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Oct 20 2022
News
Kevin Spacey not liable in sex abuse case, jury rules
A jury ruled Thursday that actor Kevin Spacey was not liable for battery against Anthony Rapp, according to multiple reports.
Driving the news: The case was born during the early days of the #MeToo movement during which the former "House of Cards" actor was fired from the Netflix series.
The jury made its ruling after about an hour of deliberation, per multiple reports.
AxiosOct 12 2022
News
Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer Describes Holding Cell As ‘Almost Medieval’ And ‘Unsanitary’
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer is not thrilled with the conditions of his client’s holding cell where he’s awaiting trial.
The disgraced Hollywood film producer is currently standing trial in Los Angeles for several sex crime charges revealed five years ago during the height of the #MeToo movement. Weinstein’s lawyer, Mark Werksman, told the judge Tuesday that his client’s accommodations
The Daily WireOct 20 2022
News
Anthony Rapp Has Lost A Lawsuit Accusing Kevin Spacey Of Sexual Assault
Anthony Rapp has lost his civil lawsuit against Kevin Spacey, whom he accused of sexually assaulting him when Rapp was 14.
The jury deliberated for about one hour and 20 minutes on Thursday before finding that Rapp's attorneys did not prove that Spacey had touched his "sexual or intimate part or parts." During closing arguments earlier in the day, Spacey’s attorney Jennifer Keller
BuzzFeed NewsMay 20 2020
Opinion
Feminists Who Now Claim They Never Meant 'Believe All Women' Are Gaslighting Us
The emergence of Tara Reade's accusation of sexual assault against presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has prompted the swift and sudden collapse of the #MeToo movement's central tenet—that all women who come forward with such allegations deserve to be believed.
In fact, some who speak for the movement aren't merely retreating on this point: They are pretending
ReasonAug 09 2021
News
Roberta Kaplan, a Time's Up leader, resigns after backlash over advising Cuomo
A leader within Time's Up, the organization founded in the wake of the #MeToo movement to fight gender-based discrimination in the workplace, has resigned after it emerged that she aided New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after multiple women accused him of harassment.
Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan was the chair of the board of directors at Time's Up before resigning Monday. She was also a co-founder
ABC News (Online)Sep 27 2018
News
Why the Kavanaugh Battle Is at a Tipping Point
It’s the #MeToo movement vs. Republicans’ political will.
BloombergJan 17 2019
News
Why Gillette’s toxic masculinity ad is annoying both sexists and feminists
The Procter & Gamble-owned razor company used its Super Bowl ad to weigh in on #MeToo.
VoxMay 20 2020
Opinion
‘Believe All Women’ Is a Right-Wing Trap
Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault, and conservatives are having a field day, exultant that they’ve caught feminists in a new hypocrisy trap. A woman, with no corroboration beyond contemporaneous accounts, charges a powerful man with a decades-old crime? Hmm, doesn’t that sound mighty close to Christine Blasey Ford’s complaint against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh? Yet this
New York Times (Opinion)Apr 25 2019
News
The Joe Biden culture war
There’s a split among Democrats on #MeToo and more. Biden might have picked the losing side.
Joe Biden is betting on the past.
The former vice president, who formally announced his candidacy on Thursday but has been a frontrunner in the polls for months, recently called himself an “Obama-Biden Democrat,” evoking a repeat of 2008. His supporters have long held that he can connect
VoxJul 27 2022
News
Chris Cuomo shrugs off sexual assault allegations: ‘It’s in the past’
Chris Cuomo used his comeback to shrug off job-ending sexual misconduct allegations against him as “in the past” — as he admitted that his CNN show later reached out to his accuser to do a puff piece about her new job.
In tetchy exchanges during his sitdown Tuesday with his new employer, NewsNation, Cuomo, 51, was quizzed by host Dan Abrams about reporting “from the New York Post” that
New York Post (News)