New Orleans Being home for a short spell, as a treat we’ve been watching some television before the lights go off. Recently, we’ve been catching an episode on an almost nightly basis of “Rita,” a series on Danish television about an anti-authoritarian, but deeply committed and wildly popular school teacher. Last year, I watched several …
Tag: Hollywood
Time’s Up?
New Orleans The #MeToo moment may be moving, step by step, in a direction that confronts more than just bad actors and begins to look at the reform of the entire system of sexual harassment, which is simply a manifestation of discrimination, if not outright misogyny. This is good news, even if the debate is …
Is Sexually Predatory Behavior Really on the Run in America?
New Orleans Here’s the picture we’re supposed to be getting from the mass media about sexually predatory behavior. It’s an old, white man problem, and it’s being rooted out in office after office, boardroom after boardroom. We have the pantheon of Fox News and network stars caught, as we might say, with their pants around …