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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>April 7, 2025 update: On April 4, 2025, London Metropolitan Police charged Russell Brand with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one of oral rape and two of sexual assault.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, following multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/64857/where-did-russell-brand-go-the-answer-is-more-interesting-and-complex-than-youd-think\">Russell Brand\u003c/a> was dropped by his agent, and his book publisher paused future publication of his work. His content was removed from the BBC and Channel 4’s streaming platforms, and YouTube demonetized his channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason was a shocking Sept. 16 episode of Channel 4 investigative series \u003cem>Dispatches,\u003c/em> titled “Russell Brand: In Plain Sight.” The 78-minute show focused largely on five women who said they had terrible personal experiences with Brand. The U.K. \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Sunday Times\u003c/em> newspapers contributed to the year-long research that went into the show and also published stories on the topic. Brand has “absolutely den[ied]” any wrongdoing and described all of his prior sexual encounters as consensual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The episode of \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> is not yet available in the U.S. because of international broadcasting restrictions, so details of the exact allegations against Brand have so far been difficult to pinpoint on this side of the Atlantic. Below are abridged versions of the accusers’ stories, as told to the makers of \u003cem>Dispatches \u003c/em>and broadcast under pseudonyms\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning: Everything that follows is disturbing and, in places, graphic. If you are experiencing trauma for issues relating to sexual assault, please contact \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/resources\">RAINN\u003c/a> on (800) 656-4673. 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And that’s what happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928256']Steadfast assertions about Masterson’s innocence have been par for the course for everyone in his camp ever since accusations by four women — including one ex-girlfriend — first came to public attention in 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement. Each of those women accused Masterson of drugging and raping them at his home between 2001 and 2003. Masterson, his representatives and the Church of Scientology — of which Masterson has been a lifelong member — have been issuing aggressive denials ever since. The first came from attorney Tom Mesereau in 2017: “Mr. Masterson is innocent,” Mesereau said in a statement, “and we’re confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, a statement from Masterson himself said: “This is beyond ridiculous. I’m not going to fight my ex-girlfriend in the media like she’s been baiting me to do for more than two years. I will beat her in court … And once her lawsuit is thrown out, I intend to sue her and the others who jumped on the bandwagon for the damage they caused me and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s unrelenting approach was noted even by Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo directly before she handed down her sentence on Thursday. “I know that you’re sitting here steadfast in your claims of innocence,” Olmedo noted, “and thus no doubt feeling victimized by a justice system that has failed you. But Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here … One way or another, you will have to come to terms with your prior actions and their consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those consequences come now only because of the tenacity, determination and bravery of the women who survived Masterson’s assaults. Referred to during the trial as N. Trout, Jen B. and Christina B. — Masterson’s fourth accuser’s charges never made it to trial — those women have been fighting to be heard for upwards of two decades now. The fact that justice is finally theirs (mostly — the jury failed to reach a verdict when it came to one of the women) must be a gargantuan relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928974']In the earliest days after the alleged attacks, the women, all Scientology members, first had to get past the church’s code of silence and its commitment to handling criminal matters internally. Documents leaked to journalist Tony Ortega in 2017 suggested that when the women reported Masterson to fellow church members in the early 2000s, \u003ca href=\"https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/03/lapd-probing-scientology-and-danny-masterston-for-multiple-rapes-cover-up/\">they were pressured to not report him to outside authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents later revealed that when Christina B. reported her rape to a Scientology “ethics officer,” she was told: “You can’t rape someone that you’re in a relationship with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, when Jen B. asked permission from the church to report Masterson to the police, Scientology officials suggested that the action might result in “disconnection” for her — the practice of shunning church members deemed to be a threat to Scientology. Despite the risk of losing her family, friends and way of life, Jen B. reported her rape to the police the following year — a feat that must have required unbelievable resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the accusations against Masterson did finally come to light more than a decade later, Scientology did its darnedest to discredit the women. So much so that in 2019, Masterson’s four accusers sued Masterson and the church for stalking, invading their privacy and attempting to obstruct justice. At the time, counsel for the Church of Scientology denied all charges and told \u003cem>People\u003c/em>: “This baseless lawsuit will go nowhere because the claims are ludicrous and a sham.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Scientologists have been fighting to stall a resolution in the lawsuit. The church has argued repeatedly that any arbitration must be handled within Scientology and not in a Los Angeles Superior Court. When a ruling came down against that assertion last year, the church then tried to take the case all the way to \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/supreme-court-denies-scientologys-bid-to-ban-danny-masterson-accusers-lawsuit/\">the Supreme Court\u003c/a>. (The court refused to hear the case.) The lawsuit remains frustratingly up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13921719']Moving through the criminal trial phase has been just as arduous. Though originally charged with sexual misconduct in 2017, then with three counts of rape in June 2020, it took until May 2021 for Masterson’s preliminary hearing to begin. When it did, the actor started proceedings by \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2021/05/19/danny-masterson-posts-courthouse-selfie-before-rape-case-hearing/\">posting a smiling selfie taken outside the courthouse\u003c/a> to his Instagram account. Next to his wife Bijou Philips in her car, the caption read: “Had the most beautiful Uber driver drop me off at school today. #uberwife #bijouphillips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image was a smug middle finger to each of his accusers just as they were about to share, on the stand, \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/danny-masterson-allegedly-spit-on-victim-during-rape/\">harrowing and haunting accounts\u003c/a> of the respective nights they spent at his house. Their assaults, they say, included Masterson hitting, spitting on, insulting, restraining, choking them and making threats with a gun. After listening to their stories, the judge asserted that Masterson must face trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trial didn’t start until October 2022, at which time the women had to tell their respective stories yet again — this time, with Masterson’s lawyer asserting throughout that their sexual encounters with the actor had been consensual. When that case resulted in a mistrial, it was hard to imagine how much more these women could take. Still each of them returned to court and told their stories yet again this year. If they hadn’t, Masterson would undoubtedly still be free and living his life, just as he did during the many years when fear and intimidation kept three of his accusers silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make no mistake, Masterson’s survivors have had to scale impossibly high hurdles from the get-go. This has been a case that, for them, has dragged on and on, first behind closed doors, then within an institution they trusted but that ultimately failed them, then more recently in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Masterson’s sentencing, one of the women emphasized: “I lost everything. I lost my religion. I lost my ability to contact anyone I’d known or loved my entire life. I didn’t exist outside the Scientology world. I had to start my life all over at 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914526']Despite it all, once these women committed to see this case through, they never gave up. They never backed down. They kept telling their stories again and again and again. They kept going despite every miserable, soul-destroying thing that got thrown at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to cases involving sexual violence, the wheels of justice move at a pace that is excruciating to watch, let alone live through. The way these cases drag on only extends the length of time that accusers must tolerate barbs, insults and insinuations about their character. That isn’t just deeply frustrating for those involved, it acts as a major disincentive to other survivors considering coming forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the women who prompted Danny Masterson’s trial just did wasn’t just an important reminder to survivors to keep going, it was profoundly satisfying for those of us who have long been frustrated by the lack of real, quantifiable justice that has resulted from the #MeToo movement. We all owe these women a debt of gratitude for the relief of seeing that sometimes justice is possible, no matter how many barriers are standing in the way.