First of all, as noted in this column, Catherine Deneuve did NOT write the horrible, horrible "letter" that displayed the ignorance of some rich women about the real problems working women face. She signed it along with about 100 other women, ALL of them rich and part of the French elite who don't have to face what the average working women face, but she and the other women involved in the writing and signing of that letter deserve ALL the criticism and more. The WSWS cherry picked sentences out of the letter and did not put a link to the English translation so that readers could decide for themselves the validity of their criticisms of the "#metoo" movement. There are some issues with the movement being co-opted in the United States for political reasons; however, sexual harassment in the workplace at large is a major, major problem, including and especially in show business. I feel the WSWS writers have, like the letter writers, stepped right out of the 1960s, using woman-hating verbiage like "sexual freedom" and "puritanism" in order to tell women to shut up. This is why I say the left, including the male left, is at least as bad if not worse than the male right. They are two sides of the same sexist coin. It's like the male left especially STILL doesn't get it that it is, at least in the US and probably in France, illegal to sexually assault and intimidate women. The writer of the New Yorker piece actually read the letter, and so did writers who criticized this letter, which never should have been written in the first place. It was totally appalling.
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It takes a shithole to know one.
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Obituary: Musician Edward Clark, 67, has died from complications from pneumonia:
Clarke's time in Motorhead produced some of the band's biggest hits, including the ferocious anthem "Ace of Spades."_____
Clarke left Motorhead in 1982 and later formed the band Fastway.
A later Motorhead guitarist, Phil Campbell, said on Facebook that Clarke "will be remembered for his iconic riffs and was a true rock n roller. RIP Eddie."
Trump has scraped bottom:
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Some details on Shitholegate:
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A monologue from Lemon:
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