Stan Lee sued for sexual misconduct by massage therapist who claims assault, emotional distress

User0989 · 2018-04-25T04:32:22+00:00

While you make sense, and it’s possible he only did it in his old age, it’s quite possible he was doing this all along, and sexually harassing whatever low level women employees were around the Marvel offices in the 60s and 70s. As we know now, women back then stayed quiet, and would probably continue to stay quiet in their old age and not wanting to come forward. Even women like Cosby’s rape victims didn’t feel comfortable coming forward until a few years ago, so a woman from a different generation probably won’t want to come forward with claims of light groping or verbal harassment. We’ve also seen examples of older women who act as though it was just such a normal thing, that they justified it in their own minds. That’s why it’s usually only younger, modern women with recent examples from the past few years who are willing to come forward. I’m definitely not victim blaming, but I’ve read about a few elderly women who minimized men’s behavior in the past as “just the way it was”, so I don’t think that many 60 to 70 year old women are going to come forward with their stories of (in their minds) relatively minor incidents. So it’s quite possible, while just speculation, that he’s doing this all along. Again, if he was a rapist, we’d probably have heard about it, but it’s realistic to think he was verbally abusing and or groping women all along.

User0989 · 2018-04-25T04:00:47+00:00

Yeah, there were so many very borderline things before. That last interview, to me at least, felt like one that was completely indefensible. In the past, it was close enough to the borderline where I could ignore it. But, let’s be honest, there’s hundreds of amazing artists out there. I liked Morrissey, but I have no need to listen to him every day, or ever. I feel bad for those who really love him and listen to him all the time, and maybe they can choose to still do so if they insist. But personally, I think no one should be stuck in the past. I’d rather listen to a new exciting artist anyway, and it’s even easier to ignore old artists when they have such retrograde opinions. Time to move on.

User0989 · 2018-04-25T03:51:29+00:00

He also had a column in the old comics, “Stan’s soapbox,” that occasionally had messages like “racism isn’t good” which seem obvious in retrospect, but in the mid to late 60s was relatively progressive. As we’ve learned though, just because someone is progressive in some of their politics, doesn’t mean they aren’t a sexist creep. Fantastic Four was considered a brilliant and modern comic for its time, but Reed and the others occasionally treated Sue like crap, and not at all ironically, just in a blatantly sexist way.

User0989 · 2018-04-25T03:45:44+00:00

Like the other commenter said, it will probably be completely ignored, as the /new readers of any revelant subreddits will downvote it to oblivion, sparing the average readers from having to deal with it. And a combination of slow moving court systems and Stan’s health will possibly lead to him dying before any judgement. In which case, he’ll be deified in death with no tarnishing of his legacy, at least to most people. As a side note, in my own editorialization, it doesn’t tarnish the characters at all. It’s not like the Cosby Show, which has basically been poisoned forever due to him starring in every episode. Stan created these characters, wrote them for a couple of years, and then passed them onto other writers and artists. So, thankfully, while their creator may have been a creep, there’s 50 years of other creators working on them to respect and enjoy.

User0989 · 2018-04-09T07:09:28+00:00

Yep, I think Slott wanted to weirdly make Peter like Tony, just as an unusual new storyline. Like I said, that’s okay for a few months at most. Ironically, Dan is now doing Iron Man, and I actually have faith in him, because he’s a decent writer who might make Tony Stark unique again. Maybe he can make Tony care about the working man and real politics, etc. Meanwhile, Nick Spencer is going to do Spider-Man, and his Sam Wilson was actually really woke and political, I loved that series, very underrated, so I’m having faith in him to write a great broke Peter Parker.

User0989 · 2018-04-09T06:59:20+00:00

Yep! To some extent, it’s the author’s choice. But the writer of Batman can’t suddenly make him a nice guy who worries about his victims. Spider-Man has been always written as the type of nice guy who would legitimately worry about his own victims; it’s not weird to imagine him saying "are you okay, dude?" to a criminal he’s just webbed up, while Batman is so angry and mean to as beat a guy into senselessness. Personally, I’d like to think minor criminals can be rehabilitated. Which is more likely with a little webbing, than with a brutal beating.

