Sexual Harassment/Assault Scandals

[Beasty]

Women graduate college at a higher rate than men and get more advanced degrees than men.
Maybe employers will just shy away from hiring MEN.

So where is this pay gap in favor of men that we keep hearing about?

 

[Thump]

So where is this pay gap in favor of men that we keep hearing about?

The gender pay gap was never really a thing. The idea won't go away because the people who have been telling us that it exists know if people start questioning this "fact" they might start questioning other "facts" as well.

 

[The Dark King]

Its true of a very concentrated few. No man is getting more an hour at KFC its usually in positions where you negotiate a salary. Women are generally socialized to be more polite and won't fight for higher salaries the way men do. But again those are very few positions your average American just wants a living wage

 

[meowkittenmeow]

The gender pay gap was never really a thing. The idea won't go away because the people who have been telling us that it exists know if people start questioning this "fact" they might start questioning other "facts" as well.

It was already debunked when factoring in differences of jobs and hours worked. But, some people need to continue to push the fake narrative.

Christina Hoff Summers went into detail about this.

 

[K]

Its true of a very concentrated few. No man is getting more an hour at KFC its usually in positions where you negotiate a salary. Women are generally socialized to be more polite and won't fight for higher salaries the way men do. But again those are very few positions your average American just wants a living wage

Isn't it often that they are comparing jobs that aren't actually the same?

 

[The Dark King]

Isn't it often that they are comparing jobs that aren't actually the same?

Yup that too
I've always said if this had that much truth to it the unemployment rate amongst men would be far higher. A managers job is to make and save the company money so if you have a work force that's just as competent but will work for less why on Earth would they hire any men?

 

[Frederick]

LOL This broad is still trying to get Payne fired.


https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/sc...til-commentator-she-accuses-of-rape-is-fired/

She must have been pissed when he broke things off. Payne doesn't look like much, but he must have been putting something on her fierce for this kind of scorn.

 

[andreboba]

LOL This broad is still trying to get Payne fired.


https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/sc...til-commentator-she-accuses-of-rape-is-fired/

She must have been pissed when he broke things off. Payne doesn't look like much, but he must have been putting something on her fierce for this kind of scorn.

This is the reason why you just can't assume every woman claiming she was sexually assaulted is telling the truth.

Payne and Hughes booked hotel rooms together, attended functions and most people at Fox said what was going on was an office affair.
The reason she's going so hard after him IMO is because she's still married and trying to save herself.

You never know who you're messing with until you KNOW.

 

[Bliss]

CNN's Jake Tapper's State of the Union Show Senior Producer fired for sexually harrassing three co-workers..

Hmmm...not sure this is fair, unless he was a constantly leering creep.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5132005/CNN-fires-senior-producer-sexual-harassment.html

 

[Bliss]

Russell Simmons is stepping down from his various companies after he got accused of sexual assault again by screenwriter Jenny Lumet

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/russell-simmons-jenny-lumet-sexual-assault-allegation-1202626935/
Russell Simmons Steps Down From Companies Following Sexual Assault Allegation

By Brent Lang November 30, 2017 6:40AM PT

Russell Simmons is stepping down from his companies after being accused of sexual assault by writer Jenny Lumet. In a guest column in the Hollywood Reporter, Lumet accuses the Def Jam co-founder of forcing her to have sex in 1991. In a statement, Simmons said he had a different recollection of their encounter, but said Lumet’s “feelings of fear and intimidation are real.” He apologized to Lumet, who is the daughter of director Sidney Lumet and the screenwriter behind “Rachel Getting Married.”

“There is so much guilt, and so much shame,” Lumet wrote in her column. “There is an excruciating internal reckoning. As a woman of color, I cannot express how wrenching it is to write this about a successful man of color. Again, shame about who I was years ago, choices made years ago. In this very moment, I feel a pang to protect your daughters. I don’t think you are inclined to protect mine.”

For his part, Simmons said, “While I have never been violent, I have been thoughtless and insensitive in some of my relationships over many decades and I sincerely and humbly apologize.”

In addition to his music work, Simmons is a successful film and television producer and the founder of such clothing fashion lines as Phat Farm and Tantris. This isn’t the first time he has been accused of harassment or assault. Earlier this month, model Keri Claussen Khalighi accused Simmons of forcing her to have sex. She said the businessman worked in conjunction with director Brett Ratner to lure her to his apartment. Another woman, Tanya Reid, also accused Simmons of pressuring her to perform oral sex on Ratner. Both men deny the allegations.

Simmons did say the culture is going through “a time of great transition,” and said he did not want to be a distraction from the work of his companies. He also plans to convert a studio he founded for yogic science into a not-for-profit center of learning and healing.

