Catch-all sex scandal thread

Tube

We actually need one of these, how fucked up is that? I don't need to write a summary I don't think, but the latest one is that Chloe from Smallville has been accused of being involved in a sex slave cult.

Solar

What the fuck?

Solar

Okay I read up a bit

Allison Mack (according to the reports) is a recruiter for a sex slave cult, which uses brainwashing and blackmail

But looks like she might be the victim of brainwashing and blackmail herself? By a guy called Raniere who runs a self-help company?

Seriously what the fuck?

Brolo

Harvey Weinstein
Louis CK
George Takei
Mariah Carey
R Kelly
Brett Ratner
Donald Trump
Roy Moore
Ben Affleck
Dustin Hoffman
Steven Seagal
Ed Westwick
Kevin Spacey
Richard Dreyfuss

probably missed a few

Xaquin

I didn't know about half of those

OmnipotentBagel

Solar wrote: »

Okay I read up a bit

Allison Mack (according to the reports) is a recruiter for a sex slave cult, which uses brainwashing and blackmail

But looks like she might be the victim of brainwashing and blackmail herself? By a guy called Raniere who runs a self-help company?

Seriously what the fuck?

HOLY SHIT

Fencingsax

What the fuck is happening?

Moriveth

Wait, Mariah Carey?

Chincymcchilla

I thought that allison Mack stuff was from a Inquirer-esque tabloid

OmnipotentBagel

Okay I'm having trouble finding non-tabloidy sources for the Allison Mack thing so I'm putting it on my "reserve judgment, wait for more details" list.

Beasteh

A switch flipped and people started getting fed up

BlankZoe

Brolo wrote: »

Harvey Weinstein
Louis CK
George Takei
Mariah Carey
R Kelly
Brett Ratner
Donald Trump
Roy Moore
Ben Affleck
Dustin Hoffman
Steven Seagal
Ed Westwick
Kevin Spacey

probably missed a few

Andrew Kreisberg, showrunner for a good chunk of the CW DC superhero shows
Eddie Berganza, senior editor at DC Comics

Not as high profile but still

Hermano

Moriveth wrote: »

Wait, Mariah Carey?

lawsuit from a former bodyguard claiming that she performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.”

Anello claims during a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage and when he got there, she was wearing a see-through negligee that was open. He says he tried leaving but she insisted he move the luggage. He says he left the room and there was no physical contact.

bwanie

man I was pissed off about all the celebrities dying in 2017

I don't know if i like this new trend any better,...

OmnipotentBagel

Beasteh wrote: »

A switch flipped and people started getting fed up

No. People have been fed up for ages but powerless to do anything about it. The tide of power turned against a couple of high-profile victimizers which finally enabled people to come out strong against them. That in turn empowered other people to come forward against more powerful targets because there was finally some support.

Thetheroo

Nope, this new trend is good

Get all this shit out in the open, make it easier for people to come forward and be believed

Tube

If it gets absolutely everything out in the open this trend will be the best thing that's happened to pop culture in a long time.

Indie Winter

Thetheroo wrote: »

Nope, this new trend is good

Get all this shit out in the open, make it easier for people to come forward and be believed

this only works of naming and shaming has any impact

and as Trump and Roy Moore have shown us, there's no guarantee of that

Xaquin

Hermano wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

Wait, Mariah Carey?

lawsuit from a former bodyguard claiming that she performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.”

Anello claims during a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage and when he got there, she was wearing a see-through negligee that was open. He says he tried leaving but she insisted he move the luggage. He says he left the room and there was no physical contact.

that sounds more like a failed come on (though a particularly brazen one)

Straightzi

Chincymcchilla wrote: »

I thought that allison Mack stuff was from a Inquirer-esque tabloid

Yeah. The waters get kind of muddied, because the sex cult is one hundred percent real and has been reported on by respectable outlets.

But her involvement with it has only really showed up in tabloids (the article I read on it was in the Daily Mail, for instance).

Fencingsax

That's still sexual harassment. She's his boss

Hermano

Xaquin wrote: »

Hermano wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

Wait, Mariah Carey?

lawsuit from a former bodyguard claiming that she performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.”

Anello claims during a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage and when he got there, she was wearing a see-through negligee that was open. He says he tried leaving but she insisted he move the luggage. He says he left the room and there was no physical contact.

that sounds more like a failed come on (though a particularly brazen one)

No, she was his employer and it's harrassment

Anzekay

Xaquin wrote: »

Hermano wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

Wait, Mariah Carey?

lawsuit from a former bodyguard claiming that she performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.”

