she says, Weinstein’s assistants started calling again to talk about projects.

She thought she could confront him and clear it up, but she took Herman with her and asked Weinstein to meet her in the Savoy bar. The assistants had their own special choreography to lure actresses into the spider’s web and they pressured Thurman, putting Weinstein on the phone to again say it was a misunderstanding and “we have so many projects together.” Finally she agreed to go upstairs, while Herman waited on a settee outside the elevators.

Once the assistants vanished, Thurman says, she warned Weinstein, “If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation and your family, I promise you.” Her memory of the incident abruptly stops there.
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GeneChing

02-05-2018, 09:13 AM

Through a representative, Weinstein, who is in therapy in Arizona, agreed that “she very well could have said this.”

Downstairs, Herman was getting nervous. “It seemed to take forever,” the friend told me. Finally, the elevator doors opened and Thurman walked out. “She was very disheveled and so upset and had this blank look,” Herman recalled. “Her eyes were crazy and she was totally out of control. I shoveled her into the taxi and we went home to my house. She was really shaking.” Herman said that when the actress was able to talk again, she revealed that Weinstein had threatened to derail her career.

Through a spokesperson, Weinstein denied ever threatening her prospects and said that he thought she was “a brilliant actress.” He acknowledged her account of the episodes but said that up until the Paris steam room, they had had “a flirtatious and fun working relationship.”

“Mr. Weinstein acknowledges making a pass at Ms. Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris,” the statement said. “He immediately apologized.”

Thurman says that, even though she was in the middle of a run of Miramax projects, she privately regarded Weinstein as an enemy after that. One top Hollywood executive who knew them both said the work relationship continued but that basically, “She didn’t give him the time of day.”

Thurman says that she could tolerate the mogul in supervised environments and that she assumed she had “aged out of the window of his assault range.”

She attended the party he had in SoHo in September for Tarantino’s engagement to Daniella Pick, an Israeli singer. In response to queries about Thurman’s revelations, Weinstein sent along six pictures of chummy photos of the two of them at premieres and parties over the years.

And that brings us to “the Quentin of it all,” as Thurman calls it. The animosity between Weinstein and Thurman infected her creative partnership with Tarantino.

Married to Hawke and with a baby daughter and a son on the way, Thurman went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2001. She says Tarantino noticed after a dinner that she was skittish around Weinstein, which was a problem, since they were all about to make “Kill Bill.” She says she reminded Tarantino that she had already told him about the Savoy incident, but “he probably dismissed it like ‘Oh, poor Harvey, trying to get girls he can’t have,’ whatever he told himself, who knows?” But she reminded him again and “the penny dropped for him. He confronted Harvey.”

Later, by the pool under the Cypress trees at the luxurious Hotel du Cap, Thurman recalls, Weinstein said he was hurt and surprised by her accusations. She then firmly reiterated what happened in London. “At some point, his eyes changed and he went from aggressive to ashamed,” she says, and he offered her an apology with many of the sentiments he would trot out about 16 years later when the walls caved in.

“I just walked away stunned, like ‘O.K., well there’s my half-assed apology,’” Thurman says.

Weinstein confirmed Friday that he apologized, an unusual admission from him, which spurred Thurman to wryly note, “His therapy must be working.”

Since the revelations about Weinstein became public last fall, Thurman has been reliving her encounters with him — and a gruesome episode on location for “Kill Bill” in Mexico made her feel as blindsided as the bride and as determined to get her due, no matter how long it took.

With four days left, after nine months of shooting the sadistic saga, Thurman was asked to do something that made her draw the line.

In the famous scene where she’s driving the blue convertible to kill Bill — the same one she put on Instagram on Thanksgiving — she was asked to do the driving herself.

But she had been led to believe by a teamster, she says, that the car, which had been reconfigured from a stick shift to an automatic, might not be working that well.

She says she insisted that she didn’t feel comfortable operating the car and would prefer a stunt person to do it. Producers say they do not recall her objecting.

“Quentin came in my trailer and didn’t like to hear no, like any director,” she says. “He was furious because I’d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ‘I promise you the car is fine. It’s a straight piece of road.’” He persuaded her to do it, and instructed: “ ‘Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won’t blow the right way and I’ll make you do it again.’ But that was a deathbox that I was in. The seat wasn’t screwed down properly. It was a sand road and it was not a straight road.” (Tarantino did not respond to requests for comment.)

Thurman then shows me the footage that she says has taken her 15 years to get. “Solving my own Nancy Drew mystery,” she says.

It’s from the point of view of a camera mounted to the back of the Karmann Ghia. It’s frightening to watch Thurman wrestle with the car, as it drifts off the road and smashes into a palm tree, her contorted torso heaving helplessly until crew members appear in the frame to pull her out of the wreckage. Tarantino leans in and Thurman flashes a relieved smile when she realizes that she can briefly stand.

“The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” she says. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again,’” she says. “When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large massive egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.”

Even though their marriage was spiraling apart, Hawke immediately left the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky to fly to his wife’s side.

“I approached Quentin in very serious terms and told him that he had let Uma down as a director and as a friend,” he told me. He said he told Tarantino, “Hey, man, she is a great actress, not a stunt driver, and you know that.” Hawke added that the director “was very upset with himself and asked for my forgiveness.”

Two weeks after the crash, after trying to see the car and footage of the incident, she had her lawyer send a letter to Miramax, summarizing the event and reserving the right to sue.

Miramax offered to show her the footage if she signed a document “releasing them of any consequences of my future pain and suffering,” she says. She didn’t.

Thurman says her mind meld with Tarantino was rattled. “We were in a terrible fight for years,” she explains. “We had to then go through promoting the movies. It was all very thin ice. We had a fateful fight at Soho House in New York in 2004 and we were shouting at each other because he wouldn’t let me see the footage and he told me that was what they had all decided.”

Now, so many years after the accident, inspired by the reckoning on violence against women, reliving her own “dehumanization to the point of death” in Mexico, and furious that there have not been more legal repercussions against Weinstein, Thurman says she handed over the result of her own excavations to the police and ramped up the pressure to cajole the crash footage out of Tarantino.

“Quentin finally atoned by giving it to me after 15 years, right?” she says. “Not that it matters now, with my permanently damaged neck and my screwed-up knees.”

(Tarantino aficionados spy an echo of Thurman’s crash in his 2007 movie, “Death Proof,” produced by Weinstein and starring Thurman’s stunt double, Zoë Bell. Young women, including a blond Rose McGowan, die in myriad ways, including by slamming into a windshield.)

As she sits by the fire on a second night when we talk until 3 a.m., tears begin to fall down her cheeks. She brushes them away.

“When they turned on me after the accident,” she says, “I went from being a creative contributor and performer to being like a broken tool.”

Thurman says that in “Kill Bill,” Tarantino had done the honors with some of the sadistic flourishes himself, spitting in her face in the scene where Michael Madsen is seen on screen doing it and choking her with a chain in the scene where a teenager named Gogo is on screen doing it.

“Harvey assaulted me but that didn’t kill me,” she says. “What really got me about the crash was that it was a cheap shot. I had been through so many rings of fire by that point. I had really always felt a connection to the greater good in my work with Quentin and most of what I allowed to happen to me and what I participated in was kind of like a horrible mud wrestle with a very angry brother. But at least I had some say, you know?” She says she didn’t feel disempowered by any of it. Until the crash.

“Personally, it has taken me 47 years to stop calling people who are mean to you ‘in love’ with you. It took a long time because I think that as little girls we are conditioned to believe that cruelty and love somehow have a connection and that is like the sort of era that we need to evolve out of.”

Saddened to hear the Open Secret (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch) is sullying Kill Bill (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?18892-Kill-Bill)

Jimbo

02-09-2018, 09:11 AM

CA Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, head of the Legislative Women's Caucus and a leading figure in the #metoo movement, accused of groping a male staffer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Ygkn4ynvI&sns=em

Like I said, the problem of sexual harassment is NOT only an issue facing women. If true (and it sure sounds credible), this allegation is but another example of the hypocrisy of the #metoo movement and some of its most prominent and vocal supporters. The only difference is that this time, the spotlight is on an alleged female harasser.

wolfen

02-10-2018, 04:56 AM

"Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails, That's what little boys are made of." (Add choking and spitting and groping and raping)

Disclaimer: I don't necessarily endorse any of the views in this video especially because Shapiro doesn't like Tarantino's films because I suppose he has a rod up his somewhere. However this commentary was the best I found detailing the occurrences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWhLS6UNR4

Ben Shapiro; Talks Quentin Tarantino vs Uma Thurman #MeToo Fiasco..!

It is interesting that Quentin found he needed to take personal charge of spitting on and choking (two lead actresses). He had to do it himself and didn't want anyone else to do it. Art becomes life or life becomes Art?

Quentin said he didn't say anything about Weinstein because he wanted to keep making movies. Lets note also that Uma didn't say anything because she wanted to keep making movies. It's a hard choice, but it's a choice, people choose their own success or the world would not run. In most hierarchical systems such as work or MA training people are often given the choice: eat a plate of someone else's bitter or walk out the door.

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“Then I followed him through a door and it was a steam room. And I was standing there in my full black leather outfit — boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, ‘This is ridiculous, what are you doing?’ - Uma Thurman What did Uma think she was doing? You put on an outfit like that and you are not in Kansas anymore.
Sheesh!

Kill Bill is still re-watchable, except certain scenes I wish I didn't know so much about. You can't sully Hollywood anymore than it has been self-sullied, Every year at the Oscars each actor on stage dumps a bucket of sully on themselves by being the bought and paid for rabid propagandists of the Globalists.

wolfen

02-10-2018, 01:17 PM

Feminism is a Soft Genocide implemented by ideologues to gain power for their ideology IE It's a weapon of Progressive Leftists, Marxists and communists to wreak havoc on society by weaponizing women to gain political power for Statism.

There is no defense against "allegations", there is no way to disprove them. Many of the Hollywood accusations may be by made by paid opportunists and championed by the paid provocateurs of the MSN. Especially beware any woman who has gone to a University in current times, they have all become SJW Indoctrination camps. Forget about dating women at Uni...It's a trap!
Even women that you have vetted can suddenly turn against you.
Jordan Peterson says things are going to get worse for men, much, much worse.
Not even nerds are safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_4QRRKogAk

WEAPONIZING WOMEN by Stefan Molyneux

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Hair Color = Predatory Warning!

Gad Saad (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH7qUqM0PLieCVaHA7RegA/videos?disable_polymer=1) has a theory of why SJW Women dye their hair bright colours. It's based on the study of evolution and lizards. Lizards often have developed bright flaming colours as a way of making themselves fiercer than they are in order to scare their enemies.

Why Do Social Justice Warriors Have Colored Hair? (THE SAAD TRUTH_505) Youtube Link Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwATG95Irfk)

wolfen

02-10-2018, 02:30 PM

The #metoo movement has been co-opted into vilifying masculinity and demoralizing men

It's Marxism rebranded - an old marxist trick - Divide and Conquer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2bCgunLEB4

The War on Men - Paul Joseph Watson

Jordan Peterson says he foresees all aspects of male masculinity coming under the legal control of the State..

Watch out for the SJW's, they will think Kung fu is a prime example of toxic masculinity - Be careful out there!

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They are here already... Yes, It's the Okinawan Karate School of Crying... one of the 36 Stratagems in the Art of War. :rolleyes:

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wolfen

02-19-2018, 01:40 PM

This is not much different than Mao's Cultural Revolution. He created the Red Guards to destroy his enemies. In America, The Globalists ae using the SJW's to destroy American Nationalism and American Identity. It's for the same reason - to achieve power. When the Globalists achieve total economic power, political power will be meaningless.

Jordan Peterson says its' going to get much worse.

Matt Damon's Career is under serious attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNwuaOQEMkE

Matt Damon Attacked By #MeToo Harpies

wolfen

02-19-2018, 02:25 PM

The #METOO movement gets thousands of women fired, ends their careers and destroys an entire Industry.

Get ready for a drab and dreary world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWXkXXa99d8

Feminists Pick The Wrong Target #GridGirls

wolfen

02-19-2018, 02:40 PM

Interviews with fired Grid Girls and commentary.

It looks like #METOO is going after all modeling and models.
No group could hate women more than the feminist #METOO movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmHVwEBSZM

Epic Levels of Leftist Hypocrisy

Also there is commentary on "World Hijab Day" a subversive propaganda misogynist campaign.

wolfen

02-19-2018, 03:20 PM

I didn't think any place could be worse than California in terms of corruption and sexual abuse but here it is: Ontario, Canada!

Here Faith Goldy describes the mass sexual abuse of Ontario Schoolkids and how they are groomed for sexual predators. Their educational program being constructed by child pornographers, lesbian activists etc. the Premier herself (Hizzen-self?) being a role mode for Caligula's decadence.

Hollywood has nothing on this.

This is the Bogeyman, MARXISM at work. A very vicious, deadly and real bogeyman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Gwrz7QERA

The Absolute State of Ontario

Other than the dubious point of the existence of God, Faith is spot on here.

There are four things I know in this life to be true:

God exists;
Europeans are being replaced in their homelands;
Western schools are communist indoctrination camps;
And Ontario is a s***hole province.

In the wake of Patrick Brown's 'sex scandal,' I consider the real sexual deviant: Our Premier Kathleen Wynne.

Wake up, Ontario: We're broke, unemployed, without a reasonable prospect of ever owning our own homes… Taking orders from Orville Redenbacher’s lesbian twin, who takes orders from a child pornographer — all of whom now have the legal authority to teach our children their diabolical values & if we dare to teach them otherwise, we might never see our offspring again.

wolfen

02-19-2018, 03:37 PM

"A New Puritanism Sweeps the UK"
Quite so, and it should be noted it is quite Sharia (Islamic Law) compliant.
This again is the Red-Green Axis at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq6n0581FU

Nigel Farage REACTS to Feminists Getting Formula One Grid Girls SACKED

wolfen

02-19-2018, 04:18 PM

This is the Deep State at work. Not the Deep State in quotation marks nor the Conspiracy Deep State but the actual Deep State, the Democrat appointed Judges and administrators who have a political agenda.

The judge here had the authority to uphold the charges, he did not. The FGM mutilator of at least 100 girls went free. America follows Europe where Muslim rapists murders etc get reduced sentences, go free or are simply never charged. The political reason is the nothing must be allowed to criticize Islam so that the polices of unrestricted Islamic Immigration can continue. Those immigration policies will give absolute power to the Progressive Leftists as they change the demographics of Western Countries.
This is what has already happened in California which is now more than 50 percent Hispanic and a one party State.
For political power a policy of genocide is being waged on the old stock citizens of all Western Countries.
The Globalists and their stooges in the MSN and Hollywood are 100 percent to blame for this.

Feds drop bombshell: Up to 100 girls may have had their genitals cut in Michigan (https://www.freep.com/story/news/2017/06/07/female-genital-mutilation-doctors-michigan/378219001/)
Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press

A federal prosecutor dropped a bombshell in court Wednesday, telling a federal judge that the government estimates that as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a local doctor and her cohorts.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward disclosed the information while trying to convince a judge to keep a doctor and his wife locked up in the historic case. It involves allegations that two Minnesota girls had their genitals cut at a Livonia clinic in February as part of a religious rite of passage and were told to keep what happened a secret.

"Due to the secretive nature of this procedure, we are unlikely to ever know how many children were cut by Dr. (Jumana) Nagarwala," Woodward said, referring to the lead defendant in the case, later adding, "The Minnesota victims were not the first victims."

Judge dismisses 1 charge in Michigan female genital mutilation (FGM) case (https://gellerreport.com/2018/01/fgm-judge-michigan.html/)

Friedman ruled that Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and Dr. Fakhruddin Attar didn’t commit conspiracy to transport a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. “The facts alleged in the indictment do not support this charge because, as a matter of law, FGM, while a prohibited criminal act, is not `criminal sexual activity.”‘ The clitoris is the female sexual organ – the source of human female sexual pleasure. This is sexual crime.

The Judge dismissed the charges. Say what!

Unlike male circumcision, female genital mutilation has no health benefits for girls and women.

Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves partial or total removal of the clitoris, causing injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

Female genital mutilation procedure has no health benefits for girls and women. It removes all possibility of sexual pleasure. It is the worst kind of misogyny.

Doctor denies crime was committed

Nagarwala was arrested in April. She is accused of cutting at least six girls at Attar’s clinic in Livonia, just west of Detroit. The two Minnesota girls were brought to Michigan by their mothers, who are also charged in the case. The girls were 7 years old at the time. Their mothers are also charged in the case.

Nagarwala denies any crime was committed. She said she performed a religious custom on girls from her Muslim sect, the India-based Dawoodi Bohra.

Under Sharia Law it is not a crime and is encouraged. This is the problem , the Deep State has brought in an entire body of immigrants that do not respect American Law ands wish to replace American Law with Sharia Law.

More than 500K in U.S. Risk Female Genital Mutilation, Say Feds (http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/02/06/500k-u-s-risk-female-genital-mutilation-say-feds/)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that “more than 500,000 women and girls in the United States are at risk of or have been subjected to FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting).”

The CDC says that some of these half million women and girls are cut in the United States. Others are sent abroad for mutilation.

Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and other U.S. agencies are calling on the “global community” for an end to this abuse.

In the United States, FGM/C is a serious crime and officials have prosecuted individuals who performed the procedure.

FGM/C is also a form of child abuse.

Those who engage in this criminal procedure can be convicted and serve prison time. There are also immigration consequences.

Last April, three people in Michigan were charged in connection with the crime. Breitbart News reported that Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and his wife Farida Attar was arrested in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested the week before. The arrests represented the first prosecution of FGM/C in the U.S.

..and..the charges were dropped And about those charges, prison time and immigration consequences ...nothing <crickets>

How many young girls have suffered FGM in the USA, we don't know because the MSN and the authorities have done their best to cover it up.
As well, nobody wants to be a "racist" you know..just like in Rotherham.

wolfen

02-19-2018, 08:41 PM

Forget it Jake, It's Hollywood

Complaining that there is injustice in Hollywood? that's like complaining it's hot in Hades. California compares politically to Communist China. It is a one party State with a Stalinist monopolistic media, a fertile manure pie of corruption and it will only get worse under the ambition of the Globalists who created it. In 2014 by means of illegal and unrestricted immigration the Globalists achieved their goal - California's population achieved a majority of Hispanics, now they are trying to flood the rest of America with the same and achieve total power over America at the expense of the American people themselves.

A very extensive article here detailing the California Dystopia.

The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave
Why can’t our immigration authorities deport the hordes of illegal felons in our cities? (https://www.city-journal.org/html/illegal-alien-crime-wave-12492.html)

Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD’s rule against enforcing immigration law.

The LAPD’s ban on immigration enforcement mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities around the country, from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These “sanctuary policies” generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.

Such laws testify to the sheer political power of immigrant lobbies, a power so irresistible that police officials shrink from even mentioning the illegal-alien crime wave. “We can’t even talk about it,” says a frustrated LAPD captain. “People are afraid of a backlash from Hispanics.” Another LAPD commander in a predominantly Hispanic, gang-infested district sighs: “I would get a firestorm of criticism if I talked about [enforcing the immigration law against illegals].” Neither captain would speak for attribution.

But however pernicious in themselves, sanctuary rules are a symptom of a much broader disease: the nation’s near-total loss of control over immigration policy. Fifty years ago, immigration policy might have driven immigration numbers, but today the numbers drive policy. The nonstop increase of immigration is reshaping the language and the law to dissolve any distinction between legal and illegal aliens and, ultimately, the very idea of national borders.
...
It is a measure of how topsy-turvy the immigration environment has become that to ask police officials about the illegal-alien crime problem feels like a gross faux pas, not done in polite company. And a police official asked to violate this powerful taboo will give a strangled response—or, as in the case of a New York deputy commissioner, break off communication altogether. Meanwhile, millions of illegal aliens work, shop, travel, and commit crimes in plain view, utterly secure in their de facto immunity from the immigration law.

Police commanders may not want to discuss, much less respond to, the illegal-alien crisis, but its magnitude for law enforcement is startling. Some examples:

• In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegall; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.

• The leadership of the Columbia Lil’ Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.

Good luck finding any reference to such facts in official crime analysis. The LAPD and the L.A. city attorney recently requested an injunction against drug trafficking in Hollywood, targeting the 18th Street Gang and the “non–gang members” who sell drugs in Hollywood for the gang. Those non–gang members are virtually all illegal Mexicans, smuggled into the country by a ring organized by 18th Street bigs. The Mexicans pay off their transportation debts to the gang by selling drugs; many soon realize how lucrative that line of work is and stay in the business.

Cops and prosecutors universally know the immigration status of these non-gang “Hollywood dealers,” as the city attorney calls them, but the gang injunction is assiduously silent on the matter. And if a Hollywood officer were to arrest an illegal dealer (known on the street as a “border brother”) for his immigration status, or even notify the Immigration and Naturalization Service (since early 2003, absorbed into the new Department of Homeland Security), he would face severe discipline for violating Special Order 40, the city’s sanctuary policy.
...

There is much more to the article detailing the damage The Globalists with the use of their stooges in Hollywood and the MSN have done to the American people and to Californians.

wolfen

02-19-2018, 08:49 PM

What happens when there is nowhere left to run? In Europe there is nowhere left for the original Europeans to run. There is no escape from their extinction, In 2030 the Muslim population of Germany, Belgium and several other countries will be over 50 percent. Imagine how tolerant the new rulers of Europe will be.
With less than seven percent Muslims the UK is already a dystopian nightmare. The Religion of Peace forgot to bring their peace suitcases to Britain.
..
2030 is the Death Date for Europe according to many. What is the expiry date for America, I wonder?

[
U]Sanctuary city policies are ruining California — here’s why I left (http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/362940-sanctuary-city-policies-are-ruining-california-heres-why-i-left) [/U]

The verdict in the Kate Steinle murder case is a slap in the face to every law-abiding American citizen.

Years of California leaders harboring illegal immigrants have led to this willful and awful occurrence in San Francisco — a killer walking free despite being in this country illegally, being deported five times, and despite being a seven-time convicted felon.

San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” policy is bringing shame upon the once-Golden State in a turn of events that President Trump called “disgraceful.”

The worst part? It could have all been avoided.

To understand how we got here, one must understand how liberal politics have played out in California.

Progressives in California over the last 10 years have increasingly placed the so-called “rights” of illegal immigrants over the public safety of its residents.

San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee once called illegal immigration “part of the DNA of the city.”

Even California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra — the man responsible for upholding the law — is ironically for actually breaking federal immigration law.

Their choices have proven to have deadly consequences.

Whether it’s the case of Kate Steinle who was shot in the back while showing her dad the beautiful piers in San Francisco, or whether it was high school football star Jamiel Shaw’s life ending on the sidewalk in front of his house in South Central Los Angeles, California leaders have blood on their hands.

Public safety is the reason I left California at the end of 2012.

As Democrats promoted sanctuary city policies and Gov. Jerry Brown began his early prisoner release program of convicted felons, drug dealers and other offenders, I no longer felt safe as a single female walking home from work in California.

Now in California, 13,500 inmates are released early every month due to overcrowding. That’s an increase of 34 percent over just the last few years, according to the Los Angeles Times.

All of this comes at a time when illegal immigrant criminal activity is drowning the state’s resources. Already, approximately one-fourth of the prison inmate population are illegal immigrants being housed on the taxpayers’ dime.

While liberals often suggest that the illegal immigrant population is relatively low and therefore no threat to public safety, federal crime statistics show that a heavy percentage of inmates, criminal offenders and murderers are illegal immigrants. According to an op-ed earlier this year at The Hill, “a population of just over 3.5 percent residing in the U.S. unlawfully committed 22 percent to 37 percent of all murders in the nation.”

