This is fucking disgusting.
Let's be clear, NONE of these "high-profile men" have faced real consequences from #MeToo. None.
They are all still lounging around in McMansions with ocean views. They all still have more money than you will make in your entire life.
Let's be clear, NONE of these "high-profile men" have faced real consequences from #MeToo. None.
They are all still lounging around in McMansions with ocean views. They all still have more money than you will make in your entire life.
Meanwhile, the women Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein abused will have to live with that for life. And many of them had their careers ruined because they spoke out.
Where is the show about them? Why no documentaries on how their professional lives were derailed?
Where is the show about them? Why no documentaries on how their professional lives were derailed?
When you strip all the maudlin crap away, the "punishment" these men faced is early retirement.
To about 99.999% of Americans, early retirement would not even be considered a punishment. It's what they'd do if they won the fucking lottery.
To about 99.999% of Americans, early retirement would not even be considered a punishment. It's what they'd do if they won the fucking lottery.
To most Americans, being "toppled" would constitute something like, oh, I dunno, ACTUALLY GOING TO PRISON.
A working-class Black man who did what Harvey Weinstein did would get 25 years in a little box with bars on it, sleeping on a shelf located three feet from his toilet.
A working-class Black man who did what Harvey Weinstein did would get 25 years in a little box with bars on it, sleeping on a shelf located three feet from his toilet.
Want to know what happened to Harvey Weinstein?
He went to a luxury addiction treatment facility in Arizona with gorgeous sunrise views and poolside relaxation. And then he left early without even completing the program. vox.com/2018/4/20/1725…
He went to a luxury addiction treatment facility in Arizona with gorgeous sunrise views and poolside relaxation. And then he left early without even completing the program. vox.com/2018/4/20/1725…
Even now, we're being told that Matt Lauer — who would lock his office door behind women with a button under his desk and then assault them — has paid his dues and should get to reintegrate himself into his old social circles.
Even now, Glenn Thrush is back at the Times. He wasn't even fired for multiple incidents of sexual harassment and retaliation that ruined the careers of several female journalists who were probably a lot more skilled than he is.
And we're meant to think #MeToo has gone too far.
And we're meant to think #MeToo has gone too far.
A Black woman in Ft. Worth gets five years in jail because she didn't know she wasn't allowed to vote while on parole.
While powerful, rich white men who groped women, then got those women blackballed from their industry, are given airtime to tell us all how they're the victims.
While powerful, rich white men who groped women, then got those women blackballed from their industry, are given airtime to tell us all how they're the victims.
So yeah. I am going to hard pass on Charlie Rose's Cavalcade of Rich White Male Self-Pity.
And yeah, I know that's probably not what his show will actually be called. But it goddamn well should be.
And yeah, I know that's probably not what his show will actually be called. But it goddamn well should be.
