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Kevin Spacey accused of sexual assault on minor......and he's gay

Arcade22 said:
Engaging in this kind of sloppy thinking leads to absurd conclusions: A teenage boy of 16 years, a child mind you, is not gay if they want to have sex with a classmate. If they would be sexually attracted towards an adult man they'd perfectly gay although if this adult reciprocated these feelings he'd most certainly not be gay.
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A rather meaningless scenario in any jurisdiction with an age of consent of 16 (e.g. the UK).
 
Information Analyst said:
A rather meaningless scenario in any jurisdiction with an age of consent of 16 (e.g. the UK).
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Even if it were legal to have sex with them they would still be regarded as a child or minor and not an adult.

Instead of inexplicably excluding youth uncertain about their sexuality, who are probably those most in need of good facts and advice about sex and relationships, they should've explicitly addressed them.

If they are curious or otherwise feel that they want to engage in homosexual liaisons they should be given good advice on what they can expect and give suggestions on how they can both avoid harmful and potentially traumatizing situations but also how they could try to handle such a situation.

For someone who haven't been on the receiving of men's lecherous and often very direct advances it can be quite shocking to be thrust right in the middle of it all. Being used and abused in ways that might be perfectly legal, but highly inappropriate, is certainly possible and more likely if they are young, lacking in any experience and don't have anyone they rely on for support and advice.
 
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A former Old Vic employee, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Guardian he saw Spacey take advantage of a friend of his after a party in 2011.

He said: “We were all involved in keeping it quiet. I witnessed him groping men many times in all sorts of different situations ... at his apartment in North Lambeth and even at the Old Vic itself and his favourite pub the Pineapple, which is right near the Old Vic. He was taking advantage of the fact that he is this great icon.

“He touched men on the crotch. Doing it really fast so they couldn’t get out of the way.”

The former employee criticised the Old Vic for appearing not to know what was happening. “The thing that really upsets me is the hypocrisy of places like the Old Vic that pretend now that they didn’t know. ”

Rebecca Gooden was an intern at the theatre in 2010 and says stories about Spacey’s behaviour were commonplace.

She said she was told that “pretty” young men were not hired to work in the theatre administration following an earlier incident. “There was a running ‘joke’ about it,” she said. “I was informed that I was not allowed to talk about it outside the theatre. I am honestly sickened that the theatre has chosen to plead ignorance.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture...of-ignoring-sexual-misconduct-by-kevin-spacey

He definitively does seem like the kind of guy who has a problem keeping it in his pants, to say the least.
 
Oh, the irony: Bryan Singer, who directed Spacey in "Superman Returns", is being hit with multiple new accusations of child molestation.......
 
I'm feeling left out. How come everybody else gets to get accused of stuff?

Sounds like a new forum community thread idea.
 
mgidm86 said:
I'm feeling left out. How come everybody else gets to get accused of stuff?

Sounds like a new forum community thread idea.
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You just need to get yourself in a position of power and grop and assault your life away

Preferably with a bunch of hanger oners to ignore it



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mgidm86 said:
I'm feeling left out. How come everybody else gets to get accused of stuff?

Sounds like a new forum community thread idea.
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I only molest goats, and they can't intelligibly go to the press. So I know what you mean. I'm feeling left out too.
 
It will be interesting to see where "House of Cards" goes with this. Spacey could be written off completely. It would be difficult, as the power struggle between Frank and Claire just got more intense. Viewers do want to see his comeuppance.

Maybe they've filmed enough to work this. I think they should be able to use tape they recorded before these allegations were made, though.

Or maybe he molests a 14-year-old, off camera, and he has proof.
 
Minoosh said:
It will be interesting to see where "House of Cards" goes with this. Spacey could be written off completely. It would be difficult, as the power struggle between Frank and Claire just got more intense. Viewers do want to see his comeuppance.

Maybe they've filmed enough to work this. I think they should be able to use tape they recorded before these allegations were made, though.

Or maybe he molests a 14-year-old, off camera, and he has proof.
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It's been cancelled.
 
cullennz said:
Think they were going to any way

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They were going to what anyway? They had a final season that was certainly going to be released and which they ceased production on after the allegations came to light.
 
Veteran actor Kevin Spacey has reportedly been accused of sexual harassment by several coworkers working for his hit Netflix series "House Of Cards."

CNN reported Thursday that eight people working for or who previously worked for Spacey's Netflix show described a "toxic" work environment created by the actor, who one of the sources said sexually assaulted him during an early season of the show. All eight sources remained anonymous for fear of retribution.

One source, a former production assistant, described an encounter with Spacey in which the actor "cornered him" and initiated unwanted contact.

"I told him, 'I don't think I'm ok with this, I don't think I'm comfortable with this,'" the former assistant said, according to CNN, adding Spacey grew "visibly flustered" and fled the trailer, leaving the production for the remainder of the day.

"I was in a state of shock," he said. "He was a man in a very powerful position on the show and I was someone very low on the totem pole and on the food chain there."

The same former assistant described Spacey's behavior as both "predatory" and "routine."

"I have no doubt that this type of predatory behavior was routine for him and that my experience was one of many and that Kevin had few if any qualms about exploiting his status and position," he added. "It was a toxic environment for young men who had to interact with him at all in the crew, cast, background actors."
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http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-kno...s-employees-accuse-kevin-spacey-of-harassment

It's understandable that they would shut down production after such incidents especially since he'd been doing it with more or less complete impunity. Again the biggest question in my opinion is that, since he repeatedly engaged in this kind of behavior, why didn't senior staff do anything? I find it very hard to believe that they were completely oblivious.

Abusive, exploitative and general toxic behavior on or off workplaces will always occur to some degree, so the mission isn't really about preventing it from occurring completely. Instead it's about reducing the likelihood of it occurring and mitigating the potential harmful consequences.

While willful ignorance might keep things from spilling out publicly, negatively affecting ones public image among other things, it's often unsustainable and only makes things worse in the long run.
 
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