By David Futrelle
Another day, another batch of atrocities and embarrassments, from Donald Trump challenging his secretary of state to a public IQ-test bakeoff to the release of a vomit-inducing tape of Harvey Weinstein demonstrating his, er, pickup technique.
Let’s start with that one, huh, because it’s somehow even worse than it sounds — so much so that you may want to think twice before listening to it.
Weinstein, in conversation with Gutierrez, admits to groping her. Here’s the audio: https://t.co/zSQbK5NV0c pic.twitter.com/vmrrSUp43w
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 10, 2017
You can’t help but wonder how many dozens if not hundreds of times Weinstein has had similar, er, conversations with young, vulnerable women.
In other Harvey Weinstein news:
NYT: Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie say Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed them when they were young actresses. https://t.co/1n7FgrNmoW
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/917526296925683713
https://twitter.com/xeni/status/917805989511913472
In non-Harvey Weinstein News That is Not Actually From The Onion, No Really, This is the World We Live in Today:
NEW: Trump proposes ‘IQ tests’ face-off with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a ‘moron.’ https://t.co/kuCOSALDUl
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) October 10, 2017
How long before Trump tweets a screengrab of an online IQ test.
— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) October 10, 2017
I challenge Donald Trump to a public Buzzfeed "Tell Us Your Food Preferences And We'll Reveal Which Instagram Cat You Are" quiz showdown.
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) October 10, 2017
Still have not heard back from the White House on this one.
More news from the alternate reality we’re now stuck in: Melania Trump is feuding with Ivana Trump (yes, Ivana, not Ivanka) over who is the true First Lady.
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/917450380044390400
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Henry Kissinger is definitely alive and absolutely not being Weekend at Bernie’s-ed pic.twitter.com/xdYNUlrwdC
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) October 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/917583613918695424
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/917808982819033088
https://twitter.com/lyssfame/status/917127717820153856
Now, cats:
— ねこばす (@neko_bus2010) October 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/MeetAnimals/status/917260879430811648
Ok, some dogs too:
https://twitter.com/dognkitty/status/917382725610332160
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/917244228836691969
Ok, bye.
@TheKND
@theKND: omggggg <3! That was perfect.
I also agree with JennyWren about this filter, i really don’t like it.
Thirding the dislike of the Weinstein filter.
Cybersix is an example of a show where the main character designs are actually better looking than the original source material. But I do have to note that the episode “Hashimoto, Private Eye” has pretty problematic character designs for the character Hashimoto and his little sister. They both have weird buck teeth and often squinty eyes, although they talk and act no differently than the rest of the characters. Pretty strange for a show that was a co-production with a Japanese animation studio.
“John D’arc, you mean like the French pronunciation of Joan of Arc?”
“No. Not in any way”
(Imagine this being said by Joan trying to fake a male voice )
Way way back in the 1980s, secret government employees, dug up famous guys and ladies, and made amusing genetic copies…
I saw over on shakesville that there is a casting couch statue on top of a mall??
What is even the hell, there??
I had forgotten about those character designs, @tim gueguen. It is a weird choice for a japan coproduction to make. But then, who designed the characters? The preproduction work could have been done in Canada…? Maybe? I know the voices were recorded here, but not much else.
About animated designs that look better than the source… I find that Invader Zim is way more appealing than what Jhonen Vasquez typically draws.
Also the concept art for Reboot, wowwww that was unappealing. I was going to buy the book at a convention, until i looked through it. I bought a Guardian key chain instead. XD
(I’m a huge animation nerd, soooorryyyyy)
JFK: “Just add some er s and ahs in there!!”
The raisin episode? With songs???
ALSO i just finished season one of one punch, and i loved it. One punch!!!
Policy of Madness says:
Good for you. Also, if your niece can think of and articulate all those ways that living with you would help her, then she’s perfectly capable of thinking up ways to help herself that don’t involve taking advantage of you.
@Shartheheretic
In my opinion, for the most part you have to be presentable and attractive to be with an attractive women. Lets not use HW as an example. He got women through greed, abuse of power, lies and probably blackmail. I have 1000000 more respect for Incels (The NONE MYSOGINISTIC ONES) and undateble men than that manipulative piece of shit
Getting laid through scumbag behaviour and manipulation is fuck all to be proud of
Bit more background on that warrant against Deandre Harris. It’s literal Nazis.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/harold-ray-crews-league-of-the-south-deandre-harris-warrant
@Rhuu – oh, I forgot about One Punch Man!
That’s a shame… we talking the new Reboot or the classic Reboot? Cuz classic Reboot was also one of my faves… although I wasn’t as big a fan of it’s darker turn. To me, it was best as episodic lighthearted adventure.
Rewatching the second episode of Clone High with the student election… definitely seeing a lot of parallels with current politics.
[campaign commercial voice over] “Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe. Or so he’d have you believe. Last year, Abe said he was fifteen years old. Now he claims to be sixteen. Which is it, Abe? Better keep your story straight. He’d also like you to believe that he’s not a baby eater. He’s never gone on record saying he isn’t. Maybe he’s too busy eating babies.
[Abe Lincoln on video]: I can’t wait to eat this– [obvious cut] Baby? [cut to video of Lincoln eating spaghetti]
[campaign commercial voice over]When’s it gonna stop, Abe? Not voting for Abe. It just makes sense.”
I’d also be remiss not to give a shout-out to Metalocalypse. Just a pitch-perfect parody of celebrity/rock star excess and fandom at the same time. The band’s inability to accomplish the most basic of everyday tasks always leaves me in stitches.
