IT’S BEEN FIVE months since comedian Louis C.K. withdrew from public life after admitted to masturbating in front of people who did not want him to.
Journalist Stuart Miller recently wrote a piece for The Hollywood Reporter in which he considered not if, but how and when the comedian will relaunch his career.
The piece reads:
The consensus is that while his behavior was clearly wrong it was not at the level of a Harvey Weinstein, James Toback or Bill Cosby. Comics and club owners alike agree with Gilbert Gottfried’s opinion that “there are different levels of misbehavior” and the public understands the difference.
Gottfried added: “The thing that to me was shocking and hurtful when I heard about Louis C.K. was that he never once invited me to his hotel room to watch him masturbate.”
The article seemingly attempts to taking the most extreme behavioral examples – Cosby is on trial for indecent assault – is due to go on trial and using them as a guideline to normalize unwanted sexual behavior.
Kristy Puchko wrote a response to the article:
There’s a lot to consider as the Me Too movement moves forward. It’s tempting to imagine we can treat abusers like we treat faux pas-making celebrities on social media: they’re dead to us forever! UNFOLLOW! But these men are not disappearing just because we’re outraged. They will continue to exist and work. Some might face legal consequences. Some might actually face up to what they did and the harm it caused [...] Others will stay quiet and hope to get a second chance once enough time has passed.
But not enough time has passed for this instance, and allowing C.K. back into comedy clubs opens up the women who frequent them to the threat of him once more. These abusers should not be welcomed back into spaces they used to abuse.
Naturally, Twitter users had their opinions on the piece, and C.K.’s comeback potential.
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Time will tell if C.K. ends up getting the woke comedy special that a minority want.
