Accountability in Entertainment • Page 245

https://www.heyalma.com/this-comedi...ry-seinfeld-once-dated-a-high-school-student/

 

Oh yeah, that was a big thing back in the 90’s, at the height of his show

 

Weird how that shit was normalized back then, Julia Louis-Dreyfus brushes it off like nothing

 

Women didn't have the platform to adequately express how fucked up stuff like the Seinfeld situation was. The concept of grooming simply wasn't in the cultural lexicon, namely because women (i.e. the groomed) had hardly any cultural sway in terms of sexual ethics. As fucked up as we still are, it's incredible how far we've come in terms of understanding consent and what is/is not healthy in terms of sex.

 

Lord of the Rings orc was modeled after Harvey Weinstein, Elijah Wood reveals

On the one hand this is pretty funny, but on the other, if you know Weinstein is dangerous then maybe you can do better than subtle digs in your movie?

 

I could be totally wrong about this, but I believe back at that time Peter Jackson didn't know Harvey Weinstein was a dangerous sexual predator, he just knew he was an asshole and a shitty person to do business with. I believe there was even an interview from recent years where Peter Jackson and his wife mentioned having considered Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino for roles in the LOTR films, and Harvey Weinstein recommending against ever hiring either of them and calling them difficult to work with and stuff back then, and them having listened to what he had said back at the time but feeling very badly about it in hindsight seeing now where that was coming from.

 

Idk what we’re supposed to do with this.

 

Fuck Dave Chappelle once again

 

Fuck that dude, seriously. Nothing but pure rage reading that shit.

 

As someone who looked up to Dave as a stand up, I genuinely can’t support that shit and I won’t. Like if you gotta punch down on people after a career of punching up, then you’re just gone.

 

Just remembered I still owned the DVDs of all the Chappelle’s Show episodes from back in the day. Threw them in the trash. Scum.

 

he lost me when he said trans people have white privilege when dozens of trans women of color are murdered each year

 

I mentioned it in the Comedy thread, but I heard a majority of it through my roommate watching it. It’s one of the most vile standup sets I’ve ever heard (I typically avoid any Netflix set that features Joe Rogan, the word “triggered” and what have you).

Dave constantly displays an active disgust and hatred for the LGBTQ community, only to frequently try and backtrack it with “well I only dislike the white ones” or “I have a gay/trans friend.” He dead names, uses gay slurs, falls back on the hacky “trans men don’t look like women” jokes and then complains because he hates when LGTBQ people say he’s punching down (his actual words.)

The worst is he tries to play all this off because A) He truly believes he’s the GOAT. B) He has suffered hardships, like mentioning he walked away from $50 million for the 10 millionth time. C) He closes with a story about a trans comedian he gave an opening spot and how he befriended and she got dragged on Twitter for defending his anti-trans jokes. She (who he refers to as a he several times) committed suicide and he basically blames Twitter (ignoring the rate of suicide in the trans community) and then tries to make up for his transphobic jokes by saying he has a trust fund for her daughter and he can’t wait to tell her “what a good mom your father was.”

It’s not sharp, funny or clever. It’s so lazy and mean. I couldn’t stop thinking about how much I hated it. What an awful person he’s become.

 

I've been thinking a lot about how jk Rowling was also super ableist, she basically implied that people on the spectrum can't know they're trans

 

showrunner of Dear White People

 

absolute piece of human trash

 

Another great take from Craig

 

Hot take…Dave was always a piece of shit.

 

It takes a special kind of delusional self-victimhood to think that the marginalized trans community has the societal power to "cancel" someone with as much clout and money as Chappelle. Only someone so totally out of touch with the reality that everyday people live in could honestly believe that.

 

"criticism isn’t cancellation. when u make something and put it out into the world you open it up to critique."

this is very true