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tulipsandroses

(8,299 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 09:56 AM Aug 2025

Thoughts on this video - I find it incredibly disturbing -Bryan Callen just casually discussing sexual harassment


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He was accused of sexual assault in 2020

As soon as she saw his name, Katherine Fiore Tigerman broke out in a cold sweat. Her shirt damp, she scrolled through the text messages from her best friend alerting her that comedian Chris D’Elia was being accused of sexual misconduct by scores of women on Twitter. She’d never watched the comic’s stand-up. She just knew that he was the best friend of Bryan Callen, a fellow comedian and actor. And Callen, she’d long told those closest to her, had once raped her.

Lightheaded, she logged onto Twitter to scan the allegations. She found that many of the tweets referred not just to D’Elia’s supposed misconduct but to that of his tight circle of male comedians.

“My first thought was: ‘Is something going to happen with Bryan?’” Tigerman recalled. “Reading all the comments, I thought: Here it comes. I’ve known how terrible this person is for 20 years. And maybe I’m not the only one.”

In a statement to The Times, Callen adamantly denied raping Tigerman and said that their encounter was consensual.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/the-goldbergs-actor-bryan-callen-accused-of-sexual-assault-misconduct/197/
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Thoughts on this video - I find it incredibly disturbing -Bryan Callen just casually discussing sexual harassment (Original Post) tulipsandroses Aug 2025 OP
Typical, they circled the testosterone wagons. Rapists never admit. It's always "she wanted it" Walleye Aug 2025 #1
Well, if the President is a rapist, it muct be ok, right? Ferrets are Cool Aug 2025 #2
does any 20 something or 30 something find this entertaining? lapfog_1 Aug 2025 #3
Unfortunately yes. These are the types of discussions that happen in the " manosphere" tulipsandroses Aug 2025 #5
Trying to replace Howard Stern? no_hypocrisy Aug 2025 #4
I never listened to Stern. I know he was known for being a " shock jock" but this to me seems beyond that tulipsandroses Aug 2025 #6
Just men being men? pfitz59 Aug 2025 #7

Walleye

(45,500 posts)
1. Typical, they circled the testosterone wagons. Rapists never admit. It's always "she wanted it"
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:00 AM
Aug 2025

tulipsandroses

(8,299 posts)
5. Unfortunately yes. These are the types of discussions that happen in the " manosphere"
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:10 AM
Aug 2025

These podcasts have millions of listeners.
Part of the reason they hate " woke".

tulipsandroses

(8,299 posts)
6. I never listened to Stern. I know he was known for being a " shock jock" but this to me seems beyond that
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:14 AM
Aug 2025

Even though she's laughing through it, what she's describing is disturbing.
He asks her for a ride, then he takes his penis out in her car. She says she screamed.
Then she talks about when they "hooked up" - " I figured I'd have to have sex with him to get him to leave because he doesn't taken no for an answer"
She then says you don't listen to no - He agrees.
The host says that sexual assault
They are all yukking it up as if this is just all normal.

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