In the Kate Steinle murder case, we knew so little about the violent illegal immigrant offender that he was actually indicted under another name. Initially, he was reported to be Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, but the name under which he was just acquitted last night is Jose Ines Garcia Zarate. It begs the question, if we can’t even verify a person’s true identity, should they really be in our country walking our streets among the public?

The evidence clearly shows that illegal immigrants's criminal activity increasingly places law-abiding American citizens at risk.

That an entire state would allow its residents to be placed beneath the rights of illegal criminal immigrants is a travesty. The fact that liberals even suggest that those who have no legal claim to residence here even have “rights” is a laughable premise to begin with.

The sad news is that with California now becoming a “sanctuary state” this problem will continue to grow, and the public safety will continue to be placed at risk.

When not corrected, history will repeat itself.

So, who will be the next Kate Steinle?

We don’t yet know her name, but you can bet that this scenario will undoubtedly and ever so tragically play out again on the national stage.

wolfen

02-19-2018, 09:48 PM

To paraphrase Bruce Lee.
None of the MSN Globalist propaganda rags giving us the news about sexual abuse in Hollywood have any legitimacy for protecting women.

Gotta hand it to TIME for their 2017 Person of the Year... ...should we post that article? Well, here's a link: THE SILENCE BREAKERS (http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/)
Bad Blood video (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?36569-Kung-Fu-Music&p=1284026#post1284026). And her testimony seals it:

Time Magazine Gives Space to Hamas-CAIR Chief to Distort Martin Luther King’s Legacy (https://gellerreport.com/2018/01/time-cair-king.html/)

The unmitigated gall of this guy is just astonishing. Martin Luther King’s position on Israel and the Jewish people was quite clear, and it was the direct polar opposite of that of Nihad Awads and the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations. The complete opposite.

Martin Luther King would be spinning in his grave if he knew how he was being exploited by the bigots, Jew-haters, racists, demagogues he fought so hard against. If only those who so egregiously use him would heed his words and wisdom.

CAIR is an un-indicted Conspirator with HAMAS , the brutally misogynist Islamic Terror Group in the Holy Land Trial which was terminated by Obama without cause which had the effect of protecting Islamic Jihad and Islamification in America. CAIR funnels funds and support to HAMAS. CAIR = HAMAS = Islamic Jihad.
So here are The Times in Bed with Islamic Jihad ...the Red-Green Axis at work

Rolling Stone coverage

(RE: Steven Seagal)

"Is the thrill that'll gitcha when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone"

Getting your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone is not meritorious. It's the same thrill as getting your head shot off. The Rolling stone hates Americans and America, it's history, everything it was and is and everything it stands for. The Rolling Stone is run by Progressive Leftist Marxists and a review of their articles shows an absolute hate on America. They are another arm of the Red-Green Axis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7iFiV2MeQ

Rolling Stone Warns Us About Nazi Amerikkka

Here Bill Whittle reviews a Rolling Stone article reviewing Films and how Rolling Stone thinks America is run by Nazis.

David Jamieson

02-28-2018, 08:40 AM

FYI
Faith Goldie is a hack and generally considered a loon.

I think the giant glaring problem is the attempt to make people think in a certain way.
That's nonsense. We can all think what we like.
If there is a need for change, legislate to it and enshrine it in law.
If that can't be done, then too bad.

wolfen

03-02-2018, 03:14 AM

FYI
Faith Goldie is a hack and generally considered a loon.

For Your Information? Actually that is not information, those are just two ad hominems. It does express a personal dislike of Faith but does not refute her video. More likely, or as well, she is a political enemy and this is a just a tactic of dealing with a political enemy. This usually happens when someone wants to avoid the actual content probably because there is is no legitimate argument against the content.

Everything that the "hack loon" said is apparently true, and corroborated. I imagine this is the sort of information that the MSN does NOT want distributed because it exposes their lies and deceits. This is why the Globalists are doing their best to shut down the alternative news and shut down people like Faith Goldy.

Who is spearheading the "generally considered"? The Globalist controlled MSN? Those who have been emotionally manipulated or lied to by the MSN? The Canadian MSN have no credibility or legitimacy, they are the enemy of Canadians. Whatever the MSN "generally considers" we can be sure it is not in the interest of human beings. Faith Goldy is very popular on social media with conservatives and anti-Marxists.

What is happening in Canada and Ontario is what has already happened in California and Sweden and is a process being completed in the rest of Europe. Ontario and California are extremely similar in their Marxist orientation. Ontario also has sanctuary cities for criminals and illegal immigrants at the expense of genuine Canadians. California already tipped the demographic balance in 2014 when Hispanics became the majority. Trudeau is hoping to do the same thing in Ontario and the rest of Canada with his replacement un-Canadian, anti-Canadian, Liberal voting migrants. When the Liberals achieve their goal Canada like California will become a one party corrupt totalitarian State, or actually more so than it already is.

Some of the Globalist Marxist Program pursued by the Left with the full help of the MSN

Racism = power + privilege (only whites can be racist)
Intersectional stack (most oppressed wins, least oppressed needs to check their privilege)
The west is an oppressive patriarchy that needs revolution
If you're not an ally+activist you're a bigot/racist/sexist
The world needs equity of outcome in everything, everywhere as opposed to equality of opportunity
Feels > reals
No biological differences between men and women.
Destruction of the Family Structure and replacing it with State "parenting"
Reprogramming of Children's Sexual Development to make humans as drones, to destroy and confuse natural human motivation , ambition and drive.
Yada yada

This all leads to extreme abuse of citizens and especially child abuse as the Marxists especially target children in an attempt to re-program their basic identity to basically dis-empower their humanity..
Which leads us here and now to Bill 89 in Ontario It's a double whammy, it helps destroy the Family and enables child abuse by school "educators".

The following video shows how Bill 89 was implemented to destroy Canadians and it shows how conservative politicians are too terrified of the media to be able to oppose Marxist oppressive legislation or stand up for the human rights of Canadians. Even though their party principles opposed the Bill they were too afraid of the media to stand up as individuals and be counted. They are totally terrified of the MSN, of being labeled racist, bigoted or sexist and having their live sand careers destroyed. They do not dare legislate any change or oppose any legislation that is MSN backed.
The Canadian people have been sold out by cowards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdSQIjRHGQ

I think the giant glaring problem is the attempt to make people think in a certain way.
That's nonsense. We can all think what we like.
If there is a need for change, legislate to it and enshrine it in law.
If that can't be done, then too bad.

Actually the MSN has been completely successful in brainwashing large groups of people and making them think in certain ways. Justin Trudeau was elected by the Globalist controlled Canadian MSN conglomerate. The Globalist Corporations are firmly in control of the electoral process, in absolute control of the MSM and in control of what people think so long as those people do not have access to and learn from alternative media sources.
The idea of red-pilling those who have been lied to is to simply show them what the MSN has not told them or to expose the myriad of ways the MSN has manipulated them. Once a person wakes up from the Matrix they never want to go back Once a person is free from the control of the media they are free to think any way they want to but most are unaware of how much the are emotionally manipulated and deceived. Nor are they aware of how they are being corralled into either physical or civilizational extinction.

Yes, we can all think what we like but the MSN has carefully manipulated many with their power and technological control to think exactly what the Globalists want them to think.
Yes, people can all think what they like but for the most part they must hide it and cannot say it, especially in Canada.
Try having the wrong opinion on Canadian Campuses will get you failed or expelled or fired if a professor. Over 20 percent of Professors at Uni identify as Marxists, There is no diversity or freedom of thought at the universities Having the wrong opinion on any Globalist controlled media will get you censored or banned. The wrong opinion gets people fired, beaten up, socially or legally persecuted or criminally charged.
The ironically labeled Canadian HRC (Human Rights Commission) has destroyed the lives of many Canadians who erroneously thought they had the right to think they could say what they think. The HRC is the opposite of what it pretends to be.

An individual that advocates against the importation of Islamic hatred, Jihad (both cultural and violent) , Islamification, replacement immigration etc will need to be rich enough to have bodyguards , protective housing compounds and deep pockets to pay extensive legal bills for the lawfare that will be waged against them. Not to mention how the deep state, judicial system etc will persecute them at every turn. Just look at the abuse and slander heaped on Faith Goldy a person who recognizes a "need for change".

Yes, it is too bad that Canada is becoming a near absolute Stalinist Dictatorship, yes it is too bad the Globalists have absolute control of the MSN and control and terrorize the masses like herds of sheep, yes it is too bad that Canadians are being replaced by a foreign migrant population so that the Liberals can change the demographics and have absolute permanent power. Yes it is too bad a Civilization that was fought and died for for several Millennia is all coming to an absurd and ridiculous self wrought extinction. Yes it's all too bad.

To the victor the spoils. Mother Nature apparently will be the victor and yet exterminate another civilization that is unfit for survival.
It's too bad Canadians simply have what is often a common medical diagnosis: an inability to thrive.

wolfen

03-02-2018, 03:50 AM

<Originally Posted by David Jamieson>
I think the giant glaring problem is the attempt to make people think in a certain way.
That's nonsense. We can all think what we like.
If there is a need for change, legislate to it and enshrine it in law.
If that can't be done, then too bad.

Yes it's too bad, too bad, all too bad. Canada, we hardly knew ya!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvlg0-RM5A

Canada: A Nation Crashing with NO SURVIVORS

The Radical Transformation of Canada

Some Points in the Video

Three Million new immigrants in three years - 440 Million Dollars Cost
By 2036 Stats Canada predicts 30 percent residents not born in Canada - Another 20 percent only one parent born in Canada
In twenty years no white majority. (Don't worry the new imports will be as tolerant as we are :rolleyes: )
A Nation of Monocultural neighborhoods
Canada a massive haven for Tax Fraud and Tax Evasion
Chinese Government has control of Canada's Housing market and Real Estate (RCMP report and Chicoms recent seizure of Billions) First Home buyers locked out
Canada being bought out by foreign money - process complete in 20 years
CANADIAN SUPREME COURT KILLS LAST HOPE FOR FREE SPEECH (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/179449/canadian-supreme-court-kills-last-hope-free-speech-bruce-bawer) -Even stating factual information will be met with state oppression.

Book : Canada In Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians (https://www.amazon.ca/Canada-Decay-Immigration-Diversity-Euro-Canadians/dp/1910881937/ref=zg_bs_927782_1/140-7109329-3145444?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=87WSQQVDP2Q90SWB6S34)

BPS Research Notes Here: (http://blackpigeonspeaks.com/notes-for-canada-abolishes-itself/)

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mickey

03-08-2018, 02:06 PM

Jimbo

03-09-2018, 02:06 PM

Greetings,

The media has been going out of it's way to control the blowback of the Weinstein situation by, in many ways, making it look like "It is just what happens around here, too everybody."; hence, the "Me Too, Me Too" song that is being shared throughout media. Hollywood pedophilia has been hurriedly swept under the media rug. I hope more former child actors step forward.

mickey

Hi, mickey. I agree 100%. The #Metoo thing has become a cult unto itself. It's actually buried the subject of pedophilia (esp. in Hollywood) even deeper. While it MIGHT have originally started out with positive intentions, the #Metoo movement has devolved into a complete study in self-serving contradictions:

"All men are either perpetrators or enablers."

"Women are endlessly objectified by men."

"Women are the only victims of sexual harassment/sexual violation."

"Women are greater and more powerful than men." (see previous line)

"All women are beautiful, no matter what, and should be seen and accepted as such by all men. Men need to stop objectifying women by ogling women in swimsuits who have idealized bodies that are unrealistic and unattainable to the average woman."

"OTOH, the ideal man must be a certain height, a certain race(s), has 6-or-8-pack abs, and hopefully looks like Channing Tatum or Shemar Moore. Or they better have that $$$." (Note: I'm well aware that not all women have this mentality. But many of the militant #Metoo supporters DO).

At first, I was supportive of the anti-harassment movement. And if it exposes real abusers, then that's a good thing. However, it's become a witch hunt, where an accusation equals guilt without proof. I've never been a fan of Louis C.K., but his uninvitedly playing with himself in front of women meriting the destruction of his career, while big-time Hollywood pedophiles remain free as a bird, tells the whole story. I originally thought that all of this would open the door to the decades-old accounts by Corey Feldman, and all the other former child actors who came forward with reports of pedophilia, but that hasn't happened, and likely never will.

Keep in mind, I am all for equality in representation and respect between the sexes. I am totally against misogyny. But respect has to go both ways, and highlighting one wrong to bolster one's own agenda while purposely hiding another serious injustice is not only wrong, it's evil. The crimes that continue to be perpetrated against underage boys (and girls) in Hollywood are no less horrific (and are often worse in the long-term effects) than those perpetrated against adult women.

GeneChing

05-31-2018, 07:49 AM

There's something so twisted about thanking the survivors of crimes you perpetrated.

Grand Jury Indicts Harvey Weinstein on Charges of Rape and Criminal Sexual Act (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/grand-jury-indictment-harvey-weinstein-charges)
“I thank the heroic survivors for their strength throughout this process,” said Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. in a statement.
by YOHANA DESTA
MAY 30, 2018 6:29 PM

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5b0f1f184f9cf15aa81ce43d/master/w_790,c_limit/harvey-weinstein-charged.jpg
A handcuffed Harvey Weinstein is led into criminal court in lower Manhattan, May 25, 2018.
HILARY SWIFT

Just a few days after Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to the police, a grand jury has moved to indict the disgraced mogul on charges of rape in the first and third degree, and a criminal sexual act in the first degree. The decision was announced on Wednesday by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

“This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged,” Vance said in a statement. “Our office will try this case not in the press, but in the courtroom where it belongs. The defendant’s recent assault on the integrity of the survivors and the legal process is predictable. We are confident that when the jury hears the evidence, it will reject these attacks out of hand.”

He continued, thanking the “heroic survivors for their strength throughout this process. I also thank Commissioner James O’Neill and members of the New York City Police Department for their dedication to this case. This investigation remains active and ongoing. We continue to urge additional survivors and others with relevant information to call us at 212-335-9373.”

This is the most recent development in the Weinstein case, which began on Friday, when the shellacked producer turned himself in to the police and was charged with first-degree rape and third-degree rape in one case, and with a first-degree criminal sex act in another. The charges are related to the allegations of two women, one of whom is Lucia Evans. In an interview with The New Yorker, the marketing consultant and former aspiring actress claimed that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 2004.

The Weinstein controversy began last October, when dozens of women accused the celebrated Hollywood figure of sexual misconduct. Actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek, and Ashley Judd accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. Stars like Rose McGowan and Asia Argento both accused him of rape. The accusations led to a broader sexual-misconduct reckoning in Hollywood, and across various industries. Weinstein, through a spokesperson, denied all accusations of sexual misconduct. His attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the A.P. on Friday that his client denies the allegations. Brafman also said he believes a jury will not side with Weinstein’s accusers, so long as potential jurors are “not consumed by the movement that seems to have consumed this case.”

In Portrait: Rose McGowan, BRAVE
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Yohana Desta is a Hollywood writer for VanityFair.com.

GeneChing

06-01-2018, 09:14 AM

George Takei Forgives Sexual Assault Accuser After Accuser Retracts Claim (https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/05/george-takei-sexual-assault-accuser-retracts-claim)
“I do not bear Mr. Brunton any ill will, and I wish him peace,” the actor tweeted on Friday.
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MAY 27, 2018 12:37 PM

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Back in November, while Hollywood was in the midst of an ever-growing series of accusations and allegations that began with twin bombshell reports against Harvey Weinstein, former model Scott Brunton offered his own tale to The Hollywood Reporter, saying that he had been drugged and groped by Star Trek actor and social-media personality George Takei. Six months later, Brunton has walked back his story, saying he doesn‘t actually recall a few key moments that he originally claimed had happened.

In a new piece from the Observer, published Thursday, Brunton acknowledged a few inconsistencies in his story. He said that he does not actually recall Takei touching his genitals, which would have turned the encounter into one involving criminal sexual assault, and he also doesn’t recall a coffee meeting the two had years later, which Takei also said he had no memory of. Toxicologists who have examined the story say that Brunton could not have gotten up and left so immediately if he had been drugged, as the only sort of drugs that were available at the time (the mid-80s) would have knocked someone out for hours. Brunton also noted that he wasn’t traumatized by what happened, and that instead it had become “a great party story.”

“I rarely thought of it,” he said. “Just occasionally, if his name popped up,” or if a Star Trek reference came up with friends. “I’d say, ‘Oh, well, I’ve got a story for you!’” he recalled, laughing. “They go, ‘Really? What?’ I’d tell people, and they’d go, ‘Ew!’”

He explained, “He was 20 years older than me and short. And I wasn’t attracted to Asian men.” He added, “I was a hot, surfer, California-boy type, that he probably could have only gotten had he bought, paid for, or found someone just willing to ride on his coattails of fame.”

Brunton says that he was “disappointed“ by what happened, and said that, if anything, he’d like an apology from Takei. “I felt so privileged to know him [because] he was so nice, and a celebrity,” he said. “I thought, ‘Well, he could be friends with lots of people, but he chose to be my friend’ . . . I just want him to apologize for taking advantage of our friendship.”

Takei has responded to the story on Twitter, tweeting on Friday that he offers Brunton his forgiveness.

As many of you know, this has been a very difficult period for myself and my husband Brad as we have dealt with the impact of these accusations, but we are happy to see that this nightmare is finally drawing to a close. http://observer.com/2018/05/george-takei-accuser-scott-brunton-changed-his-story-of-drugs-assault/ …

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Exclusive: George Takei’s Accuser Has Changed His Story of Drugging and Assault
Last November, Scott Brunton accused George Takei of drugging and sexual assault in 1981. Now he says it may not have happened.

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As I stated before, I do not remember Mr. Brunton or any of the events he described from forty years ago, but I do understand that this was part of a very important national conversation that we as a society must have, painful as it might be.

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It is in that spirit that I want folks to know, despite what he has put us through, I do not bear Mr. Brunton any ill will, and I wish him peace.

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Previous posts: #1 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch&p=1306004#post1306004) & #2 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch&p=1306007#post1306007)

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06-01-2018, 09:49 AM

GeneChing

06-04-2018, 11:32 AM

Julianna Margulies Recalls a Meeting With Steven Seagal and His Gun: "I Was Scared"
12:00 AM PDT 5/24/2018 by Lexy Perez

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“He lifted up the cushion and he took out his gun. And I had never seen a gun in my life, not up close. And I said, 'Oh, my god.' I started getting very sweaty," the 'Dietland' actress said on Katie Couric's podcast.
Julianna Margulies opened up about her uncomfortable meeting with a gun-toting Steven Seagal for The Katie Couric Podcast on Thursday, where she also addressed the #MeToo movement and Matt Damon's "spectrum of behavior" controversy.

The Dietland star told Couric that her “horrific” hotel meeting with Seagal, who has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, took a dark turn when she realized he had a gun hidden in the couch.

“I walked in and I sat down and I jumped right back up because there was something very uncomfortable and hard in the couch. He laughed and said, 'Oh, sorry, that must have been my gun,'” the actress told Couric. “He lifted up the cushion and he took out his gun. And I had never seen a gun in my life, not up close. And I said, 'Oh, my god.' I started getting very sweaty and he said, 'Oh, it’s just for all the crazies that are out there. I have to protect myself.'”

After a casting director informed the then-recent college graduate that Seagal wanted to go over a scene with her in his hotel room, Margulies visited the actor, believing the female casting director would be accompanying her. Margulies quickly learned that she was alone with an armed actor.

“I started getting angry at myself. Because my inner dialogue was, 'You stupid idiot. How could you have done this? No one knows where you are, and you’re in a hotel room alone with this guy and he’s got a gun. How stupid. You’re stupid.’ I was just chastising myself,” Margulies recalled.

Margulies continued to grow uncomfortable after the actor informed her that he was a “healer” and requested she allow him to read her palm, something the actress recalled being odd and comical. “He told me I had really weak kidneys. At that point, to be honest, as a New York girl, I kind of started laughing inside. Like, this guy’s pathetic. Does he think I’m buying this line of crap? ... I just started talking a lot out of nerves. ...I squirmed my way out of there.”

Though the actress left “sweating” and with a “pounding” heart, she had to return to Seagal’s hotel room, after realizing she had no cab fare. Prior to their meeting, Margulies had requested that she be reimbursed for her trip to Brooklyn. “I went back and I knocked on the door, and he smirked, and I think he thought I was coming back, like, ‘Oh, she got smart.’ And I stayed on the other side of the door and I held my hand out and I said, ... 'It cost me $15 to get here and I need cab fare to get home,” the actress explained.

After Seagal supplied her with money, Margulies rushed away. “I couldn’t believe it. I thought if I just survived Steven Seagal and a gun in a hotel room by myself, I can handle a subway back to Brooklyn.” The actress would later land the role in Out for Justice, but warned the film’s team that she refused to meet with Seagal alone. “I said to everyone in there, I know you don’t know me, but I’d really appreciate it if no one would ever let me be in the room alone with him. Because I was scared.”

Margulies’ story comes in wake of the #MeToo movement, which has seen a slew of Hollywood figures being accused of sexual harassment and assault. Apart from female empowerment, the actress explained that the movement has also instigated a conversation as to what qualifies as everyday bad behavior and sexual assault, something she defends Damon on attempting to speak out about. The actor received backlash after arguing that there’s a “continuum” and “hierarchy of abuse” with predatory behavior.

“Matt Damon tried to do that, quite eloquently, and he got demonized,” Margulies argued. “I didn’t think that was right. I understood what he was saying. He was completely compassionate about what was going with people who are raping, but it’s not the same as what’s going on with people who are joking around on a set. You have to differentiate between what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable. The dialogue has been opened, finally, after all these years. The reason the pendulum swung so far was that women, it’s been bubbling under the surface and this tiny little opening happened, and we all just ran out of that one ripped seam.”

In light of the #MeToo movement, the actress admitted to Couric that she too has endured “invasive” experiences with men after a man once got underneath her legs to look under her skirt. Margulies added that the current climate has marked an “empowering” change among both men and women, but it's important "not to pit women against men." "This isn’t about women against bad guys. This is about people who abuse power. I think what’s important to remember is that there is also women who abuse their power. This whole movement, I feel, has been bubbling under the surface for years. ... It's just the beginning.”

Marguilies also added, "I truly do think that when you’re desperate for a job and you’re excited and you want to act and here is someone offering you something, you don’t think that’s going to happen, but now you will. So hopefully now that conversation will protect the next generation of actors."

Listen to the full audio of Couric's interview with Margulies below.

Julianna Margulies has been lighting up the small screen for over two decades, with standout roles on TV shows like ER and The Good Wife. She joins Katie and Brian to discuss everything from the big impact George Clooney had on her career to what she loved about playing Alicia Florrick. She also explains what makes her latest character on AMC's Dietland such a delicious role. Plus, Julianna opens up about her own experiences with harassment as a young actress.
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Margulies' initial report here. (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again&p=1305847#post1305847)

THREADS:
Seagal is at it again (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again)
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GeneChing

06-05-2018, 02:24 PM

If this scumbag-idiot did wrongfully accuse Takei, and it certainly looks like that is the case, all I can say to the accuser is, "Karma is a *****."

And this applies to anybody who wrongfully accuses another person of sexual misconduct. It negatively affects the perception of credibility (and belittles the experiences) of those accusers who have ACTUALLY been sexually assaulted/molested and are seeking justice in the right way. It also leaves a permanent stain on the reputation of the wrongfully accused.

I feel ya, Jimbo. It's such a loaded issue. Here's another faked one.

Relativity Faked Memo Accusing Executive of Sexual Harassment, Judge Rules (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/relativity-faked-memo-accusing-executive-sexual-harassment-judge-rules-1117180)
7:02 PM PDT 6/4/2018 by Gregg Kilday

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Adam Fields has been awarded $8.44 million, which he is now seeking as a creditor in the current bankruptcy proceeding.
Adam Fields, who worked briefly as co-president of Relativity Media in 2016, has been awarded $8.44 million by an arbitration judge who ruled that a Relativity memo in which seven women claimed they had been sexually harassed by Fields had been fraudulently created.

