Harvey Weinstein = Hollywood dumpster fire.

[Maximus Meridius]

These weirdos got mad at Taraji for looking for the same energy towards Weinstein as R Kelly. It's obvious they ain't serious about really addressing this issue.

 

[|A-Man|]

These weirdos got mad at Taraji for looking for the same energy towards Weinstein as R Kelly. It's obvious they ain't serious about really addressing this issue.

Who?

 

[joshuatree2192]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/bryan-singers-accusers-speak-out/580462/

Ripple effect comes for everyone. Singer is overdue.

Him and his buddies was just passing young teen boys around. I believe they created D.E.N. just so they can have easy access to underage boys. How is he not locked up?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Who?

 

[Master Zik]

How?

Wow

**** these ppl man. Cant even unify being against all rapists/sexual predators.

Who are these lames trying to give her backlash

 

[Mark Antony]

Folks gotta follow Kevin's lead and stop feeding into the social media trolling.

 

[shogun]

Social media is toxic.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

These weirdos got mad at Taraji for looking for the same energy towards Weinstein as R Kelly. It's obvious they ain't serious about really addressing this issue.

I mean look how against, "Whataboutism" NT was in that RK thread.

So this backlash isn't surprising at all.

To many, "Whataboutism" = Defending RK

 

[...So]

.

 

[freakydestroyer]

Don't be surprised if another scandal drops very, very soon.....

Just saying....

Might as well tell us the sun is going to come out tomorrow.

 

[wr]

The eccentric hedge fund manager, whose friends included former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, was also suspected of trafficking minor girls, often from overseas, for sex parties at his other homes in Manhattan, New Mexico and the Caribbean, FBI and court records show.

Facing a 53-page federal indictment, Epstein could have ended up in federal prison for the rest of his life.

But on the morning of the breakfast meeting, a deal was struck — an extraordinary plea agreement that would conceal the full extent of Epstein’s crimes and the number of people involved.

Not only would Epstein serve just 13 months in the county jail, but the deal — called a non-prosecution agreement— essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes, according to a Miami Herald examination of thousands of emails, court documents and FBI records.

The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane.

As part of the arrangement, Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims. As a result, the non-prosecution agreement was sealed until after it was approved by the judge, thereby averting any chance that the girls — or anyone else — might show up in court and try to derail it.

This is the story of how Epstein, bolstered by unlimited funds and represented by a powerhouse legal team, was able to manipulate the criminal justice system, and how his accusers, still traumatized by their pasts, believe they were betrayed by the very prosecutors who pledged to protect them.

“I don’t think anyone has been told the truth about what Jeffrey Epstein did,’’ said one of Epstein’s victims, Michelle Licata, now 30. “He ruined my life and a lot of girls’ lives. People need to know what he did and why he wasn’t prosecuted so it never happens again.”

Now President Trump’s secretary of labor, Acosta, 49, oversees a massive federal agency that provides oversight of the country’s labor laws, including human trafficking. Until he was reported to be eliminated on Thursday, a day after this story posted online, Acosta also had been included on lists of possible replacements for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who resigned under pressure earlier this month.

Acosta did not respond to numerous requests for an interview or answer queries through email.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html

 

[Nouss]

Wtf? Rich and white in America, your Teflon b.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

2nd Fairfax accuser says she was raped by former Duke basketball player Corey Maggette : https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/politics/fairfax-accuser-duke-basketball-player/index.html

 

[ninjahood]

2nd Fairfax accuser says she was raped by former Duke basketball player Corey Maggette : https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/politics/fairfax-accuser-duke-basketball-player/index.html

now you see why people pay for vagina right?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Oh, I always understood that.

Make that EVEN exchange, go on about your business

 

[hand2handking]

 

[sooperhooper]

seriously? I'm logging out of the net for the day.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

Terry Crews Says Toxic Masculinity is a 'Cult': Men 'Need Deprogramming'
'Look at yourself': Terry Crews on toxic masculinity

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ter...y-cult-men-need-de-programming-150543267.html

Terry Crews may be making big moves as the newest host of America’s Got Talent, but the actor and activist is still committed to stemming the tide of toxic masculinity. Ahead of a powerful speech at the 2019 Makers Conference on Friday, the 50-year-old former NFL linebacker sat down with Yahoo Lifestyle to talk about what it’s like to be one of the most public-facing male survivors in this movement.

“It feels scary, there’s no other way to really describe,” Crews tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “I’ve had a lot of men who are very, very angry.” Crews initially went public with his own #MeToo story in 2017 and has since remained a public face of the movement, even testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2018. But he says his message — that men need to look inward — has infuriated some males.

“They’re angry at me because I’ve changed the narrative. The only way I can describe it is that there’s a movie that everybody’s playing in their head and the movie doesn’t end up the way they want it,” he says. “They’re like, ‘Wait a minute, you’re supposed to beat up everybody you’re supposed to get revenge and everybody is supposed to ride off on their horse. And I’m like, nope. In fact, I’m a survivor, and the truth is sometimes you don’t get justice. You get freedom, that’s the difference.”

