Harvey Weinstein-the start of something?

[Morganna]

That looks exactly like something a less able student would dream up for a PR project, but would (should) get the WTF treatment at the proposal stage.

[Ella77]

Oh my god, what?

[sally maclennane]

Well, Mr Ted Baker sounds like a charm, doesn't he?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46417578

( I feel very smug about this as I've always thought their clothes were over priced shite :petty: )

[Ella77]

Ugh, ugh, ugh. And yes, their clothes are sub-Millen and far too expensive.

I’m starting to think it’s every man now.

[Edith Bacon]

sub-Millen

Harsh!

But yes. Odious creep.

[Edith Bacon]

I’m starting to think it’s every man now.

It's not though. Some never did and some never knew they shouldn't but most of the latter are getting the message, I think/hope.

I'm most wary of the ones who don't do it any more because they 'aren't allowed any more'.

[Ella77]

I know you’re right really, but it’s just all the fucking time.

[Edith Bacon]

I know you’re right really, but it’s just all the fucking time.

It's exhausting.

[Topcat]

He's paying up on the civil law suits. Something tells me that he is going to get away with this.

[Ella77]

He'll get away with it, they always do.

[sally maclennane]

He'll get away with it, they always do.

Yep. But, tell me again how false allegations ruin men's lives

[Ella77]

[sally maclennane]

On a similar note, that scrote Paddy Jackson has been signed by London Irish who actually had the brass neck to tweet about "welcoming him to the club"

[Lily]

I could not believe that - and yet, following Chedwyn Evans, I could. The responses to the tweet were heartening, but the fact they have signed him - words fail me. At least the little shit had to have his Twitter feed made private as he obviously got a tonne of abuse. There was a petition against it, I signed it, but there were only a few signatures on it.

I'm watching the Sex On Trial series on Channel 4 and it is soul-destroying to see how this happens over, and over, and over and over and over and over again. I hated the fact that I felt relief when the university found five (count'em!) men guilty of assault after they had been cleared by the police, and expelled them.

[Topcat]

Yeah, it's so horribly depressing.

I'm really sorry.

[Lily]

Well, at least his career's over and his wife left him. Unlike Jackson, whose girlfriend went back to him. Even if you didn't believe he was a rapist, why the hell would you want to go anywhere near a man who behaved like that towards women?

At least Weinstein can't hurt anyone else. It's a victory of sorts I suppose, but not a quarter of what it should be. It is the smallest of steps, but it's a step. I don't know whether to sink into despair again or try to look for the chinks of light in the dark.

[Disco]

Is it a victory? Of any sort? I don't think so. Isn't it the same as Jordy Chandler and Michael Jackson? What difference did that make to MJ's behaviour?

[Edith Bacon]

Indeed! I can’t see that his throwing money at people in order to avoid being found guilty in court is a victory for anything other than the power of being rich.

[ParisGal]

He's paying up on the civil law suits. Something tells me that he is going to get away with this.

Well, his company / insurance is paying

[smalex]

I think a culture of ignoring complaints and then paying them off for their silence is very very much part of the problem. I don't blame victims for taking the money in case that's not clear, I would too if that was the only justice I was likely to see, but I cant celebrate perpetuating that situation.