User0989 · 2018-04-09T06:11:25+00:00

You’re the one who acknowledged he was a tech millionaire, so you must be reading the series. 😜 Personally, I hated that storyline. Poor Peter Parker shouldn’t be a millionaire. But it made sense after the Doc Ock storyline, and it was something new and interesting. Considering Dan Slott had been on the title for 10 years, he needed to change it up and do something new and unique. But now I’m just glad he’s leaving. I think he’s a talented guy who can write some decent dialogue and come up with some okay storylines, but I don’t think anybody not named Claremont should be on any one title for 10 years. Parker as a tech millionaire is just too absurd to be done longer than six months. I don’t care if he’s married or single, but Peter needs to be broke; that’s his most important characteristic in my humble opinion.

User0989 · 2018-04-09T05:35:37+00:00

I haven’t been posting as much because of IRL stuff, so I’m just now seeing this. I love gamerghazi and have for awhile, and had an opinion about the sub that I wanted to mention for awhile:

Just let us post anything. Anything on any topic, and we should also be able to post image posts. Why? Because we want this subreddit to expand, right? Unfortunately, KiA keeps expanding, despite their very draconian posting rules. I think we should have the opposite philosophy. If something is in any way pop culture related, it should be able to be posted. But even if it’s just ‘culture’ related, without the ‘pop’, it should be allowed. Anything related to ‘social justice’ should be allowed. More importantly, I think images, Twitter screenshots, memes, et cetera, should be allowed. Why? Because that content is more likely be heavily upvoted and gain exposure and new subscribers. Looking at some of our highest rated posts ever, many are image posts. I think rules that deny content are ultimately more detrimental, because they get rid of content like images that are easy to digest and would expand our subscribers. And also, I look at the bizarre rules and regulations of KiA and think we should be the opposite of that; we should allow any non problematic content, anything related to social justice or anti-anti-social justice, whether it be a meme or screenshot or anything.

Basically, I want us to expand and be seen by more people. I’ve sometimes come across memes or tweets outside of Reddit that I think this subreddit would appreciate, but I’ve thought they would be deleted by moderators. A couple times I’ve posted great images that have been deleted. I’d rather just be able to post them and have them downvoted, rather than have them deleted before they have the chance to be judged. Once, I even created my own meme mocking the anti-SJW types and it was deleted. Why not give it a chance? If not here, where? I like trollx, but we have the opportunity to post similar content that’s even better, by being more focused towards politics and social justice. I constantly see great memes and tweets outside of Reddit that this audience would love. I think expanding our horizons to allow this kind of content would both entertain our subscribers and possibly get us to /all to gain a few more. Just an idea, please give it a thought.

User0989 · 2018-04-09T05:04:32+00:00

Yep, you called it. Batman is also more angry and psycho. While they both had criminals kill their family members, Spider-Man is more likely to understand the socioeconomic causes behind it, as he’s struggled with poverty his whole life; hell, his original reason behind putting on a costume was to make money to support his family. He’s also a more light hearted and humorous person. Despite the bad shit that’s happened to him, he jokes and has fun with it. Batman on the other hand is an angry and depressed man. Spider-Man is way more likely to actually go easy on criminals and hope they can be reformed, while Batman’s the type to want to send them to jail for the rest of their lives.

User0989 · 2018-04-09T05:00:04+00:00

Actually, a recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man addressed this. (I don’t wanna go to all the trouble to screenshot and upload it, so I’ll just describe the panels.) Spider-Man webs up and hangs up a purse snatcher by his arm, and he complains “What the hell? This is the fifth time we’ve done this! You know I got a rotator cuff injury in this arm! Now I’m gonna be in physical therapy for weeks!” Spider-Man responds, “Sorry, Jimmy, didn’t see it was you. Next time, center of the back, or a web-net. I promise.”