“Survivor” is a title that Crews began identifying with after coming forward with assault allegations on Twitter. “This whole thing with Harvey Weinstein is giving me PTSD,” Crews tweeted on Oct. 10, 2017, five days after the New York Timespublished an explosive report (suggesting that Weinstein “paid off” his victims). “Why?” Crews continued. “Because this kind of thing happened to ME.”

The actor went on to detail how, at a party in 2016, a Hollywood executive grabbed his genitals, in front of his wife, while grinning. The actor initially stayed silent about the event, evidently to avoid being “ostracized,” but he later identified the alleged abuser as Adam Venit, a talent agent at William Morris Endeavor. Venit, who reportedly settled a lawsuit with Crews, retired in September 2018.

“Accountability,” Crews tweeted in response to that news.

Although Crews was the one being objectified in that scenario, he says he relates deeply to the culture that likely fueled it. “When you’re talking about toxic masculinity, I was raised in it. I watched my mother getting punched in the face and beaten and intimidated nonstop,” he tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “I was a part of it because I thought, if you can’t beat ’em, join em. I believed that I was more valuable than the women in my life, because everything in my life told me that.”


Actor and activist Terry Crews at the 2019 Makers Conference on Feb 8. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussions to help inspire the women of tomorrow. (Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg)

On the Makers stage, Crews said toxic masculinity centers around strength. “The rules of the toxic gang is literally the bench press, it’s ridiculous,” he says. “It’s like determining whoever gets to run everything, you bench-press the most, you get to run the world.” Crews said dominance is seen as a point of pride. “It was like you weren’t a man until you slept with at least 10 women, used them, abuse them and throw them away,” Crews said on the Makers stage. “Lie to them … and walk away.”


The 2019 MAKERS Conference: Terry Crews - Toxic Masculinity
Terry Crews on the culture of toxic masculinity

Crews took it a step further backstage, implying toxic masculinity is religion-like. “It’s a cult,” he says. “I love being a man. But people have taken this thing and warped it and twisted it … what we’re talking about is an abuse of power. There are men who really believe if you win, I lose. Everything becomes opposites: men are strong, women are weak. I was a card-carrying member of that.”

The moment that Crews says he stopped think that way was when his wife walked out. “I was like what in the world is going on? I got all the trappings: I played in the NFL, I beat somebody’s ***,” he says. “But then a little voice came to me and said, ‘Terry, what if it’s you?’ And I said no, I have everything — I’m strong, rich, successful, I’m the man, I never beat her. You justify and rationalize.”

But after reflecting on what went wrong, Crews realized his wife was right, and he elicited professional help for pornography addiction. Even then, he says, it took years of therapy to unravel his thinking. “It forced me to have a moment of introspection. It was almost like a dark room and a piercing light cracked through, I call it the egg crack. You can’t seal it,” he says. “I was forced to look at myself as I really was, just for a blink. I had made all these excuses as to why I’m a victim. Because when you’re talking about toxic masculinity — pity rules that. Pity is the number one emotion. Feel sorry for me.”

Crews says he found his way out of this toxic thinking by being vulnerable — which he realizes is particularly difficult for men. But that’s the point. “I’m asking guys to look at yourself. That’s it. Don’t look out there. Get alone and examine why you think the way you think,” he says. “It’s scary. But when you’re in a cult, you need deprogramming. That’s the whole thing about being in a cult — you believe the lie.”

 

[Cashflow]

He’s going to keep tap dancing until they give him a book deal

 

[hand2handking]

Wynn Resorts to Settle Nevada Regulator’s Probe
Report marks the first regulatory action against the company related to the scandal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wynn-resorts-to-settle-nevada-regulators-probe-11548711027

Wynn Resorts Ltd. WYNN 0.87% executives turned a blind eye as Steve Wynn over more than a decade was accused of sexually assaulting or harassing cocktail servers, salon workers and flight attendants employed by his casino empire, according to allegations contained in a regulator’s report that the company agreed largely matches its own findings.

The report, known as a complaint and released in tandem Monday with a proposed settlement between Wynn Resorts and the Nevada Gaming Control Board, was prompted by an investigation in The Wall Street Journal last year that described sexual misconduct allegations against Mr. Wynn. Those included that in 2005 he had paid a settlement of $7.5 million to a former manicurist who accused him of forcing her to have sex with him.

In its complaint, the Gaming Control Board said the woman told multiple people at a Wynn casino that she had been “raped” and impregnated by Mr. Wynn.

The report marks the first formal admission by the company of the lack of response by high-level executives to the allegations against Mr. Wynn, as well as the first regulatory action against Wynn Resorts related to the scandal.

The complaint was based on taped interviews conducted by investigators, according to a person familiar with the matter. It added new detail to the stark picture depicted in the Journal’s articles, which documented the allegations against Mr. Wynn in addition to the corporate culture that current and former employers said enabled the behavior.

