Et tu, Louis?
This is disappointing to me because I like Louis C.K., because he does deal with this kind of thing in his comedy, and because I would have hoped that his comedy about this was revealing his internal struggles rather than revealing what he was putting other people through.
When I hear a comedian describe themselves as “not a good guy” (thanks @snowlark), I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels a swell of empathy and wants to say, “Come on, don’t be so hard on yourself.” Ugh.
And for anyone defending him, let’s not get into a goldilocks effect where start judging people’s sexual misconduct against the norm of other people’s sexual misconduct just because it’s all over the news right now. We could make a big scale where “inviting a co-star to your room and then, without warning, getting naked and masturbating in front of them” is at one end and “inviting a 13-year-old to a trailer, plying them with drugs and having sex with them” is at another. But all of it is way down from okay.
