In this case Louis has seemed to admit guilt as much. He masturbated in front of 4 women. Some of his stand up was an admittance, he knew he’d done something wrong. I don’t think he was predatory person. And he will pay, financially and career wise it’s over for him now.
This reactionary “he needs to die now painfully” is wrong.
There is very little contrition in any of this. Now it seems the thing to do is to say that they have issues and that they are “seeking treatment.” They dont even bother to throw in sex additction any more which used to be the get out clause. Their lawyers seem to be telling them to say that they are “examining their behaviour,” It is the police and the prosecution that need to examine their behaviour.
Right up until the last moment, Louis and those around him were trying to keep this stuff quiet. As has been mentioned, people have tried to report on this for a while, and those people have had their livelihoods threatened. I’m not buying any of these bullshit apologies. He’s sorry he got caught, not that he did it.
I’d be pretty surprised if those that have so far come forward were the only people he did this too.
He’s the same as the rest of them and i find it disturbing that people are trying to make excuses for him because they find his shows amusing.
He used his supposed art to play out his perverted fantasies, which in turn strengthened his power over others, as it normalised his actions(on national tv).
Why does everyone seem to be so in awe of these people, just because their faces regularly appear on the idiot box?
This article probably belongs in the “art or artist” thread, but you should never separate the two. That’s just using one as an excuse to ignore the actions of the other.
At the same time, he’s built alternative-world versions of himself — as in the FX show “Louie” — where he’s tried on the identities of aging creep, attempted rapist and exhibitionist masturbator. He’s also made his character the victim of similar crimes: Louie has been forced to perform oral sex on a date and been anally penetrated by his friend Pamela as he screams in protest. In each case, he recovers easily from the violation — just as Pamela shrugs it off after Louie tries to drag her, kicking and screaming, to bed with him. These episodes garnered acclaim as canny twists on gender politics, and their critical reception was clearly vaulted by their engagement with current debates around consent.
These scenes now play differently. What once looked like creative provocations now read like justifications of a moral universe where women are as complicit in sexual violation as men are, and where sex that begins with force easily gives way to mutual desire.
How far back will it go? Kennedy was a famous womaniser and is quoted as saying that he got a headache if he didn’t “have a strange piece of ass everyday.”
While I do not recall the events at the 2009 Golden Globes Party transpiring the same way, I am deeply ashamed (but not “sorry” because that means I’m guilty of something). I was intoxicated at the time, and of course now I realize my behavior was wrong. In conclusion, I will delete my Twitter account because I hate to see people who are mad at me.
“I imagined that any woman would have been thrilled to see a tiny penis peeking out from below my pasty, middle-aged paunch like the head of a geriatric albino turtle moments from death, and of course now I realize my behavior was wrong.”