Sorry/Not Sorry: the Women Louis CK Abused Finally Have Their Say

Everything about the way the #MeToo movement got co-opted by Hollywood in 2019 twists my brain into giant balls of agita and kicks me in the stomach with them.  For several years now that's been the case.  Louis CK is one of the poster boys of that.

Several others are featured in this documentary, including Michael Ian Black.  MIB was, to my knowledge, a C-lister whose career was entirely dead in the water until the  #MeToo thing got pulled into a whole new direction.  Then that fizzled out almost entirely, with much help from the Biden-Harris campaign.  America went back to a much more "he-said, she-said" lifestyle.  (2020:  Vote blue no matter who!  So I did vote for the blue rapist over the red rapist.  2024?  Screw you no matter who.) 

Now the #MeToo Movement is mostly back to being Tarana Burke's thing for black people quietly supporting each other about sexual abuse. Out loud, in the media, it's whatever stupid things white people say about it, a form of victimizing men with random punishments they don't deserve.  Even a highly decent guy like John Oliver uses it that way, that men get "MeToo'd," not meaning they've been sexually assaulted, but they've been socked with horrible consequences out of the clear blue sky.  It's like being hit with space junk by some mean-spirited bitch.

The great thing about this video is that they apparently got a lot of total Kevins to admit what a bunch of jerks they are.  I'm just going from the trailer.  But it looks like punchworthy-palooza.  It's a cringe-boy parade, no shame in the whole game, starting with Charlie Rose interviewing CK, moving along to Noam Dworman, to Michael Ian Black, currently one of the most least-interesting or respectable people in America, who became a voice again by pushing #MeToo under the bus after his C-list career died sometime in the 90s.  Now he has a column on The Daily Beast. 

Orange Hat Bro at 1:44:  "Everybody lives with a certain amount of hypocrisy.  And this is the amount that I've allocated for myself."

Ladies, this is the conversation you need to have with the men you're in relationships with.  Is he Orange Hat Bro?  You're living with an abusive asshole.  He's fine with you being used like an inflatable love doll if CK wants to whip his dick out on you.  That's cool with him.  It's his world, you're an accessory in it.  Orange Hat Bro is a piece of shit.  He's admitting it on camera with a little smirk for ya.  He DGAF if you feel dehumanized.

Sean McCarthy spells it right out.  "Making fun of the victims is still good for business."  Because Orange Hat Bro enjoys it, basically.  It's all been explained. 

I don't know if Aida Rodriguez identifies as a survivor.  But I don't appreciate her adding the adjective "white" to the sentence "white men get away with the stuff they do."  Because she could swivel her head around and say hi to Coco Diaz, or Diddy, or a lot of other guys nobody's ever heard of.  Speaking as the person who runs this blog, they almost all get away with it 

People just need to delete the qualifiers.  People get away with all kinds of violence in this country, because the police much prefer to enforce crimes against property.  That's much easier for them.  Men do 80% of the violence on average.  Not only the rich or white ones get away with the stuff they do constantly in America. Aida Rodriguez is not my friend.

Everyone wanting to politicize sexual violence in whatever kind of way, hijack or use it to their advantage to reboot their sorry ass career like Michael Ian Black did, or grind their axes as Aida Rodriguez is doing here, can step right off with it as far as I'm concerned.  I'm beyond sick of being used.  At least the amateur predator sting channels put a ton of work in and usually result in the arrest of an actual child predator.  Is Aida Rodriguez a survivor? What does she do for survivors but run her mouth?

So with friends like Aida and Orange Hat Bro, Karen can go fuck herself.  Kevin has a lifetime free pass, to do as he pleases with his dick and then monetize it however he wants.  Sean McCarthy and Noam Dworman have explained it.

Michael Ian Black:  "Louie had a whole bit about how the greatest threat to women was men.  Louie could still do that bit and say, 'And I was one of those guys.'"  And he nods, like yeah.  Wow.  As if he isn't doing it in real time. Michael Black is like the metastatic cancerous version of the icky little wart that is Orange Hat Bro.

Orange Hat Bro is fine with just being that guy who gets that what CK did was wrong, and doesn't care about it while still being a fan.  He goes to the CK show, and DGAF if women don't like it.  If he has a girlfriend, probably expects her to go along and laugh too.  Doesn't think of himself as an asshole, as Michael Shur doesn't or at least didn't.

But Michael Ian Black is three steps deeper into exploiting rape survivors while believing himself somehow virtuous, while profoundly not being capable of giving a shadow of a fuck.  He went from being a nothingburger, to pushing #MeToo under the bus when the time was right, to now being a staff writer for The Daily Beast, to now somehow imagining he's repositioned himself back on the moral high ground.  Michael Ian Black makes Jim Jefferies look like a hero.

So this is clearly a fantastic piece of work.  Can't wait to see it.  Like Borat, they somehow got all of these shameless people to speak freely on camera.

My last remaining question on this is Jon Stewart.  Does he appear?  Is he a big enough person to come on like Michael Shur and explain his failure to man up in real time?

I didn't watch the last episode of The Daily Show because CK was on it. 

I didn't need to hear Jen Kirkman say anything to know CK was a creeper.  I watched that episode of CK's show about the Christian lady who was trying to tell CK he couldn't jerk off.  And then he totally creeped on her about it.   All of that was aggressive as hell within the skit, and I felt creeped upon by watching it. It was all more info than I wanted.  That whole thing was a skit CK wrote, and the Christian woman, and the actress he hired to play her, all of that began and ended with CK.  None of that was okay.   I never watched anything of his again, including the last episode of Daily Show for that reason.

On the one hand, I will always respect and appreciate Jon Stewart's work on the Zadroga bill.  He stepped all the way up and got it done.  The fact that he had to be the one to make it happen, shame on this country.  But he brought it home, God bless.  That was pure gold for me.   I have a true gratitude for him, that he recognized the need and made it happen when nobody else would.  It was not his problem, and he did it.  <3

But this CK situation, yeah.  He totally knew.  And he straight up DGAF.  So that, my friend, looks like it zeroes out to nothing.  Just zero.  Because I feel like if Jon Stewart actually saw CK raping me, he'd just walk away and NGAF.   Him and Orange Hat Bro.