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Bill Murray is 71 years old, an Irish Catholic from Illinois. He has been in some of the most successful comedy films ever over a period of more than 4 decades. He’s likely the single most respected and influential living comedian.
He was very popular when I was a child, with largely family-friendly comedy films I watched at the time (Groundhog Day and The Man Who Knew Too Little were my favorites), and I’ve enjoyed his roles in Wes Anderson films as an adult. I’ve also gone back and watched the classics such as Ghostbusters that were made before I was born (I didn’t really understand Caddyshack, which seemed like a very Jewish film).
This year, he was making a film directed by that annoying Bangladeshi Aziz Ansari. Production of the film was suspended because some woman working on the film complained about his “inappropriate behavior.” It doesn’t even appear to have been sexual behavior that we’re talking about here. You wouldn’t expect Murray to be involved in sexual behavior with co-workers. He’s never seemed like a top ladies’ man, and he is 71. He is known, like most comedians, for having a dark personality and doing supposedly outrageous things on set. He’s allegedly gotten in fights and during the filming of “What About Bob?” threw some woman in a pool.
He gave an interview over the weekend to MSNBC while he was attending a Berkshire Hathaway conference, and said that he just did something that was funny when he was younger but was not funny anymore, then did the whole “I’m still learning about what is appropriate today” thing they all do. Of course, we’re all still learning every day what is appropriate today, because it changes every day.
This is a standard hostage video interview, where he basically says he will do whatever his captor wants him to do.
Shutting down a film with top billed actors because some woman allegedly got offended is really outrageous, and is setting a new standard of women’s privilege.
Ansari was the victim of one of the dumbest metoo attacks – some woman wrote about how she went to his house and had sex with him but it was not good sex. The media started ramping this up and then I think everyone was like “yo, we gotta chill.” People were already starting to ask questions about like, poor Ben Affleck being forced to apologize for slapping some woman’s ass in the 1990s. So if I recall, even those horrible women on The View were like “I’m not sure that if you have sex with someone consensually and don’t enjoy it, that is something you can attack someone over.” But the media sought comment from Ansari and he was forced to go out and apologize and beg the forgiveness of all women and so on.
Everyone can understand feeling pretty dirty after having sex with a tiny Bangladeshi man, but we have to be able to draw some kind of line. These women said they were capable of making their own decisions. That was towards the end of the metoo movement when all of the journalists that were pushing the metoo movement were getting metoo’d.
Frankly, we’ve been due for another wave of the metoo movement.
Point being: I can understand why Ansari would be sensitive to this. He probably rightly assumed that if he didn’t shut the movie down, he’d be accused of being involved in a sexist conspiracy. There’s also the possibility that the woman in question, who has not been identified, couldn’t be fired without a lawsuit and all these accusations, and was choosing to make filming impossible. Women in the workplace very often throw tantrums and make men’s work impossible.
Whatever is going on here: Hollywood sets these standards, so it’s likely that this is some new standard that is going to be rolled out – possibly with a version of the metoo movement that relates to women feeling stressed at work and demanding they shouldn’t have to work so much.