“The companies will now be run by a new and diverse generation of extraordinary executives who are moving the culture and consciousness forward,” said Simmons, adding, “As for me, I will step aside and commit myself to continuing my personal growth, spiritual learning, and, above all, to listening.”

Simmons is the latest high profile figure to become engulfed in a sexual harassment or assault scandal. In recent weeks, Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, and John Lasseter have all been dogged by claims of sexual misdeeds or crimes.

HBO removes Russell Simmons from the All Def Comedy series amid sexual assault claims just a day after the music mogul quit his business empire.

HBO is moving on without him or his name.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5137289/HBO-removes-Russell-Simmons-Def-Comedy-series.html

 

[ColiBreh1]

I'm 29 minutes into this documentary & 1 of the perverts profiled in this film implicted Bryan Singer as having passed around a victim to him. How is Bryan Singer still allowed to be a major director/producer in Hollywood when him being pedophile isn't even a secret anymore?

The best I can figure it's because the LGBT community is a powerful voice in Hollywood and they are extra sensitive to being linked in any way with sexual deviancy, so they are much more hesitant to jump on a gay sexual predator because they figure it's a slippery slope that will set their entire community back.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...queen-biopic-due-bryan-singer-absence-1063710

DECEMBER 01, 20174:49pm PT by Aaron Couch, Mia Galuppo , Borys Kit

Fox Halts Production on Queen Biopic Due to Bryan Singer Absence

Sources tell THR that the director failed to return to set after the Thanksgiving holiday break.


Fox has halted production on the studio's Queen biopic,
Bohemian Rhapsody, due to the "unexpected unavailability" of director Bryan Singer.

Rami Malek is starring as the legendary frontman Freddie Mercury in the movie that had been filming in London.

"Twentieth Century Fox Film has temporarily halted production on Bohemian Rhapsody due to the unexpected unavailability of Bryan Singer," reads Fox's full statement. The crew received force majeure letters today, says one insider.

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Singer failed to return to set after the Thanksgiving holiday break, leaving producers nervous about the state of the production and talking about potentially replacing him.

In a statement to the
BBC, a rep for the director says his absence is due to "a personal health matter concerning Bryan and his family." However, sources say that filming on the biopic has not been easy. For example, insiders tell THR that producers and his star had grown tired of Singer's behavior, which saw him routinely show up late to set. Another source has said that a cinematographer had to step in and direct during a previous "non-showing."
This is not first time that Singer has disappeared during a production. He momentarily vanished during the shooting of X-Men: Apocalypse and during Superman Returns.

Bohemian Rhapsody is set to hit theaters on Dec. 25, 2018.








LOL. Dude is probably in hiding.

 

[samson1701]

My dude preach

Sex robots can't get here quick enough. It'll weed out a lot of the decent men who don't just follow orders. Then what are you left with?
And notice how all of these victims are not woc
That's why for me a lot of these arguments and revelations lose me. Its not equitable and weaves a very deliberate story.
And like you said are we going to ignore the swaths of women willing to go through it to "make it"
Its always sleezy when its not a George Clooney type. We've seen it our whole lives where identical advances are "gross" when dude is average or below but let it be someone who is "fine" and its perfectly ok. Suddenly rude and stalkerish behavior is either hot or attentive. So happy to be done with that part of my life

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1946841678660810

 

[The Dark King]

Y'all thought I was kidding. If you thought we produced a shit ton of psychopaths before you ain't seen nothing yet.
God help us if one of these rich kids has the technical know how to control an army of robots. Mass shoots going to seen quaint.

 

[Soulthinker]

This is the reason why you just can't assume every woman claiming she was sexually assaulted is telling the truth.

Payne and Hughes booked hotel rooms together, attended functions and most people at Fox said what was going on was an office affair.
The reason she's going so hard after him IMO is because she's still married and trying to save herself.

You never know who you're messing with until you KNOW.

True indeed. That relationship was intense indeed. She may have something up her sleeve soon.

 

[RicardoCooper]

Y'all thought I was kidding. If you thought we produced a shit ton of psychopaths before you ain't seen nothing yet.
God help us if one of these rich kids has the technical know how to control an army of robots. Mass shoots going to seen quaint.

