From Screenrant:

A series of sexual misconduct allegations against Anvar began in summer 2020 after season 5 wrapped production, prompting Alcon Entertainment to launch an investigation through an independent company. That investigation has concluded with the ousting of Anvar, whose alleged behavior stands in stark contrast to the values and themes the show has promoted throughout its duration, and which many fans have praised it for.

The accusations levied against Anvar largely revolved around his presence at various sci-fi and fan conventions. Multiple women came forward with personal accounts of meeting Anvar as fans, and being ceaselessly harassed by him in person and through direct messages afterwards. The allegations claim that he aggressively pushed for sexual encounters, and that he berated women who refused to meet up with him. There are also claims of assault against Anvar from women who did meet up with him in person. Many of these accusations were supported by transcripts and screenshots of conversations where Anvar solicited and insulted the women in question.

I think this doc. makes clear that nurture plays an ENORMOUS and still-under-credited role in everyone’s life — as does the life-lottery of being born rich / middling / poor, in a neighborhood with good or lousy schools, etc.

RG is grossly overrated, IMO, and his comedy is mean-spirited and full of his bloated ego.

And not just American invasions, but European colonialism. All of the above destabilized nations in the interest of grabbing, or being able to buy under favorable terms, valuable natural resources; that’s why every developed nation that interfered where it shouldn’t have has a moral and financial obligation to the refugees from those nations; anti-immigrant hardliners are wrong wrong wrong.

There have been a few exceptions, such as the fight against fascism (WWII) — and, Afghanistan is complicated, given that the 14th-century-esque theocratic Taliban has shattered the life of every girl and woman there — but for the most part, the goal in the 20th century has been to install a govt that would be favorable to US or European business interests, with disastrous results.

Woody Allen did not have zero contact with Soon Yi. She lived with her mother, Mia, and he was in a committed relationship with Mia — he saw Soon Yi often, and she was akin to his stepdaughter.

A man who falls for (ETA: and courts) his stepdaughter is an irredeemable creep. A man who grooves on the power dynamic of himself-with-a-woman-who-is-more-than-25-years-his-junior (also the theme of whichever movie stars Mariel Hemingway — Manhattan, I think) is an irredeemable creep.

In this case, though, we need to hear about what he’s doing — he’s a dangerous would-be autocrat who has created major cracks in our democracy. We can’t bury our heads in the sand when it comes to his exhortations to his nutty followers.

That said, I think he’ll soon be in jail — and not long thereafter, his decades of fast food and sitting on his lardy ass will take him away for good. Yes, his kids want to run for office. but I don’t see a political future for those incompetent, non-charismatic idiots.

But ppls aren’t getting the info they need. John Oliver, or someone like him, tracked how little time the major OTA networks spend covering the climate crisis — virtually none. And don’t forget that a shocking % of the American public tunes in to propaganda rather than actual news.

Big Biz calls all the shots, and thanks to the previous conservative Supreme Court (now an ultra-conservative super majority), corps. are people and can make massive political donations.

It’s probably too late for anything to improve in the US — rich GOPs have been working for 40 years to get GOP majorities in state legislatures, which enables them to gerrymander and thus retain a false majority in Congress, and to buy up/consolidate media so they can control the info (propaganda) shared in many area.

That said, we have to fight. Pls urge your rep. and sens. (by phone or email) to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Pls volunteer with groups that want to end Citizens United, and expand voting rights. Pls volunteer to elect progressive candidates who will make a positive difference. And pls urge everyone you know to do the same.

Btw, pls read (if you haven’t already) Nicholas Kristof’s May 2020 column in the NYT titled “McDonald’s Employees in Denmark Pity Us” — gives a glimpse of the kind of highly functioning, well-funded, safe, peaceful, and less inequitable democracy we should aspire to. Among other things, this piece tacitly refutes the “B-b-but … socialism!” crowd’s talking points.

@Infinitystar — You can’t compare djt’s admin, or post-presidency, to anyone else’s. Past leaders are spoken of for various reasons, by both admirers and detractors, but of all the US presidents from the past 120 years, only djt has been a danger to democracy itself.

He will be observed and spoken about bc he is still a major danger to our national security.

If, for whatever reason, the cast is largely new to you (I’m not assuming that it is, but if it is), the you might also enjoy the work of some other cast members — lots of superb British actors, among them Dorothy Atkinson, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, Danny Webb, and Anna Chancellor.

dreamcrusher: I’m not a dude, and I have many paired body parts: ovaries, breasts, kidneys, lungs …

Dude, you need to join the 21st century.

Have you tried a different browser? I used Firefox, and I’ve had no trouble with any of the sites. *Disclaimer: I’ve never tried Aparat, so I can’t say for sure that it works on FF, but all the others do, including CW.

Fwiw, uBlock is the best adblocker I’ve ever used — and it’s free. (I switched quite a while back, when Adblocker Plus started letting stuff slip thru for me.)

