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Solemn Sloth posted:Like the story can tend to turn into “wow look at these Hollywood sickos” rather than “abuse is rife, even amongst high profile men with a reputation to protect, victims are everywhere, even amongst women who appear far more powerful and with more agency than most” This is my main issue. It also descends very quickly into (((Hollywood))) territory. The crux of it is that if I manage a 7-11 and rape my staff no one gives a gently caress because I'm just a 7-11 guy.
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yeah my personal philosophy is not "look at all these hollywood sickos", it's "look at these loving men". it's the same way i feel about mass shooters of course i am also extremely anti-semitic
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pokemon posted:yeah my personal philosophy is not "look at all these hollywood sickos", it's "look at these loving men". it's the same way i feel about mass shooters Let me tell you about the crimes committed by Ariel..
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I’m basically the witch king of angmar or whatever “consume no media made by the hand of man”
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Senor Tron posted:lovely analogy as well since it's more like selling the family home and then renting it off the new owner. Also, you've sold it for under its true value and given them your car for free to help pay them for the years of good service that they will surely provide you in the future.
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JBP posted:When is the Tarantino stuff going to happen? How is that man clean? I mean he's probably part of a fetishist community rather than just being a weird lone creeper so his behaviour is probably policed better.
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abuse by famous people is such a weird situation and because of the cult of celebrity it's become massively widespread in a way that it never was. most abusive men only manage to abuse a few women in their lives, because it's a personal, intimate thing; getting their claws properly into a victim and then maintaining control consumes a huge amount of time and energy. but fame gives them instant access on that level to millions of people. the abuser is still an abuser and was always going to be, but now instead of a few victims, there are many. each victim is just as important and hurt by the experience as if they'd been the only one - but society doesn't treat them like that, and they get diminished and drowned out just by dint of being one in a crowd, not to mention the obvious constant suspicion and accusations of being in it for money/exposure/attention. and because america and to a lesser extent australia suck rear end regarding availability of services, only a small fraction of the victims will ever get the help that they need to actually deal with what happened to them and get on with their lives. and then they're subjected to relentless ongoing secondary abuse from the famous person's fans, not to mention the damage to their life over the long term. (none of these people who are speaking out and being named will ever work in media or entertainment again.)
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tithin posted:Let me tell you about the crimes committed by Ariel.. but yes he did kill several thousand people and institute a genocide, which was wrong
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Freudian Slip posted:You can enjoy Wagner, he was never a Nazi as he died in 1883. Nazis did enjoy the poo poo out of his music though and appropriated his work. He was a proto Nazi. He was a hardcore nationalist who hated the Jews. For further information, please consult his writing "Jewry in Music". He was also a fan of loving married people.
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JBP posted:When is the Tarantino stuff going to happen? How is that man clean? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-20/quentin-tarantino-ashamed-he-knew-about-harvey-weinstein/9068900 I mean, while everyone else did their absolute best to distance themselves from the man and throw themselves at the mercy of "we had no idea", Tarantino I think was actually kind of brave by being like "nope those are lovely excuses, we knew". pokemon posted:you will have to become the next bourne
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i consider ariel sharon and osama bin laden to be on about the same level of general karmic negativity, which is to say that they both had good points and bad points but at the end of the day were responsible for many, many deaths and didn't really achieve anything. i hope to achieve more with my life than they did, with a smaller death toll (hopefully just one man: donald j trump). incidentally, osama was also a devoted husband and father and although his culture is different to mine it sounds like he also had a deep respect for women. september 11 kind of wasn't even his fault, just like sabra-shatilla kind of wasn't even ariel's fault. both these incidents were caused, at their root, by america; but neither of these idiots did anything to avert them when they had the power to, and for that reason have probably both been reincarnated as cane toads.
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Zenithe posted:He was also a fan of loving married people. I will never give a poo poo about this.
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tbqh i'm just surprised that the username 'pokemon' was still around circa december 2017
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(i have no reason to believe cane toads are anything other than gentle and sociable creatures, like all toads)
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Milky Moor posted:tbqh i'm just surprised that the username 'pokemon' was still around circa december 2017
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i wish there was a photo of osama bin laden and ariel sharon standing side by side because lol
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in conclusion donald j. trump must be impeached with a bullet (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Dec 4, 2017 06:20 |
Rip avs, your fiery light blinds all who look too close
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tithin posted:Rip avs, your fiery light blinds all who look too close
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pokemon posted:ps - i'm auditioning for hard quiz season 3 next weekend I will pay you cash money to goatse them
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pokemon posted:in conclusion donald j. trump must be impeached with a bullet Dear Various United States Security and Intelligence Agencies, This man does not speak for me. Best regards, JBP cc: Richard Kyanka
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Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.