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Monday night’s double episode of Bravo’s \u003cem>Below Deck Down Under\u003c/em>, viewers saw show producers intervening to prevent a sexual assault by one crew member (a man) on another. After the offender was fired, another crew member (a woman) who had been repeatedly refusing to hear “no” from the guy she was interested in, and who had been touching him repeatedly after he asked her not to, was shown the door as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a jarring look for a franchise that has frequently reveled in what’s sometimes been abusive behavior by very drunk people for a total of 24 seasons — 10 of original \u003cem>Below Deck\u003c/em>, seven of \u003cem>Below Deck Mediterranean\u003c/em>, four of \u003cem>Below Deck Sailing Yacht\u003c/em>, one of \u003cem>Below Deck Adventure\u003c/em>, and two of \u003cem>Below Deck Down Under\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931297']To set the scene, in the world of these shows, you have the interior crew — usually, but not always, women — who serve guests meals and drinks, clean cabins, do laundry, and run the entertainment. The exterior crew (led by the bosun) — usually, but not always, men — clean the boat, handle docking and run the tender (the little auxiliary boat), manage all the jet skis and giant inflatables and other things that are set out for rich people to use, and set up and break down everything on the outside for guests. There’s also a chef. As for the guests, they’re rich enough to charter the yacht, but not so rich that they have a yacht of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rhythm of the show is that after a charter trip ends, the crew cleans up, and they have a night out in whatever cool location the yacht happens to be docked. Typically, they go to a restaurant for dinner and then some kind of a club to drink and dance, and then they stumble back onto the yacht, sometimes they fool around, sometimes they get in the hot tub, and then they pass out for the night. Hookups are frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43v5f2lrWY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘She said no’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday night’s double episode, headed back to the yacht in a van after a night of drinking, third stew Margot was half-passed-out with her head in bosun Luke’s lap, and Luke (who’s been pursuing her all season) began to make “jokes” about hooking up with her later. Aesha, the chief stew (if you watch \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em>, you just saw Aesha as Bishme’s model), clocked this situation and its dangers immediately. As they got out of the van, she announced that she was going to see Margot inside and put her to bed, and Luke was going to scram. And that’s what happened, at first. Aesha tucked Margot into her upper bunk in her tiny cabin and stepped out, and that should have been the end of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a power outage on the boat that led to some chaos. And suddenly, there was Luke, walking around the crew area completely naked, holding a towel in front of his crotch. He let himself into Margot’s room, where she was fully either asleep or passed out, depending on how you choose to describe the heavy sleep that follows heavy drinking. Fully naked, he hoisted himself up and crawled into her bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the producer voices started, ordering Luke to get out of Margot’s bed. He initially resisted, there was a confrontation that included a lot of door-slamming, and eventually Luke went back to his own room, angry. He was hauled off the boat and put in a hotel, and in the morning, Luke was fired. (There are more details in \u003ca href=\"https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2023/08/below-deck-down-under-seasons-2-attempted-assault/\">this good wrap-up\u003c/a> from Andy Dehnart at \u003cem>Reality Blurred\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But wait, there’s more\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now: There are layers upon layers in a show like this. The show narrative is that the captain, Jason, made the decisions to remove Luke from the boat and to fire him, but it’s hard to imagine he had any choice. One would hope the Bravo people (including the lawyers) would have had it no other way, no matter what releases anybody signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whatever the production involvement, the story as presented by the show ended up effectively laying out some pretty basic pieces of how an event like that can happen, and what the aftermath can be. It showed how Aesha identified the risk and tried to protect Margot, and how quickly things turned in the close quarters of a boat where people have easy physical access to each other. It showed how Margot blamed herself in the morning for being drunk and too “flirty.” Aesha and Tzarina, the chef, assured her that no matter how drunk you are, nobody gets to assault you. These things might seem pretty basic to people who follow discussions about sexual violence, but they’re relatively advanced for, you know, \u003cem>Below Deck\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13932418']Luke’s departure was not the end. Second stew Laura had grown interested in a Brooklyn-born deckhand named Adam. At dinner, Adam told her plainly that he only wanted to be friends. She persisted: He would never be interested in sex with her? No. He wanted to be friends. He sometimes smiled nervously, or chuckled, but he communicated clearly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later, on the yacht, Laura was continuing to touch Adam constantly, including in the hot tub. At one point it appeared that she grabbed him under the water, given the way he jumped away and said “\u003cem>Stop \u003c/em>that.” He eventually agreed to a massage that she swore wouldn’t be sexual (perhaps hoping it would defuse the situation), but when she actually came into his room to try to do it, he insisted the door stay open and then tried to bore and ignore her into leaving. 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It is a curious impulse, this idea that had someone understood that you really did not want them to do what they were doing, surely they would not have done it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much-too-drunken sailors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s some useful material in this episode that burbles up from all the absurdity. Obviously, it’s about consent, and about how you cannot climb into the bed of a person who hasn’t invited you particularly if they’re passed out or sleeping, particularly if you’re naked. And furthermore, you can’t keep handling anybody of any gender when they’ve asked you not to. These are, you might say, the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the whole incident raises another uncomfortable issue. Alcohol plays a critical role in many reality-show franchises. Your housewives, your people who stop being polite and start getting real, and most definitely your bachelors and bachelorettes, all have historically done a tremendous amount of drinking. But \u003cem>Below Deck \u003c/em>has always had, to me, a particularly fraught relationship with being not merely drunk, but blackout drunk. Uncomfortable levels of physical aggression and confrontation have sometimes followed these nights out, as have mornings in which apologies are of limited value coming from apologizers who clearly have no memory of what they did. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/film-tv/below-deck-eddie-lucas-baltimore-bravo-UNWBBMNDK5HQREVAXQ3GW52NII/\">an interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>The Baltimore Banner\u003c/em>, Eddie Lucas, who’s appeared on several seasons of \u003cem>Below Deck \u003c/em>as a deckhand and bosun, said this about the nights out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And then also, when we get off charter, and they’re [the producers are] like, “Oh, you know, go out, have dinner, have a good time.” You’re like, “I’d rather just get some sleep” and they’re like, “No, you’re gonna drink. You’re gonna drink and you’re gonna stay up until four in the morning, and you’re going to like it!”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863206']As Tzarina said, the alcohol is obviously not an excuse for the behavior, but encouraging this kind of drinking has risks. And watching the producers swoop in here only reminds you how often they do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> swoop in. They watch people get in fights, punch things, scream at each other, drink until they’re sick, drink until they have to be carried home, drink until they have no idea what they’re doing — in a way, seeing producers become visible in one instance makes them hover like ghosts at the edges in all the past situations they’ve allowed to unfold (encouraged to unfold?) without any obvious intervention. Whether any other case like \u003cem>this \u003c/em>has come up, I don’t know. But many, many of these nights have looked like they could erupt dangerously at any time, and I can’t remember ever hearing a producer say, “You’ve had enough, stop drinking, go to bed.” Either they haven’t done it, or they haven’t wanted to show that they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then this week, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2023/08/porn-violentce-claims-bethenny-frankel-lawsuit-reality-tv-nbcuniveral-bravo-1235454964/\">\u003cem>Deadline reported\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that attorneys who say they represent a number of cast and crew from NBC Universal’s reality shows (that seems to mostly mean Bravo) sent a letter to the company demanding that possible evidence be retained in anticipation of future litigation over what the letter calls “grotesque and depraved mistreatment of the reality stars and crewmembers.” And the first bullet point they allege is plying people with alcohol (while denying them food and sleep) in an effort to intentionally degrade their mental health. Another is “covering up acts of sexual violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not going to lie: I often fast-forward through the crew nights out at this point, precisely because they always seem vaguely menacing. I watch this show as a workplace show, as hard as that might be to believe. I like it for the parts where the impossible guests want endless espresso martinis and the deck crew is desperate not to have to inflate the water slide again and everybody is juggling impossible tasks. I am bored stiff by long sequences where people do shots and slur into each other’s ears and scream at each other in the hot tub. You know what I like? I like the tension of a moment where the chef forgot that one of the guests is gluten-free and now they have to improvise. I like the parts where somebody suddenly wants an umpteen-course dinner and the crew is shorthanded because somebody is seasick. I like it when rich people insist on their beach picnic and then get rained on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5lX0g2aSsg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, as with every good reality show, I admit I like it when people I don’t like get their comeuppance, usually in the form of getting fired. If one person isn’t doing their share of the work and the captain calls them in and says they’re bounced, that offers a little shiver of satisfaction, just like when a jerk gets voted off \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>. Not like this, though. Really, not like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, all that stuff, all that kind of lighthearted workplace stuff, comes alongside all the parts that I might fast-forward through, but they still happened. (For the “all this is entirely scripted!” crowd, let me say: I wish.) And on the one hand, it’s good to know there’s \u003cem>something \u003c/em>producers will step in to prevent. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As Tzarina said, the alcohol is obviously not an excuse for the behavior, but encouraging this kind of drinking has risks. And watching the producers swoop in here only reminds you how often they do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> swoop in. They watch people get in fights, punch things, scream at each other, drink until they’re sick, drink until they have to be carried home, drink until they have no idea what they’re doing — in a way, seeing producers become visible in one instance makes them hover like ghosts at the edges in all the past situations they’ve allowed to unfold (encouraged to unfold?) without any obvious intervention. Whether any other case like \u003cem>this \u003c/em>has come up, I don’t know. But many, many of these nights have looked like they could erupt dangerously at any time, and I can’t remember ever hearing a producer say, “You’ve had enough, stop drinking, go to bed.” Either they haven’t done it, or they haven’t wanted to show that they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then this week, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2023/08/porn-violentce-claims-bethenny-frankel-lawsuit-reality-tv-nbcuniveral-bravo-1235454964/\">\u003cem>Deadline reported\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that attorneys who say they represent a number of cast and crew from NBC Universal’s reality shows (that seems to mostly mean Bravo) sent a letter to the company demanding that possible evidence be retained in anticipation of future litigation over what the letter calls “grotesque and depraved mistreatment of the reality stars and crewmembers.” And the first bullet point they allege is plying people with alcohol (while denying them food and sleep) in an effort to intentionally degrade their mental health. Another is “covering up acts of sexual violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not going to lie: I often fast-forward through the crew nights out at this point, precisely because they always seem vaguely menacing. I watch this show as a workplace show, as hard as that might be to believe. I like it for the parts where the impossible guests want endless espresso martinis and the deck crew is desperate not to have to inflate the water slide again and everybody is juggling impossible tasks. I am bored stiff by long sequences where people do shots and slur into each other’s ears and scream at each other in the hot tub. You know what I like? I like the tension of a moment where the chef forgot that one of the guests is gluten-free and now they have to improvise. I like the parts where somebody suddenly wants an umpteen-course dinner and the crew is shorthanded because somebody is seasick. I like it when rich people insist on their beach picnic and then get rained on.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/h5lX0g2aSsg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/h5lX0g2aSsg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And, as with every good reality show, I admit I like it when people I don’t like get their comeuppance, usually in the form of getting fired. If one person isn’t doing their share of the work and the captain calls them in and says they’re bounced, that offers a little shiver of satisfaction, just like when a jerk gets voted off \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>. Not like this, though. Really, not like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, all that stuff, all that kind of lighthearted workplace stuff, comes alongside all the parts that I might fast-forward through, but they still happened. (For the “all this is entirely scripted!” crowd, let me say: I wish.) And on the one hand, it’s good to know there’s \u003cem>something \u003c/em>producers will step in to prevent. On the other hand, it would be good to let people stay in and get some sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece also appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations about what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/9780525655114_custom-6207346a1004c379f66a37b2236d641be08625ba-800x1184.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a shirtless man standing on a beach wearing a horned mask.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/9780525655114_custom-6207346a1004c379f66a37b2236d641be08625ba-800x1184.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/9780525655114_custom-6207346a1004c379f66a37b2236d641be08625ba-1020x1510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/9780525655114_custom-6207346a1004c379f66a37b2236d641be08625ba-160x237.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/9780525655114_custom-6207346a1004c379f66a37b2236d641be08625ba-768x1137.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/9780525655114_custom-6207346a1004c379f66a37b2236d641be08625ba-1038x1536.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/9780525655114_custom-6207346a1004c379f66a37b2236d641be08625ba.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma,’ by Claire Dederer. \u003ccite>(Penguin Random House)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I gave a talk at a conference in honor of the late writer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2007/11/10/15573385/norman-mailer-author-and-social-critic-dies-at-84\">Norman Mailer\u003c/a>. When I mentioned this conference in class to my Georgetown students, a couple of them blurted out, “But, he stabbed his wife.” I could feel the mood in that classroom shifting: The students seemed puzzled, disappointed even. What was I doing speaking at a conference in honor of a man capable of such an act?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='forum_2010101892940']The situation was reversed at the conference itself: When I confessed in my talk that, much as I revere Mailer’s nonfiction writing, I was just as glad never to have met him, some audience members were taken aback, offended on Mailer’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Mailer’s writing had always been as bad as his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/10/26/240289747/norman-mailer-warts-and-all-in-a-double-life\">sporadic behavior\u003c/a> there would be no problem. But as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892940/can-you-love-the-art-of-a-person-you-loathe\">Claire Dederer\u003c/a> points out in her superb new book, \u003cem>Monsters\u003c/em>, the problem arises when great art is made by men who’ve done bad things: men like Picasso, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/30/982637327/ken-burns-hemingway-docuseries-dives-into-the-writers-complicated-life\">Hemingway\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/18/1112004834/polanski-sex-case-sentencing\">Roman Polanski\u003c/a>, Miles Davis, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812687472/after-woody-allens-memoir-was-signed-book-publisher-s-employees-walk-out\">Woody Allen\u003c/a> and, yes, Mailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do we put blinders on and just focus on the work? Do geniuses, as Dederer asks, get a “hall pass” for their behavior? Or, do we “cancel” the art of men — and some women — who’ve done “monstrous” things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope that Dederer herself doesn’t turn out to be a monster because I flat-out admire her book and want to share it with my students. As a thinker, Dederer is smart, informed, nuanced and very funny. She started out as a film critic and credits Pauline Kael as a model for grounding her judgments in her own subjectivity, her own emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923921']The subtitle of \u003cem>Monsters \u003c/em>is \u003cem>A Fan’s Dilemma\u003c/em>: the dilemma being still loving, say, the music of Wagner or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/699995484/michael-jackson-a-quarter-century-of-sexual-abuse-allegations\">Michael Jackson\u003c/a>; still being caught up in movies like \u003cem>Chinatown\u003c/em> or maybe even \u003cem>Manhattan\u003c/em>. In short, Dederer wants to dive deep into the murk of being “unwilling to give up the work [of art you love], and [yet, also being] unwilling to look away from the stain [of the monster who created it].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1131500833/me-too-harvey-weinstein-anniversary\">#MeToo \u003c/a>movement propels this exploration but so, too, does our own social media, biography-saturated moment: “When I was young,” Dederer writes, “it was hard to find information about artists whose work I loved. Record albums and books appeared before us as if they had arrived after hurtling through space’s black reaches, unmoored from all context.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, however, “[w]e turn on \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em>, and whether we want to or not, we think of Michael Richard’s racist rant … Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you can hear in those quotes how alive Dederer’s own critical language is. She also frequently flings open the door of the stuffy seminar room, so to speak, to take her readers along on field trips: There’s a swank dinner in New York with an intimidating “man of letters” who, she says, likes to play the part, “ironically but not — ties and blazers and low-key misogyny and brown alcohol in a tumbler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she expresses distaste for Allen’s \u003cem>Manhattan \u003c/em>normalizing a middle-aged man in a relationship with a 17-year-old he tells her to “Get over it. You really need to judge it strictly on aesthetics.” Dederer confesses to finding herself put off-balance in that conversation, doubting herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928256']We also march through a Picasso show at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the company of Dederer and her children. 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Previously, the drugging could only be implied when the women testified to feeling disoriented, losing memory and going unconscious to a degree that could not be explained by the alcohol they had consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening statements Monday, Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller said all three women had consumed drinks Masterson had given them, and that the “evidence will show that they were drugged.” The defense says there is no such evidence beyond the women’s stories. And defense attorney Philip Cohen made clear to jurors that “there is no drugging charge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New role for Scientology\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Church of Scientology loomed large at Masterson’s trial. It could loom larger still in his retrial, with Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowing expert testimony on Scientology that she denied the first time.\u003cbr>\nMasterson is a prominent member of the church. All three of his accusers are former members who grew disillusioned with the institution in the aftermath of their alleged assaults, saying that church officials told them what had happened to them was not rape, and that its policies prevented them from going to police. The church vehemently denied having any such policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two opposing experts set to testify embody the stark cultural divides the church sometimes creates. The prosecution’s expert, Claire Headley, is a former official in Scientology’s leadership group, known as the Sea Org, who became a staunch church foe, suing it in 2009 over her experience. The defense’s expert is Hugh Martin Whitt, a current high-level Scientologist who is Headley’s estranged stepfather.