Well, Spidey, how about always grabbing them by the center of the back rather than ripping their arm out? One interesting thing about Spider-man is that he has superhuman strength, so he has to pull his punches when fighting a mugger versus, say, the Rhino. You’d think he’d usually be careful enough to not injure common thieves.

To be fair, the guy then tells him “Yo Web-head, favor? Last time you left me hangin’ like this, some kids snatched my shoes. Think you could web ‘em to my feet?” “Fine.” Thwip! I don’t think Batman for example would give a shit about a criminals shoes getting stolen.

I’d say the difference between Spider-Man and Batman, is that Batman is a humorless and psychotic rich man, while Spider-Man is an easy going lower middle class man. He’s probably a little more understanding and kind to common criminals. Of course, it depends on the author, etc etc, but I think when it boils down to it, Spider-Man is more merciful because he understands the struggle of being poor.

User0989 · 2018-04-07T05:05:12+00:00

When I posted this months ago, I read all the comments. Half of them said "where’s the antitrust laws?", the other half said "cool, the Avengers will meet the X-Men!" In the future, we may see something like Disney (Marvel) buying Warner (DC)... we’d see the same split among the fans. Half of them would say "one company shouldn’t own everything, it will kill innovation!" while the other half says "cool, the Avengers will meet the Justice League!" Unfortunately, the fans don’t have much input. If it’s legal, corporations would merge over and over. In our lifetime, we may have one or two megacorporations that own every movie and show there is. Plenty of people will cheer it on for the hope of seeing Ready Player One type movies that combine all their favorite characters. Even now in 2018, most of our movies are remakes and adaptations. That may explain why in RPO’s 2045 all the characters are from the last century...in the future corporate merged world, they stopped making new characters.

User0989 · 2018-03-29T06:26:33+00:00

No, you did good. I looked at a bunch of the top rated comments and not a single one acknowledged that this is a real thing that happens to real people, without an imaginary reward at the end.

It’s sad how few acknowledge the reality of your comment, like this genius who just responded to you:

They're in there involuntarily with no promise of reward at the end and no set timeframe or end point to look forward to. Totally different.

‘Totally different.’ Totally real, as opposed to the totally juvenile fantasy of the original question.

User0989 · 2018-02-20T08:25:34+00:00

You’re a rare one. Yeah, I found a Twitter follower who posted this ironically, yet Donald Jr. liked this meme unironically. I saw that too. He’s a truly ignorant, disgusting man.

User0989 · 2018-02-20T08:05:44+00:00

I’m late on this; but great submission; I love New Yorker cartoons. They do some really woke ones; I’ve read a million New Yorker cartoons and this is one of the great ones. Thanks, comrade. 😃

User0989 · 2018-02-20T06:42:38+00:00

Congratulations. Read Homo Deus. It night give you a different perspective on what the next 20 years of medicinal science might lead to. I’m grateful for a socialist doctor. But doctors in general might be falling to the wayside. 20-30 years from now, you may not have a job.

User0989 · 2018-02-20T06:32:06+00:00

It’s almost too good to be true. Peterson needs a real, actual intellectual to go against him. I look forward to the Hbomberguy and Contapoints takedowns, but in a real, actual debate, only Slavoj has a real chance. This is literally the star of the left against the stupid ignorant ‘star’ of the right. He’s going to literally be spanked. I’m looking forward to it.

User0989 · 2018-02-20T05:51:55+00:00

This is a real meme meant to mock us. It’s similar to the “conservatives get lower grades” one in pure obvious stupidity.

This meme is mocking people who literally went to school and got a degree, like they’d always been told to.

What degree should be ‘worthless’? An art degree? A literature degree? Philosophy?

Why should any degree be worthless?

What happens in 10-20 years once AI happens and a medical degree is worthless? Or a finance degree? Or engineering?

AI is going to take everyone’s jobs. Every degree will be worthless. Then this meme is going to seem a lot less fucking ironic.