The memo resulted from a breach-of-contract suit that Fields filed against Relativity and its founder Ryan Kavanaugh in Los Angeles Superior Court in early 2017 that went to a JAMS arbitration. Documents from that case also were filed May 29 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, where Relativity is currently seeking approval to sell most of its assets to Ultra V Holdings and where Fields is now a creditor.

"Without breaching the confidentiality of the arbitration, we cannot respond except to say it is skewed and inaccurate," a spokesman for Kavanaugh said. "This is nothing more than a desperate attempt by Adam Fields who lost against Mr. Kavanaugh 100 percent. Relativity would have appealed had Mr. Fields won anything of value, he won on a sole count of breach of contract and Relativity decided it was not worth an appeal as he will not even receive $100,000, let alone the absurd $8 million quoted."

According to the presentation by Fields’ attorneys, at the arbitration, Relativity produced a memo which it said had been authored by Relativity’s then-managing director Carol Genis and which claimed that Fields had sexually harassed at least seven unnamed women, including one whom he allegedly promised a promotion in exchange for sex.

But, testifying at the arbitration, Genis denied she had authored the memo and said she was unaware of any complaints of sexual harassment against Fields. Kavanaugh's spokesperson alleges, "She was and continues to work directly with Mr. Fields behind the scenes in an attempt to collect money from Relativity for herself."

The judge ruled that “the evidence was overwhelming and undeniable that Relativity falsified the Genis memorandum,” and he pointed a finger at Kavanaugh himself, noting that the memo had been modified by a user who signed in as “kav kav,” noting that must be Kavanaugh.

Fields, who first worked for Relativity as a producer on the 2011 film Limitless, was named a co-president of Relativity in late 2015 as it emerged from an earlier bankruptcy with, the court filing says, "a four-year contract worth in excess of $10 million." But his attorneys allege that when he began work at the company in 2016, he found himself in "a hostile work environment" where "his job was superfluous."

Fields was fired in a Sept. 8, 2016, letter which said he was terminated for violating confidentiality agreements by making "disparaging statements to multiple third parties including the press without authorization." Fields' attorneys assert he had simply shared a seven-second elevator ride with a reporter. The termination letter contained no mention of any sexual harassment complaints.

Two weeks before the hearing, however, Relativity produced 2,000 pages of new documents, including the memo alleging harassment. Kavanaugh claimed that he had found the memo in a private folder belonged to Genis, who was no longer with the company. Fields brought in a forensics expert who testified that Kavanaugh had falsified the document, after Fields had been fired, and just days before it was produced in court. The arbiter agreed that "the metadata refutes all of Relativity’s theories linking the memorandum to Genis," saying that "by falsifying the memorandum to manufacture evidence that it had cause to terminate Fields, Relativity admitted that it otherwise lacked cause."

The judge awarded Fields $1,162,500 for the remaining unpaid portion of his company’s consulting services; $171,153 for the remaining portion of his base salary; $900,000 for its discretionary bonus; $287,452 for the unpaid portion of his car allowance; and $5.5 million for Ralativity’s repurchase of his vested profit interest. The arbitrator's partial award was later increased to $425,000 for attorneys' fees, interest on past due amounts and a present value discount for those payments due in the future. The resulting total amounted to $8.446 million.

In their filing, Fields' attorneys claim, "It is clear that Relativity and Mr. Kavanaugh tried to exploit the current #MeToo moviement to destory Mr. Fields' reputation with false and fabricated accusations."

Responded Kavanuagh's spokesperson: "This arbitration was not about Adam's sexual harassment or predatory behavior. To attempt to mute the accounts of multiple women, which took a lot of courage and with a lot to lose by sharing their own independent accounts of what can only be described as horrific and predator-like behavior by Adam Fields against them, by inferring this arbitration was in any way related to those accusations is truly sick and just wrong."

June 4, 7:25 p.m. Updated with responses from Kavanaugh's spokesperson.

GeneChing

06-18-2018, 07:36 AM

Sylvester Stallone Sexual Assault Case Being Reviewed by L.A. District Attorney (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sylvester-stallone-sexual-assault-case-under-review-by-la-district-attorney-1119949)
3:35 PM PDT 6/13/2018 by Katie Kilkenny

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The Santa Monica Police Department filed the case on Wednesday, according to a DA spokesperson.
A sex crime case involving Sylvester Stallone is under review by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, spokesman Greg Riesling confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Santa Monica Police Department filed the case on Wednesday, according to Riesling.

In December, Stallone was accused of sexual assault in a police report filed to the Santa Monica Police Department. The alleged incident occurred in the 1990s, which makes the case technically outside the statute of limitations in California. The actor disputed the claims as false via his lawyer in December.

In November, The Daily Mail additionally reported that Stallone was accused of sexual assault of a minor in Las Vegas in the late 1980s. According to the article, a police report was filed but charges were never brought. Las Vegas police could not verify that a report had ever been filed, given the time that had passed since the alleged event.

Stallone has also denied that veracity of the claims from the late 1980s.

THR has reached out to Stallone's representatives for comment.

Ryan Parker contributed to this report.

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Maybe it's good that he dropped out of Project X (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70265-Ex-Baghdad-aka-Project-X).

GeneChing

06-28-2018, 07:43 AM

What fascinates me about the Crews case is that he's the last person you'd think of as a victim. That really speaks to the pervasiveness of the problem.

Terry Crews says he was asked to withdraw sexual assault lawsuit to stay in 'Expendables' (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/06/26/terry-crews-asked-withdraw-harassment-suit-remain-expendables-films/737022002/)
The Associated Press Published 10:16 p.m. ET June 26, 2018 | Updated 8:37 a.m. ET June 27, 2018

Actor Terry Crews testifies before Senate, says a film producer said he could only return to the "Expendables" franchise if he dropped his sexual assault lawsuit against a Hollywood agent. (June 27) AP

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Terry Crews says a film producer said he could only return to the "Expendables" franchise if he dropped his sexual assault lawsuit against a Hollywood agent. The actor said it was an example of how "abusers protect abusers," according to The Associated Press.

The actor and former football player made the allegation Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights, which establishes rights for survivors of sexual assault.

Crews, who last year accused William Morris Endeavor talent agent Adam Venit of groping him at a party, was asked if there had been any retaliation for making the sexual assault allegation.

He said "Expendables" producer Avi Lerner asked that the actor drop his case in order to appear in the fourth installment of the action film and warned of "troubles" if it wasn't dropped. Crews has been in each of the previous films.

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"Abusers protect abusers — and this is one thing I had to decide, whether I was going to draw the line on. Am I going to be a part of this or am I gonna take a stand, and there are projects I had to turn down," he said.

An email seeking comment from Lerner's Millennium Films was not immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.

Millennium Films is being sued for sexual harassment and gender discrimination by a former employee.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office decided in March not to file charges against Venit, determining the allegations were not a felony. Crews has also filed a lawsuit against Venit.

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GeneChing

07-10-2018, 11:08 AM

10 JUL 2018
French film mogul Luc Besson hit by more sex assault claims (https://www.afp.com/en/news/206/french-film-mogul-luc-besson-hit-more-sex-assault-claims-doc-17e8tg1)

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With a string of international hits and his own studio on the edge of Paris, Luc Besson is one of the most powerful players in the French film industry
A second woman has accused the French movie mogul Luc Besson of sexual assault, according to reports, two months after a young actress alleged he had raped her.

The 49-year-old casting director said that she was assaulted by the director "every time I took the lift with him", and that he also demanded sexual favours from her on set.

Two other women told the French website Mediapart that Besson "behaved inappropriately" with them, with one actress claiming she had to escape from a casting in his Paris office on her hands and knees.

The director's lawyer Thierry Marembert has already denounced the rape allegation as "fantasist accusations".

Contacted by AFP Tuesday, his office said that he had nothing to add to his statement to Mediapart that Besson "categorically denies any type of inappropriate or reprehensible behaviour.

"Mr Besson is reserving his answers for the investigators so that his innocence can be shown."

Mediapart said that the casting director had written to prosecutors and that the actress who had made the previous rape claim had levelled a further allegation against Besson.

But prosecutors said Tuesday that they had yet to receive the new complaints.

With a string of international hits -- including "The Fifth Element", "The Big Blue" and "Nikita" -- and his own studio on the edge of Paris, Besson is one of the most powerful players in the French film industry.

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Blood tests conducted after the rape claim was first made in May showed that the woman was not drugged.

The 27-year-old actress -- who has only ever appeared in Besson's films -- told police she was in an on-off relationship with the 59-year-old.

She said she felt pressured into sex to keep her roles, including in his 2017 sci-fi epic "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", which with its 158-million-euro ($180-million) budget was the most expensive European film ever made.

Her mother, a Belgian doctor, and a number of her friends told Mediapart that the actress had been in a controlling relationship with the director, who made her diet and dye her hair blonde.

Hours after the alleged rape in May in a luxury Paris hotel, her mother said that she talked to her daughter on FaceTime and she was "trembling, crying and sweating. It was awful."

The actress told the website that the director "liked to make her suffer during sex" sometimes until she bled and that he had twice assaulted her while she slept before the rape.

Besson's production company refused to comment on the new allegations but told AFP that "we fully support Luc Besson in this difficult period".

The film industry has been rocked by a wave of rape and sexual abuse scandals since Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was accused of a series of assault last year, sparking the #MeToo movement.

The French industry -- the world's second-biggest movie exporter -- has been relatively untouched, with veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve even making headlines by defending men's right to "hit on" women.

I hope Besson is absolved if these accusations are false and busted if true. I am a fan of his films and will be saddened if he's guilty.

GeneChing

07-27-2018, 10:26 AM

#woyeshi = Wo Ye Shi #我也是 - literally 'me also indeed'

WITH A VENGEANCE
China tried to crush #MeToo, but it’s making a comeback (https://qz.com/1265510/china-tried-to-crush-metoo-but-its-making-a-comeback/)

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Silence encouraged.

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July 27, 2018

In China, it’s rare for people to speak out about their rights—when they do, authorities, eager to maintain public order and security, are swift to shut it down, no matter what the cause.

It’s why authorities clamped down in 2015 on something as innocuous as protesting against sexual harassment on public buses: Five women, who later became known as the “Feminist Five,” were detained for 30 days on the suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after planning protests in multiple cities. It’s also why Ye Haiyan, an activist who tried to expose cases of sexual abuse against schoolgirls in Hainan province in 2013, was detained and assaulted by public security officers.

“Authorities don’t care so much about the topic itself, it’s who’s involved and how many people participate in these movements that matter,” said Zhang Leilei, a 24-year-old feminist activist in Guangzhou. “Their logic is not to fix a problem, but to quash people who try to fix the problem.”

Chinese authorities may not have expected female activists to come back this year after the setback of 2015—but they did, with a vengeance.

The rise of #MeToo in China

As the #MeToo movement took off around the world, women in China did not stay silent. In January, a graduate of a Chinese university detailed on social media how a professor forced himself on her (link in Chinese) a decade ago. That inspired many to post their stories with the hashtag #MeToo, or the Chinese version #Woyeshi. Censors acted quickly to delete those posts.

That didn’t stop the movement. In fact, people were only further provoked after authorities tried to silence Yue Xin, a student at the prestigious Peking University who in April petitioned for information regarding a decades-old sexual harassment case in which a female student died. Posters went up around campus accusing the institution of betraying its values, with some even making reference to a student-led patriotic uprising in 1919 (paywall). They were quickly taken down. A school counselor told Yue that she had “no real freedom,” according to an open letter written by Yue (link in Chinese). The school didn’t respond to requests for comment.

That the #MeToo movement has managed to gain traction at all in China is surprising, given the steadily deteriorating environment for civil society under president Xi Jinping. Even parents seeking answers to allegations that their children were abused at an elite Beijing kindergarten last year have been silenced.

Despite the tightening restrictions, young activists have proven “very brave” and continued to fight for gender equality, said Zhang Lijia, a writer and commentator on social issues. The fact that it’s led by savvy, educated feminists has contributed to the #MeToo movement in China, she added.

You can’t silence everyone
It’s not just feminists speaking up. People across the country are. Recent research suggests that 15% of women (link in Chinese) living in urban areas and aged between 20 to 64 in China have been sexually harassed at some point in their life.

Li Maizi, one of the Feminist Five, notes that the #MeToo movement in China is decentralized, which is one reason it’s made a comeback recently, spreading beyond campuses. This month more than a dozen Chinese women have come forward with accusations of sexual assault and harassment against prominent men, including authors, journalists, and leaders of charity organizations.

On Thursday (July 26), an open letter accusing Zhu Jun, a news anchor at state broadcaster CCTV, of sexual assault began circulating on the social network Weibo. That rejuvenated the #MeToo hashtag, with 760,000 Weibo users (link in Chinese) searching for the topic at one point.

The letter’s author said Zhu molested her in a dressing room when she was an intern at CCTV in 2014, but she only spoke up after seeing the growing feminism movement in China this year. She wrote that the police suggested she drop the case, and also put pressure on her parents, both of whom worked for the government. They also told her not to taint society’s impressions of CCTV and Zhu, a longtime host of China’s annual New Year gala, because both had “big and positive influences” (link in Chinese). Until today, the author still refuses to give her real name, fearing repercussions to her family, according to the New York Times (paywall). Zhu didn’t reply to comment requests sent via Weibo.

Censors acted quickly after the open letter started spreading. Users found they couldn’t repost related news reports a few hours after (link in Chinese) Zhu became a trending topic on Weibo. A search of the #MeToo hashtag today showed “the topic doesn’t exist according to relevant laws and policies.” Weibo didn’t reply to requests for comment.

“Censorship can only stop public discussion for a while,” Fu King-wa, a Hong Kong-based media scholar who runs a project tracking censorship on Weibo, told the New York Times (paywall). “When something big happens again, it will come back.”

“Every time there’s a hot issue, the authorities treat the public like an enemy, and gradually they lose people’s trust,” said Zhao Nan, a 22-year-old college student in the central Henan province. “But if we don’t speak up for others today, who will speak up for us later when we have a similar situation?”

GeneChing

08-02-2018, 01:50 PM

HEALTH
China investigates high-ranking Buddhist monk accused of coercing nuns into sex (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2158046/china-investigates-high-ranking-buddhist-monk-accused-coercing)
Abbot of the Longquan Temple on the outskirts of Beijing denies allegations, saying they stemmed from ‘fabricated material’ and ‘distorted facts’
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 02 August, 2018, 8:50pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 02 August, 2018, 10:11pm
Reuters

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China’s religious affairs administration said on Thursday it would investigate claims a high-ranking Buddhist monk sexually harassed nuns and coerced them into sex, the latest case of a prominent figure accused of sexual misconduct in the country.

Xuecheng, the abbot of the well-known Longquan Temple on the outskirts of Beijing, has denied the allegations and on Wednesday night posted a statement from the temple on Weibo – China’s Twitter-like service – saying the allegations stemmed from “fabricated material” and “distorted facts”.

Why Chinese women don’t speak out about sexual harassment in the workplace
The claims made against Xuecheng, who also heads the Buddhist Association of China and is a member of the Communist Party’s top political advisory body, were outlined in a 95-page document prepared by two former monks at the monastery.

The document swiftly went viral on Chinese social media on Tuesday amid a wave of other allegations that has stoked heated debate and seen China’s fledgling #MeToo movement gain momentum and widen to different aspects of society despite government pressure and censorship.

Included in the document were extensive details and screenshots of explicit text messages allegedly sent by Xuecheng, including claims to nuns that they could be “purified” through the physical contact and that sex was part of their study of religious doctrines.

The monastery, in its statement, acknowledged that the document was prepared by the two former monks and that it reserved the right to take legal action against them.

China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs said in a statement that it had started an investigation and was treating it as a matter of “high importance”.

The Chinese Buddhist Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The global #MeToo movement was triggered by accusations by dozens of women against US film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, including rape, triggering a wider scandal that has roiled Hollywood and beyond. Weinstein has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone.

The catalyst for a Chinese #MeToo-style movement came in December last year when a US-based Chinese software engineer published a blog post accusing a professor at a Beijing university of sexual harassment.

In China, the hashtag #MeToo has so far appeared more than 77 million times on Weibo, although most the posts with that hashtag are not viewable.

THREADS:
An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520)
Buddhists behaving badly (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68723-Buddhists-behaving-badly)

Jimbo

08-20-2018, 05:42 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRwEMj2tWhM

GeneChing

09-05-2018, 08:10 AM

I've never quite understood the justice behind the statute of limitations.

L.A. District Attorney Declines Sex Crime Cases Against Kevin Spacey, Anthony Anderson and Steven Seagal (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kevin-spacey-anthony-anderson-steven-seagal-sex-crime-cases-declined-by-la-district-attorney-1139588)
11:24 AM PDT 9/4/2018 by Ryan Parker

Two of the cases were past the statute of limitations.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday announced that it declined to prosecute sex crime cases against actors Kevin Spacey, Anthony Anderson and Steven Seagal.

In the matter of the Spacey and Seagal cases, the statute of limitations had passed, according to authorities. For Anderson's case, the reporting party declined to be interviewed by authorities for the case.

Spacey has been accused by numerous men both in the U.S. and abroad of sexual assault. This particular case was alleged to have occurred in 1992. The victim was not a minor at the time of the alleged crime, according to authorities.

Seagal was accused of an alleged sexual assault that took place in 1993 when the victim was 18 years old, according to court documents.

Los Angeles police opened an investigation into Anderson in July after a woman accused him of sexual assault. Authorities say she declined to be interviewed after filing the initial report. Therefore, that case was declined.

The D.A.'s office is still reviewing cases against Harvey Weinstein, whose massive scandal created the #MeToo movement.

THREADS:
An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)
Seagal is at it again

GeneChing

09-19-2018, 07:42 AM

This article precedes the Kavanaugh scandal, but it's more relevant to our forum.

#米兔 is freakin brilliant. :cool:

How China’s feminists launched #MeToo in a country where protest is barely possible (http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-metoo-09142018-story.html)
By ROBYN DIXON
SEP 14, 2018 | 3:00 AM
| GUANGZHOU, CHINA

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Zhang Leilei, a feminist activist in Guangzhou, southern China, wears a poster against groping on buses and trains after authorities refused permission to post a billboard in the subway. When people shared her photos on social media, police told her to leave the city. (Zhang Leilei)

Dressed in black, Li Yiyi sat on a ledge on the eighth floor of a downtown office building, staring at her cellphone as people on social media urged her to jump.

Her life had started unraveling two years before when a schoolteacher forced himself on her, kissing and fondling her as he tried to pull off her clothes. Once an ambitious, talkative 16-year-old with plans to attend a top university in China, she dropped out of school, retreated inward and settled for a job as a shop assistant. Her father tried without success to get authorities to pursue criminal charges against the teacher.

“She was a very open-minded and positive person, but she seemed to change into a completely different person after the incident happened,” said Li Yifei, her 28-year-old cousin who had raced to the building in downtown Gansu when he saw that she had posted a suicide message on social media.

When he arrived, Li Yiyi was clinging to the ledge by her hands. A fireman tried to coax her down. Instead she let go.

Li Yiyi’s death in June underscored again the long road ahead for the embryonic #MeToo movement in China, where gender inequality is still deeply entrenched and social protest is swiftly stifled.

“I was so sad,” Wan Miaoyan, a commercial lawyer in China who also handles sexual harassment and domestic violence cases, said of Li Yiyi’s death. “But during my research on the history of setting up laws and regulations against sexual harassment around the world, there was always blood and lives lost in the process, and that is the cost.

“That is why I wish China could introduce laws so that cases like Li Yiyi’s do not happen.”

Employers, universities and even police are generally reluctant to get involved in sexual harassment cases in China and assailants are rarely charged and often never punished, leaving few women bold enough to speak out. When five women tried to organize multi-city protests in 2015 to focus attention on unwanted groping on buses and trains, they were arrested and jailed for more than five weeks for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.”

Yet there is evidence of progress. A prominent Buddhist monk, a university professor, the founder of a well-known charity, an environmental activist, a famous state television host, two badminton coaches and several journalists have all been accused of sexual harassment in recent months, with the accusations spreading rapidly on Chinese social media, though state censors usually quash the messages quickly.

When censors in China banned the #MeToo hashtag, activists came up with imaginative ways to get around the ban, using the characters “rice bunny,” pronounced “mi tu,” to tag posts or by using the emojis for a bowl of rice and a rabbit.

Though victims are often pressured to remain silent, Wan believes public awareness of sexual harassment is growing and pressure is building in China to finally create a clear criminal law banning sexual harassment. In a 2016 online survey of 6,592 university students, 70% reported being sexually harassed. A survey of female factory workers three years earlier by a labor rights group, the Sunflower Women Workers Center in Guangzhou, found the same thing.

Wan now is handling a case she believes could mark a turning point for the #MeToo movement in China.

In December, Nanchang University, in Jiangxi province, dismissed two professors, one of whom is accused of raping a student in 2016 and the other accused of discouraging the student from reporting the incident. The professors were fired a day after details of the case began swirling on Chinese social media.

Now Wan is suing the professors and school for damages of about $21,000 on behalf of the student, far more than the few hundred dollars awarded in the handful of successful sexual harassment cases to date.

“In some countries victims get significant compensation. Here, we’re just starting,” she said. “I will really put a lot of effort and thought into this case. It’s really important to win. It would mean that institutions would start to take responsibility.”

One of the earliest sexual harassment scandals in China emerged in 1998 after a 21-year-old student, Gao Yan, committed suicide. She’d alleged she was raped by a professor at prestigious Peking University, Shen Yang, now 62. He denied the allegations. At the time, the university quietly gave him a demerit on his employment record, a minor administrative punishment.

Two decades later, the case drew renewed anger when it surfaced on Chinese social media. In response, the professor’s two current employers, Shanghai Normal University and Nanjing University, fired him.

One thing slowing the #MeToo movement in China is the lack of a clear legal definition of sexual harassment. Of the more than 50 million legal cases that were filed between 2010 and 2017, only two were brought by women alleging they were victims of sexual harassment.

The Beijing Yuanzhong Gender Development Center, which supports victims of sexual harassment and domestic violence, is now pushing for a national law to define and ban sexual harassment and discrimination against women and, for the first time, the government is actually drafting a measure that would require employers to take steps to discourage harassment in any form. Activists, though, say that doesn’t go far enough and want perpetrators to face the risk of criminal charges.

China’s intolerance for activism has also likely slowed the #MeToo movement.

When a famous state TV host, Zhu Jun, was accused by a former station intern of sexual harassment in a social media post last month, censors swiftly eliminated any social media references to #MeToo or “Zhu Jun.”

The intern posted that she was asked to take fruit to Zhu’s room, where he attempted to molest her and boasted that he had the influence to get her a job at the station. She said her supervisor pressured her not to go to the police.

State media then were ordered to “immediately delete all information related to Zhu Jun” and “leave no area neglected,” according to a notice published by California-based China Digital Times. Two days later, a notice went out warning state media not to “hype” coverage of the #MeToo movement.

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Last year, activist Zhang Leilei had no hope that a campaign against sexual harassment in China would ever take hold. "But this year you can see the #MeToo movement is really thriving. It’s the people, especially women, who have taken this movement to the next level.” (Zhang Leilei)

Zhang Leilei, a feminist activist in Guangzhou, southern China, ran up against the limits of official tolerance last year when she and other activists crowd-funded a project to put up a billboard in the local subway protesting sexual groping.

When she was 12, Zhang said, she was riding home on the school bus when a middle-aged man pushed himself up against her so hard she couldn’t pull free.

“He was just standing there and smiling and really creepy. He was not even nervous. I was really afraid.” She said she was groped other times as well, once in a bookstore. Victim-blaming is so entrenched in China, she said, that it took her years to realize she was not at fault.