Anello claims during a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage and when he got there, she was wearing a see-through negligee that was open. He says he tried leaving but she insisted he move the luggage. He says he left the room and there was no physical contact.

that sounds more like a failed come on (though a particularly brazen one)

not an appropriate thing to do to someone you have a purely professional relationship with though

Brolo

Brolo wrote: »

Harvey Weinstein
Louis CK
George Takei
Mariah Carey
R Kelly
Brett Ratner
Donald Trump
Roy Moore
Ben Affleck
Dustin Hoffman
Steven Seagal
Ed Westwick
Kevin Spacey
Richard Dreyfuss

probably missed a few

George HW Bush - Former US President
Andrew Kreisberg - Executive producer of "Arrow", "Supergirl", "The Flash"
Benjamin Genocchio - Executive director of the Armory Show art fair
David Guillod - Co-chief executive of Primary Wave Entertainment agency
Jeff Hoover -Kentucky speaker of the House
Kirt Webster - Music publicist
Andy Dick - Actor
Michael Oreskes - Head of news at NPR and former New York Times editor
Ken Baker - E! News correspondent
Mark Halperin - NBC News and MSNBC contributor, author of "Game Change"
Rick Najera - Director of CBS's Diversity Showcase
Knight Landesman - Publisher of Artforum
Terry Richardson - Fashion photographer
John Besh - Chief executive of the Besh Restaurant Group
Lockhart Steele - Editorial director of Vox Media
Robert Scoble - Tech blogger and co-founder of the Transformation Group
Chris Savino - Creator and showrunner of “The Loud House”

via

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/10/us/men-accused-sexual-misconduct-weinstein.html

Magic Pink

Don't forget George Bush in the list.

I'm super disappointed in the George Takei accusation. I'm really gonna have to keep tabs on that as it develops.

bwanie

please do not mistake my comment for being dissapointed that this is getting out in the open.


I'm dissapointed with the both the sheer volume and the kind of people who are turning out to be garbage.

Magic Pink

Xaquin wrote: »

Hermano wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

Wait, Mariah Carey?

lawsuit from a former bodyguard claiming that she performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.”

Anello claims during a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage and when he got there, she was wearing a see-through negligee that was open. He says he tried leaving but she insisted he move the luggage. He says he left the room and there was no physical contact.

that sounds more like a failed come on (though a particularly brazen one)

Nah, read the whole claim; if even half of what he says is true she was pulling some really inappropriate stuff a lot of the time.

I needed anime to post.

Failed come ons in a work environment are sexual harassment

WeedLordVegeta

special shout outs to everyone who is stepping up in smaller communities and speaking out against microcelebrities

we will probably never hear about most of them but it is just as important for them to be held accountable as well

Auralynx

Hermano wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

Wait, Mariah Carey?

lawsuit from a former bodyguard claiming that she performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.”

Anello claims during a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage and when he got there, she was wearing a see-through negligee that was open. He says he tried leaving but she insisted he move the luggage. He says he left the room and there was no physical contact.

Also a bunch of very weird anti-white racist abuse coming from her going on in this one.

I mean, we knew Mariah Carey was a little crazy, but geez.

Indie Winter

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

special shout outs to everyone who is stepping up in smaller communities and speaking out against microcelebrities

we will probably never hear about most of them but it is just as important for them to be held accountable as well

who's gonna hold them accountable though

accountability only works if their community or their public has the interest, moral or material, to hold them to their actions

this is no longer the case among large swaths of the population and specific powerful elite communities

Xaquin

Magic Pink wrote: »

Xaquin wrote: »

Hermano wrote: »

Moriveth wrote: »

Wait, Mariah Carey?

lawsuit from a former bodyguard claiming that she performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.”

Anello claims during a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mariah asked him to come to her room to move some luggage and when he got there, she was wearing a see-through negligee that was open. He says he tried leaving but she insisted he move the luggage. He says he left the room and there was no physical contact.

that sounds more like a failed come on (though a particularly brazen one)

Nah, read the whole claim; if even half of what he says is true she was pulling some really inappropriate stuff a lot of the time.

yeah, I didn't read the whole thing

Brolo

Magic Pink wrote: »

Don't forget George Bush in the list.