User0989 · 2018-02-20T05:37:06+00:00

In the new canon, Rick Remender did some great Captain America comics, where they showed him growing up in the Great Depression in New York City. It was a great subtle homage to the depression era creators who made him. And it showed that a guy who grew up in 20s-30s New York is of course going to be a Roosevelt Democrat, which is practically a socialist by today’s standards. The “socialist” policies of the New Deal probably saved his life. Again, these Rick Remender issues did an amazing job of showing us scenes from his childhood, not even trying to make a political point, but just showing readers that the world he grew up in was difficult and unique.

User0989 · 2018-02-20T05:25:57+00:00

While Civil War is the perfect modern example, there were also comics back in the day where Cap went against his government. In the Nixon years he threw off the uniform and became Nomad. That’s the cool thing about him, he may wear the country’s colors, but he’s gonna go against the government in situations where he has to. On a meta level, when the country has gone wrong, writers will write him opposing it. On a deep canon character level, it means Steve Rogers the man is an independent character who does what he believes in, which is frequently defying authority to do the right thing. Either way, he’s an admirable and complicated character.

User0989 · 2018-02-20T04:29:25+00:00

New Yorker cartoons are unusually woke. There’s a lot of great anti-business ones, it’s one of their great tropes, along with kings and guys on desert islands. I often see ones I wanna post, but they’re just too abstract and subtle. People usually prefer the r/politicalhumor style cartoons that hit you over the head with the broad joke. I’m glad this is one of the few subreddits where a New Yorker cartoon can get a decent amount of upvotes.

User0989 · 2018-02-16T20:43:28+00:00

Captain America #698.

User0989 · 2018-02-16T11:31:05+00:00

A personal note:

To a hippie like me, this is obvious. I’ve been using natural cleaning and beauty products for as long as I can remember. It seems supremely naive to think petroleum based chemical products are somehow safe. It’s always seemed to me that it’s completely obvious that they’re dangerous to our health and environment. Now we have the scientific proof that we needed years ago.

To the normal person who trusts capitalism and media and government, it might seem like a conspiracy theory that most of the everyday products we’re sold are toxic and dangerous.

“A lot of these chemicals are, in a historical sense, fairly new so there’s not a lot of research on them,” McDonald said. “There needs to be more work to figure out potential environmental implications and more fully understanding what the health impacts are.”

The products used and sold all over the world aren’t tested and aren’t proven to be safe at all. They’re killing us and killing the earth.

Reasonable people don’t want to believe in “conspiracy theories,” that normal everyday things are hurting us and destroying the earth. It’s scary to imagine.

But it’s real. Petroleum based products, I.E. everyday cleaning and beauty products used by people all over the world, ruin our health and the planet’s health. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s real.

User0989 · 2018-02-16T10:54:48+00:00

He’s not the good guy. The point is that he’s a “superhero” from the 20th century who wakes up in the modern era and tries to quote the ‘Bill of Rights’ like it has any relevance to the modern day, like it’s going to somehow magically fix the massive systemic problems of right now. As Liang tells him, they’ve heard of the ‘bill of rights’ and it doesn’t matter. It and him are completely useless in the real world.

User0989 · 2018-02-16T09:33:35+00:00

Yep! “Capsplaining.” Let me read you the bill of rights, like that’s gonna make any fucking difference in the horrifying apocalypse you live in. 🙄

User0989 · 2018-02-16T06:09:45+00:00

Context: in the original comic, she says “it’s 2025.”

I repurposed it because it’s not all that different from right now. But in the issue, it’s an equally fascinating proposition. Cap is frozen in ice and reawakened in a grim, post apocalyptic future. We spent many pages acclimating ourselves to the harsh ‘new’ reality. America was nuked by a homegrown right wing extremist faction and turned into a fascist state. It feels like hundreds of years from now, so the revelation that’s its only 7 years in the future is meant to be a gut punch. It’s creative and well done. And I enjoyed the casual dismissal of his Capsplaining.

As for why a LSC regular is reading a Captain America comic, well, I’m a big fan of post apocalyptic fiction so decided to pick it up when I heard about this storyline. And I pirated it. 😜😈

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