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The defendant\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Masterson, 47, an actor since childhood, got his major break when he was cast as Stephen Hyde on the retro sitcom\u003cem> That ’70s Show\u003c/em>, which also starred Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Topher Grace and would run on Fox from 1998 until 2006. At the time of the alleged assaults, his career was at its peak, and his house near Hollywood with a backyard pool and Jacuzzi was a social hub. It was also, according to prosecutors, the scene of all three crimes. Masterson had pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have repeatedly denied all of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The first accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the women Masterson is charged with raping was born into a Scientology family and was part of Masterson’s circle of friends. Nearly all of those closest to her were members, including the late Lisa Marie Presley, who also left the church long before her death in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13918217']The woman said that when she stopped by Masterson’s house to pick up a set of keys in 2003, he gave her a drink that left her sick and badly disoriented, and raped her in his bedroom upstairs. She first filed a police report, which did not lead to an arrest, in 2004. She returned to authorities in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The second accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first accuser to take the stand at the retrial is a model and actor who was Masterson’s girlfriend from 1996 to 2002. She previously testified that Masterson grew increasingly physically and sexually abusive in their years together. She said that it eventually led to him raping her twice late in 2001, though he is only charged with one instance, a morning when she woke to find Masterson raping her. She would go to police 15 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The third accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third woman at the center of the trial had only recently met Masterson through mutual friends in the church, which she had joined as a teenager. She testified that in 2003 that Masterson invited her to his house, where they were alone. She said she was clear that she wanted no sex, but he convinced her to get into his jacuzzi then took her to his bed, where he raped her. She went to police in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they were victims of sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigation and arrest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Police revealed they were investigating Masterson in March of 2017. Hollywood’s #MeToo firestorm would begin about six months later, and in the midst of it Masterson would be written off \u003cem>The Ranch\u003c/em>, a Netflix Western comedy where he had reunited with Kutcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was arrested and charged with three rapes in 2020, and in 2021 a judge ruled the evidence was strong enough for him to be tried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men stand side-by-side in court, wearing suits and pandemic-era face masks. One has short curly hair, the other has white straight, chin-length hair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Masterson and his lawyer Thomas Mesereau at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, Los Angeles in September 2020. The actor was arraigned on rape charges. \u003ccite>(Lucy Nicholson - Pool/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The first trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s monthlong first trial began last October. Masterson, free on bail, was accompanied to court by a large group of friends and family with ties to both Scientology and the entertainment industry, including his wife and the mother of his child, actor and model Bijou Phillips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908090']The three accusers gave emotional and often traumatic testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller argued that the evidence pointed clearly to Masterson being a “rapist” who created an environment in his home that allowed him to prey on women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen argued that the women’s testimony was hopelessly riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, fewer than half of jurors voted to convict on any of the counts. 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"content": "\u003cp>Andrew Callaghan, a documentarian behind YouTube’s \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em> and HBO’s \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em>, is known for chronicling spectacles from Phish shows to white nationalist rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month, the 25-year-old was himself the story after thousands of social media users saw a pattern of misconduct in first- and second-hand accounts of women’s experiences that were shared across platforms in public comments and videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan addressed the allegations in an Instagram post on Sunday, apologizing to the women and pledging to examine his behavior in therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many who follow Callaghan’s work, the incident raises questions about Gen Z’s tolerance for sexually questionable behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an account of what has happened as of Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who is Andrew Callaghan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8.jpg\" alt=\"An unkempt young white man with messy shoulder length hair looks into a camera. He is sitting in a white living room.\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8.jpg 608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube star and documentary film-maker Andrew Callaghan has publicly apologized after women came forward to say he sexually assaulted or coerced them.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Callaghan is a self-styled journalist for the digital age whose irreverent YouTube videos have earned him fame across several platforms. His brand, \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em> news, has 600,000 followers on Instagram and another 2.25 million on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan got his start while a student at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he launched a YouTube series called \u003cem>Quarter Confessions.\u003c/em> Wearing pale suits and carrying a corded microphone, Callaghan interviewed intoxicated Bourbon Street party-goers, editing together their wildest statements with quick cuts and intentionally outdated effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, he took that style of filmmaking across the country in a beat-up RV, stopping for interviews at sites like a flat-earthers’ conference and the Talladega Speedway. The show, \u003cem>All Gas No Brakes\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/style/all-gas-no-brakes.html\">fell apart in 2021 after a contract dispute\u003c/a> with its production company, Doing Things Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan then started the Patreon-funded\u003cem> Channel 5. \u003c/em>The series has amassed over 106 million YouTube views since April 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His following has only broadened since the Dec. 30 release of his first HBO documentary, \u003cem>This Place Rules, \u003c/em>which examines the cultural divisions underlying the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_rX9S6sU8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with legacy journalists about his unfiltered reporting, Callaghan has defended his popularity among younger millennials and elder Gen Z’ers as a bit of media mockery in the service of media literacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says giving airtime to fringe voices is an actual form of reporting in an age of overwhelming journalistic punditry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there is a massive divide in America, you’re going to find interviews on the fringe,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1146453216/andrew-callaghan-on-new-jan-6-documentary-this-place-rules\">said in a recent interview with NPR\u003c/a>. “What we try to do is physically speak to people, actually show up and be there and ask people simple questions like, ‘What’s on your mind? How are you feeling?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he lets the subjects “guide the conversation” in contrast to cable news reporters who use talking-head panels to “get the viewer as pissed off as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Here’s when the allegations began to spread\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The claims against Callaghan began to go viral on Jan. 5, when a TikTok user who goes by the name Caroline Elise (@cornbreadasserole) posted a 2-minute video saying Callaghan pressured her into performing sexual acts with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923167']She said Callaghan, whom she’d been messaging on Instagram, asked to stay over at her house because he’d had a falling out with a crew member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very clear about the fact that we are not hooking up,” she said. “He gets in my bed and wears me down to the point where I eventually do agree to do things I wasn’t proud of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 7, she posted again, sharing screenshots of messages she exchanged with Callaghan in 2021 and a photo of them together. She also shared screenshots of at least 10 messages from people saying they’d had a similar experience with Callaghan or knew of someone who had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise has since deleted the videos from her TikTok feed, saying the response had diminished her mental health. But other users have saved and continue to share the videos across other platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/waveninja1/status/1612866496266645505\">One version of it posted to Twitter\u003c/a> has been viewed over 756,000 times. \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1702531869\">A version shared on a Twitch livestream\u003c/a> has over 833,000 views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/waveninja1/status/1612866496266645505\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise said she didn’t want to talk directly to NPR also for mental health reasons. She instead put us in touch with a long-time friend, whose name we’ve agreed to withhold over her fears of online harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend said that Callaghan knew how Caroline Elise felt about the incident months before she’d ever posted it to TikTok. The friend shared screenshots of Instagram posts from August 2021, in which the friend warned other women in her city that Callaghan had “knowingly assaulted my friend and got away with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend also shared screenshots of a text message conversation that took place between Callaghan and Caroline Elise in December 2021, after Caroline Elise had confronted Callaghan about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one long message, Callaghan said he recognized that the social power dynamics at play “can dramatically warp consent” and had tried to unpack his behavior in therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that “prior partners” from New Orleans and Nashville had reached out to him in response to the Instagram posts and had “started dialogues with him that have benefitted all our lives for the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do whatever I possibly can to be accountable and support you in whatever way you’d like,” the message continues. “It would mean the world to me to be able to have an open conversation with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A second accuser claims Callaghan sexually assaulted her in 2019\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s video prompted another woman, a TikTok user who goes by the name Dana (@moldyfreckle), to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of videos, Dana said Callaghan assaulted her on a drive home from dinner, first kissing her neck, then putting his hand down her pants and putting her hands on his crotch as she was telling him to stop. Callaghan left the car after she’d asked multiple times, Dana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7186167704103996715\" data-video-id=\"7186167704103996715\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a> Part 4. This will be my last video tonight. \u003ca title=\"andrewcallaghan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/andrewcallaghan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#andrewcallaghan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"allgasnobrakes\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/allgasnobrakes?