I'm super disappointed in the George Takei accusation. I'm really gonna have to keep tabs on that as it develops.

We were told that Bush had, during a photo opp, groped her and told her that his favorite magician was “David Cop-a-Feel” while fondling her.

Reached for comment, Bush spokesperson Jim McGrath provided the following statement: “At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures. To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.”

that is pretty super fucked up, George HW Bush
also fucked up is Jim McGrath's trying to explain that shit away

WeedLordVegeta

Indie Winter wrote: »

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

special shout outs to everyone who is stepping up in smaller communities and speaking out against microcelebrities

we will probably never hear about most of them but it is just as important for them to be held accountable as well

who's gonna hold them accountable though

accountability only works if their community or their public has the interest, moral or material, to hold them to their actions

this is no longer the case among large swaths of the population and specific powerful elite communities

in the case of many microcelebs, their name is their trade

anything that tarnishes that can have devastating effects for their prospective careers

what's nick robinson up to after getting fired from polygon

Solar

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

special shout outs to everyone who is stepping up in smaller communities and speaking out against microcelebrities

we will probably never hear about most of them but it is just as important for them to be held accountable as well

The RPG community has just had this

It's been fucking crazy times. I'm glad it's out but still.

Indie Winter

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

Indie Winter wrote: »

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

special shout outs to everyone who is stepping up in smaller communities and speaking out against microcelebrities

we will probably never hear about most of them but it is just as important for them to be held accountable as well

who's gonna hold them accountable though

accountability only works if their community or their public has the interest, moral or material, to hold them to their actions

this is no longer the case among large swaths of the population and specific powerful elite communities

in the case of many microcelebs, their name is their trade

anything that tarnishes that can have devastating effects for their prospective careers

what's nick robinson up to after getting fired from polygon

oh listen, no doubt there are repercussions

for some of them

I was trying to hint at some current republican politicians, and my fear that that trend might spread further as more unscrupulous people try and use it to get out of these accusations

Magic Pink

Brolo wrote: »

Magic Pink wrote: »

Don't forget George Bush in the list.

I'm super disappointed in the George Takei accusation. I'm really gonna have to keep tabs on that as it develops.

We were told that Bush had, during a photo opp, groped her and told her that his favorite magician was “David Cop-a-Feel” while fondling her.

Reached for comment, Bush spokesperson Jim McGrath provided the following statement: “At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures. To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.”

that is pretty super fucked up, George HW Bush
also fucked up is Jim McGrath's trying to explain that shit away

And weren't there multiple women coming forward about him? I thought I last read it was like 12 but that may have been about someone else.

Brolo

Magic Pink wrote: »

Brolo wrote: »

Magic Pink wrote: »

Don't forget George Bush in the list.

I'm super disappointed in the George Takei accusation. I'm really gonna have to keep tabs on that as it develops.

We were told that Bush had, during a photo opp, groped her and told her that his favorite magician was “David Cop-a-Feel” while fondling her.

Reached for comment, Bush spokesperson Jim McGrath provided the following statement: “At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures. To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.”

that is pretty super fucked up, George HW Bush
also fucked up is Jim McGrath's trying to explain that shit away

And weren't there multiple women coming forward about him? I thought I last read it was like 12 but that may have been about someone else.

I think it's 6 now with this particular complaint

Xaquin

I'm just shocked that apparently so many people have thought 'this is an ok thing for me to do to someone else'

why?!

=/

Fencingsax

Society teaches us that women are property.

That needs to change

OmnipotentBagel

Indie Winter wrote: »

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

Indie Winter wrote: »

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

special shout outs to everyone who is stepping up in smaller communities and speaking out against microcelebrities

we will probably never hear about most of them but it is just as important for them to be held accountable as well

who's gonna hold them accountable though

accountability only works if their community or their public has the interest, moral or material, to hold them to their actions

this is no longer the case among large swaths of the population and specific powerful elite communities

in the case of many microcelebs, their name is their trade

anything that tarnishes that can have devastating effects for their prospective careers

what's nick robinson up to after getting fired from polygon

oh listen, no doubt there are repercussions

for some of them

I was trying to hint at some current republican politicians, and my fear that that trend might spread further as more unscrupulous people try and use it to get out of these accusations

That's a very different situation. Politicians backed by a major political party have possibly the most power and social protection of anyone and almost complete control of at least a branch of the media that would otherwise take them to task in the public eye.