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ScreenJunkies' Andy Signore Accused of Sexual Harassment
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TheContact
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Fuck this guy. Hope his career is destroyed and his wife leaves him. Dunno if he has kids or not but Ill feel bad for his family. Brave women to step up thats never easy. Helps when others come forward though.
Also fuck the HR dept. fire them all.
Also fuck the HR dept. fire them all.
broncobuster
Banned
A little of both. A little because outlets focusing on geek/nerd culture tend to champion childish/unprofessional behavior. And a little because there's an unfortunate clique attitude with geek/nerd sites.
It's reassuring to see people closely involved here react accordingly. Elsewhere you'd see the same people calling out others while in the next sentence defending abusers they're friends with. It's why it keeps happening.
Dice//
Banned
Yet there was a lot of 'heat' for the Big Bang Theory humour... shit's a little less funny now, huh.
Shame.
Fulminator
Member
Man, what a POS
I'm sorry about what you had to experience.
Unlike the issue with rape culture, toxic masculinity and a US president who was voted into office literally weeks after admitting - on tape - that he's a serial sexual harasser, there was no actual "witch culture" in Salem. - Not a single witch was guilty.
Again, people people are acting as if false accusations were something that happened even REMOTELY as often as actual harassment and that's why we should be super weary. Meanwhile real, actual witness reports are downplayed, brushed off, silenced on a day to day basis.
crisdecuba
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Morrigan Stark
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Future Foundation
Member
Goddamn.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Welp, a milkshake duck moment for me. Love honest trailer. Thanks god the other staff is a decent person
Edit: Not the HR and producer. Wtf, they still let him work even after 3 victim report it!?
Edit: Not the HR and producer. Wtf, they still let him work even after 3 victim report it!?
This is the unfortunate truth of the situation.
It's understandable that people don't want to turn on individuals they've come to respect the work of based on hearsay, but at the same time the fair-minded "I will wait for more evidence to make a decision as many men's lives are ruined by women lying about this stuff!" things inherently make it harder for women to come forward.
The first woman had to essentially risk everyone just tossing her aside if nobody else came forward; not because what she was saying was untrue, but because the first concern for a lot of people is making sure the accused is completely insulated from any particular negative fallout. Lip service to believing the woman, but always with the immediate list of reasons why you can believe her while still acting in a way consistent with not believing her.
Because it's generally not, "If true, this is disappointing." and waiting to find out more. It's generally "Only one woman? With no proof? I of course always believe the victim but it's really important we all keep in mind this could be nothing and we shouldn't judge him unfairly." It's I'm-not-calling-her-a-liar-but-she-could-totally-be-a-liar-please-keep-that-in-mind.
It doesn't mean tar and feather the guy after the first woman comes forward, just... maybe don't immediately tack BUT SHE COULD BE LYING on to the discussion. If you want to wait and see, wait and see.
That's something to consider coming out of this. These days you never know who's next to be revealed.
Those cases are just what have surfaced to see the light of day. I don't even want to think about the cases that go unreported.
It's truly disturbing when your only other option is to scream into the void in order to bring attention to a serious problem.
Damn. You gotta have some sort of power to do this stuff if you look like this guy. In no world is sexual harassment okay, but damn, it takes a lot of nerve to act like this. You have to feel bad for people who are just trying to do a job and are subjected to this sort of treatment. It's disgusting. Sickening more that some men want to "stick together" in times like this.
You do not want to be associated with this type of behavior.
You do not want to be associated with this type of behavior.
i decided to unsubscribe immediately, to send a message - i'd be willing to resubscribe, once the necessary actions have been taken. (removal of Signore, statement by defy - especially with regards to why HR didn't act... at all)
H.Protagonist
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Because the accused was more valuable than the accuser (to the company, to fans, to the bottom line). People will go out of their way to dismiss bad behavior from 'stars' any way they can.
Rumblebones
Banned
I don't fault your reasoning, but Andy Signore is not any of those people, he's nowhere near their level of influence.