Now emboldened enough to fight for reform, she and other activists raised almost $6,500 for a subway billboard that showed a female hand with bright red fingernails blocking a male’s groping hand with the slogan: “Temptation is no excuse. Stop the wandering hands.” Authorities said the image could cause public anxiety and rejected the design.

When the women redesigned the sign with a cat’s paw and a pig foot, authorities told her that only government agencies and companies could put billboard advertisements in the subway.

So Zhang dyed her hair pink, donned a pink tutu, pink T-shirt and pink plastic slippers and photographed herself at locations across the city holding up a smaller version of the billboard and posted the images online, urging others to do the same.

“It was the only thing I had left. Whenever I went outside, I carried the billboard with me.”

She said more than 100 supporters in 20 different areas of China posted her photos, enough to attract official attention.

“I intended to do it every day for a month. But after two weeks the police came to my house and told me to stop.”

She said the police, who had made warning visits to her home before, asked her to leave the city for at least six months.

Instead, she moved elsewhere in the city. Police then called her parents and uncle, reporting that she was “causing trouble.”

“It’s difficult to be a feminist in China,” she said.

The fight for change, Zhang said, will be long.

“Last year I felt really frustrated and I felt no hope,” she said. “But this year you can see the #MeToo movement is really thriving. It’s the people, especially women, who have taken this movement to the next level.”

Jimbo

09-19-2018, 08:47 AM

Hi, Gene.

You can change the thread title if you want. The thread has outgrown the video it was originally titled around. Although I do kinda like the current thread title, as it's a bit eye-catching.

This story has been making the rounds lately. Julie Chen's shows are not the type I would watch, but I have heard that in the past she has supported the #metoo movement and called out others who were in the very same position she is in now (Camille Cosby, for example). I would say that any celebrities or other public figures had better be very careful when jumping onto the #metoo bandwagon and publicly pointing the finger at others, lest something comes up and bites THEM in the rear. Of course, if the allegations against Moonves are true, Chen had nothing to do with it, but unquestionably throwing her support behind him after previously criticizing others for doing the same almost certainly spells the end of her career (which is inextricably tied in with her husband anyway).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx2rMSTCcbw

Jimbo

09-24-2018, 09:31 AM

This has been making the rounds the past few days. Some sources are making a joke out of it, but surprisingly, I found this video to show one of the more reasonable opinions on the matter. The main reason I included this story in this thread is because, among Kimberly Thompson's accusations, is "spells of sexual molestation".

I believe Kimberly Thompson, or at least I believe she truly believes her accusations. Just because it may sound crazy to 'most' people doesn't mean it isn't true. I don't know about Beyoncé and Jay-Z. I am NOT a fan, and never have been. But I have seen enough to know they're deep into very weird stuff, and have gotten progressively weirder (or more blatant about it) over the years. Not only Beyoncé and Jay-Z, but also Madonna, Katy Perry, and a host of others (of which I'm also not a fan of).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhqp7I3mwrE

GeneChing

09-28-2018, 09:24 AM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 / 7:02 PM / A DAY AGO
From chatroom to courtroom: China's #MeToo movement takes legal turn (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-harassment-law/from-chatroom-to-courtroom-chinas-metoo-movement-takes-legal-turn-idUSKCN1M705A)
Christian Shepherd, Joyce Zhou, Philip Wen
5 MIN READ

BEIJING (Reuters) - When a former intern at China’s state broadcaster wrote in July about being groped and forcibly kissed by one of the country’s most recognizable television stars, her story ignited a social media firestorm in a country where a backlash against sexual harassment was growing.

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Television host Zhu Jun hosts a musical performance in Xian, Shaanxi province, China November 15, 2014. Picture taken November 15, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

Now her case is set to go before the Chinese legal system.

The 25-year-old former intern told Reuters she had been informed Tuesday by a court in Beijing’s Haidian district that she was being sued in a civil case for damaging Zhu Jun’s reputation and mental wellbeing.

Also named in the suit was Xu Chao, a friend who had been championing the case online. At her request, Reuters is withholding the name of the accuser and identifying her by her online name, Xianzi.

Zhu is demanding that the two women apologize online and in a national newspaper, pay compensation of 655,000 yuan ($95,254.72) and cover the costs of legal fees for the case, according to a copy of the filing seen by Reuters.

Descriptions of Zhu forcibly kissing and groping Xianzi were “pure fiction” and had caused “grave damage” to Zhu’s public image and his mental health, according to the filing, which was dated Sept. 18 and is not available to the public.

In response, Xianzi applied to file her own civil suit against Zhu on Tuesday for “infringement of personality rights”, she told Reuters. Personality rights is a broad term used within Chinese law to refer to personal dignity rights, but does not specifically mention sexual harassment.

“I decided that you have to use the law to prove what you said happened,” Xianzi said on Wednesday.

Zhu, 54, whose lawyers have publicly denied the allegations, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Zhu’s lawyer issued a statement earlier this month saying he had sued the two women. Reached by telephone, Xu confirmed the filing of the lawsuit.

China’s justice and public security ministries did not respond to requests for comment.

China does not have a law that specifically prohibits sexual harassment. However, on Aug. 27 China’s parliament announced that it was considering adding provisions to a civil code, expected to be passed in 2020, that would allow a victim to file a civil suit against someone who uses words, actions or exploits a subordinate relationship to sexually harass them.

The changes would also require employers to take measures to prevent, stop and handle complaints about sexual harassment.

VAGUE LAWS, CULTURE OF SILENCE

In recent months, women have made several allegations of sexual abuse against powerful men, including prominent university professors, the head of China’s Buddhist association, and leading figures in the media and at non-governmental organizations, which have reverberated across social media in China.

That intensified with the arrest and release by U.S. police last month of Richard Liu, chief executive of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, on a rape allegation. Liu has not been charged and through a lawyer has denied any wrongdoing.

Up to now, vague laws, patchy implementation and a lack of understanding among lawyers, judges, police and the public have hampered attempts to handle cases through the courts, and deterred many victims from filing suits, according to activist groups.

The lack of a clear definition of sexual harassment, or an agreed upon standard for addressing complaints, entrenches a “culture of silence”, according to the Beijing Yuanzhong Gender Development Center, a non-profit.

The group said that while workplace sexual harassment is widespread in China, only 34 specific cases have been logged in the official court case database since 2010.

HOUSEHOLD NAME

Xianzi was a 21-year-old intern at the state broadcaster CCTV when she said she met Zhu, who is famous across China for hosting an annual spring festival extravaganza, one of China’s top-rated programs.

In an interview with Reuters, Xianzi said that she had been alone in a dressing room with Zhu when he asked her if she wanted to work for the channel after her internship, before trying to take her hand on the pretext of reading her fortune.

Despite her protests, Xianzi said, Zhu groped her under her skirt before pulling her head and forcibly kissing her, only stopping when interrupted by knocking on the door.

CCTV did not respond to requests for comment.

Xianzi said she was moved to act after reading accounts of sexual assault and harassment posted on Chinese social media by women emboldened by the country’s fledgling #MeToo movement.

In July, Xianzi, now a screenwriter, wrote about her own experience on WeChat, sharing it with a small circle of friends. When Xu, her friend, shared the post on the Weibo platform, it went viral.

On Tuesday, Xianzi returned to social media.

“Still a bit angry, this is Xianzi, hello everyone, I’m getting ready for a fight,” she wrote on Weibo.

($1 = 6.8763 Chinese yuan renminbi)

Hi, Gene.

You can change the thread title if you want. The thread has outgrown the video it was originally titled around. Although I do kinda like the current thread title, as it's a bit eye-catching.

I'm just going to add the #metoo to it then.

I believe Kimberly Thompson, or at least I believe she truly believes her accusations. Just because it may sound crazy to 'most' people doesn't mean it isn't true. I don't know about Beyoncé and Jay-Z. I am NOT a fan, and never have been. But I have seen enough to know they're deep into very weird stuff, and have gotten progressively weirder (or more blatant about it) over the years. Not only Beyoncé and Jay-Z, but also Madonna, Katy Perry, and a host of others (of which I'm also not a fan of).
I've got a soft spot for pop divas (and this comes from working in the music industry for over three decades now). There is more demand on them than any other figure in pop culture. I've worked for Beyonce and Madonna a few times, but not Jay-Z or Katy Perry yet. Their shows are quite the spectacle. As for them being witches, well, the male version of a witch is a wizard.

GeneChing

10-12-2018, 08:59 AM

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How #MeToo Is Taking on a Life of Its Own in Asia (http://time.com/longform/me-too-asia-china-south-korea/)
The reckoning over sexual assault in the U.S. has helped reignite long-simmering movements in South Korea, China and beyond. But speaking out comes with huge risks
By Suyin Haynes and Aria Hangyu Chen
October 9, 2018

It’s been eight years since Seo Ji-hyun says she was sexually harassed, but it’s still painful to recall. “For a long time, I tortured myself by blaming myself for everything,” she says, speaking to TIME on a cloudy September morning in Seoul’s trendy Apgujeong neighborhood. In 2010, Seo, a top-level prosecutor in South Korea, alleges that she was repeatedly groped at a funeral by a senior male colleague, while the country’s Justice Minister sat nearby.

Seo reported the incident to her managers shortly after, but was subjected to performance audits that she describes as unfair, and assigned to a lower level branch outside Seoul—a move she says did not match her strong track record at work. Last fall, after suffering long term health problems such as panic attacks and trouble sleeping, Seo watched as the #MeToo movement took off in Hollywood. She began to grasp how widespread sexual harassment and assault were, and realized even “world-famous actresses” had suffered as she had. “I had more confidence in believing that it wasn’t my fault,” she says.

As the reckoning spread across the U.S., Canada and parts of Europe, millions of survivors described their experiences of groping, rape, unwanted kissing, abuse and threats; others simply posted “me too” on social media. In November, Seo asked for a meeting with senior management to open an investigation into the incident, and to find the truth regarding her treatment at work in the years since she reported the incident. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Seo decided to add her voice to the rising global chorus on January 29—sharing her experience in an open letter on her workplace intranet and signing it with #MeToo at the end.

Within a few hours of posting, she says the Justice Department said her statement was false and refused to issue an apology. (The Ministry of Justice did not respond to TIME’s repeated requests for comment on the case; Seo’s alleged harasser has denied the charge, saying he was too drunk at the time to recall what happened.) That evening, Seo spoke on one of South Korea’s most influential evening news programs. “The reason I did the interview was to tell many people out there that it’s not their fault,” she says.

Her words resonated. Today, Seo’s interview is widely credited with kickstarting South Korea’s own #MeToo movement, triggering a wave of women speaking out against film directors, poets, actors, and others. Meanwhile, Ko Mi-kyung, president of Korea Women’s Hotline, an organization supporting survivors of domestic violence and sexual harassment, estimates that it received a 23% increase in the number of calls in the weeks following Seo’s interview. Those are particularly widespread problems: a 2014 U.N. report showed South Korea had the third highest rate of female murder victims in the world; and in a 2017 study, almost 80% of South Korean men surveyed by the Korean Institute of Criminology said they had physically or psychologically abused a girlfriend.

South Korea wasn’t the only country in Asia where women’s rights activists were paying attention to how the #MeToo movement on the other side of the globe was evolving. As high profile perpetrators in the West publicly apologized for their behavior and some lost positions of power, many in Asia saw a chance to reignite long-simmering movements pushing for gender equality and shape their own national conversations about gender inequality.

Like in the U.S., the movements in Asian countries have been started and sustained by ordinary citizens. But while celebrities and media figures helped make #MeToo go viral in the U.S., there have been fewer high-profile cases in Asia. “Those who are fighting are not famous people,” says Lu Pin, the founder of grassroots Chinese activist platform Feminist Voices. “It is countless grassroots people echoing each other.”

Some credit the U.S. movement with helping bring the conversation out into the open. “It’s no longer seen as a niche issue,” says Anna-Karin Jatfors, Regional Director for U.N. Women’s Asia-Pacific operation. Others, like Lu Pin, say activists were always looking for this opportunity—and were eager to forge their own country’s interpretation of #MeToo.

While China’s movement has borrowed the hashtag, others have used their movements to address deeply-entrenched inequalities, including access to abortion, domestic abuse and murder. In Asia, #MeToo isn’t just synonymous with sexual harassment and assault. As women across the region turn their anger into action, its manifestations have become a broader feminist rallying cry. In Japan, #WithYou has been used to express solidarity with survivors of workplace harassment; in Thailand, women voiced their frustration at being ****-shamed with #DontTellMeHowToDress; and in the Philippines, women have flooded social media and the streets in protest against President Rodrigo Duterte’s sexist comments, under the hashtag #BabaeAko (I Am Woman.)

But daring to speak out in some of these deeply patriarchal societies comes with enormous risks. In democratic South Korea, even as women take to the streets demanding justice on violence and sexual harassment, they cover their faces out of fear of backlash. In China—a repressive state where crackdowns on human rights activists and minority populations are escalating—women must contend with their posts on social media being censored and online feminist platforms being shut down.

One sexual assault survivor in Hangzhou applauds the bravery of celebrities in Hollywood who have spoken out. “Such courage makes me believe that after they speak out, they can be honest with themselves.” But the situation is different in China, she tells TIME. “A lot of people say that when a woman speaks up, or even when [rape or assault] happens, that’s the moment they die.”

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GeneChing

10-12-2018, 09:00 AM

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Seo Ji-hyun poses for a portrait in Seoul in September. Tim Franco for TIME

In China, state hostility toward public protest means women’s rights activists cannot flood the streets. Instead, they go online. Unlike elsewhere in Asia, the government’s tight grip on freedom of information means it’s more difficult for activists to look to other countries’ movements for inspiration. That hasn’t stopped a new generation of digitally-savvy women working to amplify #MeToo stories, with the help of Virtual Private Networks [VPN] ensuring a safe, encrypted Internet connection. “Thanks to the Internet, and VPNs, their minds are not constrained by the firewall,” says Wang Zheng, Professor of Women’s Studies and History at the University of Michigan.

The movement took off on January 1, when Luo Xixi, a former student at Beihang University in Beijing, wrote an open letter on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform. Luo alleged that when she was a PhD candidate in 2004, her professor Chen Xiaowu drove her to his sister’s home and tried to force himself on her. Chen denied the allegations but 10 days later, after an investigation, he was fired and the university revoked his teaching qualifications, issuing a public statement saying they found Chen had sexually harassed students.

Luo’s post was viewed more than 3 million times in one day and sparked a series of other allegations against at least a dozen university professors. A 2017 survey carried out by Guangzhou Gender and Sexuality Education Center and Beijing Impact Law Firm on college students and graduates showed almost 75% of women reported being sexually harassed in their lifetime, with more than 40% of incidents taking place in public space on college campuses. (By comparison, in the U.S., a 2016 report from the U.S. Department of Justice found that one in five women in college experiences sexual assault.) Ripples of the movement eventually reached beyond China’s university campuses, with a flurry of allegations embroiling leading figures in China’s NGO and media sectors coming to a head in July.

The roots of today’s movement can be traced back to feminist campaigns several years earlier. Back in 2012, young women gained widespread attention for public performances, including wearing “bloodied” wedding dresses on Valentine’s Day in Beijing to draw attention to domestic violence, occupying men’s bathrooms in Guangzhou to protest inequality in public restrooms and protesting ****-shaming in Shanghai’s subway.

A turning point came in 2015, when five female activists, known widely as ‘the Feminist Five,’ were detained on charges of “provoking trouble” after planning a multi-city protest to tackle sexual harassment on public transport. After international condemnation, authorities were forced to backtrack and released the women a month after their detention. “These political activists spent years making the ground fertile for the blossoming of the #MeToo movement in China today,” says Leta Hong Fincher, author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China.

That blossoming hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Chinese government. Since the detention of the Feminist Five, activists say the space for raising awareness about gender equality issues has been shrinking. In the 20th century, feminism was seen as a communist principle: women rose to official positions and worked to dismantle feudal laws that dictated systems of marriage, as well as promoting women’s literacy and equal pay.

But the younger generation of women’s rights activists works outside the system, with little resources and without the blessing of the state. In May 2017, state media pointed to “hostile forces” using “Western feminism” to interfere in the country’s affairs, a phrase that has cropped up again during this year’s wave of sexual harassment claims across the country’s social media. If the 2012 performances were planned now, says activist Xiao Yue, better known as Xiao Meili, who took part in some, “we would have been arrested before it even happened.”

Although the number of Chinese internet users has reached over 800 million, with more than 376 million monthly active users on Weibo, censors are quick to block or delete any content deemed disruptive or sensitive. A 25-year-old former CCTV intern, Xian Zi (who asked TIME not to publish her real name for fear of reprisals), alleges that high-profile TV presenter Zhu Jun molested her in a makeup room in 2014, when she was an intern at China Central Television, the country’s state television broadcaster. (His lawyer denies her allegation and CCTV has not responded to TIME’s requests for comments.)

“I wanted to share my own experiences with other girls,” she tells TIME of her decision to post about her experience on social media in July. “Even though I can’t guarantee what will happen when they speak up.” Her story was re-posted by another user on Weibo, but was censored after only two hours; in August, she found that posts on her own newly-created Weibo account were temporarily blocked from being re-posted for more than two weeks. Xian Zi also received multiple anonymous phone calls threatening to find her mother at home.

In August, Zhu Jun denied the allegations in a lawyer’s letter posted online and, soon after, filed a lawsuit against Xian Zi, as well as a friend of hers who posted the story on Weibo, and the platform itself for “reputation dispute.” (Weibo did not respond to TIME’s request for comment.) In a court document reviewed by TIME, Zhu said Xian Zi’s accusations are “made up” and “seriously not factual.” He requests public apologies and asks for the posts to be deleted online, as well as $95,000 in compensation. On Sept. 25, Xian Zi filed a suit against Zhu on grounds of “personality infringement.”

Xian Zi is set to become one of the first people in China’s #MeToo movement to confront their alleged perpetrator in court. Her story is one of many social media posts detailing experiences of sexual harassment that have been censored. But while posts may be repeatedly deleted on social media, traces of the stories and debates can still be found online. “The waves that people created won’t disappear in vain,” says Lu Pin. Activists say there seems to be a growing awareness about sexual harassment among internet users and #MeToo activists have managed to creatively circumvent censorship in a variety of ways—distorting images, using emojis, manipulating Chinese characters and using codes sourced from Github.

Some share other women’s stories on their own social media, drawing attention to their cases and creating a kind of virtual support network. One hashtag referencing sexual harassment within China’s rock music circuit, loosely translated as #RockCircleMe2, began circulating on Weibo in July and received over 8 million views and more than 7,000 posts on the topic. A loose, decentralized web of volunteers has managed to make the movement more resistant to the tide of authoritarianism. “When the authorities know that you are an organizer, they can come to catch or harass you,” says Xiao. “But now everybody is the organizer.”
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GeneChing

10-12-2018, 09:00 AM

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Female protesters shout slogans during a rally against 'spy-cam porn' in central Seoul on Aug. 4, 2018. Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images

Seo, the South Korean prosecutor, has been on medical leave since her television interview in January, enjoying spending more time with her 10-year-old son. She tells TIME that she still hasn’t received an apology regarding the incident or her treatment afterward. “I think that nothing has changed in the Prosecutor’s Office. I’ve heard that they still think of me as an enemy who disgraced the Office, and that they are still not trusting my words.”

Seo isn’t the only woman in South Korea to face severe backlash. Lawyer Lee Eun-eui, who successfully sued her employer, Samsung, in a landmark sexual harassment lawsuit back in 2008, says 80% of her clients are claiming cases relating to workplace discrimination and harassment. Many end up being denounced as “gold-diggers,” receiving a torrent of online abuse, and even being countersued by alleged perpetrators of harassment or assault. “In these scenarios, who would have the courage to speak out?” she asks, sipping iced tea after a long day in a Seoul courtroom.

South Koreans may not face the kind of restrictive censorship coming from the government in China, but many are acutely aware of the dangers of being seen to support feminist causes. Some wear face masks at rallies, wary of having their personal details leaked to the public, being fired, stalked or even the threat of acid attacks. The Inconvenient Courage group that organizes rallies in Seoul also chooses to remain anonymous. They focus on fighting the country’s spy-cam porn epidemic—the well-documented problem of hidden cameras in Korea’s public toilets and changing rooms. That secretly captured footage regularly makes its way to online pornography websites—leading to almost 6,500 cases reported in 2017, according to police.

Still, clad in masks or not, women are turning out in unprecedented numbers. In August, over 40,000 women attended an anti-spy-cam porn rally; later that month August, 20,000 took to the streets of the capital after a top politician was acquitted on rape charges. “Women are speaking out and fighting in solidarity because they can’t live like this anymore. This is a battle that we can’t retreat from,” Ko says.

Despite the backlash, activists and survivors in the region remain hopeful and defiant—especially as glimmers of institutional change appear. South Korean President Moon Jae-in is calling for tougher punishments on spy-cam perpetrators, and Seoul’s government is launching a clean-up campaign to rid the city’s public toilets of hidden cameras. China announced in August a plan for new legislation that would define and target sexual harassment in workplaces, and in September, Japan’s Labor Policy Council held discussions on proposals for laws and regulations to address the same issue.

While #MeToo and its iterations have not effected much systemic or societal change in some countries across the region, South Korea and China are two places where the culture of activism remains strong. Many women in both these countries feel hopeful about change. “I think I truly feel the meaning of #MeToo,” one survivor in Hangzhou tells TIME. “It connects every individual who had harm done to them and makes them no longer feel like they are lowly, isolated or helpless. Instead, they can form alliances, encourage each other and become the courage of each other.”

It’s still tough to predict what survivors might achieve in terms of legislative change. But in South Korea, Seo’s testimony does seem to have changed perceptions about sexual harassment. In a society where a prosecutor is considered one of the most prestigious jobs, many were shocked to realize that even powerful women like Seo were vulnerable to sexual harassment and silenced. As with celebrities speaking out in Hollywood, her case exposed how pervasive the problem is. “She really shook the stereotype of sexual violence victims,” says Bae Eun-kyung, Professor of Gender Studies at Seoul National University.

And in both China and South Korea, the broader cultural impact of speaking out in such challenging environments is creating a groundswell of support and solidarity. Women like Seo and Xian Zi want nothing less than to change how survivors of abuse are perceived. “South Korea has a culture of demanding that victims act like victims: they should always be in pain, and cry, and cannot be happy,” Seo says. “I want to show the image of the survivor as happy and confident.”

With reporting by Jinyoung Park / Seoul

Surprised that TIME didn't go into the #米兔 aspect in China.

GeneChing

10-25-2018, 09:37 AM

This is far worse than what happened to Fan Bingbing (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70896-Where-in-the-world-is-Fan-Bingbing).

Young Chinese #MeToo and Labor Rights Activist Has Been Missing for Weeks After Being Detained by Police (https://jezebel.com/young-chinese-metoo-and-labor-rights-activist-has-been-1829716238)
Esther Wang
10/12/18 3:21pm

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Yue Xin, a #MeToo activist in China, has been missing for more than six weeks, after she was detained by state police at the end of August over her participation in a labor rights protest. It’s a grim reminder that activists in China can—and often do—face extreme repercussions for their organizing.

As reported by the South China Morning Post, no one has reported seeing Yue, a 22-year-old recent graduate of Peking University, since her detention, raising alarm over her whereabouts.

Yue has been one of the most vocal proponents of the #MeToo movement in China, which took off earlier this year after numerous students on college campuses began accusing their professors of sexual harassment and assault. In April, while still a student at Peking University, she demanded that school officials release information over its handling of a decades-long case in which a professor had been accused of raping one of his students; that student, Gao Yan, later died by suicide.