The Nevada regulators found a number of additional examples and confirmed the extent to which other executives were allegedly made aware of Mr. Wynn’s alleged behavior—but chose to look the other way rather than initiate investigations.

The complaint said Mr. Wynn in 2006 also paid a former cocktail server a $975,000 settlement after she said he “pressured her into a nonconsensual sexual relationship” with him. The existence of the December 2006 settlement, but not the amount, was previously reported by the Journal.

In the proposed settlement with regulators, Wynn Resorts agreed to pay any fine while the board said it wouldn’t seek to limit or revoke any of the company’s licenses to operate its Las Vegas casinos. The amount of any fine will be determined later by the Nevada Gaming Commission, which oversees the Gaming Control Board and which also will consider whether to approve or deny the settlement.

Mr. Wynn has previously said that the idea that he ever assaulted a woman was preposterous. His attorney didn’t respond to a request for comment on Monday. Mr. Wynn stepped down as chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts in February 2018 and sold all of his shares in the company shortly thereafter.

In agreeing to the proposed settlement, Wynn Resorts said its executives “fell short of their culture and commitment in perhaps one of the most important areas for an employer—focusing on its employees,” according to a statement in the proposed settlement.

“We have undergone an extensive self-examination over the last 12 months, intended to reinvigorate and implement meaningful change across all levels of the organization, cultivate a safe, healthy and supportive workplace culture, and build on our core values of respecting our employees, corporate responsibility and citizenship, and service to the community,” Wynn Resorts said in a separate statement.


Mr. Wynn was one of the architects of modern Las Vegas. His resignation last year was a seismic event for the industry. Since then, however, Wynn Resorts has successfully continued to operate two casinos in Las Vegas, as well as casinos in Macau under a new CEO who was long one of Mr. Wynn’s top lieutenants. It has also continued construction of a new casino in Massachusetts.

Those named in the complaint as ignoring employee concerns included former president and chief operating officer Marc Schorr; former vice president of hotel operations Doreen Whennen; and former human resources director Arte Nathan, who had left the company by the time allegations were made public last year by the Journal.

Four other employees were named in the complaint as allegedly ignoring complaints. Former general counsels of the Las Vegas operation Stacie Michaels and Kevin Tourek, along with former Wynn Resorts general counsel Kim Sinatra and former Las Vegas president Maurice Wooden, all left after the Journal articles, according to the company. Another employee not named in the complaint, a former salon executive, also departed.

The company said that no employee mentioned in the regulator’s report remains with the company who was aware of the allegations against Mr. Wynn before the Journal’s articles were published.

Mr. Schorr, Ms. Whennen, Mr. Nathan, and Mr. Wooden declined to comment on Monday. Ms. Michaels and Mr. Tourek couldn’t be reached.

“Ms. Sinatra denies the allegations against her in the complaint. She maintains she conducted herself appropriately at all times,” said James Kramer, a partner at the law firm Orrick who represents her.

Massachusetts gambling regulators also have completed a yearlong investigation of the company, but have been delayed releasing their report because Mr. Wynn is suing the regulators, accusing them of using information protected by attorney-client privilege. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has said in legal filings that it doesn’t believe the information is protected. The case is tied up in Nevada courts.

Nevada regulators didn’t use the information in dispute in drawing up its report, a person familiar with the matter said.

Among the Nevada board’s allegations not previously detailed by the Journal was that a former cocktail waitress and flight attendant had in 2014 accused Mr. Wynn of sexual misconduct that she said took place nearly a decade earlier. Mr. Tourek and Mr. Wooden were aware of the allegations and didn’t investigate them, the regulators said. The company said it had no knowledge that Mr. Tourek or Mr. Wooden knew about those allegations.

The regulators also reported that at least three massage therapists had claimed Mr. Wynn sexually harassed them in 2014 and that several managers and executives were aware of the allegations but didn’t follow procedures to have them investigated. They also reported that a flight attendant for Mr. Wynn wrote an email in 2016 to Mr. Wynn accusing him of engaging in sexual harassment with multiple flight attendants. Mr. Wynn’s personal assistant forwarded the email to Ms. Sinatra and Ms. Michaels, but they didn’t report them or have an investigation conducted, according to the complaint.

The company says it had no knowledge whether Ms. Sinatra or Ms. Michaels knew about the flight attendant’s allegations.

Another allegation laid out by regulators in the complaint involved an employee who allegedly facilitated sexual relationships between cocktail servers and Mr. Wynn or his guests. Mr. Nathan was aware of such rumors but didn’t act on them, according to the complaint.

 

[vood99]

He’s going to keep tap dancing until they give him a book deal

Terry's my guy but he's wilding with that toxic masculinity nonsense.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

They've basically broken Terry Crews. My lord.

Basically telling y'all flat out "we're not punishing our own so keep talking about R Kelly and Bill Cosby"

 

[Guccishades]

now you see why people pay for vagina right?

Or just don’t be so quick to jump into bed with any woman willing to spread her legs for you

 

[ninjahood]

Or just don’t be so quick to jump into bed with any woman willing to spread her legs for you

easier said that done.