Morgan Freeman sexual harassment/inappropriate behavior allegations

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/entertainment/morgan-freeman-accusations/index.html

uh oh

wonder if theyll not use his voice for the vancouver transit system

“next stop is _____: see boys, thats how you do it”

“we are currently experiencing delays, you look ripe”

This really puts all his past roles in a different light. We will no longer be able to watch in the same way his best known performances, such as Lt A.Z. Drones in Johnny Handsome (1989) or Sloan in Dolphin Tale (2011).

Dolphin Tale 2 FTW

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There have been some weird allegations around him for a long, long time (much worse than these latest claims). That said, the man is still a national treasure.

how can you refuse a voice of reason!

Turd’s disappearance coincides with these allegations surfacing against one of the most powerful Hollywood figures. This could be a coincidence, or it could be some greater conspiracy at work.

http://www.businessinsider.com/entertainment-tonight-reveals-questionable-behavior-morgan-freeman-2018-5

Freeman: I don’t know how you all manage to do that all the time.

Mock, gesturing to her make-up: All of this?

Freeman: No. You got a dress that’s halfway between your knee and your… hips, and you sit down right across from me and you cross your legs …

[Mock laughs the comment off]

lol her current response is basically. dude your old stop hitting on me.

if james franco did this everything be a ok. oh wait!

Is this latest iteration of the man-hate movement still going strong? Me too or whatever stupid name.

I don’t follow the Ameri-fascism that closely, as I know where it all ends. But it’s nice to hear first-hand reports from people there living in hell.

thank god PA is back to defend people making gross/creepy comments that are completely unprofessional and make people feel uncomfortable…

I mean, are gross/creepy comments, unprofessional behavior or making people uncomfortable a public crime now?

Because I’ve got a laundry list of people on both sides of the gender spectrum I’m about to out for being annoying creepy losers.

You don’t feel creepy living under a totalitarian state where a hundred million people are persecuted for their ideological beliefs? :bulb:

these people are acting this way & if those actions become public knowledge and impact their career i have absolutely 0 sympathy for them. they impose externalities on others by acting the way they do, so i hardly have any pity when it comes back to them.

i dont understand the tear jerking from some people on these stories coming out… even if they arent actual crimes if they act a certain way to others in the office they clearly dont mind being presented that way. if they did they shouldnt have acted that way

…and Chuck Berry had toilet cams in his restaurant.

https://nypost.com/2017/03/21/the-dark-past-of-chuck-berrys-scandal-filled-sex-life/

What a wonderful world… :grin:

I’m not tear jerking, I don’t care about these people individually. Just done caring about a suffocating society. Yes, some people are creepy aholes, like I said, I’ve seen despicable behavior across the genders. At a certain point people need to step back and stop trying to shoehorn everybody into a defined bland social cast. If they’re sexually assaulting people then yea, get them out of here, but if your crime is being creepy or angry, I’m ok with that. Toughen up snowflakes, stop trying to make the world as boring as you are. The funny thing is the people championing this are so myopically caught up in the trend they can’t tell it’s already turning on them and they’ve overrun their welcome. Trends are useful and usually driven by a real societal need to restore change or balance, typically from a prior trend that went too far. But in each case we tend to overshoot the runway, here we are.

i suppose your first statement is where we differ on the issue, as i try to view each of these disclosures as an individual act and judge based off of the reporting and dont try to extrapolate it into a broader societal issue.

i dont think people are trying to force everyone into a bland societal cast, i see it as people with little power using their available means to attempt to stop harassment. MF’s behavior is the way it is because hes a big star & hollywood is built to protect them. he isnt committing a crime (although many others have) but his behavior would certainly anger you if he was making those comments towards your wife or daughter in a work place would it not? if hes dropping these weak lines to some girl at a bar i have no issue, its just a dude being weird - but hes not.

Yeah, individually I don’t care about these people. To me, I’m viewing it on a societal level, this is a movement by its own name and at its roots I support it. The problem is it’s quickly becoming a witch hunt to me. But that’s just my perspective.

You’re right, I would think it’s weird a guy verbally hit on my wife, but I also would not say putting that on national blast is a justified response. Would probably either just disengage from the situation and/or address it directly. Life’s full of land mines and its unfair that a douche in a superior position acts that way, but most of my early career was learning to avoid bad managers. So it goes.

It just popped into my head now as an illustration, but true story (it’s hard to imagine now if you saw me) but when I was around 21 I had a lot more going for me and did small time contract / stock photo modeling (was a theater minor too although I didn’t finish it) a couple hundred bucks for a few hours of pictures is not the worst job. But you get creeped on and put in awkward situations ALOT by photographers (a disproportionate amount of them don’t share Freeman’s orientation) that are into that, under the pretense of private photo shoots, additional opportunities and work, etc. Its almost unusual to have a shoot where someone doesn’t test the waters on “tasteful nudes”. I mean, you just don’t do it, the industry is a creepy industry that attracts a vapid sort of person and to a certain extent people know what they’re doing when they get into it. It’s great that they’re trying to change it, but burning everyone they encountered for every slight isn’t the way to do it.

The other major point you’re missing is you’re looking at it through a captive lens of your own experience. In an office setting yes this stuff is outrageous, but people specifically join the entertainment industry to avoid this sort of bland lifestyle. It’s seems more like retroactive regret driving this blame shifting than anything.