Her request clearly alarmed the university. In an open letter Yue published later that month—one that was quickly censored by authorities—she detailed the harassment she faced from university officials over her request:

Since April 9, I’ve been in constant discussion with the teachers and leadership at the university’s Office of Student Affairs, twice continuing till one or two in the morning. In the course of these talks, the Office has repeatedly brought up “whether you can successfully graduate,” “what must your mother and grandmother think,” and “we have the authority to contact parents directly, without going through you.” Moreover, I’ll soon be preparing my final thesis, and the frequent disruptions and ensuing psychological pressure have severely affected my work on that.

...

At about 11 in the evening on April 22, my adviser suddenly tried to call, but because it was already late, I missed it. At 1 a.m., my adviser abruptly came to my dormitory with my mother, woke me up, and demanded that I delete all data related to the freedom of information request from my phone and computer, and that I go to the Office of Student Affairs the next morning to guarantee in writing that I’d have no more to do with the matter. Other students on my floor can verify this. Soon afterwards, my parents took me home, and I still haven’t been able to return to school.

My mother and I didn’t sleep all night. When the school contacted her, they twisted the facts to scare her and break her spirits. Because of the school’s aggressive and unreasonable intervention, our relationship has nearly been wrecked. The school’s actions at this point had crossed a line. I was scared, but furious.

In August, Yue and dozens of other student activists traveled to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen to support a group of factory workers at Jasic Technology who were demanding the right to form a union. But in the early morning hours on August 24, police dressed in riot gear stormed into the apartment where the students were staying and arrested Yue and about 50 others.

According to the SCMP:

Most of the protesters detained in August have since been released, but four have been placed under “residential surveillance at a designated location”—a form of secret detention—while four others are still in custody and could face prosecution, according to their friends and other activists.

But the whereabouts of Yue, as well as her mother, who has been out of contact since early September, remain unknown.

In a recent interview with Jezebel, Leta Hong Fincher, the author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, described why government leaders are so alarmed by the activities of students like Yue: “All of these overlapping forms of movements, they are very destabilizing for the government. And we don’t know how stable the Communist Party is. And so this is another reason why the Party is so paranoid.”

Before her arrest, Yue explained her motivations for supporting the workers at Jasic Technology to the SCMP: “More than 30 innocent workers have been locked up already and treated inhumanely. I cannot just sit back and be OK with just voicing my support online—I have to go to the front line. I’m prepared to be arrested…but it’s not about being arrested or not.”

She added: “It’s about believing that what you are doing is about justice, then you will have no fear.”

GeneChing

12-26-2018, 09:16 AM

DECEMBER 21, 2018 12:08PM PT
D.A. Declines to Charge Steven Seagal in Sexual Assault Case (https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/steven-seagal-da-declines-to-charge-1203094870/)
By GENE MADDAUS
Senior Media Writer
@GeneMaddaus

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For the second time this year, the L.A. County District Attorney’s office has declined to file a sexual assault charge against actor Steven Seagal.

A woman came forward to the LAPD to allege that Seagal had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 2002. The D.A.’s Hollywood sex crimes task force reviewed case, but determined that the statute of limitations had expired.

The D.A.’s office did not identify the alleged victim. However, attorney Lisa Bloom said that the case involves her client, former model Faviola Dadis. In January, Dadis told the Wrap that Seagal had groped her during an audition. She said Seagal asked her to strip down to a bikini, and then wanted to do a “romantic scene” with her. She said she was uncomfortable with that.

“And then he started pinching my nipples and grabbing my crotch area with his other hand,” she told the Wrap. “I quickly yelled ‘This audition is over!’”

In a statement, Bloom said the case was not charged solely because the law requires that older cases include independent, corroborating evidence.

“We appreciate the DA’s office’s careful review of this case,” Bloom said. “Its hands are tied by this unfair law which bars the courthouse door even to young women like my client, Faviola Dadis, who is highly credible. The law fails to recognize that few minors are emotionally ready to seek justice against their rapists until many years later. Instead, it offers rapists a “get out of jail free” card if they simply pass an arbitrary time deadline. And the law seems to presume that victims are lying, creating an unfairly high evidentiary standard not required in other criminal cases. Few rapists commit their crimes in the presence of witnesses.”

The D.A.’s office also declined to charge Seagal in September, after receiving an allegation that had been investigated by the Beverly Hills Police Department. In that case, a woman alleged that he had sexually assaulted her in 1993. That case also fell outside the statute of limitations. In January, the Wrap reported that actress Regina Simons accused Seagal of raping her in 1993. Eleven other woman, including actresses Portia de Rossi and Julianna Margulies, have also accused Seagal of sexual misconduct.

Seagal is a Russian citizen, and earlier this year was appointed as a special envoy to improve U.S.-Russia relations. In 2017, he was banned from visiting Ukraine for five years, due to his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

THREADS:
Seagal is at it again (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?37259-Seagal-is-at-it-again)
An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch)

Jimbo

12-27-2018, 09:22 AM

Kevin Spacey...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isaDCXWEr3o

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Jimbo

12-27-2018, 09:23 AM

...Continued from previous post...

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GeneChing

12-28-2018, 08:14 AM

... but not the one he wants to show. :eek:

Kevin Spacey’s Accuser Made Video of Encounter, Massachusetts Documents Say (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/movies/kevin-spacey-charge-details.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur)
More details of a sexual-assault allegation against Kevin Spacey were released this week by the authorities.

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More details of a sexual-assault allegation against Kevin Spacey were released this week by the authorities. Credit Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Sopan Deb
Dec. 27, 2018

An 18-year-old man told detectives in Massachusetts last year that the actor Kevin Spacey unzipped his pants and rubbed his genitalia in a sexual manner “for about three minutes” after 1 a.m. at a crowded bar in Nantucket in July 2016 — and that while this was occurring, the man sent video of the exchange through Snapchat to his girlfriend.

These are some of the details of the investigation behind a coming charge of indecent assault and battery for Mr. Spacey that were made public this week as a result of a criminal complaint filed in Nantucket District Court.

Email messages to the lawyer who represented Mr. Spacey at a recent hearing, as well as to his representative, went unreturned on Thursday.

The accusations of misconduct against the actor were first brought to light by a former Boston television anchor, Heather Unruh, who said at a news conference last year that Mr. Spacey sexually assaulted her son at the bar, the Club Car.

According to the newly released documents, the man was a busboy who was working till midnight on or around July 7, 2016. He told investigators on Nov. 22, 2017 — more than a year after the encounter — that Mr. Spacey arrived at around 11:30 p.m. with his manager. After his shift ended, the two were introduced and immediately started having several drinks together. The accuser said he told Mr. Spacey he was 23, even though he was actually 18.

At one point, the two were beside a piano at the bar, where Mr. Spacey and the accuser had been singing songs. He said Mr. Spacey put his left hand on his thigh and then unzipped his pants, before rubbing his *****.

The accuser said he was not sure what to do and proceeded to send a video of the encounter to his girlfriend, whom he had been texting and who did not initially believe what was going on. Mr. Spacey left to go to the bathroom and the accuser, who said he was distraught, left to go home.

The criminal complaint includes interviews with other people, including the accuser’s girlfriend, who told the authorities that the Snapchat video showed Mr. Spacey “touching the front” of the accuser’s “pants by his crotch.”

A bartender who was working at the Club Car that night told detectives that he remembered Mr. Spacey being there with the accuser but did not see any sexual assault.

A bystander told the police something similar, and that the accuser looked “pale, blank, a bit frightened.”

Mr. Spacey, who has been accused by more than a dozen people of sexual misconduct, is set to be arraigned on Jan. 7, the first criminal charge against him resulting from an accusation.

His only public response so far has been a bizarre video posted on Twitter on Monday after initial news of the felony charge broke. In that video, he seemed to be in character as Frank Underwood — whom he played in the Netflix show “House of Cards.”

A lawyer for the accuser declined to comment.

In the fall, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office declined to prosecute Mr. Spacey in connection with an allegation that he sexually assaulted a man in West Hollywood in 1992. However, Mr. Spacey is still being investigated in connection with an accusation that Los Angeles County officials received in August. The details about that case have not been made public.

“We have a case that remains under review,” Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County district attorney, said in an email on Thursday. “That is all we have to say at this moment.”

Mr. Spacey is also reportedly under investigation by law enforcement in London about several accusations of inappropriate behavior.

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 27, 2018, on Page A17 of the New York edition with the headline: Complaint Says Accuser Filmed Spacey

GeneChing

01-17-2019, 05:46 PM

Here's the ad if you haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0

01/16/2019, 03:48pm
Gillette is not wrong (https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/gillette-toxic-masculinity-mona-charen-feminism/)

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In a new ad campaign, Gillette challenges "toxic masculinity" by playing on its 30-year-old tagline "The best a man can get." | screen grab via YouTube

By Mona Charen

Is the new Gillette razor ad a radical feminist attack on masculinity — the commercial embodiment of a woke sensibility?

I was prepared to think so. But having watched it twice, I find a lot to like.

The ad has been panned by some conservative commentators. With all due respect, I think they are falling into a trap. They seem to have accepted the feminist framing. Feminists see culture as a Manichean struggle. It’s women versus men. Women are benign and men are malign. For society to progress, men must change. We must extirpate “toxic masculinity.”

Understandably, this rubs conservatives the wrong way. I’ve risen to the defense of masculinity many times myself. But is the Gillette ad really “the product of mainstream radicalized feminism — and emblematic of cultural Marxism,” as Turning Point USA’s Candace Owen put it? Is it part of “a war on masculinity in America,” as Todd Starnes argued on Fox News?

Conservatives stripping off their coats to get into this brawl are like the man who, seeing a bar fight unfold, asks, “Is this a private quarrel or can anyone join in?”

Let’s figure out what the fight is about before taking sides.

There were a couple of undercurrents in the Gillette ad that suggested feminist influence — the term “toxic masculinity” should itself be toxic — but overall, the ad is pretty tame, even valuable. I have no idea if it’s the best way to sell razors, but as social commentary, it’s not offensive.

“The Best Men Can Be” begins by showing men looking the other way as boys fight, shrugging “boys will be boys.” It shows men laughing at a comedy portraying a lout pantomiming a lunge at a woman’s behind. It shows kids teasing a boy for being a “freak” or a “sissy.” These are followed by more uplifting images of men breaking up fights, interfering with men who are harassing women and being loving fathers to daughters. We hear former NFL star Terry Crews saying, “Men need to hold other men accountable.”

These images didn’t strike me as a reproof of masculinity per se, but rather as a critique of bullying, boorishness and sexual misconduct.

By reflexively rushing to defend men in this context, some conservatives have run smack into an irony. Imaging themselves to be men’s champions, they are actually defending behavior, like sexual harassment and bullying, that a generation or two ago conservatives were the ones condemning.

Sexual license, crude language and retreat from personal responsibility were the hallmarks of the left. Liberals were the crowd saying: “Let it all hang out.” And “If it feels good, do it.” And “Chaste makes waste.” Feminists were the ones eyeing daggers at men who held chairs or doors for them, and insisting that a “woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

The left won that cultural battle. Standards of conduct for both sexes went out the window. Whereas men had once been raised to behave themselves in front of women — “Watch your language; there are ladies present” — they were instead invited to believe that women deserved no special consideration at all.

As I’ve written many times, the #MeToo movement may conceive of itself as a protest of “traditional masculinity,” but that’s only because memories are short. It’s actually a protest against the libertine culture the sexual revolution ushered in.

Some men are behaving really badly — harassing women, bullying each other and failing in their family responsibilities. Some women are, too, though the #MeToo movement doesn’t acknowledge that. But these behaviors are not “traditional.” They’ve always existed, of course, but they went mainstream with the counterculture, which is now the culture.

In any case, everyone, left and right, who values decent behavior should be able to agree that encouraging men to be nonviolent, polite and respectful is not anti-male. It’s just civilized.

Conservatives should applaud that aspect of the Gillette message. Progressives, in turn, should grapple with the overwhelming evidence that the best way to raise honorable men is with two parents. We may wish it were otherwise, but fathers — as disciplinarians, role models and loving husbands — are key to rearing happy, healthy and responsible sons, as well as self-confident, happy and high-achieving daughters.

That’s the cultural reform we so badly need. Any corporate volunteers? Apple? Google?

Mona Charen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

THREADS
Sissy Men (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70989-Sissy-Men)
#metoo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-metoo-(An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch))

GeneChing

01-24-2019, 03:43 PM

Given this film, this is as tragic as it is ironic.

JANUARY 24, 2019 2:16pm PT by Tatiana Siegel
Bryan Singer to Keep 'Red Sonja' Directing Gig Even After New Accusers Speak Out (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bryan-singer-keep-red-sonja-directing-gig-new-accusers-speak-1178785?fbclid=IwAR0JUklVLhkgo00uXpj8j9IA9NcSUt4aK brFxVXWqgVbxRopAdS1T_o8byw)

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Bryan Singer

The director will get a fee of up to $10 million for the Millennium film.

More than 24 hours after The Atlantic published a bombshell exposé about Bryan Singer and underage boys, Millennium Films has weighed in on the director’s fate with regards to its reboot of its film Red Sonja. Even after being accused by four men of having sex with them when they were younger than the age of consent, Singer is keeping his job.

"I continue to be in development for Red Sonja and Bryan Singer continues to be attached," read a statement from producer Avi Lerner to The Hollywood Reporter.

Lerner added, "The over $800 million Bohemian Rhapsody has grossed, making it the highest grossing drama in film history, is testament to his remarkable vision and acumen. I know the difference between agenda driven fake news and reality, and I am very comfortable with this decision. In America people are innocent until proven otherwise."

It is a surprising development, given the severity of the claims and considering the number of Hollywood actors, producers and executives who have seen their careers evaporate after facing less damaging accusations. The journalists spent 12 months investigating the Bohemian Rhapsody director, beginning their piece — originally slated for Esquire — not long after Hollywood’s #MeToo movement was in full swing (the two reporters say their piece was killed by Hearst higher-ups).

The journalists spoke to more than 50 sources, including four men who spoke about their relationship with the writer-director for the first time. One claimed that he had sex with Singer’s when he was 17. Another claimed that he and Singer had sex when he was 15. Both incidents are said to have happened in 1997 when Singer was in his early 30s.

One of the accusers said that Singer and a network of friends had people who brought them boys. "If you weren’t young and cute enough to be their boy, you could still ingratiate yourself by bringing boys to them," he is quoted as saying.

Victor Valdovinos — the only subject to use his name — told The Atlantic that he was a 13-year-old extra on the set of Apt Pupil when Singer — then in his 30s — sexually assaulted him. That film sparked a series of lawsuits by underage extras who were forced to disrobe entirely for a shower scene.

In December 2017, Singer was accused of rape by Cesar Sanchez-Guzman, who said in a lawsuit that Singer raped him while aboard a yacht in Seattle in 2003 when he was 17. Singer has denied Sanchez-Guzman's allegations. Perhaps prophetically, Sanchez-Guzman told the magazine that "the industry will brush things under the rug and pretend nothing happened.

Even with the allegations of rape, Singer was an erratic presence on set. He was fired near the end of production of Bohemian Rhapsody in December 2017, days before Sanchez-Guzman filed suit. Executives at 20th Century Fox made the move largely due to Singr’s unexplained absences from set. He was replaced by Eddie the Eagle director Dexter Fletcher, but he was still credited as sole director of the film due to DGA rules.

Still, Millennium hired Singer to direct its reboot of a female-empowered Red Sonja that is expected to begin shooting in Bulgaria in the spring. Even more shocking, the studio was willing to pay Singer his full quote of $10 million if certain box-office milestones were met. Those negotiating came out in Singer’s favor despite the fact that he had no agent after being dropped by WME.

At the time, Millennium execs said privately that they were willing to take the chance given the prerelease buzz on Bohemian Rhapsody, which has proved to be a huge hit, with $800 million to date worldwide at the box office. The film landed five Academy Award nominations this week, including best picture.

In the immediate aftermath of The Atlantic article, Singer released the following statement saying the story "rehashes claims from bogus lawsuits."

"The last time I posted about this subject, Esquire magazine was preparing to publish an article written by a ****phobic journalist who has a bizarre obsession with me dating back to 1997. After careful fact-checking and, in consideration of the lack of credible sources, Esquire chose not to publish this piece of vendetta journalism," Singer stated.

Singer added, "That didn’t stop this writer from selling it to The Atlantic. It’s sad that The Atlantic would stoop to this low standard of journalistic integrity. Again, I am forced to reiterate that this story rehashes claims from bogus lawsuits filed by a disreputable cast of individuals willing to lie for money or attention. And it is no surprise that, with Bohemian Rhapsody being an award-winning hit, this ****phobic smear piece has been conveniently timed to take advantage of its success."

THREADS
Red Sonja (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?51596)
#metoo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-metoo-(An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch))

GeneChing

01-25-2019, 08:38 AM

Sexual Harassment in Kung Fu? READ #metookungfu (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1467) by Marilyn Cooper

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Jimbo

01-29-2019, 10:22 AM

That's an interesting article. I had heard about Kuo Lien-Ying many years ago, but had never heard anything like that about him.

When I lived in Taiwan, I had heard about an advanced Mantis student who attempted to rape a woman he'd been assigned by his teacher to help teach. When the teacher returned, he caught him in the attempted act, beat him severely with a stick, and expelled him from the school. Apparently, news spread and this incident became fairly well-known in the Taiwan CMA community. That offending student actually had to leave Taiwan because of it, and became a fairly well-known master in the West. I know more details and who all the people involved are/were, but will not disclose it. Suffice it to say that he was NEVER based in the western United States.

This had happened several years before I ever went to Taiwan. So I was definitely aware that sexual abuse does sometimes happen in CMA, but before reading that article, I had not been aware of how pervasive it seems to be.

GeneChing

02-04-2019, 08:56 AM

I don't know this director or his work at all. Anyone?

FEBRUARY 3, 2019 4:29AM PT
‘Monga’ Director Doze Niu Charged With Forced Sex (https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/monga-director-doze-niu-charged-sex-assault-1203127212/)
By PATRICK FRATER
Asia Bureau Chief

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Taiwanese film director Doze Niu (C) speaks to reporters at a police station in Taipei, Taiwan, 07 December 2018. On 07 December Niu was questioned by police for allegedly sexually assaulting a female film crew member at his Taipei home in late November. The shooting of his new film 'Pao Ma' has been suspended due to the scandal. Niu is the third Taiwanese film industries personality to be embroiled in a sexual assault scandal after film director Chang Tso-chi and radio host Chin Wei.Taiwanese film director Doze Niu accused of sexual assault, Taipei, Taiwan - 07 Dec 2018
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Leading Taiwan film director, Doze Niu (aka Niu Chen-zer) has been charged with forced sexual intercourse. If found guilty, he faces a jail term of between three and ten years.

The alleged incident occurred in November last year, during the shooting of Niu’s current film project “Pao Ma.” Following evenings drinks at his home with crew, Niu is alleged to have forced himself on a female crew member. She reported the incident to police the next day.

When the allegations became public knowledge in December, Niu denied assault. He said that the liaison had been consensual, and that the two had been in a romantic relationship. Niu was set free on bail, but not allowed to leave Taiwan. He has made no public comment since the formal charges.

In a statement on Friday, the Taipei Prosecutors Office said that Niu had showed neither regret, nor understanding of the gravity of the impact of sexual assault. The prosecutor also said that Niu had attempted to deflect the blame, and had that Niu had suggested that the woman was partially at fault.

In December, Niu said that he had already been tried and found guilty by the media. “There is another public trial going on now and I have already been handed a death sentence,” he said, in December. “Doze Niu is dead.”

Taiwanese and other Asian media have published accounts of Niu’s behavior towards other women. They suggested that Niu had abused his position as director to pressure actresses Janine Chang and Shu Qi into unnecessary nudity.

Actress, Ke Huan-ru used Facebook to recount allegations of inappropriate behavior during the shooting of a bedroom scene in 2007 film “What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?,” in which Niu was both director and the male star. The scene was not used in the final version of the film.

Niu, a child star who later turned director, hit the big time with 2010 gangster drama “Monga.” The film picked up multiple prizes at the Golden Horse Awards, Asian Film Awards and at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.

In 2014, he was found guilty of taking a Chinese national onto a Taiwanese naval base, during the preparation of “Paradise in Service.” He was fined and given a suspended jail service.

wolfen

03-19-2019, 08:04 AM

If this scumbag-idiot did wrongfully accuse Takei, and it certainly looks like that is the case, all I can say to the accuser is, "Karma is a *****."

And this applies to anybody who wrongfully accuses another person of sexual misconduct. It negatively affects the perception of credibility (and belittles the experiences) of those accusers who have ACTUALLY been sexually assaulted/molested and are seeking justice in the right way. It also leaves a permanent stain on the reputation of the wrongfully accused.

And for that very reason the #MEtoo "movement" has been totally discredited. The Judge Kavanaugh Confirmation proved this and showed that not only was the METOO movement a Marxist attack on society it was politically partisan. The movement backed the accusers and said they shoudl be believed without evidence. No responsible person believed them, they were obvious liars. Now three of the accusers have been criminally charged for lying and the fourth bundled off to the funny farm.

#MeToo/#MeMarxist is not responsible for the climate in which sexual abusers have started to be exposed. The populist movement and the election of Donald Trump started this. If Hillary had been elected Weinstein would still be making feminist speeches and raping freely and no one would have ever come forward for anyone else. No one would have dared, no newspaper would have dared touch it with the Democrat machine in power. There was a genuine fear of Arkancide. And note that 95 percent of those exposed have been "feminist" Democrat men. #Metoo piggy backed themselves on the efforts of populists as a Marxist technique to destabilize society and empower Globalist Politicians.

In all these Asian Democratic Countries the #metoo movement agenda is political destabilization by attacking men of power..
. What is the intent of the MeMarxist movement - it is to create social destabilization and attack the political power structure. It has no intention of promoting harmony between men and women, it's purpose is to set one part of a society against another, This is pure Marxist technique which in it's original form started by setting the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. Since that no longer works in modern times and the communists actually killed the proletariat in large numbers as well, the technique is now altered is to set other kinds of groups against each other,women against men, colors against white, Islam against Christians etc.

The case of China is very strange and absurd. You can't use Cultural Marxism against the Organization that invented it. Of course they protestors got arrested and disappeared.
The one thing that is strange is that I cannot imagine anyone in China thinking they could get away with this. So they must have been devoted to martyrdom.

Leta Hong Fincher, the author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, described why government leaders are so alarmed by the activities of students like Yue: “All of these overlapping forms of movements, they are very destabilizing for the government. And we don’t know how stable the Communist Party is. And so this is another reason why the Party is so paranoid.”

Leta Hong encouraged these women to be sacrificed as a "soldiers of the cause",. Either that or they wished to martyr themselves.. Leta with her writings fed fed them a bunch of baloney and sent them off to the chopping block. It is beyond ridiculous that the CCCP is "destabilized". Xi JinPing has now more powers that any previous chairman. he is a virtual emperor. Everyone in China knows this. The whole atmosphere of China now is that of being under a hard Party crackdown, it is no longer a pleasant or friendly environment for expat workers and business people Foreigners are leaving China in droves because of the hostility they get from all sides. The pendulum has swung toward absolutism and xenophobia.
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It is all political here very little to do with "helping women" Do they want to help women in China? - then tackle the mass sex slavery and sexual exploitation that goes on in China, with help from local authorities, instead of absurdly trying to take down the Party leaders.
You know - "This is China!"
..
So Metoo is nothing but MeMarxyou. They don't care what is true or not, nor what happened to the women that they encourage to complain, Their goal is to take down political power structures.

She added: “It’s about believing that what you are doing is about justice, then you will have no fear.”
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Yeah just like what Chairman Mao said. :rolleyes: No, the Party is jaded and wise to that, not a chance of success.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5VtGi49m58

Me Too BACKFIRED And Now Men Care LESS About Assault According to Gallup Poll

Tim lists many other false accusations here. Of course it backfired, it was never meant to help women because you can only help women by helping both men and women together and promoting both Jsutice and Harmony without a political agenda.

