I also really liked that the main guy chose to have the "boring" how-was-your-day chatter when he got home, you know, the stuff women are told men want to avoid at all costs.

Given the little I read beforehand, I went in expecting full-on sex bot objectification which I don't think is what was happening at all.

Holy crap this Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment expose in The New Yorker: [link]

FYI, it's a really rough read. After the Asia Argento account, I had to physically leave the office and walk it off, trying not to cry. There is also a follow-up article in NYT on the initial break of the story from a few days ago, with various other actresses coming forth with sometimes decades-old history of harassment at the hand of HW (link to the story). I imagine reporters at NYT and The New Yorker knew about each other's stories and timed this as a precision strike to bury the motherfucker once and for all. Hats off to them, and most of all, to the ladies who braved the storm to come public with all this painful history.

And, ugh, the comments on the NYT piece are just making me despair. People ranting about hypocritical democrats, cowardly women, selfish Hollywood people who will do anything for fame and approval. Sometimes I deeply fucking hate humans.

The victim blaming going around makes me want to vomit. The New Yorker article meticulously lays out why it was almost impossible for any of the women involved to come forth until now. It's heartbreaking how many of the survivors of the assault and victims of harassment were forced make nice and work with the scumbag, sometimes for years afterward, with resultant shame and self-loathing. And how many just left the industry, their dreams broken.

Such bullshit. Fuck him, and fuck anyone who had the power to affect this, and kept quiet. I don't mean people like the women he abused or employees who were forced to be complicit. I mean Matt fucking Damon.

Anytime someone says "Well, why didn't she just-" I want to step on their foot so they choke on the rest of that sentence. It's so arrogant and hard-hearted.

Anytime someone says "Well, why didn't she just-"

Goddamn that Donna Karan. What the shit, lady.

Holy crap this Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment expose in The New Yorker: [link]

And I just noticed it's by Ronan Farrow, which is an extra bit of something.

Went to see Stronger in theater last night before it left the multiplex, the real life story about Jeff Bauman who lost his legs at the Boston Marathon bombing, mostly because Tatiana Maslany plays his girlfriend and I wanted to do my part to support her having a film career. Surprisingly solid film, with minimal mawkishness! Jake Gyllenhaal plays the lead and he is excellent. Maslany is also great, no surprise there.

Annoyingly, there were TWO movies headlined by Miles Teller shown during Coming Attraction, playing a solider and a firefighter, respectively, that struck me as uncomfortably right wing politically. Heroic white dudes with traditionally manly occupations doing heroic white dude stuff, sometimes with PTSD, set to inspiration music, etc. I mean, the solider one was apparently made by the people who did American Sniper so while I am a bit oversensitive these days, I don't think I'm that far off the mark. Both trailers made me cringe. Although that might partly be because Miles Teller has the most punchable face in the industry.

I thought the Josh Brolin firefighter movie looked interesting right up to the moment the trailer revealed it stars Teller. Maybe I'll catch it on cable in a few years so I can record it and fast forward through all his lines.