You see how they're pushing for AI. What could possibly go wrong

 

[Beat-man]

 

[RicardoCooper]

Bryan Singer FIRED from Freddie Mercury biopic

Scaramouche scaramouche can you do the fan-dan-go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5145403/Bryan-Singer-FIRED-Freddie-Mercury-biopic.html

 

[RicardoCooper]

House of Cards to return WITHOUT Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright will take over

This is like if they tried to continue The Sopranos without Gandolfini

HoC may be fictional but this is the real feminist endgame; for men to be replaced.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/v...ion-resume-2018-kevin-spacey-thr-news-1064039

 

[Bliss]

Less than half of offices to serve alcohol at holiday parties this year and some will have monitors watching festivities following wave of sexual harassment allegations
By Associated Press 04 Dec 2017

Survey shows only 49% of companies plan to serve alcohol at holiday events

The reason stems from the recent high-profile workplace sex scandals

Some companies plan to offer more food and are doing away with the open bar

Huffington Post will be giving employees two tickets they can redeem for drinks

The company recently fired its editorial director, Lockhart Steele, after a former employee made allegations of sexual harassment against him

Some will have party monitors, keeping an eye out for inappropriate behavior

With a series of high-profile workplace sex scandals on their minds, employers are making sure their holiday office parties don't become part of the problem.

There will be less booze at many. An independent business organization has renewed its annual warning not to hang mistletoe. And some will have party monitors, keeping an eye out for inappropriate behavior.

According to a survey by Chicago-based consulting company Challenger, Gray & Christmas, only 49 per cent of companies plan to serve alcohol at their holiday events.

Last year that number was 62 per cent, the highest number in the decade the firm has run its survey.

TV and movies often depict office parties as wildly inappropriate bacchanals or excruciatingly awkward fiascoes, if not, horrifyingly, both.

But even a regular office party can be complicated because the rules people normally observe at work don't quite apply, which makes it easier for people to accidentally cross a line - or try to get away with serious misbehavior. Especially when too much drinking is involved.

'As soon as you introduce alcohol at an off-site activity, peoples' guards are dropped,' said Ed Yost, manager of employee relations and development for the Society for Human Resource Management based in Alexandria, Virginia.

'It's presumed to be a less formal, more social environment. Some people will drink more than they typically would on a Friday night or a Saturday because it's an open bar or a free cocktail hour.'

The Huffington Post reported Friday that Vox Media, which runs sites including Vox and Recode, won't have an open bar this year at its holiday party and will instead give employees two tickets they can redeem for drinks.

It will also have more food than in years past. The company recently fired its editorial director, Lockhart Steele, after a former employee made allegations of sexual harassment against him.

A survey by Bloomberg Law said those kinds of safeguards are common: while most companies ask bartenders or security or even some employees to keep an eye on how much partygoers are drinking, others limit the number of free drinks or the time they're available. A small minority have cash bars instead of an open bar.

The National Federation of Independent Businesses recommends all of those steps, and adds another that might seem obvious these days: don't hang mistletoe. It's been giving those suggestions for several years.

Yost said he always gets a lot of requests for advice in planning and managing these events, but he's getting even more of them this year.

He said he'll be spending his corporate holiday party the way he always does: patrolling hallways, checking secluded areas and trying to watch for people who look like they are stuck in an uncomfortable situation - for example, inappropriate touching or a conversation that's taken a bad turn.

If they're visibly uncomfortable, he'll intervene and plan a later conversation with the person responsible.

The Challenger, Gray & Christmas survey shows that about 80 per cent of companies will have a holiday party, the same as last year. And not everyone is planning changes.

Anthony Vitiello, the marketing director for software company Anton Robb Group, said he planned his company's event and didn't rethink it.

For the last few years the firm's has marked the holiday with drinks and passed hors d'oeuvres in the wide cellar of a local restaurant. Vitiello thinks the formal setting makes the event calmer.

'We haven't had any incidents, not a single one I can recall, where anyone got loud or over-consumed,' he said. He added that many of his company's 25 employees go out for drinks once a month, and he's not aware of any cases of misconduct.

Yost said he's not making changes to his group's event either. He added that companies concerned about sexual misconduct need to look further than the holiday party.

'While there are additional complications that are associated with a holiday event, that's one day a year,' he said.

 

[Bliss]

Put more women in power because men are 'having problems', Barack Obama says
'Women seem to have a better capacity than men do,' Democrat adds

****
Barack Obama may have a solution to fixing the country's biggest problems... and that starts with a hiring process.

The former President believes more women should be in power to make political decisions, stating "because men seem to be having some problems these days," according to AFP.

It comes from the ongoing sexual assault allegations across Hollywood, politics, and around the world. The two-term president feels optimistic about leadership in the future and it starts with more inclusion in the workplace.

"Not to generalize but women seem to have a better capacity [for leadership] than men do, partly because of their socialization," he told the crowd.

http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/barack-obama-leadership-women/