Nathan: Alright, here’s the deal: we have to do our own shopping so we can make our own dinner like regular jack-offs do. Now you’re all in charge of putting together one dish. AND DON’T JUST BUY BOOZE! That ain’t food!
Murderface: What do you mean, “booze ain’t food?” I’d rather chop off my ding-dong than admit that!
The Charlottsville authorities had better withdraw that warrant for Deandre Harris.
I’ve seen the videos. There isn’t a black person even involved in Crews altercation. This is targeted harrassment by those assholes.
@Gussie Jives: I don’t know quite where your distinction is of ‘classic’ and ‘new’, haha. I know it was cancelled (I was super upset!) but then came back (hooray!), so I assume that is where it is divided?
I don’t remember if they had art from the third on seasons in there, but they might have? I just remember looking at Enzo and thinking ‘thank god they got something as appealing as they did out of this image!’
I definitely liked the darker turn. XD
I rewatched a couple of season 3 episodes over the long weekend with my room mate, and all I could say was that they were such NERDS. HUGE NERDS. It was amazing!
(There is a reboot costume group happening at my two room mates work, I am jelly that they didn’t tell me before I chose my costume!)
Also, how did I forget Metalocalypse???? It was really fun! Much more violent than I would usually watch, but “We’ve figured out how to go forward in time at the speed of real time” cracks me up every time I think of it. And their phones! That was a great recurring gag.
I remember Home Movies being fun, especially after season 1 when they got rid of the ‘squiggle vision’. I haven’t watched it since it was on TV though, don’t know how it aged.
@dreemr: I had almost avoided it? Then my room mate was like “… Come on.” After the first episode, I was hooked. It is so good!
@Alan Robertshaw
That’s the band member who confused the word ‘sexy’ with ‘sexist’, when their album cover got nixed because US stores wouldn’t stock it.
It’s a funny movie. I think it’s too slow-moving for today’s audiences.
That Charlottesville arrest… I have nothing to say.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3798900/harvey-weinstein-speaks-out-rehab/
I can’t even.
@ dormousing_it
“What’s wrong with being sexy?”
It is a great movie and, as anyone who’s worked in the business will confirm, scarily accurate. There’s a similar mocumentary about a rap band called Fear of a Black Hat. That’s also brilliant.
And in other news:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/u-s-citizens-killed-by-police-miscount-1.4351545
And:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3799296/donald-trump-speak-at-anti-lgbtq-value-voters-summit/
But yep…he’s an ally all right…*eyeroll*
O/t I guess
Anyone see that the Women’s Convention is having Bernie be the speaker opening night? Am I way off base or is it really fucking annoying that they couldn’t fill that spot with a woman? Maybe a fresh perspective?
@Jesalin: :C All of those stories are sad stories.
@booburry – nope, it is Really. Fucking. Annoying.
In other O/T news, there’s this lovely bit of nonsense.
Apple’s new VP of Diversity and Inclusion feels that a room full of blue-eyed white guys = diversity.
My God, that was horrifying. I love cute, furry animals as much as the next person, but how can anyone focus on anything but that audio tape?
Screw his brother and their dumb company, how is he not in prison?
@peak182
“Wow, I thought it was the incels that were mainly the ones to watch out for. Turns out powerful rich men can also be fucking freaks with no respect.”
/s, I hope?
@Rhuu
Oh, I was under the impression that the book you were looking at was for the planned reboot of Reboot. According to Wiki, they’re in the filming process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot:_The_Guardian_Code
Not sure how they’re going to swing it without Tony Jay. He was Megabyte. At least we got the old series.
@Jesalin
*sigh* Those are sad stories. The more this whole Weinstein story grows, the more it lays bare just how effin’ clueless men are to what women deal with. We’ve got Chris Cillizza and his ilk using the story as another rock to throw at Hillary Clinton, we’ve got Hollywood a-holes like Matt Damon who helped quash the Weinstein story in the past, meanwhile everyone else is trying to save face by condemning Weinstein despite having sexual assault allegations against them in the past (looking your way, Ben Affleck).
I’m getting flashbacks- to that scene in Spotlight where Billy Crudup is confronted by Michael Keaton to release his list of clients:
Robby: We’ve got two stories here. We’ve got a story about degenerate clergy and we’ve got a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Now, which story do you want us to write? Cause we’re writing one of them.
And Crudup’s only response is:
Eric MacLeish: I already sent you a list of names.
Robby: What are you talking about? To whom?
Eric MacLeish: The Globe. Years ago. After the Porter case, I got plenty of calls. I had 20 priests in Boston but I couldn’t go after them without press. So I sent you guys a list of names and you buried it.
As the Catholic Church was in Boston, so the studios are in Hollywood.
The only solace I have is the cultural reckoning might be one step closer. As celebrity-obsessed as our culture is, if this is the event that keeps famous women coming forward, it might become the watershed cultural event that ripples through all strata. Keyword being might; institutional forces are resistant to change and will fight accepting culpability as the Church did, but I can only live and hope.
Side note: Spotlight is one of those movies that contains a thousand and one teachable facets. Not just about journalism and the Catholic Church hierarchy, but also about local culture, politics, the interconnectivity of power, the cycle of abuse, the effects of sustained abuse and institutional failure. Whenever I have to explain the concept of rape culture to somebody, I often find myself referencing the film for context of how it operates. I cannot recommend it enough for any Mammotheers who haven’t seen it, but I do warn those who haven’t that the heavy subject matter won’t leave you with a cathartic finale. If anything, it’ll have you wanting to hit a pillow. But if you’re in the right state of mind, it’s worth a watch.