#Red Dye Series

David Jamieson

03-19-2019, 11:41 AM

And for that very reason the #MEtoo "movement" has been totally discredited. The Judge Kavanaugh Confirmation proved this and showed that not only was the METOO movement a Marxist attack on society it was politically partisan. The movement backed the accusers and said they shoudl be believed without evidence. No responsible person believed them, they were obvious liars. Now three of the accusers have been criminally charged for lying and the fourth bundled off to the funny farm.

#MeToo/#MeMarxist is not responsible for the climate in which sexual abusers have started to be exposed. The populist movement and the election of Donald Trump started this. If Hillary had been elected Weinstein would still be making feminist speeches and raping freely and no one would have ever come forward for anyone else. No one would have dared, no newspaper would have dared touch it with the Democrat machine in power. There was a genuine fear of Arkancide. And note that 95 percent of those exposed have been "feminist" Democrat men. #Metoo piggy backed themselves on the efforts of populists as a Marxist technique to destabilize society and empower Globalist Politicians.

In all these Asian Democratic Countries the #metoo movement agenda is political destabilization by attacking men of power..
. What is the intent of the MeMarxist movement - it is to create social destabilization and attack the political power structure. It has no intention of promoting harmony between men and women, it's purpose is to set one part of a society against another, This is pure Marxist technique which in it's original form started by setting the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. Since that no longer works in modern times and the communists actually killed the proletariat in large numbers as well, the technique is now altered is to set other kinds of groups against each other,women against men, colors against white, Islam against Christians etc.

The case of China is very strange and absurd. You can't use Cultural Marxism against the Organization that invented it. Of course they protestors got arrested and disappeared.
The one thing that is strange is that I cannot imagine anyone in China thinking they could get away with this. So they must have been devoted to martyrdom.

Leta Hong encouraged these women to be sacrificed as a "soldiers of the cause",. Either that or they wished to martyr themselves.. Leta with her writings fed fed them a bunch of baloney and sent them off to the chopping block. It is beyond ridiculous that the CCCP is "destabilized". Xi JinPing has now more powers that any previous chairman. he is a virtual emperor. Everyone in China knows this. The whole atmosphere of China now is that of being under a hard Party crackdown, it is no longer a pleasant or friendly environment for expat workers and business people Foreigners are leaving China in droves because of the hostility they get from all sides. The pendulum has swung toward absolutism and xenophobia.
.
It is all political here very little to do with "helping women" Do they want to help women in China? - then tackle the mass sex slavery and sexual exploitation that goes on in China, with help from local authorities, instead of absurdly trying to take down the Party leaders.
You know - "This is China!"
..
So Metoo is nothing but MeMarxyou. They don't care what is true or not, nor what happened to the women that they encourage to complain, Their goal is to take down political power structures.

..
Yeah just like what Chairman Mao said. :rolleyes: No, the Party is jaded and wise to that, not a chance of success.

------------------------------------>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5VtGi49m58

Me Too BACKFIRED And Now Men Care LESS About Assault According to Gallup Poll

Tim lists many other false accusations here. Of course it backfired, it was never meant to help women because you can only help women by helping both men and women together and promoting both Jsutice and Harmony without a political agenda.

#Red Dye Series

You are being absurd here in defense of nonsense against the face of positive social change for what?

I mean what exactly is it that you think you are doing here Wolfen? Correcting a situation? Putting people in their place?

People want to help the other 50% of the population get to the equality that they not only want, but that they deserve.
Why you feel compelled to rain on that parade with your cherry picked semi facts, non facts and alt right musings is beyond me.

Sometimes, things are better left unsaid. MeToo is not backfired and the concerns it raises are 100% legitimate.
Simple stats would reveal that in an hour of reading. Stop playing what about here.

wolfen

03-19-2019, 05:03 PM

By Mona Charen

Is the new Gillette razor ad a radical feminist attack on masculinity — the commercial embodiment of a woke sensibility?

I was prepared to think so. But having watched it twice, I find a lot to like. (Oh, I bet you do! :rolleyes: )

....
That’s the cultural reform we so badly need. Any corporate volunteers? Apple? Google?

Mona Charen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Yes, How wonderful Comrades. This is exactly what the male members of a Martial Arts Forum need - another Marxist attack on our society from a toxic female intent on bullying and abusing men. Yes we so desperately need to be reformed by sexist, Marxist females and who better to reform us and tell us all what to do than some all powerful, totalitarian, repressive social platform entities such as Facebook and Google?
With Google, Facebook and Twitter, who needs the Red Guard? Being beaten up, imprisoned and exiled in person a is so, so yesterday.

Imaging themselves to be men’s champions, they are actually defending behavior, like sexual harassment and bullying,

That is a false equivalency. Comrade Mona is simply demonizing men and masculinity.
And this statement is the "but" in her manipulative essay. It redacts all of her previous statements in which she pretended to "support" masculinity.

I have no idea if it’s the best way to sell razors, but as social commentary, it’s not offensive.

No, she has no idea, and purports to tell others how they feel. However, millions upon millions of Western Men have now boycotted Gillette. Welcome to Capitalism, Comrade Gillette. I'm sure your executives can find new careers as Intersectional Feminists in the propaganda department in Venezuela.
Get Woke,Go Broke.

Comrade Mona's hit piece on Men is from the radical Marxist alt-left and is shilled by the controlled media. These Marxists hate everything about traditional Western and American Society. By "reform" they mean "annihilation". They wish to destroy all Democratic and natural processes and put all human activities under centralized Government Control. The sources I present are the pieces missing from the the MSN Globalist Propaganda System . This is the mainstream of Conservative thought . The overwhelming majority of Americans reject the manipulative social justice warrior propaganda of the MSN. (The polls show only 15 percent belief in the MSN)
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It is good that they expose themselves for what they are in these articles The more they do that, the more the public will reject their absurd ideology and eventually the progressive left/alt-left will join such failed systems of thought such as the Flat-Earthers, the Shakers and Communism.
Maybe one day, we can have actual liberals rejoin the Overton Window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EykO2rsLP9Q&t=10s

New Gillette Campaign Razor-Burns Men

As Bill Whittle states in this video, the ad is an attack on masculinity just by adding the word "toxic". The ad is also racist in showing only white guys doing "bad" things and black guys doing "good" things. It is masculine men that protect women. You cannot fight bullies and rapists by reading them essays from Intersectional Feminists.
Masculinity and Femininity is part of history and is what makes the human race work. To "reform" it is genocide. Combating rape etc is a matter of the psychology of criminality in human beings and a matter best addressed in the criminal Justice System with laws and due process not Social justice lynch mobs.

#Red Dye Series.

David Jamieson

03-20-2019, 06:45 AM

*sigh*

But who cares? Do you feel less of a man because someone made an ad that vents their frustration with the social construct?

Do you think that frustration should just be silenced? Or is it better to work through it as a whole?

You don't live under any illusion of the kind of society we live in right? Where women are tier 2 citizens, men have most of the wealth and power at all levels and women are shut out or ridiculed for simply being women.

The construct as it is is what is broken. Using generalisms to point it out is effective. I mean, just look at how many guys got upset about the razor commercial?
I thought it was crass and ham handed, but ultimately that's ok in the end because for some, it is true. For those who enjoy the rewards of this world simply because they are male well, I suppose they would feel that their entitlement is being attacked because they've become used to excusing the bad parts of it in favour of maintaining the entirety of it.

GeneChing

06-28-2019, 08:15 AM

Does 'Anna' Mark the End of the Line for Luc Besson? (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/does-anna-mark-end-line-luc-besson-1221365)
1:00 AM PDT 6/28/2019 by Scott Roxborough

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Luc Besson

The film's $3.5 million domestic bow was the worst-ever for the French director, who has faced sexual assault allegations and whose EuropaCorp shingle is fighting to survive amid a string of pricey flops.

Anna was supposed to be Luc Besson's comeback movie.

After the galactic flop that was Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) — the $180 million sci-fi epic grossed just $250 million worldwide, far below expectations — Besson's new action thriller was designed to remind audiences what they love about the French action helmer.

The film — about a young woman who becomes a KGB assassin in Cold War Russia, starring supermodel-turned actress Sasha Luss — features Besson's trademark style of hyper-kinetic, female-fronted action of the kind that made the director's Lucy and La Femme Nikita worldwide hits.

But when Lionsgate's Summit label released Anna last weekend, the movie misfired, earning just $3.5 million in 2,114 theaters, the worst-ever bow for a Besson-directed film in the U.S.

The flop comes at a particularly bad time for Besson, who is struggling to keep his debt-laden company, EuropaCorp, from collapse and has recently faced a flurry of #MeToo allegations.

In May 2018, Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roy filed a complaint, accusing Besson of drugging and raping her at a Paris hotel. On Nov. 28, five more women came forward in a report in French investigative magazine Mediapart, alleging sexual misconduct. In total, nine separate women have accused the director of sexual assault and harassment.

Following Van Roy's allegations, Lionsgate put the release of Anna on hold and only confirmed a release date for the film after the Paris prosecutor's office dismissed the rape charges, saying an investigation failed to turn up sufficient evidence to support the woman's allegation.

Lionsgate picked June 21 for Anna, giving the film a high-profile summer bow. But the distributor did the minimum in the way of promotion for the film, with no pre-release screenings for press and little-to-no media beyond trailers and a handful of TV spots.

It's a pattern that looks to be repeated internationally. Lionsgate U.K. has done next to no marketing for the movie, which bows in Britain on July 5. Anna is nowhere to be found on the company's website or Twitter feed. Even Rambo: Last Blood, which goes out in the U.K. in September, has a bigger presence, with Lionsgate U.K. promoting the teaser trailer released last month.

Similarly, StudioCanal, which has Anna in Germany (July 15) and Australia (Sept. 5) has done little to let Besson fans know the movie is coming.

“There's been next-to-no marketing, no trailer push, no real news from the distributor,” says Ines Walk, editor-in-chief for Moviepilot, an online portal for German film fans. “No one really has it on their radar.”

While the #MeToo allegations against Besson may have impacted the distributor's release strategy (StudioCanal did not respond to requests for comment), Walk says it has likely had little impact on local audiences. “#MeToo allegations have far less impact in Europe than than in the U.S.," she says. "That's why you see, sadly, that films by Woody Allen or Roman Polanski still do repetitively well here."

Instead, Walk believes, for a younger demographic, Besson's action brand may have passed its sell-by date.

“There seems to be a generational changing of the guard going on, with older directors losing favor among younger film fans that make up the core audience for action movies,” she argues. “It's something we are seeing, to a lesser extent, with Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan as well, this older generation of film makers are generating less excitement among our users than younger directors such as (Blade Runner 2049 helmer) Denis Villeneuve.”

This is all bad news for Besson, who is struggling to save EuropaCorp, the production and distribution company he founded in 1996. The beleaguered firm was put under court protection in France last month and given six months to restructure its debt. EuropaCorp has been bleeding money for years — it posted a $101.2 million loss in its latest half-year results, reported in December. That follows a $93.9 million loss over the previous 12 months and a $136.5 million loss in the 12 months before that (the company did not respond to requests for comment for this report).

The company's follow-up to box office bomb Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was submarine thriller Kursk, which sank without a trace. The movie, starring Colin Firth, Matthias Schoenaerts and Léa Seydoux, earned just $5 million worldwide — including a paltry $775,000 in France — and failed to find a U.S. buyer.

Last July, EuropaCorp signed a distribution partnership with Pathé, the group that bought out EuropaCorp's chain of French theaters in 2016. Pathé last month released EuropaCorp's Nous finirons ensemble, Guillaume Canet’s follow-up to his 2010 box office smash Little White Lies. The sequel grossed $22 million in France, above half that of the original. Pathé will also handle Anna's release in France.

Besson has already sold off much of EuropaCorp's silver, offloading its French TV division for $13 million and hawking the company's Roissy Films library — some 500 titles — to French group Gaumont for an undisclosed sum. The company also cut into overhead, chopping costs 34 percent in the last fiscal year to $15.5 million. Besson even quietly shuttered his Paris-based film school last July. All this was done in order to reduce debt and refocus EuropaCorp on its core production business.

The company confirmed it is in bailout talks with Pathé for a possible debt-for-equity swap, which would see Pathé take a majority stake in EuropaCorp in exchange for a cash infusion to allow the struggling company to restructure its debt. EuropaCorp said it was in negotiations with other potential buyers. Besson and his holding company FrontLine still own 38 percent of the company, while Chinese investors, which put $67 million into the company in 2016, hold 28 percent.

EuropaCorp has few assets left aside from its remaining back catalog, now valued at $160 million, according to its own estimates. Besson's company, which used to release around 10 films a year, currently has no movies in production.

The lone bright spot is EuropaCorp's TV production division, which saw revenue jump nearly 80 percent to $22.5 million last year due to delivery of NBC's Taken. Besson has three new English-language series in development: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec, Gray and American Flagg.

But if Anna tanks worldwide in the manner it has stateside, even great TV will unlikely to be enough to save Besson's bacon.

THREADS
Anna (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70506-Anna)
#metoo (An Open Secret: Hollywood - Please Watch) (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-metoo-(An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch))

GeneChing

07-02-2019, 08:19 AM

By Kyler Geoffroy | Jul 2 2019, 5:00am
Disney Quietly Deleted a #MeToo Scene Out of the Latest Release of 'Toy Story 2' (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjva75/disney-quietly-deleted-a-metoo-scene-out-of-the-latest-release-of-toy-story-2)
The company bought Pixar in 2006, and has a history of editing its films after the fact.

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A hallmark of early Pixar films are the faux blooper reels that accompany the closing credits for films such as Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, and Monsters, Inc., where characters like Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Mike Wazowski flub lines, pull pranks, and participate in various on-set shenanigans. Many of these bloopers reference real-life Hollywood culture, like the irritable Mr. Potato Head screaming “Get my agent on the phone!” after being forced to act next to a Barrel of Monkeys, or the little green aliens casually discussing their burgeoning film careers, with one proudly noting that he may soon be starring in a toothpaste commercial.

Last month, Rerelease.com discovered that one of these self-referential bloopers appears to be conspicuously missing from the new release of Toy Story 2, all new 4K Blu-ray versions and all new digital downloads. The scene depicts a casting-couch-esque moment involving the film's antagonist Stinky Pete (voiced by Kelsey Grammer) and two Barbie dolls. It bears a striking resemblance to many of the allegations of sexual misconduct in Hollywood that have been reported in recent years as part of the growing #MeToo movement.

"And so you two are absolutely identical?" Stinky Pete lecherously asks the two dolls with a chuckle, blissfully unaware of the camera trained on him. "You know I'm sure I can get you a part in Toy Story 3," he says as he grasps one of their hands. Only then does he realize he's being watched, and sheepishly ushers the dolls out of his toy box with a line about welcoming them back whenever they need more acting tips. He then ogles the dolls' butts as they pass by him before the scene cuts to the next blooper.

The full end credits can be seen here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2EZcoZ3Y8); the now-deleted scene starts at approximately 3:29.

Toy Story 2 was first released in 1999, before any kind of mass public dialogue about workplace harassment and assault in the film industry had taken place. The scene was still present in 2010 Blu-ray versions of the film, yet was silently removed from the recent rereleases that came out in June of this year.

Pixar has faced its own reckoning in the #MeToo era. Toy Story 2 director John Lasseter stepped down from the company permanently following an extended leave of absence after allegations of workplace sexual misconduct (a longtime staffer said Lasseter was known for "grabbing, kissing, [and] making comments about physical attributes") came to light. In a memo to staff, Lasseter apologized for unspecified “missteps,” and acknowledged that he had made some on his team feel “disrespected and uncomfortable.” In addition, Rashida Jones quit Toy Story 4 due, she said, to a company culture "where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice."

Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, has a long documented history of editing its films after the fact, particularly those featuring controversial racial or sexual scenes. Neither Disney nor Pixar responded to multiple requests for comment on why they had decided to remove the scene; these requests noted that the blooper in question was still included in the official Disney UK YouTube clip of all Toy Story 2 bloopers. Subsequent attempts at reaching Disney and Pixar for comment were made, at which point VICE noticed the Disney UK video that included the blooper had also been quietly removed from YouTube. It is still viewable via the Internet archive. We have not yet received comment from the company on the deletion of the initial scene or the YouTube video's subsequent removal. VICE has also reached out to digital rental services Amazon and Apple for comment on when or how this edit was made on their platforms. As of press time, we have not heard back.

Personally, I'd love to see Song of the South again, just to see how it plays out now.

GeneChing

07-25-2019, 09:09 AM

I used to like Spacey's work because he had this creepy vibe. Now I can't watch him because it hits too close to home. :o

NEWS JULY 17, 2019 1:50PM PT
Kevin Spacey Sexual Assault Case Dropped in Nantucket (https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-case-dropped-nantucket-1203270647/)
By GENE MADDAUS
Senior Media Writer
@GeneMaddaus

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Nantucket prosecutors have dropped a sexual assault case against actor Kevin Spacey, citing the “unavailability” of the complaining witness.

Spacey had been accused of groping an 18-year-old busboy at the Club Car restaurant in July 2016. He was charged with indecent sexual assault, and a trial was set to be held in the fall.

However, the case has been teetering on the brink of dismissal since an evidentiary hearing last week, during which the accuser invoked his Fifth Amendment rights.

Spacey’s attorney, Alan Jackson, had sought access to a phone which contained texts from the evening of the alleged incident. The accuser has said that the phone is missing.

Investigators had scanned the phone and returned it to the accuser in December 2017. Jackson alleged that the accuser and his mother had manipulated text messages on the phone, and asked at the hearing whether the accuser was aware that manipulating evidence is a crime. After a recess, the accuser’s attorneys said that he would not answer additional questions.

The young man had sued Spacey in civil court last month. His attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, dropped the suit a week later without giving an explanation. Garabedian later told local media that the dismissal was not the result of a settlement.

“My client and his family have shown an enormous amount of courage under difficult circumstances,” Garabedian said in a statement on Wednesday.

Spacey still faces a criminal investigation in Los Angeles and another in London. Scotland Yard recently questioned the actor on allegations from six individuals, dating from 1996 to 2013. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office declined to prosecute yet another case, from 1992, last year, citing the statute of limitations.

A massage therapist has also sued Spacey in federal court in Los Angeles, accusing Spacey of trying to kiss him and forcing him to touch Spacey’s genitals during a session in October 2016. That case remains pending.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s office said it met with the Club Car accuser on Sunday to discuss the status of the case.

“The complaining witness was informed that if he chose to continue to invoke his Fifth Amendment right, the case would not be able to go forward,” the office said. “After a further period of reflection privately with his lawyer, the complaining witness elected not to waive his right under the Fifth Amendment.”

The only other avenue, the D.A.’s office said, would have been to grant the accuser immunity from prosecution and then force him to give testimony. However, the office stated that that approach would damage the accuser’s credibility, making a prosecution untenable.

GeneChing

01-20-2020, 08:42 AM

“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

Chinese #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin freed from detention, lawyers and sources say (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3046643/chinese-metoo-activist-sophia-huang-xueqin-freed-detention)
Author of landmark workplace harassment survey was arrested nearly three months ago for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’
She is ‘healthy and still in good spirits’ while ‘under heavy surveillance’, a source tells the Post
Laurie Chen
Published: 7:00am, 18 Jan, 2020

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Chinese women’s rights activist Sophia Huang Xueqin has been released after nearly three months in detention, according to sources and her lawyers. Photo: Thomas Yau

Chinese women’s rights activist Sophia Huang Xueqin has been released after nearly three months in detention, according to her lawyers and sources familiar with her situation.
Huang, 32, was released on Friday, about two weeks before the Lunar New Year – traditionally an occasion for family unions.
“She is healthy and still in good spirits. Her activities are restricted now and she is under heavy surveillance,” said a source close to Huang who wished to remain anonymous. “But police are keeping her passport, computer and mobile phone.”
In a message sent to friends after her release, Huang wrote that it would not be convenient for her to meet with them now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZkpjjQROU
#MeToo: Speaking out against sexual harassment in China

“One second of darkness does not make people blind,” she wrote.
Huang became a leading figure in the Chinese #MeToo movement in recent years. In 2017, the former state media journalist conducted a pioneering nationwide survey of workplace harassment in the news industry and was a vocal advocate for victims.
She was detained last October on the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a vague offence that is often used by mainland authorities to silence dissidents and rights activists.
Huang was initially held at Baiyun District Detention Centre in Guangzhou before being placed under “residential surveillance” in an unknown location.
In the months leading to her arrest, Huang had published two essays reporting her observations of the summer protests in Hong Kong. She was about to start a law degree at Hong Kong University when her passport was confiscated in August by mainland authorities, preventing her from leaving the mainland.
Huang was among a number of mainland activists who have got into trouble for sympathising with, or supporting, the Hong Kong protests that broke out seven months ago. The unrest initially was tied to an extradition bill that would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong does not have a treaty, including mainland China.
The proposed legislation has since been withdrawn and the protests have evolved into an anti-government movement.
Mainland authorities have imposed strict controls on any public discussions and reporting of the continuing unrest in the city.
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This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Chinese #MeToo activist out of detention

GeneChing

02-24-2020, 10:57 AM

Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Courtroom during his ongoing sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City on February 24, 2020. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-in-landmark-metoo-moment?fbclid=IwAR2I9e_LEdeMLsBu-4uUijEoRb8aVBgbcoHZ3KlCDJIOr72ia9JF7cj3EkM)Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
By — Michael Sisak, Associated Press
By — Tom Hays, Associated Press

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Nation Updated on Feb 24, 2020 12:13 PM EST — Published on Feb 24, 2020 11:44 AM EST

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and could be sent to prison for decades, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement.

He was convicted on charges stemming from a 2006 sexual assault and a 2013 rape. The jury found Weinstein not guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, that could have resulted in a life sentence.

The most damaging conviction, for the sexual assault of production assistant Mimi Haleyi, would carry a maximum sentence of 25 years.

Weinstein, 67, had a look of resignation as the verdict came in, and was seen talking to his lawyers shortly after.

The verdict followed weeks of often harrowing and excruciatingly graphic testimony from a string of accusers who told of rapes, forced oral sex, groping, masturbation, lewd propositions and that’s-Hollywood excuses from Weinstein about how the casting couch works.

The conviction was seen as a long-overdue reckoning for Weinstein after years of whispers about his behavior turned into a torrent of accusations in 2017 that destroyed his career and gave rise to #MeToo, the global movement to encourage women to come forward and hold powerful men accountable for their sexual misconduct.

The jury of seven men and five women took five days to find him guilty.

The case against the once-feared producer was essentially built on three allegations: that he raped an aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013, that he forcibly performed oral sex on Haleyi and that he raped and forcibly performed oral sex on “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra in her apartment in the mid-1990s.

Three additional women who said they, too, were attacked by Weinstein also testified as part of an effort by prosecutors to show a pattern of brutish behavior on his part.

The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sex crimes unless they grant permission, as Haleyi and Sciorra did.

Jurors signaled their struggles with the Sciorra charges four days into deliberations. On Friday, after reviewing sections of her testimony and related evidence, they sent a note to the judge indicating they were deadlocked on the counts but had reached a unanimous verdict on the others. After some debate in the courtroom, the judge ordered jurors to keep deliberating.

While Weinstein did not testify, his lawyers contended that any sexual contact was consensual and that his accusers went to bed with him to advance their careers.

The defense seized on the fact that two of the women central to the case stayed in contact with Weinstein through warm and even flirty emails — and had sex with him — well after he supposedly attacked them.

The hard-charging and phenomenally successful movie executive helped bring to the screen such Oscar winners as “Good Will Hunting,” “Pulp Fiction,” “The King’s Speech” and “Shakespeare in Love” and nurtured the careers of celebrated filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith.

Weinstein now faces charges in Los Angeles. In that case, announced just as the New York trial was getting under way on Jan. 6, authorities allege Weinstein raped one woman and sexually assaulted another on back-to-back nights during Oscars week in 2013. One of those women testified as a supporting witness at the New York trial.

