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[Typhon]

Too many Cosby stories with the same M.O. Drug them then rape them. Dirtbag. I'm sure Harvey Weinstein is a model citizen too. (Insert vomit emoji here, couldn't find it)

Weinstein may have had a casting couch, but it appears now that he did not rape anybody.

[AnnoMundi]

Too many Cosby stories with the same M.O. Drug them then rape them. Dirtbag. I'm sure Harvey Weinstein is a model citizen too. (Insert vomit emoji here, couldn't find it)

Weinstein may have had a casting couch, but it appears now that he did not rape anybody.

Most of those women were willing.

[Zzzptm]

No, they weren't willing. They were given an unethical choice by a person in power. That's sexual harassment, textbook case. I've gone through a sexual harassment case as a victim and it's no picnic. The management tends to side with the manager and the EEOC can't do much if it's a he-said, she-said situation. They can stipulate that transfer be offered so the manager-employee relationship is no longer direct and that the company show that it's doing due diligence in preventing anything happening again... but the bottom line is that getting out from under that manager is only a temporary fix. My rep at that firm was zero after that and I pretty much started looking for another job the day I filed the EEOC complaint.

The manager got to keep working there.

I've seen cases where teachers who got sexually involved with their students got moved from the high school to a middle school campus, so long as they stayed tight with management. Bad cases had to apply to other districts, but the one they left was happy to "pass the trash" with a positive personnel record.

This sort of thing happens more often than gets reported. If the harasser/rapist can keep the victim from reporting for a few days and the rape itself did not involve a struggle, then there's no evidence and the harasser/rapist gets to walk free.

[AnnoMundi]

So Zzzptm, you don’t think any of those women came on to Harvey and offered him sex for a role or to further their career? I don’t like that slimeball by the way, not saying all the women were willing, I feel for the ones who weren’t.

[Zzzptm]

So Zzzptm, you don’t think any of those women came on to Harvey and offered him sex for a role or to further their career? I don’t like that slimeball by the way, not saying all the women were willing, I feel for the ones who weren’t.

The ones complaining about him? No.

The ones that aren't complaining? Maybe they didn't care, and that's their business. All in all, though, he should have been ethical in his choices. Just because someone is offering it up doesn't mean accepting it is the right thing to do.

[Typhon]

Hollywood had a casting couch long before Weinstein.

[Zzzptm]

Hollywood had a casting couch long before Weinstein.

Sad but true. It's likely there are other, less famous producers, that pretty much carry on doing as they've done largely because they're not bigshots. No media cares about their story.

[Billy Underdog]

What's the point of making it big in Holy Wood if you can't benefit? Anyone wanna join me on my casting couch?

[AnnoMundi]

So Zzzptm, you don’t think any of those women came on to Harvey and offered him sex for a role or to further their career? I don’t like that slimeball by the way, not saying all the women were willing, I feel for the ones who weren’t.

The ones complaining about him? No.

The ones that aren't complaining? Maybe they didn't care, and that's their business. All in all, though, he should have been ethical in his choices. Just because someone is offering it up doesn't mean accepting it is the right thing to do.

I agree he should’ve been ethical.

[Typhon]

So Zzzptm, you don’t think any of those women came on to Harvey and offered him sex for a role or to further their career? I don’t like that slimeball by the way, not saying all the women were willing, I feel for the ones who weren’t.

The ones complaining about him? No.

The ones that aren't complaining? Maybe they didn't care, and that's their business. All in all, though, he should have been ethical in his choices. Just because someone is offering it up doesn't mean accepting it is the right thing to do.

I agree he should’ve been ethical.

Agreed, but most of the time, being unethical is not against the law.

[Jack the Stripper]

So we've had a suspected terrorist incident in the heart of the city in Melbourne late this afternoon. A Somalian born man known to counter terrorism agencies in Australia set fire to a car packed full of gas cylinders and then proceeded to stab innocent bystanders in the head. Thankfully Police were on the scene within seconds and shot him before he could inflict maximum carnage. At the moment one bystander was killed and two serously injured. The attacker has also died from his gunshot wound.

Scary shit!

Video of the incident
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-09/bourke-st-attacker-shot-after-car-fire-stabbings-one-dead/10483608

[Tyr66]

So we've had a suspected terrorist incident in the heart of the city in Melbourne late this afternoon. A Somalian born man known to counter terrorism agencies in Australia set fire to a car packed full of gas cylinders and then proceeded to stab innocent bystanders in the head. Thankfully Police were on the scene within seconds and shot him before he could inflict maximum carnage. At the moment one bystander was killed and two serously injured. The attacker has also died from his gunshot wound.

Scary shit!

Video of the incident
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-09/bourke-st-attacker-shot-after-car-fire-stabbings-one-dead/10483608

Somali? I bet on a Muslim with a brain liquefied by his pseudo-religion.Pure obscurantism. This plague needs to be eradicated asap. It spreads at the speed of a boeing crossing the oceans.
Support to our Australian friends !! stay strong 

[Jack the Stripper]

Thank Tyr. Just thankful we have such tight gun control laws in our country. Can only imagine how much worse it could've been if this nutter had access to high powered guns, or any sort of guns for that matter

[BOGBLAST]

So sorry to hear Jack. Too many of these loonies running around. He got what he deserved.

[Jack the Stripper]

Thanks Bog. The innocent bystander that was killed was the much loved and very well known 74yo owner of a very iconic restaurant/cafe in the city. Was still working 70 hours at the restaurant at the time of his death. He was killed actually going to aid of the attacker who had fled his vehicle after he set it on fire and was stabbed multiple times in the neck.