DB has never been a favorite news source. Nontheless:

Why did Brad Pitt, one of the biggest movie stars in the world, work with Harvey Weinstein not once, but twice after the executive had allegedly attacked both his ex-fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow and then-wife Angelina Jolie? Why did Quentin Tarantino, whose films are responsible for much of Weinstein’s success, continue to work with him after learning that he attacked his ex-girlfriend, Mira Sorvino?

Those are pretty big names being asked a pretty intense question. See also the next, concluding graph:

The onus can’t only be on women to stand up to male predators. Men—particularly men of power and influence—must be willing to speak up for what is right, and refuse to align themselves with the creeps of the world.

Flannagan, in the morally reprehensible format of a 280-character Twitter offering, apparently concurs:

Here's to the men who stand up for women: to all the brothers, husbands, male cousins, boyfriends, uncles and brothers-in-law who show up at offices and handle the problem.

I disagree. If women need men to stand up for them, then women aren't standing up. Men "handling" the problem means that women aren't solving it... It's not an admirably feminist response.

I'm pretty sure that Cam Paglia and (the late) Flo King would agree with me.

See also.

Listen, that was a great pair of blog comments.

Remember, if you ever want to offer me tributes, just fill out the check payable to me, but send it to Amy's office. Every couple weeks her assistant bundles them up and has them sent to my agency by courier. So, like, feel free to express your gratitude.

If women need men to stand up for them, then women aren't standing up. Men "handling" the problem means that women aren't solving it... It's not an admirably feminist response.
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In many parts of the U.S., that would be true.

Doesn't mean there aren't also MANY parts of the U.S. where the deck is very much stacked against women. Coal mines, for one, as in the case of Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, which became the book "Class Action" and the 2005 movie "North Country," with Charlize Theron. Yes, Lois Jenson won the case. Doesn't mean she didn't need a lot of help, or that it was ethical for "good men" to do nothing, or that ANY woman who's greatly outnumbered can win if she just goes to 49 lawyers or so (which is what Jenson did).

More on her:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lois+Jenson&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwisq6zgyLTXAhXH3YMKHWi4D6IQ7xYIJSgA&biw=1329&bih=893

And, as I've mentioned, even more upper-class environments that are evangelical, like Bob Jones "University," are very often hostile to women who complain of illegal behavior. If you're female and your parents raised you to WANT to go to an evangelical school, how are you supposed to stand up for yourself without abandoning your religion (and maybe your parents) too? Again, you're going to be outnumbered.

Not to mention Islamic countries. If women can't solve the oppression against them THERE without at least some help from men, does that mean that no women are already standing up - or aren't admirable?

Men—particularly men of power and influence—must be willing to speak up for what is right, and refuse to align themselves with the creeps of the world.

Nice sentiment, but we also live in a world where a man who slams on his brakes in the middle of the road and pulls a girl out of traffic is a sex offender for life because technically he "restrained" her Why should men be expected to sacrifice their futures after they were told by women for decades that they were neither needed or wanted?

You know in decades past it was assumed that there were no signs of other sapient species in the universe because they nuked themselves in a species ending war like the one so many imagine we teeter on the edge of

These days I'm guessing that as a species approaches Type 1 energy consumption SJWs pop up pushing tech towards sex dolls so rational people can disassociate from the lunatics and birth rates decline leading to an endless cycle of high tech societies falling to iron age savages until the species finally dies off

Here's the thing.

If you form a task force for celebrity sexual assault accusations, you might get a visit from Angelina Jolie or Morgan Fox.

If you form one for homeless women, you'll get toothless meth addicts.

It all comes down to what kind of people you want visiting your police station.

> Doesn't mean there aren't also
> MANY parts of the U.S. where
> the deck is very much stacked
> against women.

After nearly six decades, I'm tired of women's rhetoric which suggests that individual men never had to power through some circumstance "where the deck [was] very much stacked against" them. Contemporary chatter, and not just in feminism, speaks with a presumption that other people have it easy.

This is almost never the case.

> does that mean that no women
> are already standing up

Never said any such thing. And...

> or aren't admirable?

Yes yes yes, everyone deserves be to admired.

I agree about the true bravery instilled in Courtney Love and Corey Feldman. Corey in particular was mocked and ridiculed time and time again, yet he persisted, even to the point of being publicly and wrongfully shamed by Babara Walters. Even now, with the Salem-ish and fashionable flood of accusations, Feldman and Love seen to be relegated as background noise, which implies a deeper societal failing, those rising en masse as a self-righteous tempest because it feels good yet these same types fail to speak individually back when Courtney and Corey looked at the issue square in the eye

I'm tired of women's rhetoric which suggests that individual men never had to power through some circumstance "where the deck [was] very much stacked against" them. Contemporary chatter, and not just in feminism, speaks with a presumption that other people have it easy.
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You make it sound as if white feminists don't acknowledge that victims of racism exist. Jeez. Gloria Steinem worked CONSTANTLY with black activists. Barbara Ehrenreich, to name another, made it clear in her book "Nickel & Dimed" that SHE certainly didn't think the average white woman was as badly off as the average black person.