The trial was the first criminal case to arise from a barrage of allegations against Weinstein from more than 90 women, including actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek and Uma Thurman. Most of those cases were too old to prosecute.

During the trial, Weinstein regularly trudged into the courthouse stooped and unshaven, using a walker after recently undergoing back surgery — a far cry from the way he was depicted in court as a burly, intimidating figure whose eyes seemed to turn black with menace when his anger flared.

Many of Weinstein’s accusers described him as a “Jekyll and Hyde” character who could be incredibly charming at first, making jokes and showing interest in using his immense power to help their careers.

But that was an act, they said, meant to gain their trust and get them to a place — often a hotel room or an apartment — where he could violate them.

“If he heard the word ‘no,’ it was like a trigger for him,” his rape accuser testified.

Special investigation: They reported sexual harassment. Then the retaliation began

Several women testified that Weinstein excused his behavior as the price for getting ahead in Hollywood. One said that when she laughed off his advances, he sneered, “You’ll never make it in this business. This is how this industry works.”

The jury heard lurid testimony that Weinstein injected himself with a needle to get an erection, that his genitals appeared disfigured, that he sent Sciorra a box of chocolate *****es and that he once showed up uninvited at her hotel room door in his underwear with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a video in the other.

The prosecution’s task was made more complicated because two of the women at the very center of the case didn’t just abandon Weinstein after the alleged encounters: Haleyi testified that she had sex with him two weeks later, while the rape accuser whose name was withheld said she had a sexual encounter with him more than three years afterward.

Like Haleyi, she sent Weinstein friendly and sometimes flirtatious emails, such as “Miss you big guy” and “I love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call.”

During a cross-examination from Weinstein’s lawyers so exhaustive that she broke down in tears on the stand, the woman said she sent him flattering emails and kept seeing him because she was afraid of his unpredictable anger and “I wanted him to believe I wasn’t a threat.”

To blunt that line of questioning, prosecutors called to the witness stand a forensic psychiatrist who said that most sexual assault victims continue to have contact with their attackers and that they hope what happened to them “is just an aberration.”

During closing arguments, Weinstein lawyer Donna Rotunno charged that Weinstein had become “the target of a cause and a movement” — #MeToo — and asked the jury to ignore “outside forces.”

“This is not a popularity contest,” she said.

She said the case against Weinstein amounted to “regret renamed as rape,” arguing that the women exercised their free will to try to further their careers.

Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon told the jury that Weinstein considered himself such a big shot in Hollywood that he thought he could get away with treating women as “complete disposables.”

“The universe is run by me and they don’t get to complain when they get stepped on, spit on, demoralized and, yes, raped and abused by me — the king,” she said, mimicking Weinstein.

Rumors about Weinstein’s behavior swirled in Hollywood circles for a long time, but he managed to silence many accusers with payoffs, nondisclosure agreements and the constant fear that he could crush their careers if they spoke out.

Weinstein was finally arrested and led away in handcuffs in May 2018, seven months after The New York Times and The New Yorker exposed his alleged misconduct in stories that would win the Pulitzer Prize.

Among other men taken down by the #MeToo movement since the scandal broke: news anchors Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, actor Kevin Spacey and Sen. Al Franken.

Weinstein, the product of a working-class family from Queens, achieved success at two movie studios he created with his brother Bob: Miramax — named for their parents, Miriam and Max — and then the Weinstein Co.

The Weinstein Co. went bankrupt after his disgrace. A tentative settlement was reached last year to resolve nearly all lawsuits stemming from the scandal. It would pay Weinstein’s alleged victims about $25 million. Under the proposed deal, Weinstein would not have to admit any wrongdoing or personally pay anything; the studio’s insurance companies would cover the cost.

Weinstein’s efforts to silence his accusers and thwart journalists who sought to expose his secrets included hiring Black Cube, an Israeli spy agency staffed by former Mossad agents. Asked one day as he left court why he hired that firm, Weinstein turned to a reporter and said: “For days like this.”

I can't watch a Weinstein co movie now and not think of this. :(

GeneChing

03-11-2020, 11:28 AM

#METOO RECKONING
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison in landmark #MeToo case (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-23-years-prison-landmark-metoo-case-n1154166?fbclid=IwAR1xk3pedmqgtR6OFXRagV1DsKFjqbrU _RS2szs5PTObDiI_f5cGu1c4T8M)
Mimi Haley, one of his accusers, said she hoped the sentencing was long enough for the once-powerful Hollywood mogul to acknowledge "what he's done and to be truly sorry."
March 11, 2020, 8:07 AM PDT / Updated March 11, 2020, 10:38 AM PDT
By Daniel Arkin, Adam Reiss, Erica Byfield and Daniella Silva

Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted of rape in a landmark #MeToo trial, remained defiant as he was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday, even as a group representing his accusers said "no amount of jail time will repair the lives he ruined, the careers he destroyed."

The sentencing was a seminal moment for the #MeToo movement, which sparked a worldwide reckoning on sexual assault and harassment more than two years ago. Weinstein, a once-celebrated Hollywood mogul, said ahead of his sentencing that he was worried about the movement's implication for men and due process.

A jury convicted Weinstein last month of third-degree rape of Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress, and a count of criminal sexual act in the first degree against Mimi Haley, a former "Project Runway" production assistant.

Weinstein was sentenced to 20 years for criminal sexual act in the first degree and three years for rape in the third degree to be served consecutively for assaulting the two women in New York. He was also sentenced to 10 years of post-release supervision for both charges.

The former producer could have got as little as five years, but the judge's decision was much closer to the maximum 29 years he faced. The judge also said Weinstein must register as a sex offender.

Arriving in a wheelchair, Weinstein spoke ahead of his sentencing and addressed his role in the #MeToo movement, saying he believed "thousands of men are losing due process" and he was worried about the country.

He said he had "no great power" in the industry and couldn't "blackball anyone." He said he believed he had legitimate relationships with his accusers.

He added that he had not seen his children since the first article was published about the allegations against him, which he described as "hell on earth."

Several of his alleged victims sitting in the front row of the court cried as the judge read the verdict. Weinstein was led out of court immediately after in his wheelchair.

Ahead of the sentencing, Haley said that Weinstein's assault scarred her deeply, mentally and emotionally, and "crushed a part of her spirit." She said if he were not convicted, she believed he would victimize women "again and again and again."

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Haley said she hoped the sentencing was long enough for Weinstein to acknowledge "what he's done and to be truly sorry."

Mann said Weinstein "used his power over the powerless" and her experience was "a recurring nightmare." She asked for him to receive the maximum sentence, calling it accountability for Weinstein.

"I'm not here to give any more power over to the man who stole my body," she said.

Lead prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon also asked for a maximum or a near-maximum sentence Wednesday, saying Weinstein "would never have been stopped from hurting more lives."

"He has been using and abusing people his whole life," she said.

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Donna Rotunno, an attorney for Weinstein, said the sentencing in the case was "obscene" and "obnoxious" and "did not speak to the evidence that came out at trial." She said the sentencing was "cowardly" and she was "overcome with anger" at the decision.

Silence Breakers, a group that represents prominent Weinstein accusers, said after the sentencing that Weinstein's legacy "will always be that he's a convicted rapist."

"He is going to jail — but no amount of jail time will repair the lives he ruined, the careers he destroyed, or the damage he has caused," the group said.

#METOO RECKONING
Weinstein defiant at sentencing: 'I wasn't about power, I was about making great movies'
NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos said the decision was "effectively a life sentence" and could have implications for his upcoming sex crimes case in California.

If he were to be convicted in that case, his New York convictions "will be treated as very serious prior convictions," which could lead to harsher sentencing in the second criminal case, Cevallos said.

Weinstein, 67, faced a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 25 years on the criminal sexual act count. The third-degree rape count carried a maximum penalty of four years behind bars.

The former film industry titan has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex and pleaded not guilty in the New York case. His lawyers have said they will appeal the conviction.

In a filing last week, prosecutors pressed for a "fair and just punishment" without specifying a prison sentence for Weinstein. They outlined a series of sexual harassment and assault allegations against him, as well as claims of abusive behavior in the workplace.

The filing said the judge presiding over the case, Judge James Burke of the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, is permitted by law to "consider all aspects of a defendant's life and characteristics," as well as a "broad spectrum of information" in weighing a sentence. Burke had advised jurors to consider only specific allegations laid out in the formal charges.

Weinstein's defense attorneys, for their part, requested that he be sentenced to five years. Damon Cheronis, one of the ex-producer's lawyers, argued that his client deserved leniency because of the "collateral consequences" he has faced due to the wave of allegations against him and the New York trial.

"Weinstein cannot walk outside without being heckled, he has lost his means to earn a living, simply put, his fall from grace has been historic, perhaps unmatched in the age of social media," Cheronis wrote in a letter to Burke.

Cheronis alluded to his client's "serious, ongoing health concerns." Weinstein, who entered the courthouse most days hunched over a walker, was sent to Bellevue Hospital over concerns about high blood pressure and heart palpitations after his convictions. He was later transferred to an infirmary at the Rikers Island jail.

In all, more than 80 women have accused the disgraced Oscar-winning producer behind "Pulp Fiction" and "The King's Speech" of sexual assault and harassment going back decades, though the charges were based primarily on allegations from Haley and Mann, who each testified during the trial.

The flood of allegations against Weinstein, first reported in October 2017 by investigative journalists at The New York Times and The New Yorker, fueled the global reckoning over sexual misconduct by powerful men in entertainment, the news media, finance and other high-profile industries.

He still also faces a sex crimes case in Los Angeles, where he is charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents on two consecutive days in 2013. He has yet to enter a plea in that case.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office is in the process of extraditing Weinstein for arraignment, DA Jackie Lacey announced after the sentencing.

Daniel Arkin
Daniel Arkin is a reporter for NBC News.

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Adam Reiss is a reporter and producer for NBC and MSNBC.

Erica Byfield

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Daniella Silva is a reporter for NBC News, specializing in immigration and inclusion issues, as well as coverage of Latin America.
Hopefully this will lead to more reckoning.

GeneChing

04-14-2021, 07:57 AM

Between this and what's happening with Alibaba (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69642-Jack-Ma-amp-Alibaba/page6), PRC is making moves...

APRIL 14, 2021 5:17 AM UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Closure of online feminist groups in China sparks call for women to 'stick together' (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-feminism-idUSKBN2C11L8)
By Reuters Staff

3 MIN READ

BEIJING (Reuters) - Several Chinese feminist channels on Douban, a popular social networking forum in China, were abruptly shut this week, triggering online anger and prompting calls for women to “stick together”.

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Douban has closed at least eight feminist channels, citing extremism, and radical political views and ideological content, women’s rights supporter Zhou Xiaoxuan wrote on social media.

“I firmly support my sisters on Douban, and oppose Douban’s cancellation of feminist channels,” said Zhou, who in 2018 filed a sexual assault suit against a national TV anchor, fuelling China’s #MeToo movement.

Reuters on Wednesday found that the groups mentioned in Zhou’s post were no longer accessible, though other feminist channels and content existed on Douban - one of China’s earliest online forums with discussion channels on a host of themes.

Privately owned Douban did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The deleted Douban channels included groups with links to the so-called “6B4T” movement, a variant of feminism originating from South Korea that urges women to refrain from relationships with men, reject religion and stop buying products such as a corset that are hostile to the female gender.

The closures prompted social media users to create new Douban channels in hopes of resurrecting the groups, while the hashtag “women stick together” sprang up on China’s Twitter equivalent, Weibo, garnering almost 50 million views.

“We should stick together,” one Weibo user wrote. “Otherwise ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ will be our tomorrow.”

China says it seeks to empower women and protect their rights, but it does not tolerate activities and discourse - online or offline - that it feels could agitate social order or signify defiance to its authority.

In 2015, authorities arrested five activists, later dubbed the “Feminist Five,” who were planning to demonstrate against sexual harassment on public transport. They were released a month later.

“Generally, online platforms conclude that the government dislikes feminism, so they tend to restrict feminism,” New York-based feminist activist Lv Pin told Reuters.

Reporting by Ryan Woo and Colin Qian; Editing by Alison Williams

highlypotion

04-15-2021, 08:17 PM

Hopefully this will lead to more reckoning.

Yeah, I really hope it is. Btw, do you have any info about Jack Ma's right now?

GeneChing

04-16-2021, 09:52 AM

Btw, do you have any info about Jack Ma's right now?

I post about Ma here (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69642-Jack-Ma-amp-Alibaba)

GeneChing

07-21-2021, 05:46 AM

Rapper Kris Wu, One of China’s Biggest Stars, Accused of Sex Abuse (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kris-wu-accused-of-sex-abuse-1234984905/)
A 19-year-old former fan's allegations have sparked an enormous outcry in China, while major brands, such as Louis Vuitton and Porsche, responded by cutting ties with the actor-model-singer.

BY PATRICK BRZESKI

JULY 19, 2021 7:33PM
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Chinese Canadian rapper turned actor Kris Wu, one of China’s biggest stars, has been dropped by a slew of major brands after he was accused of luring young girls, including teenagers, into having sex with him.

The allegations have generated a tsunami of social media outcry in China, with many demanding Wu quit the entertainment industry and leave the country for good.

The controversy began with allegations made by 19-year-old former fan Du Meizhu, who says Wu, 30, lured her to his home when she was just 17 with the promise of an audition, but proceeded to ply her with alcohol and have sex with her after she had blacked out. On Sunday, Du gave an interview with the Chinese internet site NetEase, saying that she knew of at least eight other women — two of whom are minors — who allege similar experiences with Wu. The age of consent in China is 14.

Wu publicly denied the accusations and said he was filing a defamation suit.

Wu first rose to fame in Asia as a member of popular K-pop boy band Exo, but he returned to China in 2014 to explore a solo career as a model, singer and actor. He has become one of China’s most bankable stars — a TV variety show staple, the face of dozens of major fashion campaigns in the country, a reasonably popular actor and a successful solo artist. He has appeared in several major Chinese box office hits including Mr. Six (2015) and Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017), as well as a few Hollywood films — which were aiming to court the China market — like Vin Diesel’s xXx: Return of Xander Cage and Luc Besson’s megabudget misfire Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Chinese tabloid Global Times reported that Wu previously attempted to pay Du about 500,000 yuan ($77,166) to stay quiet with her story. The 19-year-old has since begun repaying the funds and stated that she wishes to pursue legal proceedings against Wu.

As of Sunday evening, Global Times said, the topic “NetEase interview with Du Meizhu” had been viewed over 1.66 billion times on China’s Twitter-like social media service Weibo. On the service’s entertainment hotlist, eight of the top 10 searches were related to Wu.

As one of China’s most visible celebrities, Wu is the face of scores of brands in the country, including Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, Porsche, Lancôme, L’Oréal, Kans, Master Kong Iced Tea, Tuborg Brewery, household cleaning products maker Liby, kitchen appliances manufacturer Vatti, streaming platform Tencent Video and Tencent video game King of Glory.

By Sunday, nearly all of the Chinese brands had dropped him and many of the international companies had begun to distance themselves.

Louis Vuitton issued a brief statement Monday evening on Weibo, saying that it “takes the allegations against Kris Wu very seriously and has suspended its relationship with Kris Wu until the outcome of the judicial investigation is known.” Bulgari and Porsche also have since cut ties.

On Monday, Wu made his first statement in response to the allegations, writing on Weibo: “I didn’t respond earlier because I didn’t want to interfere with judicial proceedings … but I cannot bear it anymore.” He said he had met Du once at a friend’s party but denied the other details of her account. “If I’ve done any of the things [she claims], I will take myself to jail,” he added.
Didn't know the age of consent was 14.

GeneChing

07-26-2021, 08:46 AM

Chinese Police Say Man Confessed to Defrauding Chinese Rapper Kris Wu in Sex Scandal (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/chinese-police-say-man-confessed-to-defrauding-chinese-rapper-kris-wu-in-sex-scandal-1234987365/)
The announcement from the Beijing police added a bizarre twist to a scandal that cost Wu endorsement contracts with brands including Porsche and Bulgari.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JULY 22, 2021 9:22PM
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A man has confessed to defrauding a Chinese-Canadian pop singer, Kris Wu, over a teenager’s accusation he had sex with her when she was drunk, Beijing police said Thursday.

The announcement added a bizarre twist to a scandal that cost Wu endorsement contracts with brands including Porsche and Bulgari. The former member of Korean boy band EXO has denied the accusation, which prompted an outpouring of support for the woman online and criticism of Wu.

A man who saw rumors about the incident online contacted the woman in June and obtained information that allowed him to pretend to be her lawyer, police said in a statement. It gave no indication the woman was accused of taking part in the fraud.

The man talked Wu’s mother into sending the woman 500,000 yuan ($77,000) and then, pretending to be Wu’s lawyer, tried to persuade the woman to send the money to him, the statement said. It said he tried unsuccessfully to obtain an additional 2.5 million yuan ($390,000) from the family.

The man, identified only by the surname Liu, was arrested Sunday in Nantong, near Shanghai, after the singer’s mother complained to police that the family had been defrauded, according to the Beijing Public Security Bureau statement. It said he confessed.

The woman had been quoted by the internet portal NetEase as saying Wu encouraged her to drink too much at a party in December and she woke up in his bed. In a statement on his social media account, Wu said he met the woman but denied encouraging her to drink and said other parts of her account didn’t happen.

The woman was quoted as saying other women told her Wu seduced them with promises of jobs and other opportunities.

Police are investigating allegations Wu “repeatedly deceived young women into sexual relations,” the police statement said.

Brands cut ties with Wu the day after the NetEase report, reflecting their sensitivity to public opinion after the ruling Communist Party stirred up anger at shoe and clothing brands in retaliation for Western reports of human rights abuses in the mostly Muslim region of Xinjiang in the northwest.

Wu, known in Chinese as Wu Yi Fan, grew up in Guangzhou in southern China and in Vancouver, British Columbia. He performed with EXO in 2012-14 and then launched a solo career.

As an actor, he appeared in 2017′s XXX: Return of Xander Cage and two Chinese box office successes, Mr. Six and Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back

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GeneChing

07-30-2021, 01:02 PM

US fencers wear pink masks after teammate accused of sexual misconduct (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/30/us-fencers-wear-pink-masks-alex-hadzic-olympics?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1)
Fencing team reportedly object to teammate’s place on team
Alen Hadzic denies allegations against him
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Guardian sport
Fri 30 Jul 2021 10.41 EDT

Three members of the United States Olympic men’s épée team wore pink masks on Friday amid allegations their teammate is guilty of sexual misconduct.

Jake Hoyle, Curtis McDowald and Yeisser Ramirez all wore pink facemasks before the start of the competition. Alex Hadzic, who has been accused of sexual assault, was the only member of the team who did not.

Hadzic qualified for the Tokyo Games in May. Shortly afterwards, three women accused him of sexual impropriety in incidents that occurred from 2013 to 2015. Hadzic’s attorney, Michael Palma, told the New York Times the fencer was innocent of all allegations. He did confirm that Hadzic was suspended from Columbia University for the 2013-14 school year after an investigation involving sexual consent.

In the wake of the allegations, the US Center for SafeSport suspended the 29-year-old from all fencing activities on 2 June. Hadzic appealed that suspension and won. The arbitrator ruled Hadzic should not contact his accusers while saying his suspension had been “inappropriate to the allegations”. However, he travelled to Tokyo separately from his teammates and had to stay in a hotel away from the athletes’ village.

While Hoyle, McDowald and Ramirez’s facemasks were an apparent rebuke of Hadzic they did not comment verbally on the matter on Friday. One of Hadzic’s teammates, Katharine Holmes, says she collected electronic signatures from every member of the fencing team objecting to Hadzic’s inclusion at the Olympics. Palma has distributed a letter of objection from Holmes, which includes only her written signature.

Hadzic was an alternate on the US team and did not compete. The US men’s épée team lost to Japan on Friday, ending their Olympic campaign.

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08-01-2021, 07:56 PM

Chinese-Canadian Pop Singer Kris Wu Detained on Suspicion of Rape (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/kris-wu-detained-on-suspicion-of-rape-1234991208/)
The rapper's detainment by Chinese police follows allegations made by a 19-year-old former fan, who accused Wu of having sex with her while she was drunk.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

JULY 31, 2021 12:10PM
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Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of rape, police announced Saturday, following an accusation the former member of the Korean boy band EXO lured young women into sexual relationships.

Wu, 30, earlier was accused by a teenager of having sex with her while she was drunk. Wu denied the accusation.

The teenager said seven other women contacted her to say Wu seduced them with promises of jobs and other opportunities. She said some were under 18 but gave no indication whether they were younger than China’s age of consent of 14.

Wu has been “criminally detained” on suspicion of rape “in response to relevant information reported on the internet” including that he “repeatedly lured young women to have sexual relations,” the police statement said. It gave no other details.

The pop star had previously denied the accusations. “There was no ‘groupie sex’! There was no ‘underage’!” Wu wrote last month on his social media account. “If there were this kind of thing, please everyone relax, I would put myself in jail!”

The news was trending as the no. 1 most searched topic on Weibo on Saturday night, and some users online started commenting on Wu’s social media account, telling him to “Get out of China!”

Wu is a Canadian citizen, according to the police statement.

The official paper of the Communist Party, the People’s Daily, weighed in on the case, saying in a short opinion post online that “Having a foreign nationality is not a protective talisman, and no matter how big the name is, there is no immunity.”

The teenager publicized her accusations on social media and later in an interview with the internet portal NetEase. A day after that interview appeared, at least 10 brands including Porsche and Louis Vuitton broke off endorsement and other deals with Wu.

According to the interview, she thought she was meeting Wu for a career opportunity. Instead, his staff who was present forced her to drink. As someone who did not go to bars, she said her tolerance was low and she was drunk after two drinks. The next day, she woke up in Wu’s bed. That morning, he was kind to her and promised to take care of her, she said.

The teenager said that was the beginning of what she had thought was their relationship. This was the case until March, when he stopped returning her messages.

At first, she said she felt sorry for herself. But after she learned that there were other women who had been treated similarly, she said she felt there were others who were worse-off.

“I don’t believe this is just my own personal matter. You can even say that this is a problem with the atmosphere in China’s entertainment circle,” she said in the NetEase interview.

Wu said that he had met the young woman on Dec. 5, 2020, but “I didn’t force her to drink,” and “there was not this sort of ‘details’ she describes.”

“I didn’t expect my silence to encourage these rumors, and I couldn’t stand it!” Wu previously wrote. “There were a lot of people there that day who can bear witness.”

The teenager and Wu both said they had asked authorities to investigate.

Saturday’s statement didn’t mention that case and gave no information about the status of that investigation. This has become quite the 'he said, she said'

GeneChing

08-03-2021, 08:42 AM

JJ Lin issues legal statements shutting down “malicious” rumours linking him to Kris Wu allegations (https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/jj-lin-issues-legal-statements-shutting-down-malicious-rumours-linking-him-to-kris-wu-allegations-3009417)
Lin's agency has put out statements naming online accounts that it said have been spreading falsehoods against the Singaporean Mandopop star

By
Daniel Peters
3rd August 2021
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Singaporean Mandopop star JJ Lin has issued legal statements shutting down online rumours linking him to Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu, who has been detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of rape.

On Sunday and Monday (August 1 and 2), Lin’s agency JFJ Productions published legal statements on Chinese microblogging site Weibo. Attributed to Shanghai Jiuze Law Firm, the statements collectively named the handles of over 40 users that the law firm said had “maliciously published/spread false statements against Mr JJ Lin through ways such as slander and insults”, per The Straits Times.

“Some of them have continued to launch personal attacks against Mr Lin in a deliberate attempt to lower his social status.”

The users named in the statement had reportedly claimed a connection between Lin and Wu, who has been detained in China on suspicion of rape since Saturday (July 31), Chinese police confirmed.

