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12/07/09
Full disclosure: I actually like the overall film.
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Take note, Courteney Cox and Heather Locklear, because it's getting realllly hard not to avert my eyes.
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Go Sandy. You keep starring in them and I'll keep seeing them.
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You're comparing cumulative box office for one film with weekly box office? Oh, man, "Titanic"'s $1.2 BIL cum wiped the floor with "Amored"'s measly $4 mil.
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10/05/09
He took advantage (imo).
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Dave -- call me.
10/05/09
It's the ones who don't and then watch the ones who do get the promotions, plum assignments, air time, etc.
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Screwing the boss to get ahead seems like a great strategy in your 20s and 30s. Believe me, I've seen both men and women do it.
But it has a depressingly bad effect on the rest of the workforce, who must constantly deal with the side effects of the bo-mance. Resentment builds, as hard-working people begin to suspect that their own careers are lagooned while sweetie-of-the-month gets the good assignments, promotions and undivided boss attention.
Look, it's difficult enough to traverse the emotional terrain when two colleagues are romancin'. When it's the boss-man (and it usually IS a man), that terrain is littered with landmines, son.
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I know this is hard for some people to understsand, but women are perfectly capable of schtupping their superios without being victimized by the experience. Yes, sexual harrassment and predation exists. But there is zilch evidence that it existed between Letterman and these interns. It is not an inherent aspect of such a relationship, and to suggest that it is just makes women sound like idiots who aren't in control of their own sexuality.
Women sometimes WANT to fuck the boss. It does not make them victims.
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And yes, of course, SOMETIMES that is not what happens and someone is fired or demoted as part of the fall-out from the relationship. But my point is--there is NO evidence that happened between Dave and any of his employees so the assumptions these women were victimized is bogus.
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And, (because this isn't Jezebel I'll just say this), if you look at the situation, in the end isn't Letterman the "victim?" Has he not lost and been hurt in the end? And to suggest that he isn't, because he's a man, is to just further play into the damaging conception our society has of masculinity which doesn't like vulnerable/victim men.
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@if_i_only_had_a_heart: In this particular case, the "underling" started living with someone from 48 Hours and continued being Dave's assistant.
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