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GORDON wrote: Walker is a sympathy play.

TheCatt wrote:

TheCatt wrote: This dumbass, who is reportedly a church youth minister.

Has been identified, possibly.

Also, a Boy Scout troop leader.

She also noted that Callaway reached out to her station, NBC affiliate WSAV-TV, and insisted that he didn’t intend to hurt her. Additionally, in a statement to CBS News, Callaway’s lawyer stated that he, “did not act with any criminal intentions” and that “Tommy is a loving husband and father.” Of course, how much he loves his wife and children is irrelevant to Callaway’s inability to keep his hands to himself. And besides, Bozarjian isn’t interested in his intent.
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Though Callaway’s lawyers do not expect criminal charges, Bozarjian has filed a police report and is leaving Callaway’s fate to them.

I sure hope there are criminal charges.

The 33 priestly abusers represented 2.44% of the 1,353 Legion priests ordained since 1941, the report found. That percentage is far lower than national averages of credibly accused priests over a similar period in the U.S. or Australia, where the percentages are 5.8 and seven, respectively.

When Kathy Bates began acting professionally in the ‘70s, decades before the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo Movement, actresses were still being called to hotel rooms. She remembers that it meant something different, though.

“About people like Weinstein and the casting couch and all of that,” Bates told The Guardian in an interview published Friday, addressing the issue of how women in the entertainment industry are treated. “I have a confession. In my day, if you went up to a guy’s hotel room, you knew exactly why you were going and in those days it was consensual. Times were different, but I really support the women who are coming forward now and I’m not happy about the men who are being accused falsely — but the ones who deserve all they’re getting, my feeling is hey, go for it.”

GORDON wrote: The same group that says sex-workers shouldn't be vilified also say that a woman shouldn't have to fuck for a movie role. I don't see a single difference in those two examples.

TheCatt wrote: the boy scouts

Fallen film producer Harvey Weinsten was found guilty Monday of rape and a criminal sexual act.
Weinstein was found not guilty of the most serious charges in the case, two counts of predatory sexual assault. He also was acquitted in court in Manhattan of first-degree rape.