Lin was reportedly named by these online users along with Taiwanese-American singer Will Pan, whose agency also posted a legal statement on Weibo yesterday (August 2) refuting all rumours.

JFJ Productions’ statement denied that Lin had engaged in any of the illegal activities alleged by these online accounts and urged these users to delete their public posts containing allegations against Lin.

Shanghai Jiuze Law Firm has been authorised by Lin to collate evidence and take legal action immediately, the statement added.

Kris Wu, a former member of the K-pop group EXO, has been accused of date rape and preying on underage girls by his rumoured 19-year-old ex-girlfriend, Du Meizhu.

In July, 24 alleged victims made their own accusations on Chinese social media, all of which Wu has denied. Several luxury brands have since terminated their partnerships with Wu.
The circle expands...

GeneChing

08-17-2021, 08:50 AM

Aug 16, 2021 1:19pm PT
Kris Wu Formally Arrested for Rape Charges and His Shows Deleted Online (https://variety.com/2021/film/news/kris-wu-arrested-rape-1235042453/)

By Rebecca Davis

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A Chinese court formally approved the arrest of pop icon Kris Wu on rape charges on Monday — and Chinese streamers have swiftly responded by deleting the shows in which he appears.

The move comes after Wu was first detained on July 31 on suspicions of rape. The allegations against him first emerged last month after Du Meizhu, 18, accused him on social media of date-raping her while she was drunk, and doing the same to other young women. He denied the charges at the time.

The Chaoyang District People’s Procuratorate in Beijing issued an official statement that it had approved the arrest “after investigation in accordance with the law.”

The case is already being hailed by some commentators in China as a “major event in the history of the Chinese film industry.”

In China, a rape charge will incur a sentence of at minimum three but no more than 10 years in prison, the lawyer Wu Fatian told the NetEase Entertainment outlet. In particularly egregious cases as well as instances of statutory rape, the sentence can exceed ten years and up to life imprisonment and even the death penalty. China’s age of consent is 14.

As of 2019, Chinese courts had a conviction rate of 99.9%. Although China-born Kris Wu is a Canadian citizen, he will be tried in China according to Chinese law. The court will also determine as part of its sentence whether and when he will be deported.

Generally, an approval of arrest by a Chinese court “indicates the evidence against the person is relatively solid, and that it will be extremely difficult to get out on bail while awaiting trial,” assessed the lawyer Wu, predicting that the pop star will likely remain in police custody for the time being.

Yang Chen, a lawyer with the Beijing Chunlin Law Firm, explained to Chinese outlet The Paper that typically three conditions must be met for the court to approve an arrest. First, there is some evidence of the crime; second, the sentence will involve at a minimum some jail time; and third, there’s concern that the suspect will otherwise endanger the case via means such as “harassing the victim, interfering with witness testimony… destroying or falsifying evidence… attempting to commit suicide, or fleeing.” Once an arrest is approved, a process of investigation and review can go on for months before a court date is set.

Once ‘Formative’ Shows Censored
Shows featuring Wu quickly disappeared in their entirety online, including high-profile ones from major streamers and content studios Youku, iQiyi, MangoTV and Bilibili, among others.

Among the most popular is iQiyi’s “The Rap of China,” which is considered a show that catapulted the rap genre into mainstream Chinese culture. It ran for four seasons from 2017 until 2020, with the first iteration building a nationwide fandom for now-well-known rappers PG One, GAI, VaVa, TT and After Journey, among others.

Emotions ran high over the deletion of that first “Rap of China” season. “No matter how you look at it, this show really was formative for a huge number of young rap listeners,” one commentator said.

Other shows to disappear include the first season of iQiyi’s reality show “Fourtry” — which follows Wu and fellow showbiz stars like Angelababy trying to run a fashion store in Tokyo amid culture clashes.

In the past, celebs who have run afoul of the law have been edited out of productions after completion, and their unreleased projects shelved indefinitely.

Official media and organizations have portrayed Wu’s arrest as a major victory and example of China’s strong rule of law, as well as a golden opportunity to call for a clean-up of toxic, money- and celebrity-worshipping culture.

In a commentary, the official Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily called on the entertainment industry to “dig out its sores and cut off its carbuncles.”

“The facts prove that once the law is violated, even those who fly the highest can lose all they had in an instant. Those who use fame to cover up their boorishness and selfish desires will inevitably end up self-destructing,” it wrote. “The more famous you become, the more moral and ethical you must be. The more fans you have, the more you have to set an example.”

The Women’s Federation wrote: “No matter how dazzling a person’s halo or how famous they are, they don’t have special privileges. In China, no person can be above the law!”

Typically when a topic gets 3+ posts in a thread, I'll break it into a indie thread, but I'll forego that with this one for now.

GeneChing

10-22-2021, 09:15 AM

More on Hadzic (https://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?9851-Fencing&p=1321526#post1321526)

USA Fencing Is Blocking A Top Athlete From A Competition After Sexual Assault Accusations. It Took Eight Years And Widespread Outcry.
“I’m relieved but confused as to why this didn’t happen before the Olympics?” said a fencer who competed in Tokyo.

Brianna Sacks
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on October 21, 2021, at 6:19 p.m. ET

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Alen Hadzic

After outcry from members of its own Olympic team, USA Fencing is blocking one of its top athletes who is facing multiple accusations of sexual assault from an upcoming competition — a step that gets ahead of the national system for addressing misconduct within athletic organizations, but fencers and officials say is necessary to keep the sport safe.

Alen Hadzic, a 29-year-old elite fencer from Montclair, New Jersey, is currently being investigated after at least six women filed claims of sexual misconduct, including rape, with the US Center for SafeSport, which took over abuse and misconduct investigations from individual sports organizations in 2017 after revelations of the widespread failings within USA Gymnastics. BuzzFeed News previously reported how, in spite of women speaking up again and again, Hadzic was able to reach the highest levels of his sport. USA Fencing in July acknowledged to BuzzFeed News it has known for eight years that Hadzic was suspended from his university after an investigation into a fencing teammate’s accusation of sexual assault. In a statement to BuzzFeed News, the organization explained that it did not take action at the time because its policies then did not require it to do so.

But now, the national governing body is refusing to register him for a competition in Colmar, France, at the end of the month, and officials said they intend to take the same unprecedented action for future tournaments, including some of those in the US. The move highlights a gray area between sports organizations and the independent body tasked with overseeing them when it comes to sexual assault cases. USA Fencing is, in a sense, setting a precedent that it may still hold athletes to conduct standards by blocking Hadzic’s participation from competition — even while an independent sexual misconduct investigation is ongoing.

In a statement, USA Fencing said that it “reserves discretion as to which athletes it will register into competitions.”

“The organization must be mindful of many factors, including how registration of individuals reflects on USA Fencing, its values and the interests of other athletes. USA Fencing does not intend to enter Mr. Hadzic in any competitions for the foreseeable future except to the extent it is legally compelled to do so.’’

Hadzic’s attorney, Michael Palma, did not return BuzzFeed News’ request for comment, but he told USA Today, which first reported the restriction, that “he will fight to protect the fencer's right to participate.” Both the athlete and his attorney have repeatedly denied the various accusations against him, likening them to a witch hunt. In an interview with Business Insider, Hadzic threatened retaliation.

Fencers and other members of the organization have mixed feelings about USA Fencing’s extraordinary move. While they’re relieved there has been some action, they also see it as a performative gesture that came way, way too late.

“I’m relieved but confused as to why this didn’t happen before the Olympics?” said a fencer who competed in Tokyo. “It makes no sense to me.”

During the Olympics this past summer, BuzzFeed News reported that Hadzic was allowed to travel to Tokyo as an alternate on the men’s epee team despite an ongoing investigation into serious accusations of sexual misconduct by several women, including a teammate. Though SafeSport initially suspended him, an arbitrator ruled in Hadzic’s favor and allowed him to take the coveted spot on Team USA. His presence caused an uproar in the fencing community and among his teammates, who unanimously signed a statement calling for him to be banned for their safety and well-being. As cameras rolled and the world watched ahead of one Olympic event, his male teammates stood beside him wearing pink masks in solidarity with sexual assault survivors, an act of protest against a fellow athlete that an Olympic expert told BuzzFeed News was “rare and highly unusual.”

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Jacob Hoyle and Curtis McDowald of Team USA at the Tokyo Olympic Games on July 30, 2021.

USA Fencing officials had scrambled to create, for the first time ever, a safety plan for the Games that was supposed to keep him away from women, especially those on his team. But as four Olympic athletes told BuzzFeed News, it didn’t work. They saw Hadzic daily and in close proximity — at the small training center, in line to get into the Olympic village, at the gym, and on shuttles — despite rules that stated he would travel separately. The Lily reported that one female fencer was even put in the same hotel as Hadzic, right down the hall.

Officials involved in the creation and execution of the safety plan have acknowledged to BuzzFeed News that the process and communication with athletes “could have been handled better.” In the wake of the turmoil, several top officials, including longtime CEO Kris Ekeren, have left or announced their impending resignations.

“These were unique circumstances for our organization. In retrospect, USA Fencing should have provided more information about the safety plan and its implementation to the athletes in Tokyo,” a spokesperson said. “As an organization, the safety and well-being of USA Fencing members is our top priority, and we have — at times — failed to communicate that adequately. We apologize to our athletes who undeservedly had to endure the many distractions and concerns for their own safety while trying to prepare for the most important competition of their lives.”

USA Fencing has contended, in interviews, statements, and documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News that with SafeSport taking over “exclusive jurisdiction” of sexual misconduct investigations, its hands were tied in keeping Hadzic from the Olympic team or banning him from the organization. Though it’s now taking steps to keep him from some future competitions, critics have said it should have acted sooner — particularly since the organization was first warned about one of Hadzic’s alleged assaults nearly a decade ago.
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GeneChing

10-22-2021, 09:16 AM

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Alen Hadzic of the USA (left) fences Max Heinzer of Switzerland at the Peter Bakonyi Men's Epee World Cup on Feb. 8, 2020, in Richmond, Canada.
In October 2013, the lawyer of a fellow member of USA Fencing, who was also Hadzic’s teammate at Columbia University, told top officials that a month before, the university had suspended Hadzic for a year following a formal investigation into her claim of sexual assault. In a letter to USA Fencing, the woman’s lawyer advised USA Fencing to bar him from competitions, writing that “Mr. Hadzic’s conduct does not comport with the standards set by USA Fencing.”

In their response, the organization explained that it had reviewed all of the documents but would not take any action because Hadzic had not violated any of its policies. Because the then-college athlete was not a coach or authority figure, and because “the alleged conduct” did not occur at a USA Fencing event, the organization said it was not in the position to take any disciplinary action against him.

The woman’s attorney pushed back, calling the decision an “intentional misreading” of the organization’s own Athlete’s Code of Conduct, which prohibited sexually inappropriate behavior between athletes.

“A plain reading of this Code of Conduct excerpt renders Mr. Hadzic unfit and thus ineligible to participate,” the attorney wrote. “How can the [United States Fencing Association], in good conscience, claim its hands are tied and permit the participation of a known rapist into its athletic midst?”

The organization never wrote back. Due to the ongoing investigation into Hadzic, USA Fencing cannot comment about Hadzic’s case, but top officials have reiterated that at that time, the organization didn’t have a policy that specifically addressed what to do if an athlete abused a peer. Also, they argued, the athlete code of conduct only applied to the national team, which Hadzic was not yet on. However, USA Fencing’s bylaws at the time did state that “it is a violation of USFA policy for any employee or member of the USFA to engage in sexual harassment.”

On Thursday, Ekeren, who signed the correspondence to the woman’s lawyer as interim USA Fencing CEO, told BuzzFeed News that she wishes things had been done differently.

“As a woman and a parent, this has been heartwrenching,” she said in a statement. “Back in 2013, USA Fencing's policies led to the determination made with regards to Mr. Hadzic. I truly wish that our policies at the time had been different. Our organization has since revised them, and had we been operating under the current policies back at that time, a different decision may have been made.”

In the following years, Hadzic would go on to compete in and continue to excel at a slew of national and world competitions, despite being temporarily suspended in 2019 for other bad behavior at a competition in Columbia. His position on the US Olympic team placed him at fencing’s highest level, and he has said he is now aiming to again compete in the Paris Games in 2024.

Whether he is banned remains in the hands of SafeSport, which has yet to deliver a verdict in the high-profile probe, which began in May. The situation is another example of how, despite years of development and a recent doubling of its budget to $20 million, the national system is still imperfect and not up to the task of running timely investigations across the wide, complicated world of US Olympic sports organizations.

To be fair, SafeSport was set up to fail. Created by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee to enforce anti-abuse policies, the agency was meant to streamline the reporting and investigative process, taking power away from individual national governing bodies, who were failing to properly punish and get rid of abusers within their ranks. But it launched with just three full-time employees to investigate thousands of complaints, which were filed without any statute of limitations. It now has 100 employees, has gotten through 40% of its backlog, and has sanctioned 1,100 people. So far this year, the center has received close to 3,000 reports, which must be handled by 30 full-time investigators and about a dozen contractors. Cases like Hadzic’s, where the allegations took place before the center existed, can be the hardest to tackle.

There is still no timeline for when SafeSport will conclude its probe. In emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News, an investigator told parties involved last week that “the case is still ongoing and that information from the involved parties is still being gathered.”

“Investigations into sexual misconduct are sensitive and often complex, particularly those that involve allegations going back many years and that predate the Center — getting it right must be the priority,” Daniel Hill, a SafeSport spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News.

Hill declined to comment specifically on Hadzic’s case.

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Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman participates in a Senate Judiciary hearing on the FBI's handling of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse on Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Last month, gymnastics star Aly Raisman said at a Senate hearing that in spite of the intentions for SafeSport to be independent, she doesn’t trust it because it was created and funded by the very organization it's supposed to be keeping in line: the US Olympic Committee.

“I’m trying to be respectful here: I don’t like SafeSport,” she said. “I hear from many survivors that they report their abuse and it’s like playing hot potato, where somebody else kicks it over to somebody else and they don’t hear back for a really long time.”

Nearly 10 other fencers who filed complaints with SafeSport against their coaches and peers told BuzzFeed News the same thing. Their cases drag on for months, usually without any communication or updates, leaving both parties in limbo, according to emails and case files reviewed by BuzzFeed News. In one instance, a woman filed a report against a referee in January 2020 and was assigned an investigator, but it took 14 months before they started the interview process. She ended up dropping her case in April because waiting was too much for her to handle.

“It is evident that SafeSport generally misunderstands the complicated nature that is sexual assault,” Lena Johnson, an athlete whose case against another Olympic fencer took almost a year to conclude, told BuzzFeed News. “SafeSport is like one big HR department that’s trying to monitor all sports across the nation. How is that supposed to work?”

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04-05-2022, 09:36 AM

Cult Japanese Director Sion Sono Accused of Multiple Sexual Assaults (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sion-sono-accused-of-multiple-sexual-assaults-1235125282/)
The allegations against Sono, who directed Nicolas Cage in last year's 'Prisoners of the Ghostland,' follow similar accusations against a Japanese director and an actor last month.
BY GAVIN BLAIR

APRIL 4, 2022 10:58PM
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Japanese director Sion Sono has been accused by two women of sexual assault and offering parts in his films in return for sex.

A long-time international festival favorite who directed Nicolas Cage and Nick Cassavetes in last year’s Prisoners of the Ghostland, Sono, 60, has yet to respond to the allegations made in the Shukan Josei weekly magazine.

An executive at a Japanese film distributor told the magazine: “Even now, there is a director who has no qualms about saying ‘If you screw me, I’ll give you work’. His films are acclaimed and many actresses want to appear in them. He uses that to assault women as if it’s nothing. That director is Sion Sono.”

These accusations follow those made last month against director Hideo Sakaki and his friend Houka Kino****a by multiple women. Japan may be on the verge of a delayed #MeToo movement.

An unnamed actress says that Sono told her that lots of women had been having sex with him for many years because they wanted to work in his films, and that they did well in the industry thanks to him, according to Shukan Josei.

She went on to recount how after Sono offered her a part in one of his films, he attempted to force her to have sex with him. When she refused, the director called another woman who had previously worked with him and they proceeded to engage in sexual acts in front of her. While she was in shock, an assistant director who was present led her outside. Assuming he was trying to help her, she followed him outside, but the assistant director then attempted to take her to a love hotel.

Another actress reported that after Sono had coerced her into sex with offers of work, he told her, “I want to screw you while you’re talking to your boyfriend on the phone.” When she told him she didn’t have a boyfriend, he allegedly said, “Well get one, I like that kind of thing.”

Sono’s 2001 Suicide Club attracted some attention on the international festival circuit, but it was Love Exposure (2008) which proved to be his breakthrough film, winning the FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin.

The director has since won a cult following for his idiosyncractic style, vivid depictions of violence and eroticism, and provocative imagery.

Sono is married to Megumi Kagurazaka, a former pin-up model who has appeared in a number of his films. His first child was born in 2019, two days before he was hospitalized by a heart attack, delaying the production of Prisoners of the Ghostland.

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GeneChing

07-31-2022, 11:38 AM

WWE Facing Investigations Related to Vince McMahon Payments, Former CEO Paid $14.6M Since 2006 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wwe-facing-investigations-related-to-vince-mcmahon-payments-former-ceo-paid-14-6m-since-2006-1235185638/)
WWE says it "received, and may receive in the future" inquiries about the alleged hush money payments, and that its board investigation remains ongoing.

BY ALEX WEPRIN

JULY 25, 2022 7:18AM
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Vince McMahon
Vince McMahon MICHAEL N. TODARO/GETTY IMAGES

The WWE says that former CEO Vince McMahon paid $14.6 million in “unrecorded expenses” from 2006 through 2022, and that it will revise its previous financial results to account for the payments. “All payments underlying the Unrecorded Expenses were or will be paid by Vince McMahon personally,” the company said in a regulatory filing Monday morning.

In addition, the company disclosed that it is facing investigations related to the McMahon payments, which were reportedly to former female employees with whom he had personal relationships.

In the regulatory filing, the company addressed the payments, adding that it “has also received, and may receive in the future, regulatory, investigative and enforcement inquiries, subpoenas or demands arising from, related to, or in connection with these matters.”

McMahon retired from the WWE on Friday, and on Monday the company officially announced that his daughter, Stephanie McMahon, and WWE president Nick Khan, would become co-CEOs. Stephanie McMahon’s husband, Paul “HHH” Levesque, now oversees talent relations and the creative side of the business.

The WWE board of directors is investigating the payments made by Vince McMahon, and the regulatory filing says that it “remains ongoing.” McMahon allegedly had sexual relationships with women who worked at the company and paid the accumulated $14.6 million as part of severance packages over the years.

The company also released preliminary financial results on Monday, noting that they are subject to revision. The results included operating income of $69.8 million, compared to $46.3 million in the same quarter a year earlier.

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10-01-2022, 03:34 PM

#MeToo, Five Years Later: No One’s Fully Returned From “Cancellation” — No, Not Even Louis C.K. (Analysis) (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/metoo-five-years-later-cancellation-comebacks-1235228191/)
As one toxic star after another was knocked off his pedestal, cynics predicted many would be back. But comebacks have been fizzling at best. How permanent is #MeToo’s punishment (so far)?
BY GARY BAUM

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Amid the torrent of accusations leveled against powerful Hollywood men in the frenzied first few months of the #MeToo era, industry observers often shared the same jaded expectation. Short of arrest or indictment, the thinking went, the accused would be back on their feet after a brief time-out and a few memory-cleansing news cycles, carrying on with their careers unaffected. The dollar is king; Hollywood always forgets; etc.

This hasn’t happened. In fact, comebacks — if they materialize at all — are strikingly and significantly circumscribed. One of #MeToo’s greatest victories, at the practical level, has been its unrelenting administration of professional punishment.

Think about how few prominent individuals felled by sexual harassment or assault allegations in the post-Weinstein era have returned to an equivalent stature. The category excludes the likes of Jamie Foxx and Ryan Seacrest, whose denials of the allegations against them passed muster in the court of public opinion, as well as Dan Harmon, who was absolved after his victim accepted his apology. This discussion also doesn’t pertain to those whose allegations surfaced pre-2017 (such as Casey Affleck), along with the few entrepreneurs so rich, insulated and unaccountable that censure simply doesn’t matter (see Russell Simmons, though even he had to step down from his company).

Les Moonves. Roy Price. Brett Ratner. Matt Weiner. Jeremy Piven. Kevin Spacey. Luc Besson. The list goes on. Some of them are hanging around, taking meetings, massaging contacts, even pursuing projects — a few of which even materialize. They’re also fooling themselves.

Career damage is impossible to determine with precision since you can’t prove what would’ve been or still will be. Also, some unmeasurable portion of the work that has been secured is done by keeping it out of sight, in low-profile gigs like consulting and investing.

Enforcers of sustained opprobrium — an alliance of #MeToo-aligned activists, influential voices on social media and like-minded press outlets — have limited the extent and amplitude of comeback attempts. They’ve done this by immediately and assertively responding to any known attempts, no matter how minor, tangential or circumstantial.

The key rhetorical strategy is to treat even the most tentative recovery bid as a prelude to undeserved redemption, ensuring the continued radioactivity of the accused and threatening guilt by association to anyone who assists them. Shunning is then reinforced.

This is how varied announcements are scuttled. Remember Charlie Rose’s bid at relevance this April, when he posted an interview with Warren Buffett on Substack? That trial balloon was quickly shot down, and eyebrows were raised at the Oracle of Omaha’s reputation-laundering participation. Or, in 2019, Bryan Singer’s revivification as director of Red Sonja? The booing was so loud that producer Avi Lerner, not known for being pushed around, soon gave the job to Transparent creator Joey Soloway. (The director M.J. Bassett recently took over.)

Louis C.K. and John Lasseter are often highlighted as examples of successful #MeToo-era comebacks — shining to their sympathizers, infuriating to their antagonists. Yet if anything, they’re emblematic of the new ceiling.

C.K.’s remaining audience has shrunk to his hard-core true believers, the direct-to-consumer fan base for whom he can creatively coast and to whom he can most easily sell. (Except, of course, for those small crowds he surprises with performances, regardless of their inclination, at comedy clubs.) Yes, he nabbed a Grammy for comedy album this year, but it mainly served to remind the public of the overall backwardness of the Recording Academy. And yes, he recently announced to his mailing list that he’ll be playing Madison Square Garden in January 2023, validating some of those early #MeToo pessimists, though there’s little indication he’ll fill the venue with the type of general audience an ambitious craft comedian like him wants most to win over. He’s also culturally caged. Nobody’s asking him to act in another American Hustle or produce their Better Things. C.K.’s a shadow of his former self, a marginal figure.

Meanwhile, Lasseter, having secured the head position at Skydance Animation, making films at or near the scale and distribution he previously enjoyed, owes his own grand resurgence to the fortunate fact that one of those few entrepreneurs so rich, insulated and unaccountable that censure simply doesn’t matter — David Ellison, heir to the multibillion-dollar Oracle fortune — grew up hanging out saucer-eyed at Pixar. Lasseter may still be considered by some to be a creepy uncle, but as luck would have it, his patron apparently considers him akin to family.

Regardless, Lasseter’s new role is not close in stature to his previous perch as COO of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation. Then, there’s industry prestige. These days, Lasseter likely wouldn’t be asked to speak at a top film school, since there’d be protests, and it remains to be seen if his movies will be snubbed by the Oscars’ votership, which increasingly strains to keep up with the curve of social sentiment.

It’s true that certain big names — including Shia LaBeouf and James Franco, who have both denied the most ****ing allegations against them even as they have acknowledged missteps — do seem perpetually on the verge of full-scale comebacks. But such resurgences have yet to materialize. At some point the culture may take another turn. For now, comeuppance rules the day.

This story first appeared in the Sept. 28 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Progress? Perhaps...