Defy Media, who own Screen Junkies, don't need him. Screen Junkies don't need him.
He's expendable.
Andy Signore is nowhere near the level of these guys
+Firing of the HR people involved.
Whoops. Meant HR.I think they're gonna need those more than ever, right now.
What the fuck... Gross. Hope more victims feel empowered to speak out now.
Really creepy how insidious this shit is. Like Weinstein and other predators, there are probably many other women who were also violated by this perv. Goddamn. Thank God, she kept receipts. What a fucking creep.
Really creepy how insidious this shit is. Like Weinstein and other predators, there are probably many other women who were also violated by this perv. Goddamn. Thank God, she kept receipts. What a fucking creep.
Damnit. They always put the hush requests up front as well. Without fail.
Inferno313
Banned
ew
What a loser he is.
Morrigan Stark
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So? My point is that saying "he's done" is nowhere near a cemented fact. It's very likely that he gets picked up by some other outlet and continues to thrive. It happens all the fucking time.
Hey
awkward advance lol sexual harassment, lol LOL*shudders*
i know, right? it's the whole "playful creepy tone, so he can always fall back into 'lol JK' when the other person calls him out"
"haha lol, let's just be secret friends, haha lol, don't tell anyone, haha send me nudes, haha jk"
Reads a bit like Babylonian's DMs.
Absolutely awful. Signore needs to get the boot. And HR not taking this seriously enough but instead covering for Signore is exactly what I was talking about earlier when I said that the people who matter should be listening, investigating and acting accordingly. They didn't, it's fucked up.
Edit: Great to see that people that closely work with Signore are quick to condemn his actions and don't just remain silent.
Pattycakes
Banned
Guess I'm not looking at any screenjunkies stuff til he is gone
Creepy overuse of LOL.
The guy was probably thinking using the lol made it less creepy.
The immediate witch hunts on the first page (calling for his resignation, #fuckoff #milkshakeduck et al) were the trash responses there, not ones that followed. In almost every one of these cases the public will have an infinitely better sense of it all given a little time. In this case it didn't even take 24 hours. Taking a vaguely pragmatic stance while a breaking story that landed in the middle of the night and didn't contain any supporting evidence develops is not dismissing the allegation out of hand or calling the person stepping forward a liar, and the story developing in a particular (unsurprising...) way does not retroactively prove that initial approach wrong.
Reel in the reductive binary rhetoric. It's every thread on Off-Topic at this point.
Wow, even opens with "this'll be our little secret". Fuck this guy.
Remember kids, if you put enough LOLs in, it's not sexual harassment.
entremet
Member
Nope. Hollywood overall has been poisoned for decades here.
I mean the motivation this person cited to come out was the recent Weinstein controversy.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Ah that sucks if true. And the tweets that have been reposted here are pretty damning.
I don't subscribe to Screen Junkies but I watch Movie Fights occasionally. He seemed like a cool guy. Sigh... Another one to add to the pile I guess.
I liked Roth Cornet when she was at IGN and now I learned that she's the EiC of Screen Junkies. I wonder if she'll speak out about this.
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And it's crazy to think that that entire milieu is so incestuous that it took so long for women to speak out. That's a scary thought.
I don't subscribe to Screen Junkies but I watch Movie Fights occasionally. He seemed like a cool guy. Sigh... Another one to add to the pile I guess.
I liked Roth Cornet when she was at IGN and now I learned that she's the EiC of Screen Junkies. I wonder if she'll speak out about this.
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And it's crazy to think that that entire milieu is so incestuous that it took so long for women to speak out. That's a scary thought.
Hari Seldon
Member
What gets me was that this was just some neckbeard on a youtube channel and he thought he was powerful enough to do this. Imagine if he had real hollywood power. What a fucking creep.
Dude, he's a 2 time Emmy nominee, they've had pretty big panels at SDCC and NYCC - they're among the biggest 'Non-major-TV-Network' movie channels on Youtube, regularly getting interviews with the lead actors of blockbuster movies.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Yeah I just saw that right after posting. So that means she didn't know apparently.
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