WHET Ronan Farrow?

#metoo hasn't fizzled, it's actually taken on greater cultural power.

Ronan is working. I'm sure he's got more scumbags on his desk even as we bitch.

He looked like an ass for championing Asia Argento when it turned out she had skeletons in her own closet. I think he may have been so embarrassed he went into hiding.

R1 it's fizzled as random people have gotten accused and it's been used as a weapon. Its power is greatly diluted now.

Argento's skeletons don't cancel out Harvey's, honey. She was right about him and Ronan was right to back her on it.

[quote]Its power is greatly diluted now.

Hear, hear!

No, R3, honey, it's not diluted at all. You should stop watching so much Fux Noise, it's killing your brain cells.

#metoo has become a larger issue about the treatment of women by men in power and it's growing.

He got death threats and has fled overseas for a while.

Straight men still have all the power, and they're going to make him pay.

R6 ok, whatever you say, Frau 🙄

Because he's a hypocrite for not believing his adopted siblings, those who are estranged from their mother Mia because they suffered abuse from her. Mia was/ is BSC and collected non-White or disabled children like trophy. She was cruel towards Lark who died of AIDS basically disowned her, only Moses and Soon-Yi was still on talking terms with Lark when she died. Apparently in the Farrow household and in Ronan's mindset, only the White, adopted children of Mia should be believed when it comes to tales of emotional/ physical abuse. It makes him a hypocrite for defending his mother, Mia, who is so crazy and a hypocrite herself that she's among a few left in Hollywood who still supports child rapist Roman Polanski. The whole family is BSC and dysfunctional, including Woody Allen.

What is BSC when she's at home, dear?

Boy Scout Cookies, R10

MeToo was exposed as a strategic move by those who wanted to deflect from their own bad behavior, and the media leaped on it because it appealed to the same demographic that made To Catch a Predator a huge ratings success. The average man or woman on the street would have laughed at any of the talking heads they rolled on the various networks who were blaming men or the "culture of toxic masculinity".

The general public also delights in schadenfreude, a condition that's exacerbated by one's own feeling of inadequacy and failure.

#metoo will remain in the culture landscape forever, and it will take some more people down. But we are now entering the phase of public apathy. Unless its a big name being taken down, people have stopped caring & are moving on to other issues.

R14 Metoo was never a public movement. It was created by powerful people to take down other powerful people. The media is completely tone deaf to the concerns of those who struggle with everyday issues, who are rightly apathetic about the whining of multi millionaires.

"Created by powerful people to take down powerful people?" I assume R15 thinks Donald Trump, R. Kelly, Bill Cosby and Jeffrey Epstein are all "railroaded men." R15 is a pathetic shitstain.

R16 The media perpetuated a false equivalence among those accused of heinous crimes, and those who may have acted like a jerk at some point or who posted an angry message on social media. What about those who were forced to prove their innocence even years or in some cases, decades later? Or how about the movement being exposed as being deeply partisan? The lack of due process? False claims of emotional abuse that was refuted by one person who had kept his text messages? Or how the movement was used to advance the narrative that men are a cancer to society? The list goes on and on.

Finally, it led to men arguing that they can't be alone with women colleagues.

Exposed as deeply partisan how, R17? In that conservatives like Trump and Kavanaugh have kept managing to get away with it?

I read a blind item that strongly hinted the reason he’s been keeping a low profile is because he’s transitioning. No idea if it’s true.

I'm not r17 but it IS kind of interesting that most of the people exposed and taken down have been Democrats. Republicans don't seem to care beyond some minor lip service to placate independents, but if it costs them some power (e.g. Trump), they will ignore it.

We are too close to Me Too to understand whether it’s just a random event or will lead to larger change. Arguably all this Epstein business wouldn’t have happened without Me Too (would the Miami Herald have covered the story without it?). We are just beginning to see the aftershocks now. Check back in 50 years.

[quote]MeToo was exposed as a strategic move by those who wanted to deflect from their own bad behavior, and the media leaped on it because it appealed to the same demographic that made To Catch a Predator a huge ratings success. The average man or woman on the street would have laughed at any of the talking heads they rolled on the various networks who were blaming men or the "culture of toxic masculinity".

For every Annabella Sciorra (who I do believe was raped by Harvey) there were a dozen attention seekers who were using trumped up or outright made-up stories for revenge (Heather Unruh) or to hopefully kickstart a fading career (Rose McGowan).

Most people I know are bored with these stories and see them (and the "victims") for what they are.

r22 Epstein has nothing to do with #metoo. A lot of people were outraged by that in 2008 and he's been under investigation since then.

He is fine. He sends his love.

He gets a lot of mileage out of that old headshot.

R27 “Ronan Farrow will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle. Tickets: $50 to $90”

Whoa. Fifty to ninety dollars just to hear Ronan Farrow speak? Am I old and out of touch or are those ticket prices kind of expensive?

He's making lots of $$$$ from #metoo apparently.

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Ronan Farrow would love to talk about his new $5.6 million loft on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. But he just hasn’t spent a lot of time there.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is in constant motion, not only because of a swarm of deadlines, but more to avoid the crosshairs created by his reporting for The New Yorker magazine on powerful men like disgraced studio head Harvey Weinstein, which helped launch the #MeToo movement in 2017.

“I am often beset by some pretty exotic and intensive effort to track my work and track me,” Farrow said by phone recently. “So I move around.”

R29 My dumb bitch of a cousin (single mother with two young disabled kids) paid $300 to hear Oprah speak once. I couldn't believe it. As if she couldn't have found a better use for what little money she has than give it to a billionaire.

MeToo lost it's clout when it showed you could go after someone with not one shred of proof and almost destroy them. Just keep saying "I find her credible" over and over with nothing to back it up.

The obnoxious #believewomen bullshit where everyone was expected to blindly believe any woman with a sob story or else didn't help either.

A few more operations and my transition into a gay Frank Sinatra will be completed! R20

Seriously. I remember someone pointing out that he wears contacts so his eyes look more like Sinatra's.

Isn't he living with john Lovett in LA?

R9 has a very good point.

Who gets believed? Only the “right” people.

IDGAF about his career. He came out of the closet, so all of the interest died from a gossip standpoint. I was still following him because he was funny after the election in 2016. But he’s not really funny anymore. Meh.