A 9.5 MILLION MeToo SKELETON FALLS OUT OF CBS' CLOSET

 “In front of the cast and crew, Mr. Weatherly remarked on her appearance, and made a rape joke and a comment about a threesome. Shortly after Ms. Dushku confronted the star about his behavior, she was written off the show. She believed her time on “Bull” came to a sudden end as a result of retaliation... 

After she went through mediation with CBS [--led by Les Moonves for decades until #MeToo got him too--], the company agreed to a confidential settlement that would pay her $9.5 million, roughly the equivalent of what Ms. Dushku would have earned if she had stayed on as a cast member for four seasons...”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/business/media/cbs-bull-weatherly-dushku-sexual-harrasment.html

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BETWEEN BROCK TURNER AND BRETT KAVANAUGH

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RIGHT NOW THERE ARE DOZENS OF OLD RICH WHITE MEN THINKING...

Why the hell didn't we just throw Woody Allen's ass in prison when his Ronan Farrow's sister Dylan accused Allen of being a pedophile?

'Cause Ronan wouldn't be all up in their sh*t right now if they had. 

In case you don't know Farrow's backstory: 

Ronan Farrow proud of sister Dylan who accused their dad Woody Allen of molestation

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/ronan-farrow-proud-big-sister-dylan-article-1.3932465# 

His sister Dylan being ignored then being called a liar after what she suffered has majorly shaped who Ronan Farrow is.  

Farrow got the #MeToo ball rolling downhill fast by taking out Harvey Weinstein. And now, in addition to other stories he's written, Farrow has interviewed the second woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of predatory sexual behavior.  

Read It Here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez


I'm also thinking Farrow must be needing a bodyguard right about now. He's taken down quite a few have-the-world-by-the-ass white millionaires at this point.

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SUPREME COURT NOMINEE BRETT KAVANAUGH PUBLICLY ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED RAPE

From NBC

" A lawyer for the woman who is accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s said Monday that her client believes his actions were "attempted rape" and she's willing to testify publicly about it.

"She believes that if it were not for the severe intoxication of Brett Kavanaugh, she would have been raped," attorney Debra Katz said on "Today."

Katz added that her client, Christine Blasey Ford, is "willing to do whatever it takes," including testifying before members of Congress about her allegations and that her coming forward is "not a politically motivated action." "

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/kavanaugh-s-sexual-assault-accuser-believes-she-could-have-been-n910126

Brett Kavanaugh

Apparently Ford had decided NOT to come forward publicly after she told Diane Feinstein about Kavanaugh's character. But other politicians's representatives or reporters learned her name and sought her out. A professor, those seeking information from Ford came to her classrooms. The publicity she sought to avoid tracked her down anyway. So, she came forward.

If I was her? I seriously doubt I'd have put myself through this. As serious as the appointment to the supreme court is, I feel like it'll likely be for nothing.  It'll mostly be men that will making the decision as to whether Kavanaugh's behavior was abhorrent or whether his actions in high school was just a matter of boys-will-be-boys. 

-- even though Kavanaugh allegedly put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream for help. The only reason he couldn't fully execute the rape, according to his accuser, is that he was too drunk. 

In this era of #MeToo even the men of the republican party have to be a little careful before they write this attempted rape off as youthful male exuberance. Ford didn't tell very many people about the attempted rape -- most of us women don't. But she did tell the details of the attack during some sort of couples counseling in 2012. So there's a record of the event even thought Kavanaugh's name wasn't mentioned. 

So far Kavanaugh hasn't admitted whether he knew the woman or not.

On the news someone said Kavanaugh took a polygraph test to prove he's not lying about having attacked this woman. It was reportedly given to Kavanaugh by an ex FBI agent. Why an ex-FBI agent?  Even if a polygraph isn't admissible evidence or something why wasn't there an official polygraph test given by a real FBI agent?  

• Was the polygraph test done undercover just in case Kavanaugh didn't pass?
• Was the polygraph test done in the dark because they did test 9 times before Kavanugh passed the 10th time? 
• What's with the shady polygraph test?

The bottom line is this: Most men don't believe rape is rape. When people describe rape to some men, you can almost see the wheels turning in their heads as they start thinking, 'I've done that. My buddy Sam has done that.' and then the words "That's not rape" comes out. Worse than that there have been studies that show that a lot more men would force women to have sex (rape) if wasn't against the law.  

