Famous Men and Sexism

[CKDexterHaven]

Are there any famous men you've irrevocably gone off because of their sexist worldview? Off the top of my head I can think of -

Richard Harris - I'd just started admiring him as an actor when I was a teenager and was watching a montage of his television interviews. He was coming across as incredibly intelligent and eloquent until he talked about how he loved to date beautiful women but lost interest in them completely once they started to speak. He wanted to take beautiful women out to dinner and look at them across the table but if they dared open their mouth to speak it broke the spell and 'ruined' them for him.

Michael Fassbender - I was trying to ignore the domestic violence rumours as he had never been charged but then he appeared on Graham Norton going on about how he wouldn't come out of his trailer unless they played 'Blurred Lines' and it kind of confirmed his sexist dickishness for me.

Marlon Brando - Years ago I was watching a retrospective documentary about him and they showed him during a press conference at the height of his fame. A young female journalist got up to ask him a question and he made her turn around slowly so he and all the other men could get a good look at her before she could ask it. Ugh.

I can never really enjoy anything with these guys in as a result of their misogyny. The same goes for men like Sean Connery and Jack Nicholson. Anyone else feel the same about other famous guys?

[scallopsrgreat]

SGM wrote about Fassbender too DickheadDetox

[CaptChaos]

I had the misfortune to hang out many times with George Best. Yeah, less said about him the better, I feel. The binge he went on just after his liver transplant was epic though, it's not everyday you get to wash an international football 'star's' vomit off your shoes though, I suppose.

Michael Fassbender was the younger Magneto in X-Men and Epps in 12 years a slave.

[SevenZarkSeven]

He looks like a bit of a prick. Not that that's definitive evidence

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

I don't like many famous people really. It would be quicker to name the ones I do like

[CKDexterHaven]

Richard Feynman was also someone I gained an interest in and lost respect for when I found out about his attitude to women. I would like to have met him so I could ask him 'If you buy a guy a sandwich do you expect him to fuck you too?'

[Scarletohello]

Personally I kinda expect it from men. It's when it's women it really upsets me, like Helen Mirren and her comments about tape. I think stuff like that is much more damaging.

[Scarletohello]

• rape, not tape!

[IScreamForIceCream]

I'm no Fassbender apologist (?), but it was Hugh Jackman who said that MF liked to come out of his trailer to that song, and the others went along with it, and danced to it. I really doubt that it was true, as he is a metaller.

And saying someone looks a bit dodgy? Really, I think we can do better.

[SevenZarkSeven]

The Fassbender link is around a restraining order / accusation of DV.

And in the picture, he looks like a bit of a prick

As I say, that comment is not definitive evidence that he has actually done anything wrong, obviously.

[SevenZarkSeven]

Although if someone links to the blurred lines thing I can pass judgement on prickishness or otherwise on that too. More than happy to do so!

[Pepperwitheverything]

My default setting is to distrust and dislike all male celebrities until they prove they are on women's side...hence I only rate David Schwimmer, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ryan Gosling and Patrick Stewart so far. I never assume men are pro-women.

[TheCunkOfPhilomena]

I can't believe I am about to write this but, Bill Bryson. I have been a huge fan of his over the years but some of the comments he's made about women in his books (including his wife) just make me feel awkward (talking about a strippers' tent and women's bodies in general). It's nothing extreme, it's just that it leaves me feeling disappointed in him.

[IScreamForIceCream]

Judge away, Seven

[TerrariaMum]

Oh, TheCunkOfPhilomena, thank you, I thought I was the only one who noticed that. And disappointed is exactly the right word.

[Darkesteyes]

[Darkesteyes]

Above Parkys interview with Helen Mirren from the 1970s.

[Darkesteyes]

Pepperwitheverything i rate those men on your list too. And i would add Samuel West to it.

[CKDexterHaven]

Not somebody I admire but before anyone thinks of buying Beats by Dr Dre they should Google what he did to female rapper Dee Barnes.

[Darkesteyes]

Sorry WhentheRed. It instantly sprang to mind while reading this thread.

[scallopsrgreat]

I didn't even get to Helen Mirren appearing on the screen with that interview. Awful!

I don't think it's more damaging when women are sexist at all. Men are the ones with the power. They are the ones that can wield that sexism/misogyny to much more devastating effect. And the fact that you expect it from men, but not women shows how much more pervasive and therefore damaging it is.

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

Not somebody I admire but before anyone thinks of buying Beats by Dr Dre they should Google what he did to female rapper Dee Barnes.

And Tairrie B