Celeb silence over Cuomo sexual harassment claims exhibits #MeToo has grow to be a weaponized motion which means nothing to Hollywood

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of sexually harassing a former worker, but his picture stays unscathed as he continues to hobnob with Hollywood celebrities who as soon as pretended to care concerning the #MeToo motion.

Within the warmth of the #MeToo motion, the merest whiff of doable sexual misconduct may discover public figures shedding gigs and the topic of denouncement by speaking heads and fellow celebrities.

That doesn’t appear to be true now, not less than for Andrew Cuomo. His former worker, Lindsey Boylan, not too long ago accused the governor of sexually harassing her and others over the course of years working beneath him. This follows Boylan additionally claiming Cuomo runs a “poisonous work setting” that drove her to remedy. 

Nevertheless, Boylan’s feedback have garnered surprisingly little consideration and Cuomo continues smiling on tv as his followers fawn over the potential of him changing into Joe Biden’s lawyer normal. 

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Cuomo’s solely response to Boylan was a quick assertion from his workplace saying there was no fact to what she was saying. The mainstream media has appeared to take this at face worth and wiped the whole factor beneath the rug. Think about if it had been this straightforward for different males accused of misconduct primarily based solely on allegations to do away with them like, say, Brett Kavanaugh?

Probably the most deafening silence on the Cuomo allegations come from his Hollywood buddies, whom he often rubs shoulders with and makes particular exceptions for – ever surprise why ‘Saturday Evening Reside’ is at the moment allowed to movie with a reside studio viewers whereas many small companies stay nearly fully shut down?

Cuomo is one in every of many politicians who’s extra ‘celeb’ than political chief. As governor, he has nearly nothing optimistic to point out for himself. New York has grow to be a catastrophe zone with usually altering and contradicting details about restrictions. Cuomo often fights with members of the press who defy him, and he nonetheless has by no means given a correct protection for an early order forcing nursing houses within the state to just accept optimistic Covid-19 sufferers, a transfer critics say led to 1000’s of deaths.

As a celeb, nonetheless, Cuomo is doing fairly nice. He wrote and printed a e book on his pandemic management in the midst of the pandemic, which earned him a flush payday and a few gross sales value celebrating. He even received to land puff piece interviews with Howard Stern the place he talked about his relationship life and on CNN together with his brother Chris the place the 2 commerce awkward barbs and ignore urgent questions.

Actors like Chris Rock and Rosie Perez have stood facet by facet with the governor at press conferences. Liberal comedians like Chelsea Handler joke about relationship him. Others defend him voraciously on social media and he was even awarded an Emmy for his Covid press conferences. 

Cuomo additionally has a particular birthday fundraiser set for this Thursday, which was clearly solely unaffected by Boylan’s feedback. This ‘Birthday Bash’ will embrace celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg, Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, and Henry Winkler. None of them appears to be making all that a lot effort to uplift Boylan’s voice as a feminine within the face of Cuomo’s cultural energy although.

Throwing a celeb-filled birthday bash that prices as much as $ 10,000 to ‘nearly’ attend whereas many within the state are nonetheless struggling to maintain their companies afloat and their payments paid might look like one more unhealthy search for Cuomo, however his fellow celebs have been proper there to defend him, with each Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette even biting again at criticism of the occasion from Janice Dean, a Fox Information meteorologist who misplaced each her in-laws in New York nursing houses early within the pandemic. Stiller, to offer some credit score, ended up apologizing after discovering Dean’s background. Arquette’s row got here on the identical day Boylan made her accusations. 

Wow. No blame for presidency leaders for companies closing. It’s all these unhealthy ppl not sporting masks. https://t.co/fn9IrdvkKt

— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) December 13, 2020

I’m sorry on your loss. I’m not into coming down on individuals. You referred to as me out. All of us are coping with this and I imagine we must be much less divisive. All the perfect.

— Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) December 12, 2020

Examine the timelines of each Arquette and Stiller, and each different Cuomo-loving celeb whilst you’re at it, and see in the event that they’ve put any power into giving consideration to Boylan’s accusations. No? Unusual from a group that desires to satisfaction itself on giving girls energy within the face of years of oppression, proper?

The reality is whereas the #MeToo motion uncovered some horrendous individuals and eventually received them what they deserved, it was changed into a weaponized political motion as soon as Hollywood figureheads received concerned. It turned extra about taking down politically handy individuals and defending these on the ‘proper’ (or ought to that be left?) facet.

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Why else would a supposed #MeToo advocate like Alyssa Milano have the ability to say she is voting for Joe Biden on one hand after which declare she believes accuser Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation on the opposite? 

It’s for a similar motive, now, that Cuomo’s fellow celebrities will ignore Boylan, as a result of they don’t actually care about girls’s rights or any motion associated to these rights. They solely care when it’s handy for them or their political tribe. Boylan, like each different controversy swirling round Cuomo, is inconvenient for the left proper now, so he’ll be protected in any respect prices and she or he can be ignored. So on Thursday, celebrities will ignore Boylan, write their checks to Cuomo, after which they’ll all sit round and fake to be good little Democrats who care about girls and holding highly effective males accountable and each different social difficulty they parade round on social media. Keep in mind, Hollywood’s specialty has at all times been fantasy.

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