So it was all about the Benjamin’s. Welp. Of course I am not shocked in the least. There will never be a shortage of bottom feeders eager to take advantage of good people dire situations.
Also like I said in a previous post, I hope his lawyers get a fistful full of her edges and drag the fuck out of that ass through all kinds of hell. I want the ruined remains hanging from a post as a warning. Somebody went and fucked with the wrong nice old man and I want them to pay.
People should be jailed for these false accusations. Stan Lee has the standing to fight back, but what about the people who don’t?
I wouldn’t exactly call him a “nice old man” for entirely different reasons than the topic that is posted here (i.e.- Jack Kirby/Steve Ditko controversy [not sure what the current status on that is])
The current status on that is that Jack Kirby is dead, Steve Ditko is in a cave somewhere, and Stan Lee is going to die with the most money.
Stan Lee may be a nice old man now. I dunno. But before he was a nice old man, he was an opportunistic middle-aged man who plastered his name on everything he touched, boxing creative partners and hired hands alike out of rightly-deserved notoriaty and money so that he could rake it in turning himself into a brand name and corporate mascot. And the nice old man he may be today hasn’t really done anything to fix that.
This is a man who has built his career on putting his needs above everyone who ever worked with or for him. These claims being true would not shock me.
And we’re doubting them why, exactly? Because the nursing company took their claims to a shit publication? Because the company didn’t feel the need to put their employees through an excruciating legal battle that would likely see the victims have all kinds of harrassment hurled at them? Because the folks Lee’s currently employing are taking the side of the very wealthy man footing their bills (and who they’re likely not going to need to deal with much longer)?
Maybe they’re not true. But arguing they’re definite falsehoods because Stan Lee is just such a great guy is, well. Maybe think about how you’d feel seeing that argument made against literally any other celebrity.
Always default to believing the victim.
Now that is the default, meaning that if there’s a compelling reason not to, you shouldn’t.
But there really isn’t any compelling reason here to not believe the victim(s).
(Note that this is not the same thing as “guilty until proven innocent.” It’s simply treating the victim’s testimony as being as reliable as any other eyewitness–in other words, the experience of the victim is proof.)
I’m confused, has vital nursing inc made harassment claims or have they not? Are there two different nursing groups Stan is associated with?
Vital Nursing Inc. is currently working with him. The company accusing him, which he is no longer associated with, is choosing to remain anonymous.
There’s another thing…
He’s 95 years old. If he’s walking around naked, that strikes me as dementia, not deliberate harassment. He might well be committing sexual misconduct without actually realizing he’s doing so.
(When I worked in a care home, groping was a problem. But it was a problem there was honestly little solution to, because no-one doing it really understood… why.)
You would think, given the immensity of his public life, there’d be signs of this when he’s not in the privacy of his own home.
When was the last time he was out in public? (Serious question. I can’t find out.)
