How About Men Just Step The F**k Off For a While

Harassers Won’t Stay Gone Hey folks. I’m tired as hell. I just am. If you identify as femme or a woman, there’s a good chance you’re more tired than I am. This week (like every week before it), AMC re-instated Chris Hardwick as its host of The Talking Dead. Of all things, he was talking about a thing we literally just watched. This after AMC wrapped up an investigation into the sexual assault allegation against him. AMC felt they did all the appropriate things. Took him off everything. Hired a firm to investigate the claims. And when they were finished (i.e., breathed a sigh of relief), they put him back in his old role. Look, did Chloe Dykstra, Hardwick’s ex-girlfriend, lie when she penned her piece for Medium describing sexual assault? I seriously doubt it. It might change some for celebrities where the possibility of extortion is present, but considering 2% of all sexual assault allegations are proven to be fiction, I find it hard to believe there are that many unicorns running around when someone with a big smile gets accused of some predatory shit. I’m guessing the investigation landed somewhere between what was said and what could be proven, leading to this decision on AMC’s part. None of us should be surprised. But regardless, if Hardwick was truly innocent or got over on reasonable doubt (my vote), we’re all aged for witnessing this. Again. And again. And again.

This news comes in the same week that HBO came to a similar conclusion. James Franco was cleared of the al…