Comedian Louis CK Admits To Sexual Misconduct Charges In Calculated Mea Culpa Open Letter – IOTW Report

Comedian Louis CK Admits To Sexual Misconduct Charges In Calculated Mea Culpa Open Letter

Friday, 10 November 2017, 14:47 BFH Uncategorized 39

I want to address the stories told to the New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not.

These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.

I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position.

I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it.

There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with.

 I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work.

The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. I’d be remiss to exclude the hurt that I’ve brought on people who I work with and have worked with who’s professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You Daddy. I deeply regret that this has brought negative attention to my manager Dave Becky who only tried to mediate a situation that I caused. I’ve brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much, The Orchard who took a chance on my movie and every other entity that has bet on me through the years.

I’ve brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother.

I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.

!snip!

Wonderful wordsmithing by the professional wordsmith. They are chosen, oh, so carefully in order to emerge a somewhat sympathetic character and “good guy.”
If he emerges intact then there is a system of unequal justice that exists and that just perpetuates the cycle of abuse towards women.
Nothing will have been gained except some targeted revenge exacted towards a select group of creepy men that don’t possess a certain charm, or ability to write letters.
Let’s see how righteous and genuine the #MeToo campaign is. Let’s see what happens to Louis CK.

(This puts his comment, that Sarah Palin is a “c*nt”  in a different perspective, doesn’t it, feminists? )

39 Comments on Comedian Louis CK Admits To Sexual Misconduct Charges In Calculated Mea Culpa Open Letter

  2. The only satisfying denouement to this story is he pitches himself off a cliff. For surely a man this sensitive cannot live with the hurt he’s caused.

    So go for it, Louie.

    Otherwise, you’re just circle-jerking (again).

  3. Like most “comedians” now days you have used the shock value of rank vulgarity as apposed to clever thought. You managed to even take this to the extreme. You are not funny, you are vile and disgusting. Why anyone would want to watch you perform is a mystery to me.

  7. He bought five(!) women at an Islamic slave auction? That pig!

    What? Oh. These were fully independent, legally emancipated, persons. Equal in every way to the pigs that “took advantage of them”?

    Well, there’s an iota of an “F” I’ll never get back.

  10. There’s not a chance he wrote that self-serving piece of trash. I hope his career fully craters and he’s reduced to performing in out of the way comedy clubs where he has to write his own material because you got to know the heckers will skin him alive if he steps into one of the big clubs. I also hope Sarah Palin is laughing right now but I suspect she’s not because unlike CK she’s a class act.

  14. What amazes me in all this are the feminists who scream that women are equal to men, and yet it appears that 95% if not 99% of the people abusing power to gain sexual favors are men. Ask a feminist and she’ll probably tell you that’s not because men and women are different but because women don’t occupy those positions of power.

  18. @RickeyG, I think that he is quite enamored with himself, too. Seems he thinks everyone loves him. Put Obama and him in a locked room together and wait for one day. One of them would not live through the day.

    I,I,I,I,I,Me,Me,Me,Me,Me,Me!

  20. Threw up in my mouth when I read it – realized it was some psycho-babbled word salad directed at sounding remorseful and must have been written by the clown who gave Clinton his now famous comeback of “depends on the definition of is is.”

    It actually comes off – as bit on remorse taught by theRAPISTS.

  21. I don’t know this comedian, and will not begin watching his products.
    I don’t know if he wrote this letter, I am just glad he expressed his shame and regret.
    I don’t know if he is truly sorry, but I try not to guess what is in his heart.
    God will judge, he and his problems are nothing to me, personally.

  29. He has made a couple of great quotes, which I will continue to share. I feel sorry for his kids. And I hope that a great deal of his wealth goes to those he claims he feels remorseful about hurting.

  30. What’s interesting about this is if, in fact, Louis CK is the number three comedian in the country, behind two guys who’ve been flacking their stale schtick for 25-30 years now, WOW, is “comedy” in trouble, and second, that so few here know who he even is, does that point to a nation divided, or what?

    We don’t have anything even close to a “common culture” anymore.

    It’s a big part of why we hate each other’s asses so much.

  32. I find him distasteful for reasons beyond his politics.

    That he holds the record for being involved in the first anal sex being presented on broadcast TV gives you some idea why.

  33. This just in — a P.S. to his apology/mea culpa.

    And for those 17 women who liked me showing them my dick and didn’t complain I humbly am grateful that I did not harm you or your fragile feminine ego in any way and say, “Wham, bam, thank you ma’am!” (Drum roll please)

    You know if he did it to 5 there’s gotta be more out there.

  35. wanna see funny? Watch Jonathon Winter with Dean Martin. That stuff is funny. What passes as humor these days is a distant cousin.

    I dont know who Louis whatever is and i dont care to know. This generation of comedians is the worst load of shit i have ever seen or heard.

  36. To begin, Louis CK has not list a thing yet.

    By my observations, his liberal fanboys have already forgiven him after this extraordinarily open and honest mea culpa. *gag*

    It’s all bullshit. He admitted it after he couldn’t stop it anymore. These are just the women who came forward. I’m sure there are waitresses, fans, friends of friends, etc. who haven’t come forward.

    He didn’t understand the power he wielded. Sure. Uh-huh. For a guy who is producing and writing tv shows for two decades he’s such a babe in the woods.

  38. Total creep/freak/ahole. I watched a few of his shows a couple of years ago, and I thought he jumped the shark at around his third episode whe he spent most of his time mocking conservatives, faithful, etc… or talking about masturbatng.

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