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#allgasnobrakes\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"thisplacerules\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thisplacerules?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thisplacerules\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"channel5\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/channel5?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#channel5\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7186167830167997226?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana later posted a video showing screenshots of her messages with Callahan in January 2019. She hasn’t responded to multiple requests from NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the responses to her videos, Dana dismissed ideas that she was seeking clout, money or trying to sabotage Callaghan’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to let someone else go through this alone,” she said in her TikTok post, referencing Caroline’s video. “I’m just saying the truth right now and I don’t care what you believe, but I want other women who he’s affected to feel comfortable talking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the stories from Dana and Caroline Elise have remained the most widely shared and commented upon, several other people have since posted in comments or videos claiming similarly pushy sexual behavior. They say their experiences with Callaghan formed a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan respond?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Callaghan thanked the people who’d spoken out about “different ways in which my behavior has made them feel uncomfortable or pressured during a sexual situation” and apologized to them, as well as his collaborators. He did not single out any particular accusations, or confirm or deny any specific accusations circulating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CndGN_Av97E/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did, however, say that he thought many of the accusations were missing important contextual information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make a few things clear: I’ve always taken no for an answer,” he said. “As far as consent, I’ve never overstepped that line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until this point, I didn’t really realize that I had this pattern that affected multiple people,” he said, later adding that he thought going home from a bar alone “made you a loser” and that “persistence was a form of flattery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan had largely laid low online and in public \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/this-place-rules-is-a-peoples-history-of-january-6-documentary-npr-cnn/\">since a tumultuous live interview\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/events/822709/this-place-rules-hbo-original-screening-and-conversation-with-gonzo-journalist-andrew-callaghan-on-the-jan-6-insurrection\">NPR member station WBUR\u003c/a> on Jan. 4. He explained in the video that he’d waited nearly two weeks to respond because he was in a state of shock and “spiraled into a mental health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan also said he believes alcohol may have contributed to his decision-making and said that he’s planning to join a 12-step program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD8g_ZfcrEo\">posted YouTube\u003c/a> and TikTok videos on Wednesday evening saying that she didn’t believe the apology was genuine and she didn’t forgive him, but also that she was finished talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7189806338938178862\" data-video-id=\"7189806338938178862\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7189806337738443566?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fed up, and I know other people are getting fed up,” she said. “It’s called karma. It’s not blackmail. It’s not revenge, it’s just how it goes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise had not publicly addressed Callaghan’s statements at the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about the blackmail claims?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three days before Callaghan’s Instagram video, news outlets \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/12/andrew-callaghan-all-gas-no-brakes-responds-sexual-assault-accusation/\">like TMZ\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/andrew-callaghan-allegations-tim-heidecker-1235484693/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> \u003c/a>published portions of a statement, shared by a “legal representative” for Callaghan, which acknowledged Callaghan’s need to re-evaluate his behavior but also pointed to “multiple sides to a story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While every dynamic is open to interpretation and proper communication is critical from all those involved, repeated requests for money should not be part of these conversations,” reads the statement, according to both outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Callaghan’s agent or publicist responded to NPR’s request for confirmation of the statement. Callaghan hasn’t responded to multiple NPR attempts to reach him through his social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend shared a screenshot of one message Caroline Elise sent to Callaghan six days before posting the allegations on TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message includes the handle of Caroline Elise’s Venmo account. She wrote Callaghan could use it if “HBO cuts you a fat check, and you in any way feel like helping contribute to the massive amounts of therapy bills I have accrued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend told NPR that’s the only time Caroline Elise had brought up the prospect of him reimbursing her in their conversations together. Callaghan never responded to the text, Caroline Elise’s friend said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise confirmed through her friend that she shared the allegation to raise awareness of Callaghan’s behavior. She has no plans to file a police report or a lawsuit, her friend told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 591px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg 591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot provided to NPR by a close friend of the TikTok user Caroline, who claims Andrew Callaghan coerced her into having sex in 2021. \u003ccite>(Screenshot provided to NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan’s fans react to the allegations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The claims, statements and reaction quickly spread on several social media platforms, where users, many of them anonymous, dissected Callaghan’s behavior in ways reminiscent of 2016’s #MeToo eruption, but with new cancel culture considerations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reddit forum r/Channel5ive, which is in the top 5% of Reddit communities by size, was once dedicated to Callaghan fan adoration. Now it contains over 100 posts dedicated to investigating the allegations and debating which of the alleged behaviors crossed the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drinking with someone, inviting someone into your home, even inviting someone into your bed does not equal consent,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Channel5ive/comments/105vp67/whatever_the_truth_is_we_as_a_community_need_to/\">wrote one user in a post\u003c/a> that received 1,100 up votes and 382 comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saying let’s just ‘cancel’ the whole thing, but I really don’t like people saying we can just separate his journalism from his misconduct,” posted another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to requests by users, moderators eventually removed a Patreon link supporting Callaghan’s work and replaced it with a link to the National Women’s Law Center, which helps victims of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/_letterbxmb/status/1612620941619597313\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube and Twitch streamers whose audiences overlap with Callaghan’s also parsed through the allegations and apology, trying to glean universal lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitch streamer Hasan Piker (@Hasanabi), who boasts 2.3 million subscribers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woYpUM0EKqg\">said in his third video mentioning the allegations\u003c/a> that Callaghan’s apology is promising but that it’s only natural that his fans wait before passing judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are not going to read this with any kind of charitability,” because Callaghan hasn’t done anything yet to demonstrate how he’s changed, Piker predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What does this mean for ‘Channel 5’ and Callaghan’s work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his video apology, Callaghan said he wasn’t sure what comes next, but he wanted to take a step back from public life while he processed his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m only 25 years old and I have my whole life ahead of me,” he said, adding that reporting was still his first love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Heidecker, a comedian who helped produce \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em>, addressed the allegations on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/234-atsuko-okatsuka/id1153746716?i=1000594133836\">his \u003cem>Office Hours\u003c/em> podcast last Thursday\u003c/a> by saying he had no plans to collaborate with Callaghan again in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OfficeHrsLive/status/1613596594925981696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no professional relationship with Andrew at this time and have no plans to have any relationship with him,” Heidecker said, speaking on behalf of his comedy and production partner, Eric Wareheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A publicist for Heidecker and Wareheim told NPR the pair had no updated comments on Callaghan’s apology. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise said she didn’t want to talk directly to NPR also for mental health reasons. She instead put us in touch with a long-time friend, whose name we’ve agreed to withhold over her fears of online harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend said that Callaghan knew how Caroline Elise felt about the incident months before she’d ever posted it to TikTok. The friend shared screenshots of Instagram posts from August 2021, in which the friend warned other women in her city that Callaghan had “knowingly assaulted my friend and got away with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend also shared screenshots of a text message conversation that took place between Callaghan and Caroline Elise in December 2021, after Caroline Elise had confronted Callaghan about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one long message, Callaghan said he recognized that the social power dynamics at play “can dramatically warp consent” and had tried to unpack his behavior in therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that “prior partners” from New Orleans and Nashville had reached out to him in response to the Instagram posts and had “started dialogues with him that have benefitted all our lives for the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do whatever I possibly can to be accountable and support you in whatever way you’d like,” the message continues. “It would mean the world to me to be able to have an open conversation with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A second accuser claims Callaghan sexually assaulted her in 2019\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s video prompted another woman, a TikTok user who goes by the name Dana (@moldyfreckle), to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of videos, Dana said Callaghan assaulted her on a drive home from dinner, first kissing her neck, then putting his hand down her pants and putting her hands on his crotch as she was telling him to stop. Callaghan left the car after she’d asked multiple times, Dana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7186167704103996715\" data-video-id=\"7186167704103996715\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a> Part 4. This will be my last video tonight. \u003ca title=\"andrewcallaghan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/andrewcallaghan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#andrewcallaghan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"allgasnobrakes\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/allgasnobrakes?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#allgasnobrakes\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"thisplacerules\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thisplacerules?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thisplacerules\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"channel5\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/channel5?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#channel5\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7186167830167997226?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana later posted a video showing screenshots of her messages with Callahan in January 2019. She hasn’t responded to multiple requests from NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the responses to her videos, Dana dismissed ideas that she was seeking clout, money or trying to sabotage Callaghan’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to let someone else go through this alone,” she said in her TikTok post, referencing Caroline’s video. “I’m just saying the truth right now and I don’t care what you believe, but I want other women who he’s affected to feel comfortable talking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the stories from Dana and Caroline Elise have remained the most widely shared and commented upon, several other people have since posted in comments or videos claiming similarly pushy sexual behavior. They say their experiences with Callaghan formed a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan respond?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Callaghan thanked the people who’d spoken out about “different ways in which my behavior has made them feel uncomfortable or pressured during a sexual situation” and apologized to them, as well as his collaborators. He did not single out any particular accusations, or confirm or deny any specific accusations circulating.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>He did, however, say that he thought many of the accusations were missing important contextual information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make a few things clear: I’ve always taken no for an answer,” he said. “As far as consent, I’ve never overstepped that line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until this point, I didn’t really realize that I had this pattern that affected multiple people,” he said, later adding that he thought going home from a bar alone “made you a loser” and that “persistence was a form of flattery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan had largely laid low online and in public \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/this-place-rules-is-a-peoples-history-of-january-6-documentary-npr-cnn/\">since a tumultuous live interview\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/events/822709/this-place-rules-hbo-original-screening-and-conversation-with-gonzo-journalist-andrew-callaghan-on-the-jan-6-insurrection\">NPR member station WBUR\u003c/a> on Jan. 4. He explained in the video that he’d waited nearly two weeks to respond because he was in a state of shock and “spiraled into a mental health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan also said he believes alcohol may have contributed to his decision-making and said that he’s planning to join a 12-step program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD8g_ZfcrEo\">posted YouTube\u003c/a> and TikTok videos on Wednesday evening saying that she didn’t believe the apology was genuine and she didn’t forgive him, but also that she was finished talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7189806338938178862\" data-video-id=\"7189806338938178862\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7189806337738443566?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fed up, and I know other people are getting fed up,” she said. “It’s called karma. It’s not blackmail. It’s not revenge, it’s just how it goes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise had not publicly addressed Callaghan’s statements at the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about the blackmail claims?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three days before Callaghan’s Instagram video, news outlets \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/12/andrew-callaghan-all-gas-no-brakes-responds-sexual-assault-accusation/\">like TMZ\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/andrew-callaghan-allegations-tim-heidecker-1235484693/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> \u003c/a>published portions of a statement, shared by a “legal representative” for Callaghan, which acknowledged Callaghan’s need to re-evaluate his behavior but also pointed to “multiple sides to a story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While every dynamic is open to interpretation and proper communication is critical from all those involved, repeated requests for money should not be part of these conversations,” reads the statement, according to both outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Callaghan’s agent or publicist responded to NPR’s request for confirmation of the statement. Callaghan hasn’t responded to multiple NPR attempts to reach him through his social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend shared a screenshot of one message Caroline Elise sent to Callaghan six days before posting the allegations on TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message includes the handle of Caroline Elise’s Venmo account. She wrote Callaghan could use it if “HBO cuts you a fat check, and you in any way feel like helping contribute to the massive amounts of therapy bills I have accrued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend told NPR that’s the only time Caroline Elise had brought up the prospect of him reimbursing her in their conversations together. Callaghan never responded to the text, Caroline Elise’s friend said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise confirmed through her friend that she shared the allegation to raise awareness of Callaghan’s behavior. She has no plans to file a police report or a lawsuit, her friend told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 591px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg 591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot provided to NPR by a close friend of the TikTok user Caroline, who claims Andrew Callaghan coerced her into having sex in 2021. \u003ccite>(Screenshot provided to NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan’s fans react to the allegations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The claims, statements and reaction quickly spread on several social media platforms, where users, many of them anonymous, dissected Callaghan’s behavior in ways reminiscent of 2016’s #MeToo eruption, but with new cancel culture considerations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reddit forum r/Channel5ive, which is in the top 5% of Reddit communities by size, was once dedicated to Callaghan fan adoration. Now it contains over 100 posts dedicated to investigating the allegations and debating which of the alleged behaviors crossed the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drinking with someone, inviting someone into your home, even inviting someone into your bed does not equal consent,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Channel5ive/comments/105vp67/whatever_the_truth_is_we_as_a_community_need_to/\">wrote one user in a post\u003c/a> that received 1,100 up votes and 382 comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saying let’s just ‘cancel’ the whole thing, but I really don’t like people saying we can just separate his journalism from his misconduct,” posted another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to requests by users, moderators eventually removed a Patreon link supporting Callaghan’s work and replaced it with a link to the National Women’s Law Center, which helps victims of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The benign title of Sarah Polley’s film, \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i>, suggests an innocuous gathering of gal pals chatting in a light-hearted romcom. But Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name positions her female characters at the center of a solemn, determined revolution. Where the women in Aristophanes’ play \u003ci>Lysistrata\u003c/i> (see also Spike Lee’s \u003ci>Chi-Raq\u003c/i>) withhold their bodies from their boyfriends and husbands, Polley’s Mennonite women debate an even more expansive, Biblical-sized punishment. Should they remove themselves permanently from the company of men? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Structurally, \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i> resembles the legal drama \u003ci>12 Angry Men\u003c/i>, but their debate doesn’t involve the law. It revolves around questions of faith and morality. Can pacifists seek revenge for a series of brutal crimes perpetrated against themselves? 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They form and reform impassioned arguments with one another. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of two white women in head scarves, heads angled away from each other\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessie Buckley and Judith Ivey in a scene from ‘Women Talking.’ \u003ccite>(Orion Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polley’s camera actively roams in and out of the main set, a barn loft, to take in the surrounding fields and farm houses. But the action, such as it is, takes place internally, as thoughts dawn expressively across the women’s faces, and externally, during each tensely choreographed verbal exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ona (Rooney Mara), Salome (Claire Foy) and Mariche (Jessie Buckley) resonate on screen as individuals but they also represent certain recognizable archetypes. Ona’s a beatific Earth mother. Salome is a vengeful goddess, a scythe-wielding fury. And in more modern terms, Mariche is an obedient wife who would have been comfortable marching alongside Phyllis Schlafly. Each woman embodies one possible response to the men’s crimes against them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can forgive them peaceably, quietly, as their faith recommends. They can retaliate with violence. Or, they can leave the only home they’ve ever known. As the conflicting ideas move around the room, the film begins to expand beyond the confines of the hay-filled barn. The story starts in a particular time and place, with these particular women’s stories, but slowly builds into a resonant, all-encompassing allegory. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy.jpg\" alt=\"Young girl in a woman's lap and woman beside her, all in modest clothing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923301\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Mitchell, Claire Foy and Rooney Mara in a scene from ‘Women Talking.’ \u003ccite>(Orion Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polley wisely chooses not to depict or reenact any of the rape scenes that have led to this gathering. Nor does she provide any of the men screen time to defend themselves. The director incorporates flashbacks to provide the audience with visual “evidence.” Nearly every woman in the barn is shown in their bed alone at dawn. Each one wakes up bloodied, bruised and horrified by what’s been done to them while they’ve been drugged and asleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cinematography in these flashbacks, and throughout the movie, are so stylized Polley and Luc Montpellier, her director of photography, seem intent on inventing a new movie genre, “film bleu.” A midnight blue tinges every frame, as if the negatives were developed in a dusky corner of purgatory. Like film noir, the absence of competing colors informs the somber tone of \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i>. Everything looks like it’s taking place in a nightmare this group of women and girls is unable to forget. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Whishaw, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy in a scene from ‘Women Talking.’ \u003ccite>(Orion Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The great acts of courage the women perform are, chiefly, remembering what happened to them and uniting to form a battle plan in response. As they’re deciding upon a course of action, one especially troubling question recurs: If we leave, do we bring our boys with us? The lone male character in the movie, August (Ben Whishaw), is a sensitive school teacher. The women pointedly ask him to assess the emotional lives of adolescent boys. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a stunning sequence, August’s response is captured in a voiceover that shows closeups of the boys in a schoolroom and outdoors engaging in roughhouse play. At this crucial turning point in the boys’ lives, their uniformly aggressive expressions imply that most of them will not grow up to become decent men. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the strange, baffling conundrums \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i> brings up but cannot answer. Why do men cause such great harm to women, even when surrounded by extended families of women caretakers? Neither sex is able to solve the problem. But when the film ends, Polley leaves no room for doubt about who should bear the responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Women Talking’ opens Friday, Jan. 6 in Bay Area theaters.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The benign title of Sarah Polley’s film, \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i>, suggests an innocuous gathering of gal pals chatting in a light-hearted romcom. But Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name positions her female characters at the center of a solemn, determined revolution. Where the women in Aristophanes’ play \u003ci>Lysistrata\u003c/i> (see also Spike Lee’s \u003ci>Chi-Raq\u003c/i>) withhold their bodies from their boyfriends and husbands, Polley’s Mennonite women debate an even more expansive, Biblical-sized punishment. Should they remove themselves permanently from the company of men? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Structurally, \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i> resembles the legal drama \u003ci>12 Angry Men\u003c/i>, but their debate doesn’t involve the law. It revolves around questions of faith and morality. Can pacifists seek revenge for a series of brutal crimes perpetrated against themselves? In an ever-changing roundelay, the dialogue ricochets between three main and, intermittently, several supporting characters. They form and reform impassioned arguments with one another. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of two white women in head scarves, heads angled away from each other\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Buckley-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessie Buckley and Judith Ivey in a scene from ‘Women Talking.’ \u003ccite>(Orion Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polley’s camera actively roams in and out of the main set, a barn loft, to take in the surrounding fields and farm houses. But the action, such as it is, takes place internally, as thoughts dawn expressively across the women’s faces, and externally, during each tensely choreographed verbal exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ona (Rooney Mara), Salome (Claire Foy) and Mariche (Jessie Buckley) resonate on screen as individuals but they also represent certain recognizable archetypes. Ona’s a beatific Earth mother. Salome is a vengeful goddess, a scythe-wielding fury. And in more modern terms, Mariche is an obedient wife who would have been comfortable marching alongside Phyllis Schlafly. Each woman embodies one possible response to the men’s crimes against them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can forgive them peaceably, quietly, as their faith recommends. They can retaliate with violence. Or, they can leave the only home they’ve ever known. As the conflicting ideas move around the room, the film begins to expand beyond the confines of the hay-filled barn. The story starts in a particular time and place, with these particular women’s stories, but slowly builds into a resonant, all-encompassing allegory. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy.jpg\" alt=\"Young girl in a woman's lap and woman beside her, all in modest clothing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923301\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Foy-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Mitchell, Claire Foy and Rooney Mara in a scene from ‘Women Talking.’ \u003ccite>(Orion Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polley wisely chooses not to depict or reenact any of the rape scenes that have led to this gathering. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cinematography in these flashbacks, and throughout the movie, are so stylized Polley and Luc Montpellier, her director of photography, seem intent on inventing a new movie genre, “film bleu.” A midnight blue tinges every frame, as if the negatives were developed in a dusky corner of purgatory. Like film noir, the absence of competing colors informs the somber tone of \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i>. Everything looks like it’s taking place in a nightmare this group of women and girls is unable to forget. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/trio-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Whishaw, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy in a scene from ‘Women Talking.’ \u003ccite>(Orion Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The great acts of courage the women perform are, chiefly, remembering what happened to them and uniting to form a battle plan in response. As they’re deciding upon a course of action, one especially troubling question recurs: If we leave, do we bring our boys with us? The lone male character in the movie, August (Ben Whishaw), is a sensitive school teacher. The women pointedly ask him to assess the emotional lives of adolescent boys. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a stunning sequence, August’s response is captured in a voiceover that shows closeups of the boys in a schoolroom and outdoors engaging in roughhouse play. At this crucial turning point in the boys’ lives, their uniformly aggressive expressions imply that most of them will not grow up to become decent men. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the strange, baffling conundrums \u003ci>Women Talking\u003c/i> brings up but cannot answer. Why do men cause such great harm to women, even when surrounded by extended families of women caretakers? Neither sex is able to solve the problem. But when the film ends, Polley leaves no room for doubt about who should bear the responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Women Talking’ opens Friday, Jan. 6 in Bay Area theaters.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Before He Plays the Bay, a List of 10 Horrible Things Louis C.K. Has Done",
