Bryan Singer sued for allegedly assaulting 17 year old in 2003

manchego obfuscator · Dec 8, 2017

Plasticine said:
The only illegal sexual activity Skopek detailed involved an unnamed computer technician raping him. Skopek doesn't provide any smoking gun for Singer. There's nothing illegal about being a sleazy, decadent and empty person. Singer can host all the ten person, drug-fueled, twink orgies he wants. Provided everyone is at least 18 and consenting, there's nothing wrong with it.

I don't want to oversell any one story as the smoking gun that'll finally, definitely bring down Singer (especially as I have a feeling there'll be a drip-drip-drip pattern of stories on Singer), but I think you might actually be underselling it. Yes, you're right that there's nothing illegal described here, but there is definitely a pattern established here of predatory behavior with much younger men, many of them barely legal.

Butz · Dec 8, 2017

ZeoVGM said:
I feel like you completely missed the point of what I said.

What was you point, then?

ZeoVGM · Dec 8, 2017

Butz said:
What was you point, then?

I think the point was pretty clear: that I was wrong.

Stouffers · Dec 8, 2017

Isn't he also working on another XMen?

LewieP · Dec 9, 2017

Stouffers said:
Isn't he also working on another XMen?

He's credited as producer on dark phoenix, but I don't believe he's particularly actively involved in it.

ashep · Dec 9, 2017

Living the Dream said:
Innocent until proven guilty

Lol where do you think you are? People made up their minds about Singer years ago.

Stouffers · Dec 9, 2017

LewieP said:
He's credited as producer on dark phoenix, but I don't believe he's particularly actively involved in it.

Hope they didn't go with Ratner.

FoneBone · Dec 9, 2017

Plasticine said:
The only illegal sexual activity Skopek detailed involved an unnamed computer technician raping him. Skopek doesn't provide any smoking gun for Singer. There's nothing illegal about being a sleazy, decadent and empty person. Singer can host all the ten person, drug-fueled, twink orgies he wants. Provided everyone is at least 18 and consenting, there's nothing wrong with it.

He's describing a clear pattern of predatory sexual behavior (one consistent with that described by other accusers) and has evidence to back it up. Arguing that there's "nothing wrong" with any of that is bizarre, to put it mildly.

manchego obfuscator · Dec 9, 2017

FoneBone said:
He's describing a clear pattern of predatory sexual behavior (one consistent with that described by other accusers) and has evidence to back it up. Arguing that there's "nothing wrong" with any of that is bizarre, to put it mildly.

Exactly. Singer doesn't need to have raped these kids, statutorily or otherwise, for his conduct to be completely gross and an abuse of power.

Beef Stallmer · Dec 9, 2017

If a person wants to rape a franchise like X-men, okay, X-men is fictional. But I draw the line at raping actual beings, like humans. And Bryan Singer just crossed that line.
I hope he gets fired from all of Hollywood and never gets work again. Also: I won't be watching the usual suspects anytime soon. He should be in prison.

NO!R · Dec 9, 2017

I wonder what David Hayter has to say about him, having worked with him on X-men.

He had a lot to say and share in the wake of the Weinstein expose.