It's weird. All this came out quite a while ago... a couple of years, at least. Tig Notaro talked about it openly, and when she was pressed as to why Louis was Executive Producer on her TV show, she said he was Exec only in name, and did not have any meetings with Tig or daily role with the show. His name was on it for marketing purposes only.

Bigger picture here, I think we may be focusing on the wrong thing, accusing men in powerful positions of sexual misconduct.

This isn't honestly a surprise to anyone. After all, there is an entire branch of the porn industry that has taken the 'casting couch' known from all media (movies, TV, etc) and turned it into porn.

There is also the weird dynamic of women's attraction to power. There is a type of woman who is turned on by men in power. They skew the man's understanding of what is OK, and the more powerful you are, the more of these women who throw themselves at you.

We used to call them "groupies".

How many times does the guitar player in the band or star of the action movie have a woman throw themselves on them, and choose to do crazy sexual shit, before the man starts to think shit like that is "normal"?

In no way do I think the women being accused were groupies, or whatever. And I do not think the men should be easily let off the hook for their callous treatment of women.

But we all know these upper echelons of celebrity were full of insane sexual situations, drugs, and a license to tread far beyond the "polite" boundaries most of us live within. And isn't that part of the attraction of celebrity/fame/riches? To be able to do shit other people can't?

I think the issue we should be focusing on is not the individuals (except in the cases of abuse/rape/criminal activity), but on the culture that seems to think this is OK, and creates a bubble where this type of behavior is "just something that happens", as opposed to HOLY FUCKBALLS WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU LUNATIC?!?

Louis got naked and masturbated in front of women.

I've done that. It can be sexy fun.

But he did it without consideration of the time/place, or whether the woman wanted to or not.

That is the real problem. And it's clearly a result of the culture these people exist in - a power bubble - that makes them think this behavior is acceptable.

It's not like Louis got famous so he could take his weird sexual fantasy to previously unattainable heights.

His weird sexual proclivities were legitimized by the culture he was living within.

And that's bad for everyone from the execs to the consumers, not to mention the two people in the room at that moment.