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"content": "\u003cp>Louis C.K. is performing in the Bay Area this week because nobody cares about women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13911520']Fresh from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13911520/louis-c-k-crawls-out-of-cancellation-wins-a-grammy-and-triggers-a-backlash\">one of the most aggravating Grammy wins in history\u003c/a> (and boy, that list is \u003cem>long\u003c/em>), ol’ just-can’t-keep-it-in-his-pants is performing at venues in San Francisco and Oakland that we don’t feel like promoting, on Jan. 4 and 5, respectively. Tickets to those shows are already sold out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since a whole mess of Bay Area humans are willingly giving money and attention to Chuckles McFondleshimself, now seems like a good time to revisit all of the things that C.K. did that were supposed to ruin his career, but merely delayed its progress for about five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get ready to grind your teeth and hide under a blanket, because everything listed here is freakin’ gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Audibly masturbating in 2003 during a professional phone conversation with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/your_friend_abby/\">Abby Schachner\u003c/a>, who subsequently cited the incident as one of the reasons she quit comedy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inviting comedy duo Dana Min Goodman and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938661/\">Julia Wolov\u003c/a> to his hotel room for a drink in 2002, then promptly taking off all of his clothes and masturbating in front of them. Neither women consented to bear witness to such a thing, and when they told other comedians, the backlash in the comedy community was against them, not C.K.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asking actress and producer Rebecca Corry in 2005 if he could masturbate in front of her. C.K. was making a guest appearance on Corry’s TV show at the time. He was also married and awaiting the birth of his second child.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Repeatedly describing sexual fantasies and touching himself in front of a younger female colleague on \u003cem>The Chris Rock Show\u003c/em> in the ’90s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Making light of the emotional and professional toll his indecent behavior had on all the women he exposed himself to. “I don’t like being alone, that’s all I can tell you,” C.K. said on the Grammy-winning album which shall remain nameless. “I get lonely. It’s just sad. I like company. I like to share. I’m good at it, too. If you’re good at juggling, you wouldn’t do it alone in the dark.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Making Tig Notaro (\u003cem>Tig Notaro!\u003c/em>) feel complicit in his abusive behavior. “He released my album [in 2012] to cover his tracks,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html\">Notaro told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> in 2017\u003c/a>. “He knew it was going to make him look like a good guy, supporting a woman.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Returning to the stage in 2018, one year after saying he would “step back and take a long time to listen.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/02/louis-c-k-joked-about-kids-getting-shot-a-parkland-father-responded-with-a-forceful-routine/\">Belittling Parkland school shooting survivors\u003c/a>. “You’re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot,” C.K. said in a 2018 set. “Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn’t get shot, you pushed some fat kid in the way, and now I gotta listen to you talking?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Doing racist bits about how penis size correlates to ethnicity, trying to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-louis-cks-gross-unapologetic-comeback-show-at-madison-square-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make child molestation\u003c/a> funny, and continuing to use the homophobic F-word in 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mocking nonbinary and trans people’s pronoun requests. “They’re like royalty, they tell you what to call them,” he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/louis-ck-garbage-comeback-jokes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 set\u003c/a>. “‘You should address me as they/them, because I identify as gender neutral.’ Oh, OK. OK. You should address me as ‘there’ because I identify as a location. And the location is your mother’s c–t.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914526']A plethora of comedy fans will say it’s time to forgive and forget; it’s time we lighten up and give C.K. a break. But C.K. has already received breaks for years on end, as many in the comedy community willfully glossed over and ignored his flagrant harassment of women. (Reports suggest that \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2017/11/louis-c-k-masturbation-allegations-a-timeline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C.K.’s behavior was an open secret\u003c/a> from about 2012 on.) C.K.’s unrepentant return is a slap in the face to all sexual harassment survivors and the kind of thing that makes Bill Cosby think it’s fine for him to return to the stage too. (Because apparently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1146043381/bill-cosby-tour-2023-sexual-assault-lawsuit\">we’ve got that to look forward to\u003c/a> this year as well…)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s nothing funny about any of it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fresh from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13911520/louis-c-k-crawls-out-of-cancellation-wins-a-grammy-and-triggers-a-backlash\">one of the most aggravating Grammy wins in history\u003c/a> (and boy, that list is \u003cem>long\u003c/em>), ol’ just-can’t-keep-it-in-his-pants is performing at venues in San Francisco and Oakland that we don’t feel like promoting, on Jan. 4 and 5, respectively. Tickets to those shows are already sold out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since a whole mess of Bay Area humans are willingly giving money and attention to Chuckles McFondleshimself, now seems like a good time to revisit all of the things that C.K. did that were supposed to ruin his career, but merely delayed its progress for about five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get ready to grind your teeth and hide under a blanket, because everything listed here is freakin’ gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Audibly masturbating in 2003 during a professional phone conversation with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/your_friend_abby/\">Abby Schachner\u003c/a>, who subsequently cited the incident as one of the reasons she quit comedy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inviting comedy duo Dana Min Goodman and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938661/\">Julia Wolov\u003c/a> to his hotel room for a drink in 2002, then promptly taking off all of his clothes and masturbating in front of them. Neither women consented to bear witness to such a thing, and when they told other comedians, the backlash in the comedy community was against them, not C.K.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asking actress and producer Rebecca Corry in 2005 if he could masturbate in front of her. C.K. was making a guest appearance on Corry’s TV show at the time. He was also married and awaiting the birth of his second child.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Repeatedly describing sexual fantasies and touching himself in front of a younger female colleague on \u003cem>The Chris Rock Show\u003c/em> in the ’90s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Making light of the emotional and professional toll his indecent behavior had on all the women he exposed himself to. “I don’t like being alone, that’s all I can tell you,” C.K. said on the Grammy-winning album which shall remain nameless. “I get lonely. It’s just sad. I like company. I like to share. I’m good at it, too. If you’re good at juggling, you wouldn’t do it alone in the dark.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Making Tig Notaro (\u003cem>Tig Notaro!\u003c/em>) feel complicit in his abusive behavior. “He released my album [in 2012] to cover his tracks,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html\">Notaro told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> in 2017\u003c/a>. “He knew it was going to make him look like a good guy, supporting a woman.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Returning to the stage in 2018, one year after saying he would “step back and take a long time to listen.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/02/louis-c-k-joked-about-kids-getting-shot-a-parkland-father-responded-with-a-forceful-routine/\">Belittling Parkland school shooting survivors\u003c/a>. “You’re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot,” C.K. said in a 2018 set. “Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn’t get shot, you pushed some fat kid in the way, and now I gotta listen to you talking?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Doing racist bits about how penis size correlates to ethnicity, trying to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-louis-cks-gross-unapologetic-comeback-show-at-madison-square-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make child molestation\u003c/a> funny, and continuing to use the homophobic F-word in 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mocking nonbinary and trans people’s pronoun requests. “They’re like royalty, they tell you what to call them,” he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/louis-ck-garbage-comeback-jokes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 set\u003c/a>. “‘You should address me as they/them, because I identify as gender neutral.’ Oh, OK. OK. You should address me as ‘there’ because I identify as a location. And the location is your mother’s c–t.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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If proven true, they will serve as a pertinent reminder that simply hiring more women is often not enough to rid workplaces of sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891422']The complainant is one Jane Doe, who says she had her first direct contact with the \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> cast when she was just 15 years old, starting with Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz. Doe says she quickly became a regular at \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> tapings, afterparties and what the cast and crew referred to at the time as after-afterparties—hedonistic, no holds barred all-nighters. She claims she talked openly about her age to most major cast members as well as to Lorne Michaels, but that she was openly permitted to drink and do drugs in their presence. Doe says other teenage girls were allowed at the parties and treated similarly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main focus of Doe’s accusations has, by and large, been Sanz. Doe first filed a lawsuit against Sanz last August, but updated it this past week to include Michaels, Fallon and Morgan. Doe says she was groomed and assaulted by Sanz with the full knowledge of some of the \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> cast of the time, as well as numerous NBC employees. The document includes photos of Doe posing with various cast members, and riding in a limo with Sanz. \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/nbc-responds-to-latest-sexual-assault-claims-against-snl-horatio-sanz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Both Sanz and NBC have issued statements strongly denying Doe’s allegations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the 44 pages of Doe’s allegations are to be believed, \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> fostered a toxic and misogynistic culture behind the scenes, even as an extraordinarily popular group of women led its cast. 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