That's not what a strawman argument is. People these days are so confused about what a strawman is. A strawman would be if I responded to an argument you didn't make. You said you don't care about people's dirty secrets if you like their output, so I responded with the example of Weinstein who, by your logic, you'd be okay with giving a second chance because of his large volume of film output as a producer.
Sexual assault is a crime. I think the insistence from some folks here to give him a second chance is really weird, but your admission that he made many of your favorite movies probably explains a lot of your bias in his favor. One wonders if you'd feel differently if you were a woman working for him, and he groped you, and you couldn't do anything about it because he's the famous John Lasseter of Pixar.
FFS. You seriously can't see a difference between those two categories of actions?? The allegation against Weinstein was that he forced unwilling women to have sex with him.
Nah, how about instead we give a second chance to the women he and others like him have harassed out of the industry? How much great output and artistry have we lost because of that? No amount of creative output offsets being a toxic harasser.
Yeah this is another one of those vague stories where I didn't understand the disclaimer in the article because it never described why there would be one in the first place.
That character being the "bad guy" in Toy Story 3, and how he acted, was supposedly an attack at Lasseter from the Pixar employees who all hated dealing with him. From an artistic perspective, it's probably not a reach to use the word genius (to anyone not old enough, it might be hard to understand how ground-breaking the original Toy Story was at the time, plus all the Pixar movies that followed), and I imagine he was close with Steve Jobs, going back to Jobs' time with Pixar, so I understand the Apple connection. But like others have said, to just ignore the actions is very surprising for Tim Cook, who is somewhat of a liberal icon, and also just poor journalism on the Macrumors front to not even give it a small mention in the article.
But people who like Ghost Dad should be shamed with or without any allegations against Cosby.
Has he been charged or convicted of sexual assault? No. Enough said. If hugging is sexual assault then there are some Care Bears and a Disney Snowman named Olaf that should be charged, tried, convicted and locked up. If he sexually assaulted somebody then he must be convicted of that crime for him to be guilty of it (see Harvey Weinstein). I have not even seen charges filed against Lasseter.
