The Atlantic: On Thursday, as The New York Times published a report in which five women accused Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct, the distributor of C.K.’s new film, I Love You, Daddy—about a 17-year-old girl dating a 68-year-old man—canceled the premiere event that had been set to take place on Thursday evening. On the same day, The Washington Post published a story in which several different women accused Roy Moore, the GOP nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat, of sexually pursuing them when he was in his 30s and they were in their teens. The women’s age was central to the horror of the story: Moore, then an assistant district attorney, met one of the women, Leigh Corfman, when she was 14 years old, outside a child custody hearing; he told her mother that he would, essentially, babysit her; her mother accepted. “I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl,” Nancy Wells told the Post, of Moore’s offer. She is now 71. Moore is now 70.
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I really don't know why its taken the world this long to publicly realize that this is some creepy stuff. Louis C.K is a respected comedian, so why he needs to rely on "cringe comedies" for entertainment. As to his film, " I Love You, Daddy", I really have no idea as to how this got through to being developed and filmed. Hollywood needs to stray away from "Cringe comedies" because as their name states, its cringeworthy. Louis CK has a weird history of creepy behavior and its pretty disgusting that he is continually praised for publicizing it on the big screen. This movie was rightfully stalled and I hope that it continues to be belittled because a movie that is borderline pedophilia should be at the forefront of comedy on headlines today. I hope that in the future, Louis C.K and others like him aren't constantly encouraged by their peers to continue to make work that is both masturbatory and inappropriate for mass audiences.
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