The joke failed miserably, as Androsky acknowledged. I don't think it was just an accident, though. You don't fuck up this thoroughly by chance. Or to put it another way, what on earth made these folks think that the best response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal was sneering at "liberals" while joking about Bill Cosby?
The answer is that Chapo's default response to discussions of sexism is to look for hypocrisy. In dirtbag left analysis, "feminism" is generally seen, not as a good in itself, but as a bad-faith "liberal" distraction from real issues of class oppression. In addition, the dirtbag left is knee-jerk anti-Hollywood. They see all Hollywood performers as out-of-touch elites, who only talk about racism and sexism in order to show their own virtue.
The Harvey Weinstein revelations demonstrate that people who work in Hollywood can in fact be oppressed and suffer workplace harassment, exploitation,and sexism. That's not a message the dirtbag left has been especially interested in hearing. So, these guys deflected. Instead of trying to show solidarity with the women who were abused, they did their usual riff on "Hollywood elites are hypocrites, hah hah."
In this case, though, the most important people speaking against Weinstein were his victims. Smearing those who care about sexual assault as "libs" comes off as callously insulting people who were abused. The frame "libs" vs. "true leftists" doesn't work especially well when the relevant dichotomy here is "men in power" (like Weinstein, Ben Affleck, and Cosby) and "women (and sometimes men) with less power."
