After releasing the second season of Master of None, co-creator and star, Aziz Ansari, was reluctant to reveal when a third season of the series would come.
That looked especially in doubt, when a few months later, sexual misconduct accusations were …
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Amy Schumer weighs in on the Aziz Ansari situation in a smart, nuanced way
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Amy Schumer has responded to the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against Aziz Ansari, who she notes is a friend.
“He’s been my friend and I really feel for the woman,” Schumer told Katie Couric on her podcast. “I identify with all the women in these situations. Even if it’s my friend, I don’t go, ‘Oh, but he’s a good guy.’ I think, ‘What would it feel like to have been her?’”
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Schumer and Ansari have never formally worked together, but both are prominent standup comedians who ascended to the spotlight concurrently. Read more…
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There’s no getting around it: Aziz Ansari made things complicated.
That’s the premise of this Saturday Night Live sketch. Babe.net’s lurid account of Ansari behaving horribly during a recent date turned what has seemed to many like a black-and-white situation — root out all sexual predators, wherever they may hide — into a much more nuanced conversation.
Ansari’s built his brand around being a “woke” comedian, but now we’re forced to reckon that public persona against a troubling account from his private life. Watching this pleasant dinner devolve into a series of false starts and endless qualifiers probably rings true for a lot of real conversations that have played out over the past couple weeks. Read more…
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View More Perfect ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch tackles the awkward Aziz Ansari convo we’re all havingAziz Ansari’s career isn’t over. So what happens now?
If Hollywood’s reckoning has made some people very, very uneasy, maybe that’s a good thing.
As Imran Siddiquee, a writer and filmmaker focused on race, gender, and pop culture points out, that discomfort in itself is a “necessary part of change…
We urgently need to talk about the grey areas of bad sexual encounters
“I’m sorry but I just don’t buy it,” a woman in her late twenties said to me. “I think that if a woman says “yes” at the outset then she can’t claim any harm has occurred.”
Sitting at a table full of strangers at a dinner party, I realised our …
Aziz Ansari skips SAG Awards following sexual misconduct accusation
Golden Globe winner Aziz Ansari kept his distance from this year’s SAG Awards following recent accusations of sexual misconduct.
Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series, the Master of None star didn’t make an appearan…
Michael Douglas’ sexual harassment accuser tells her side of the story
A few days ago, Michael Douglas continued a recent trend for powerful men on the cusp of having sexual misconduct allegations exposed: He got ahead of the story.
Douglas went on the offensive. In an interview with Deadline, he denied the woman’s acco…
Samantha Bee weighs in on Aziz Ansari and it’s straight fire
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“Men, if you say you’re a feminist, then fuck like a feminist,” Samantha Bee said on Wednesday’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. “If you don’t want to do that, take off your fucking pin because we are not your accessories.”
Bee weighed in on the ongoing #MeToo and Time’s Up movements on her weekly late-night show, this time focusing on an emerging backlash that fears no man will escape retribution.
“What the fuck are women supposed to do to protect ourselves?” Bee asked. “If we go public with a story we’re petty crybabies hell-bent on destroying men’s careers. If we write a secret list to protect each other, we’re gossipy shrews telling lies in the shadows. What men literally can’t understand is this isn’t about them.” Read more…
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View More Samantha Bee weighs in on Aziz Ansari and it’s straight fireThread about the ‘grey areas’ of bad sexual encounters is required reading in the wake of Aziz Ansari allegations
Set aside your feelings about the slew of hot takes that have emerged after the publication of a report accusing Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct, and please give this powerful Twitter thread your undivided attention.
Writer and radio host Ashl…
What is Babe? Meet the site that published the Aziz Ansari allegation
Bringing a laptop to Saturday brunch isn’t the best look. But for Eleni Mitzali, it was a necessary faux pas.
“I can’t bring myself to be away from it while all these responses are coming in,” the managing editor at Babe.net had texted a friend…
Hey Aziz Ansari defenders, saying ‘no’ is more complex than you think
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It took very little time for the same-old deeply dangerous rhetoric to rear its ugly head after the publication of a report accusing Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct. In the anonymous report—published over the weekend by Babe—a woman shares her account the alleged misconduct which took place on a date in September 2017.
The responses to the woman’s story are peppered with the word “should.” She should have said no; she should have walked out; she should never have taken off her clothes; she shouldn’t have been there in the first place. These responses, which are disturbingly widespread, not only shift the blame and responsibility onto the woman, they also fail to recognise an important truth. For many women, uttering an explicit “no” is not as easy or straightforward as you might think. Read more…
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Aziz Ansari accused of sexual misconduct, he responds
Aziz Ansari issued a statement Sunday night following an anonymous report from Babe 24 hours earlier, where a woman accused Ansari of sexual misconduct during a date the two went on in September.
In a statement to Mashable, Ansari essentially agreed …