Woeful Journalism

If Oxegen could have found an act, any act, to not leave them in the shit in 2013 they would have.

It is BS at the loony end of feminism.

If she wants to know why women don’t headline festivals, just look at the genres/types of acts that headline festivals. They are generally instrumental bands at the larger ones and DJs at pill feats like FF. Those aren’t female heavy genres. There is nothing stopping women picking up guitars and the drums in their teens and forming bands but too few do. Beyoncé has been one of the biggest acts in music for years but not that many festival goers want to see her at a festival so she is often a sub main headliner. She can fill Croke Park, and the promoters have no problems with this, but she just an out of this world festival act in comparison to her chart success.

Until more women start bands or become DJs then this isn’t going to change. The promoters have no obligation to provide gender quotas. They sell what they sell, they are many things but talking about sexism here is just pure nonsense.

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Would she ever just FOAD already.

this one makes Screaming Mullally look harmless. Rape Culture. FFS sake

to save clicking into it and giving it more attention.

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Supposedly sexually harassing women in the work place and going on to win an Academy Award for best actor are perfect examples of rape culture, says Louise O’Neill.

From Ed Sheeran’s lyrical ability to the Repeal the Eighth campaign, my university friends and I cover a multitude of topics in our group chat.

Most recently, we discussed the ethical subtext of going to see Manchester By The Sea, the movie which won Casey Affleck an Oscar for best actor at this year’s Academy Awards.

Despite rave reviews, I refused to see it due to two sexual harassment cases that had been brought against Affleck by a female producer, Amanda White, and director of photography, Magdalena Gorka, both of whom had worked with Affleck on a previous project.

The allegations were extensive and disturbing, ranging from a daily diet of highly sexualised, offensive comments, abusive texts messages when White refused to have sex with Affleck, to physical intimidation where Gorka claimed she woke in the middle of the night to find Affleck lying in bed next to her.

The cases were settled for undisclosed terms out of court in 2010…

Since I was aware of this story, I felt that going to see the film would be a betrayal of my feminist principles, but some of my friends disagreed.

We argued about the necessity of separating art from the artist, or of how far back in history we should go to set those boundaries.

Should we stop listening to Elvis because he began a relationship with Priscilla at an alarmingly young age?

Never watch Annie Hall, again because Woody Allen was accused of abusing Dylan Farrow, his adoptive daughter?

Should we research every movie and TV show, book, and album, to ensure that no one involved has an unsavoury past? Would such a thing even be possible? Shouldn’t we just be allowed to enjoy the things we enjoy?

It was an interesting conversation, but the next day as I was texting another friend of mine, I began to realise the true implications of what Casey Affleck’s Oscar win meant.

How are you today, I asked her. I’m tired, she replied. I can’t stop thinking about the Oscars. This particular friend had been raped in horrific circumstances a number of years ago and for her, Affleck’s best actor Oscar was not a triumph of skill or ability; it was yet another reminder of how little society seems to care about victims of sexual violence and how few consequences there are for the perpetrators.

I have heard men laugh about Donald Trump’s ‘grab ‘em by the pussy’ comments, the term ‘locker talk’ becoming a punch line on drunken nights out, seemingly indifferent to the fact that those comments — and the easy, cavalier dismissal of them — re-traumatised millions of men and women all over the world who are survivors of rape and assault.

Joking about sexual assault and still managing to become the President of the United States of America?

Supposedly sexually harassing women in the work place and going on to win an Academy Award for best actor?

These are perfect examples of rape culture and it isn’t something that can be ignored anymore.

It’s not just politics. It is not just art. This is profoundly personal.

Separating the art from the artist, as Sady Doyle wrote in a piece for Elle magazine, “would be a noble sentiment if we regularly applied it to anyone other than white men… this same pattern of forgiveness and selective blindness is suspiciously absent when it comes to black male artists.

"When the director Nate Parker’s history of sexual assault was revealed last year, his much anticipated film The Birth of a Nation flopped, and Parker himself went from a golden boy to an outcast pretty much overnight.”

Women also struggle to be forgiven for their mistakes in the same way.

Winona Ryder’s career almost imploded over shoplifting, Katherine Heigl found it difficult to get work because of her reputation as being ‘difficult’; why were audiences not encouraged to take art for art’s sake when it was a woman’s livelihood that was at stake?

My fears around Casey Affleck’s win (and, to a larger extent, Donald Trump’s election) are twofold.

I’m worried that it will cause distress to victims of sexual harassment, abuse, or rape; further discouraging them from reporting, due to a sense of futility.

Seeing sexual predators deified in the public eye in this way can only contribute to a victim’s feeling of powerlessness, one which all too often can already seem overwhelming.

I am also deeply concerned about the message that this is sending to our young men. By celebrating Affleck are we inadvertently confirming the idea that a woman’s body is there for male consumption, to be used for his own pleasure and entertainment?

Are young men internalising the belief that if they do sexually harass or assault someone, that not only is it unlikely they will see any consequences, they might in fact be fêted?