[A] recent study on male college students’ attitudes toward rape led by Sarah Edwards of the University of North Dakota and published in Violence and Gender, the authors cite research first conducted in the 1980s:

Specifically, when survey items describe behaviors (i.e.,‘‘Have you ever coerced somebody to intercourse by holding them down?’’) instead of simply label them (i.e., ‘‘Have you ever raped somebody?’’), more men will admit to sexually coercive behaviors in the past and more women will self-report past victimization. 

Edwards and her team wanted to better understand the male side of this gap — that is, why men react differently (and divulge different information) depending on the wording — so they had a group of college men fill out a few surveys. 

One asked them which sorts of behaviors they would engage in “if nobody would ever know and there wouldn’t be any consequences.” It included items that both used the word rape and that instead described the act of forcing someone to have sex against their will without using the r-word itself...

Read More: https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/lots-of-men-dont-think-rape-is-rape.html

It's going to be interesting to see the democrats can even get the republicans who control the House and Senate to even back off long enough to listen to what this woman has to say. But I'm not terribly hopeful about the outcome. 

I keep hearing -- "It was 36 years ago. It was 36  years ago" ---as if that makes a rape attempt not a rape attempt. We cannot put a man on the supreme court who would look at someone like Brock Turner and decide that the alcohol is responsible for the rape. 

Funny how men will believe that alcohol can make man insane and not responsible for their actions when rape is involved. But they have no answer for how it is normal women don't get drunk, pull out their gun or knife and force men to have sex. 

When women DO perform such behavior, drunk or not, they are deviants that must be punished. They don't get put into a category of girls-will-be-girls, patted on the head and excused -- whether 36 years or 36 minutes have passed since the sexual assault.

As it stands most of our elected male officials seem perfectly willing to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court for life even if somebody pops up with video of the attempted rape.

And this is entirely because men do not think of rape, especially date rape or rapes at parties, as real crimes. Women are not going to see justice on certain matters until women are at least 50% of the United States' power structure.

It's going to be interesting to see if Chrstine Blasey Ford can connect to the outrage of the #MeToo movement and slow the republicans roll toward confirming Kavanaugh. I think the only way that happens is if this reluctant witness decides to do interviews either today or tomorrow.
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CBS NEWS OUSTS HEAD OF 60 MINUTES JEFF FAGER OVER ISSUED THREAT NOT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

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Fager's firing, which came before the completion of the company's investigation into [sexual harassment] allegations raised in a New Yorker piece by Ronan Farrow, was attributed to a violation of company policy, but didn't specify the violation. Fager, in a statement released on Wednesday, described the text message he said was responsible for his ouster as "harsh," but on Wednesday night, in an appearance on the CBS Evening News, Duncan revealed the content of the text, received after she contacted him for comment regarding Farrow's reporting:

"If you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up, you will be responsible for harming me. Be careful. There are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me and if you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up that will become a serious problem."

http://www2.philly.com/philly/entertainment/television/ex-cbs3-reporter-jericka-duncan-got-the-text-that-toppled-60-minutes-chief-jeff-fager-20180913.html

Jeff Fager, who was only the second person in 50 years to oversee “60 Minutes,” was fired for sending a text message that threatened the career of a CBS reporter, Jericka Duncan, who was looking into allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him and Mr. Moonves.

The president of CBS News, David Rhodes, told staff that Mr. Fager’s departure was “not directly related” to those allegations of sexual harassment, which Mr. Fager has denied. But the network said the producer had violated company policy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/business/media/jeff-fager-60-minutes-cbs.html

LES MOONVES OUT AT CBS AFTER SECOND SET OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT CHARGES

According an to Ronan Farrow interview on ABC, the article writer, CBS knew about forced oral sex as early as January 2018. CBS was resistant to firing a man responsible for billions of dollars worth of revenue. 

But now more women have come forward. 

By the way, Les Moonves tried to destroy Janet Jackson's career over that famous wardrobe malfunction that happened on stage during a Super Bowl with Justin Timberlake years ago.  Think about the level of hypocrisy that takes.




FROM THE NEW YORKER
RONAN FARROW

One of the women with allegations against Moonves, a veteran television executive named Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb, told me that she filed a criminal complaint late last year with the Los Angeles Police Department, accusing Moonves of physically restraining her and forcing her to perform oral sex on him, and of exposing himself to her and violently throwing her against a wall in later incidents. The two worked together in the late nineteen-eighties. Law-enforcement sources told me that they found Golden-Gottlieb’s allegations credible and consistent but prosecutors declined to pursue charges because the statutes of limitations for the crimes had expired. Early this year, Moonves informed a portion of the CBS board about the criminal investigation...