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JBP posted:Dear Various United States Security and Intelligence Agencies, Way to misgender pokemon
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i am a red/blue/yellow pokemon, i pre-date the concept of gender
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# ? Dec 4, 2017 06:26 |
Watching those games get destroyed is a loving art form tbh
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pokemon posted:i am a red/blue/yellow pokemon, i pre-date the concept of gender Nidoran♂ Nidoran♀ no true pokemon master
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HookShot posted:The biggest one for me is going to be arrested development. I don't think I can watch it with much enjoyment anymore knowing that Jeffrey Tambor is a sexual predator. If only it was some kind of victim-less offense they could do some great "no touching!" jokes from it. JBP posted:When is the Tarantino stuff going to happen? How is that man clean? I can see Tarantino being totally clean because I don't think he has the filter required to keep public and private personas of himself separate.
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Zenithe posted:He was a proto Nazi. He was a hardcore nationalist who hated the Jews. For further information, please consult his writing "Jewry in Music". Cheers for that. The mother-in-law is a massive fan of his music. She corrected me when I called him a Nazi years ago.
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the government lost another vote in the house of reps due to their MPs being absent can you imagine the response if Gillard had hosed up even half as much as Turnbull and his whips have?
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HookShot posted:I'll probably cry if Matt Damon gets caught up in this and I can't watch Jason Bourne movies anymore though, TBH. I haven't heard any allegations against him but he's never criticised or spoken out about best mate/serial sexual harasser Ben Affleck. Solemn Sloth posted:Although I do think the intense othering and monstering of anyone who is accused of predatory behaviour is perhaps hiding the real horror: that it is actually mundane, widespread, and carried out by otherwise seemingly normal men This is 100% the truth. I can understand that many men might not realise just how widespread this issue is, but I doubt there is a woman alive who doesn't have at least one story. I worked for a male dominated company for 15 years and in that time I was inappropriately touched, kissed, co-workers took photos up my skirt. I once attended a compulsory work event that had some highly sexualised entertainment. I complained about that one, and that became the office joke among my boss and peers - "remember that time fv got offended by that dancer, hahaha".
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BBJoey posted:the government lost another vote in the house of reps due to their MPs being absent What on?
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BBJoey posted:the government lost another vote in the house of reps due to their MPs being absent It was a vote calling on the government to allow manus refugees be settled in New Zealand
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Government loses vote on New Zealand refugee offer – politics live House of Representatives vote agreeing with a Senate resolution to accept New Zealand’s offer to settle refugees won 73 to 72, with two MPs absent, before government calls for second vote Thank gently caress. Now lets ram through more stuff like banning coal and guillotining the rich
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fiery_valkyrie posted:I haven't heard any allegations against him but he's never criticised or spoken out about best mate/serial sexual harasser Ben Affleck. Jesus Christ. I recall Ben Lomas did a show at a western Melbourne concreting co's Christmas do and so outraged was the boss that his female employees resisted having strippers he actively spiked Lomas and got him booed for being the stripper replacement. On the Damon stuff (and in general I suppose) bro code or whatever you want to call it is always a strong factor. You're also talking about friends who defend one another and probably see the good in the other more than the bad, so they focus on that. I know I've had situations where I've privately pulled up mates and spoken to them about behaviour (same for them to me) and you wouldn't call the newspaper and tell on them in real life because no one gives a poo poo about nobodies. I also suppose I am talking more like "you treated this person poorly" more than "stop punching your spouse" or something truly heavy.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Government loses vote on New Zealand refugee offer – politics live That's a surprise, and hopefully a sign that they've realised that there isn't really any more political hay to be made out of torturing refugees.
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Oh god.buzzfeed posted:Geoffrey Rush Steps Down From Screen Academy Role After "Inappropriate Behaviour" Complaint
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They reheld the vote apparently. No idea what grounds they used to revote. Quorum exists for a reason.
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ewe2 posted:Oh god. Rush is a pig.
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I thought Rush had been in trouble for awhile? He was on the cover of a Courier Fail over a week ago with the headline King Leer, I remember because I cringed so hard I broke something.
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Anyone surprised that Geoffrey rush is a weirdo creep has clearly never seen a picture of him
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