So no, I do not think I could go see Manchester By The Sea in good conscience. I will put my money where my mouth is and support movies such as Hidden Figures and Moonlight, movies that celebrate the artistic accomplishments of women and people of colour.

Due to recent upheavals across the world, from Trump to Brexit to the horrors in Syria, I have found it is frighteningly easy to become disillusioned and to believe that the world’s problems are insurmountable.

What difference can one person make, we think to ourselves and yet we do have choices.

It might seem meaningless, given greater societal issues at play, but by refusing to go and see Casey Affleck’s movie, I am making a tiny declaration that I find his alleged behaviour reprehensible and that I refuse to reward him with my time, attention, or most importantly, money.

How powerful would it be to see a movie starring Affleck or Mel Gibson or Johnny Depp or any of the other countless, immensely powerful men accused of heinous crimes against women, fail miserably at the box office due to a conscious boycott?[/quote]

this one going on about a boycott. she didnt even turn up at the Repeal the 8th march on international womens day despite going on about it for ages.

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I’ve read a few of her earlier works but refuse to click in now… What a culture we’ve allowed develop in our press- Or are these all saved for online click-bait?

Sounds alot like the whatsapp group myself and @anon32894817 are in

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We have our own here

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"My university friends "

Says it all .

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That is an unwanted advance and I’ll ask you to respect my boundaries in future you horrible cretin.

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this one makes Screaming Mullally look harmless. Rape Culture. FFS sake

to save clicking into it and giving it more attention.

That whatsapp group sounds banterific

Does nobody else think that Affleck’s alleged transgressions are indeed glossed over very handily? I think it’s a legit story and opinion to call out how he had basically an untarnished reputation.

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It’s a legitimate opinion in a terribly written article. The editor should have said ya there’s a point in there somewhere go way and find it and come back to me. Also I don’t give a fuck about your whatsapp group, don’t ever mention it again

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Rte 1just had their big piece on Martin mcguinness and then went straight to sports news. 'another one bites the dust seems to be the case with the irish soccer team…

The Daily Mail, how any Irish person can buy that rag is beyond me. Obviously the hate they are spewing out on their front page over there is not deemed palatable for the stupid cunts that buy the paper over here.

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No surprise the GGA have been involved in sponsorship with these cunts.

The Sun along similar lines:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/scariest-experience-of-my-life-man-arrested-and-woman-injured-after-emergency-brake-pulled-on-luas-red-line-35558011.html

To save you the click. The scariest experience of his life was some oddball pressing the emergency brake button on the luas.

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They’re seriously trying to create a connection without ever mentioning what it has to do with the story or who the soccer ‘star’ is. Painful to read.

Associate of Irish international soccer star is suspected of luring victim (25) to shooting

Railway Street and inset Eddie Staunton
Ken Foy
March 29 2017 9:06 AM

Gardai are investigating whether a close associate of a major Irish international football star was involved in luring Dublin’s latest gun victim to an attempt on his life.

Eddie Staunton (25), a cousin of slain feud murder victim Gary Hutch, was understood to be making a good recovery last night after being shot twice at about 9.55pm on Sunday in Dublin’s north inner city.

Sources said the brutal attempted murder has led to a “major increase” in tensions in the locality with fears that some of the Hutch gang may attempt to avenge Staunton’s shooting.

Independent.ie can reveal that mobsters are blaming a younger associate of the star Irish footballer for luring Mr Staunton to the shocking incident in which he was shot twice as he was being given first aid following a hit-and-run incident.

The footballer’s associate is aged in his early 20s and is a suspected low-level drug dealer.

An older relative of this young man, aged in his 30s, previously had close links to the Kinahan cartel and was involved in laundering money for the international crime gang.

Sources said Sunday night’s shooting may be linked to a “deal that went wrong” involving a close pal of Mr Staunton.

This pal is suspected of flooding the north inner city with prescription pills.

Mr Staunton is not involved in crime or the deadly gangland feud between some of his associates and the Kinahan cartel.

“The footballer’s close associate is suspected of making a phone call that led to Mr Staunton cycling in the area,” a source said last night.

The footballer’s associate is known to gardai and was present when Martin O’Rourke (24) was shot in a case of mistaken identity on Sheriff Street in the north inner city last April 14.

However the “tablet dealer” is not suspected of any involvement in this killing of O’Rourke, which caused nationwide outrage.

No arrests have yet been made in relation to Sunday night’s non-fatal shooting but it is understood that the gunman was unmasked.

Four shots were fired at Mr Staunton from a small .22 handgun by the driver of the car who had rammed the victim off the road. He was hit in the groin and leg.

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Read it this morning, absolutely dreadful journalism. A fucking 12 year old student would be slaughtered by his teacher if he handed that in as homework. Wes Hoolahan is the footballer btw.

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Jesus it’s awful suff alright. Hope West is on the blower to his brief

Pathetic