Three hours after the publication of this story, CNN reported that Moonves would step down from his position at CBS. Later the same day, CBS announced that Moonves had left the company and would not receive any of his exit compensation, pending the results of the independent investigation into the allegations. The company named six new members of its board of directors and said it would donate $20 million to organizations that support the #MeToo movement and workplace equality for women. The donation will be deducted from any severance payments that may be due to Moonves...

Read More: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/as-leslie-moonves-negotiates-his-exit-from-cbs-women-raise-new-assault-and-harassment-claims 

CBS is reportedly holding back Moonves' 100 million dollar golden parachute pending investigation
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PASTOR CHARLES H ELLIS III MICRO-SEXUAL ASSAULT OF ARIANA GRANDE AT ARETHA FRANKLIN FUNERAL

"Bishop Charles H Ellis III’s hug of the singer, and a joke about her name, was interpreted by some as crossing a line"

   ~ from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/01/bishop-apologises-to-ariana-grande-for-conduct-at-aretha-franklins-funeral?CMP=fb_gu

His hand and her face say it all. So yeah, I'd say he crossed a line. Or maybe it's just me...and most of the women in the country

This incident reminds me of Taylor Swift pretending a man didn't have a hand on her bare ass during a photo....not complaining until the photo was over even though she was already famous and powerful at the time.

We have to redefine professionalism for women. We've been taught pretend it's not happening IN THE MOMENT is the gold standard.

Swift should have known to shove an elbow in that man's throat while it was happening. And I wish Grande had bent to fake-fix her shoe so as to get his hand off her but not make a scene-- even though I doubt I'd have had time think of that myself

-- which is WHY we have to teach girls *pretend it's not happening* in the moment is not synonymous with "professionalism."

At the same time we have to create laws that at least impose fines for minor sexual assault (revision: "sexual harassment" should mean no-touching AT all).

Apologies are not gettin it for me

I wrote the section above BEFORE I saw the actual video. 

Now that I've actually seen his hand moving, reacquiring his access to her breast, I'm like,

"AUUUUUGGGGH!"

If we get to the year, 2118 and women and men are so equal that people don't even remember what the word "feminism" used to mean AND THIS WERE TO HAPPEN AGAIN, it might still be appropriate for Grande to wait until after the presentation is over

After all, this happened at a FUNERAL for an icon. If it were me I would not want the focus to turn away from The Queen Of Soul to me over a micro-sexual assault.

In the future I imagine Ariana would wait until she got off stage and then file charges (that will exist in 2118)

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HOWEVER, in 2118 that thing that happened with Taylor Swift will not happen the same way again,

In 2118 a man who puts his hand up a skirt
will NOT
be met by a woman
CONDITIONED TO NOT RESPOND
to SEXUAL ASSAULT.

The Taylor Swift-A-Like in 2118
will deliver a crushing blow
to the man's adam's apple
...THEN file charges afterward.

* * * * *

We ALL know why Ariana Grande responded the way she did 

-- because we've probably done it 
-- because we KNEW that was what was EXPECTED of us as nice, well-brought up young ladies. 

We need to change this from the ground up, from freaking birth. 

When girls (and boys) are no longer brought up believing it's ladylike or professional for a woman to be quiet when someone assaults her and complain later, that this is NOT minor, that is when women will understand oppressors do not voluntarily give up power.

And when women as a group understand that this behavior is part of oppression they will understand what is required to take our half of the power. 

Women as group taking power will look like a lot more girls being raised to think about being a senator or president one day when she's in grade school. A lot more young women will looking for other female politicians to vote for instead of male politicians to convince. Women as a group will become determined to make sure that women are at least half of those writing and enforcing laws.

Currently, consequences like embarrassment, apologies, and losing a job aren't teaching men anything. But losing large sums of money and prison time will. 

The only way that happens is if women move away from the gender-based version of respectability politics --same as black folks began giving up respectability politics as a method of moving toward equality during The Civil Rights Movement

We need to put women in positions of power where they can create at least 5 to 10 different types of sexual assault and sexual harassment charges that are associated with fines and penalties.

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TRUMPSTER FIRE: A SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT ACCUSATION TIMELINE

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All of it

All in one place

Thanks to Huff Post