Harvey Weinstein, Smooth Talker: Today in Tweets

SFHC:

Unrelated hilarity: This is it. I’ve finally found it. The dumbest tweet – nay, the dumbest thing – ever posted on the Internet.

The handle – a common first name followed by seven digits – looks rather botty to me.

Also, Alison Moyet remains awesome.

So that thing that I was afraid of that I talked about before happened: my niece messaged me about coming to live with me. Fortunately she didn’t call so I didn’t have to control my voice or anything. She laid out the reasons why this would be a great move for her very methodically, but notably there was no mention of what’s in it for me. No mention of paying rent, or splitting bills, or anything to suggest that she would contribute to the household, or that I would be making this huge sacrifice as anything but a favor out of the goodness of my heart.

I told her as gently as I could that I’m not looking for a roommate, and she went silent on me.

Then late last night my sister called and I didn’t pick up, so she yelled at my voicemail for who knows how long. I didn’t listen to the whole thing. I am over her, and she knows it, so this is just impotent rage. She talked about how selfish I am and how I’m not taking responsibility for my niece (in what way my niece is my responsibility went unsaid?) and then I deleted the voicemail.

Thanks everyone for reminding me of the power of No. I hope I haven’t hurt my relationship with my niece but I can’t control her reaction to this. There was no way in hell I was agreeing to it.

I recommend reading this thread of comments. CW sexual harassment.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1421426697976317&id=845933925525600

Hilarious! Or awful. I can’t quite tell.

How intensely emotional their Skylar hate was was an interesting window into people. She wasn’t a fun or interesting character just a foil to Walter. Kind of a proxy for how much they were identifying with Walter I guess.

I wanted to find the scene on YouTube yesterday but couldn’t. However she’s put it on her Twitter today. This is the link to her Twitter.

https://twitter.com/AsiaArgento

Therapy? Seriously?

It’s not like he woke up one morning with his head in a bucket of cocaine, or a pickled liver and realized he had a problem.

He hurt people and enjoyed it. If it wasn’t for someone exposing him for the rapist he is, he’d still be doing it.

I’m glad his wife is leaving him, and I hope he ends up reduced to flipping burgers to make ends meet. Hopefully he’ll get a very sharp taste of the legal system! Sorry..I think I got carried away there, I think we all know he’ll get a slap on the wrist (if this goes to court and if he’s even found guilty at all) and a quiet ‘attaboy’ from the judge.

Therapy my ass, what he needs is a huge dose of consequences.

@Moggie

I did read that Brad Pitt confronted HW about his harassment of Gwenith Paltrow. This was more than 20 years ago, when Pitt and Paltrow were an item. Pitt also did it publicly, at a party I think I read.

This begging for therapy disgusts me. If I remember correctly, Anthony Weiner asked for therapy too, the first time he got caught, in 2011. Don’t know if he ever got it, but it must not have done much good?

I remember being around 12 years old, and seeing a TV program about wife batterers. There was a scene of a support group for these guys. I know support groups aren’t the same as therapy with a mental health professional, but I remember feeling resentful…I was too young to know how to articulate it, though.

@dreemr

I gotta admit, I’m forming a list of adult-oriented cartoons I need to watch. I’ve watched Archer, which has a good flow and some fun running jokes, Bob’s Burgers which is kinda hit and miss for me and I’ve seen an episode or two of Venture Brothers, but I haven’t seen either Bojack Horseman or Rick & Morty so I’ve got some Netflixing to do.

One reason I think I avoid them is being burned by too many punishingly unfunny Flash-animated cartoons from the mid 2000s when I was in university watching Teletoon after 8PM. Futurama was always great, but then there was a string of just painful Adult Swim shows (looking your way 12 ounce Mouse) and bizarre Can-Con that clearly Teletoon was obligated to show (*cough*Bromwell High*cough*) and that was the best they could come up with. Spent a lot of nights with that crap on in the background hoping it would make me laugh.

@WWTH

You’re right about adult cartoon antics wearing thin. Probably the last one I watch that I instantly regretted was Moonbeam City, that one that looks like it was illustrated in the style of Patrick Nagel. It was enough to get me to watch, but hoooooly crap, it was trying waaaayyyy too hard to be Archer and just grasping at pop-culture straws so haphazardly that it got more eye-rolls from me than anything else.

Re: Harvey Weinstein

Man, watched the Majority Report YouTube this morning and they played that New Yorker audio of Harvey creepily pleading with a woman he just groped to get in the shower and stop “embarrassing” him in the hallway of the hotel people know him at. It’s both skin-crawlingly creepy and just incredibly pathetic to listen to him almost having a panic attack as he’s trying to manipulate this woman into doing things she says repeatedly she’s not comfortable doing.

Either this guy needs to be put away or if he can’t be, at the very least his name has to be mud not just in Hollywood but anywhere he goes.

I think you did the right thing too, PoM. It’s a big deal to have someone come and live in your home, and it doesn’t sound like there was much (if any!) notion on the other side that a) this is a pretty huge imposition and b) when you go and live in someone else’s home … you should probably at least think about how you can make an effort to fit in and help out.

I actually had one of my nephews come and live here several nights a week for a year (in a matchbox where there’s no guest room and almost no free floor space, so it was physically quite a disruption) and we all enjoyed it – but that was because it was entirely voluntary and he was (as we knew) very laid-back and all about the fitting-in-and-helping-out. Your sister is quite wrong to try and claim you’re somehow obliged, and you are quite right to decide not to be made miserable in your own home for an indefinite length of time. Helping out family is great when you can and want to, but not at the cost of your own homelife (and probably without so much as a thank-you, since they seem to feel it’s your obligation).

@Moggie

All I want to say about Weinstein is: why the fuck weren’t men in the industry speaking out before now?

The more that comes out about Weinstein, the more I think of the stories surrounding adult actor James Deen and his abusiveness towards his girlfriends and co-stars. AFAIK, he’s still working (which kinda tells you all you need to know about how misogynistic mainstream porn is), but that whole thing introduced me to the term “broken stair.” You’re told about it, you watch out for it, you step over it so many times it just becomes second nature and you don’t give it much thought, but eventually somebody who doesn’t know about it steps right into it. James Deen was porn’s broken stair, and it strikes me that Harvey Weinstein is one of many Hollywood broken stairs; stepping over it just becomes a habit to the point it’s just accepted. “Oh yeah, Weinstein’s over there is pretty handsy… I’d steer clear of him if you can.”

Speculation to be sure, but it’s the best I got for why men with clout didn’t take this to the press. I could be wrong.

Apropos of not much, I was blocked by my state Congressman on Twitter the other day.

I guess he got tired of me ridiculing every self-serving, grandstanding, deceitful tweet he sent out, particularly about “tax reform”.

So far my Republican Senator and “Republican” (actually undercover Libertarian) Governor, who get all the same tweets from me, have ignored me.

Oh yeah, he’s a Drumpf Troo Believer.

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