[Not Me To] Morgan Freeman Demands Retraction on CNN Sexual Harrassment Story

Not following it all that closely. I heard one of the allegations was he lifted a woman's skirt? Was that corroborated?

And habitually making sexualized comments about women's figures, as reported, is obviously not cool either. Someone (not necessarily the women subjected to it) should have stood up to him long ago rather than just put up with it.

 

while PGabriel provides generalities upon generalities, the CNN report provides specific details
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/entertainment/morgan-freeman-accusations/index.html

Freeman "kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear." He never successfully lifted her skirt, -- he would touch it and try to lift it, she would move away, and then he'd try again. "Alan [Arkin], the co-star, made a comment telling him to stop.

Freeman sexually harassed her and her female assistant on numerous occasions by making comments about their bodies.
"He did comment on our bodies... We knew that if he was coming by ... not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms, meaning not wearing clothes that [were] fitted,"​

 

I read that as them not wearing tops similar to this:

 

Do you consider a top like that as ‘showing breasts’?

 

How is that a stupid question? You said "Isn't it kind of silly to say, I'd we didn't want to harassed we didn't show our breasts or bottoms.". When I posted a picture you said "of course that's what they mean".

There is a huge difference in showing one's breasts and showing cleavage similar to the picture I posted.

And to your point, aside from the middle East and places like St. Peter's in Rome, where in America would a woman not be allowed to enter an establishment wearing a top similar to the one I posted?

 

There you go again.

 

I'm not familiar with those. I did read a number of things about stuff within his company. It sounds like workplace sexual harassment that created a toxic work atmosphere and, because he's the boss, there was no effective policy and/or enforcement. Without enforcement, the women must resort instead to lawsuits against the company and/or embarrassing stories in the newspapers. I think as a public, we have a bit of a hard time calibrating how bad a thing is when an accusation like this comes out especially while #metoo is in the ascendancy. This is not Weinstein-bad. But, it's not nothing either. And Freeman brought this on to himself by (1) not being a gentleman, (2) not being a professional, (3) not having the HR governance in place to give his employees a mechanism to get grievances addressed, and (4) creating a work culture in which his misbehaviors are abetted ("that's just Morgan being Morgan, haha."). Shame on him for running a toxic workplace. It doesn't seem to me to be a terrible injustice that it comes home to roost.

 

So....an answer to one question can't lead to further questions? Got it...adding it to my old man rules. One question only. Once it's answered, regardless of the answer, no more questions. (added as old man rule #5). Good thing I have Notes on my MacBook. Easy to add stuff like this. I will make sure I refer to it every time I post to make sure I don't forget.

 

I agree that his "Boy do I wish I was there" comment seems pretty obvious to be a reply to Caine.

His comments to the other interviewer in that clip talking about her having "magic written all over her" is a bit inappropriate though. Doesn't seem THAT bad though.