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japple

(9,838 posts)
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 06:25 PM Jan 2018

What the men didn't say

I didn't watch this event, but I am glad to know there were some people who were taking notes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/what-the-men-didnt-say/549914/

The women of the 2018 Golden Globes collectively (almost) wore black. On the red carpet, many of them brought as their dates not husbands and partners, but activists for gender and racial equality. They talked about endemic sexual harassment in America and a sea change sparked by industry-shattering stories from The New York Times and The New Yorker about the abuse perpetrated for decades by Harvey Weinstein.

The men of the Golden Globes wore (some of them) Time’s Up pins. On the red carpet, they were asked less about Weinstein and #MeToo than about their work. They shifted uncomfortably when the actress Natalie Portman emphasized the “all-male” directing nominees in film. Accepting their awards, they thanked their mothers, their wives (in one case their wives and their girlfriends), their agents, the nation of Italy for its great food. The composer Alexandre Desplat observed that this award was a different color to the previous one he’d claimed. But, facing a sea of women wearing black, not one of the dozen-plus men who received an award seemed particularly compelled to note that anything about the night was different. For the men of the Golden Globes—with the exception of the host, Seth Meyers, who delivered a series of jokes skewering Weinstein—it was business as usual.
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What the men didn't say (Original Post) japple Jan 2018 OP
What would you have had them to say? tymorial Jan 2018 #1
Oh, something like I support making our industry free from Sexual harrasment and inequality and MLAA Jan 2018 #2

MLAA

(17,318 posts)
2. Oh, something like I support making our industry free from Sexual harrasment and inequality and
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 08:04 PM
Jan 2018

I commit to speaking up when I see it rather than remaining silent’

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