Lord_Griff wrote:Apparently the Yanks are quite litigious.
poprock wrote:Okay, that’s worth knowing. The stories I’ve read so far mostly go as far as him being inappropriate, or him flat out asking for sex – but not acting on it, not touching someone, not forcing anything. Psychological harassment and bullying, for sure though. Threatening career ending if they don’t agree, etc.
nick_md wrote:It really is shaping up a little like the Saville story, albeit not kids - claims that everyone knew what was going on, but, yeah just too powerful to do anything about it.
In the course of a ten-month investigation, I was told by thirteen women that, between the nineteen-nineties and 2015, Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them. Their allegations corroborate and overlap with the Times’s revelations, and also include far more serious claims.
Three of the women—among them Argento and a former aspiring actress named Lucia Evans—told me that Weinstein had raped them, forcibly performing or receiving oral sex or forcing vaginal sex. Four women said that they had experienced unwanted touching that could be classified as an assault. In an audio recording captured during a New York Police Department sting operation in 2015, Weinstein admits to groping a Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, describing it as behavior he is “used to.” Four of the women I interviewed cited encounters in which Weinstein exposed himself or masturbated in front of them.
poprock wrote:The New Yorker seem to have a pretty definitive account of things, so far. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-storiesIn the course of a ten-month investigation, I was told by thirteen women that, between the nineteen-nineties and 2015, Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them. Their allegations corroborate and overlap with the Times’s revelations, and also include far more serious claims. Three of the women—among them Argento and a former aspiring actress named Lucia Evans—told me that Weinstein had raped them, forcibly performing or receiving oral sex or forcing vaginal sex. Four women said that they had experienced unwanted touching that could be classified as an assault. In an audio recording captured during a New York Police Department sting operation in 2015, Weinstein admits to groping a Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, describing it as behavior he is “used to.” Four of the women I interviewed cited encounters in which Weinstein exposed himself or masturbated in front of them.
acemuzzy wrote:Is signing that not perverting the course of justice? Mayber?
djchump wrote:So this came up in my RSS feeds today - I'm pretty sure I've shared links from UploadVR's website in the VR thread, didn't know about this stuff:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/15/uploadvr-sued-over-rampant-sexual-behavior-in-the-workplace-and-wrongful-termination/
https://medium.com/@dannybittman/combating-sexism-in-tech-with-honesty-the-impact-of-uploads-silence-7e9276cde4b9
A room with a bed for shagging in the workplace?! Jesus wept, that's disgusting. Not just on a sexism/bad workplace vibes level, but also on a practical cleanliness/hygiene level. yuk.
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