Also fwiw, I prefer Firefox, after years of using Chrome and then Opera — and I think FF is far more attuned to helping users maintain privacy (or some privacy).

I use Streamzz with some frequency; my browser is Firefox, with uBlock Origin. After years of experimenting, those are my preferred browser and ad-blocker.

FF does one weird thing, but it’s so minor that I don’t care: When I post comments using Disqus, FF sometimes inserts and extra line-space. That’s the only hiccup I’ve had with it, and in all other ways, including privacy issues, I’m happier w FF than I was with Chrome and Opera.

Far more likely that few people are watching it now because they saw it when it first aired (started ten yrs ago) — the reviews were great, and the viewing figures were high.

rapscallion, this is a battle worth fighting. “Man” has been used as a verb (man the battle stations) bc with few exceptions, only men had paid work — and women’s work was considered unimportant.

Maybe you’re too young to know how hard life was for women even in 1980, when they became a significant presence in the workforce, but I’m not.

• My sister, a corp. lawyer, couldn’t get a credit card on her own despite having an excellent job/salary/education; her boyfriend, who earned less, had no problem getting one.
• Women routinely got fired when they were pregnant — wasn’t illegal.
• Ditto when they got married.
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg was chastised by a Harvard law professor for taking a spot that cd’ve gone to a man; does anybody really think that she wasn’t more qualifed than her male peers? (Her CV shows us that she was.)

And on and on and on. And, women still face a lot of bull in the workplace, including lower wages for equal pay. Language matters ecause it expresses how we see the world, and too many people still have misgivings about women taking their place in the world. SO let’s stop using words that reinforce the idea that women don’t belong in the workplace, or that their work isn’t valuable.

A final thought: Would you be OK if the word “white” were used to refer to all people of all ethnic backgrounds ? “White the battle stations” and “We don’t have enough whitepower to get the job done.” It’s completely parallel — all Black people, and all women (of any color) didn’t have equal rights & protection under the law until recently.

Language matters.

LegitBoss — How about “apeople”? :)

Not really. And FYI, the etymology of “amen”: From Middle English amen, from Old English, from Ecclesiastical Latin āmēn, from Ancient Greek ἀμήν (amḗn), from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן‎ (ʾāmēn, “certainly, truly”)

Please stop railing about mixdrop, which isn’t the problem – many of us use it with no problem and have for months. If you would read the replies to your earlier, almost-identical complaint you’d have learned some stuff:

– Maybe your internet connection or browser is the problem; maybe try a different browser (I have good results with Firefox).

– This depends on your location and the network topology, try PING and TRACEROUTE to the host and you’ll see why.

YES. Thanks.

Thanks, Sherlocat, for being open-minded and pleasant — very cool of you.

And pls don’t apologize — the fact that the word didn’t initially register as problematic for you shows us how accustomed we are to the everyday, deeply ingrained assumptions about who runs the world / whose work is important.

VacantField42 : Shetland isn’t quite as dark as Hinterland, but it’s dark rather than mild, and it’s a great series. (It does spend more time on the lead’s personal life than did Hinterland, but not an excessive amount, and the cast is so good that it’s worth it).

I hope you’ll give it another shot, and if the 1st series doesn’t grab you within the 1st 20-30 min., then move on to second (anything you’ll have missed about work and personal relationships you won’t soon figure out).

“Too big for his/her britches” means “He/she is so puffed up with a sense of self-importance that he/she no longer fits into his/her clothing.”

Not quite.

Your comment piqued my curiosity, so I googled a little. I didn’t see the type of comments you alluded to, but I read a little about what sounds like massive dysfunction in that family. It sounds as though Nancy (the sister who died by suicide) was the family scapegoat — and when those who have bullied or abused a target are called on their bad behavior, they just further blame the target. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Roberts was cruel to her hald-sister — Roberts s a textbook example of massive ambition and minor talent, and that too is an indicator of massive family dysfunction ( = a need to be seen / heard / loved on a big scale, because tenderness and kindness and empathy are in short supply, or are nonexistent, at home).

People who speak up about being abused by either the immediate or the extended family are almost never believed and are almost always further ostracized, leading to even greater misery. Humans really s-ck sometimes.

Oh, I don’t mind — goes with the territory. In my (admittedly limited) experience, websites like these tend to be visited disproportionately by reactionary boys — and I do mean boys. There are always fewer women, and they tend to behave like adults.

Read some comments on columns in the NYT — you’ll feel better. :) ( = lots of smart grownups who want a better world.)

I’m just sorry that you have to deal with the downvoting bullshed, esp. given that you were kind enough to go out of your way to help other viewers by sharing the “wrong links” info. Hang in there!

FYI: “doesn’t have sufficient staff” (vs. “doesn’t have the manpower”). Pls avoid language from bygone eras in which only men had agency in the world; thanks.

And thanks for taking the time to alert prospective viewers to problems with the links.