Five Women Accuse Louis C.K. of Sexual Misconduct

Comedy's grossest and worst-kept secret is finally out. The New York Times reports that after many years of rumors, multiple women on the comedy circuit have gone on the record saying Louis C.K. masturbated in front of them without their consent.  (The story is extremely graphic as I think it ought to be to really convey what these people endured.) After being contacted by the Times about the on-the-record accusations of sexual misconduct -- encounters that took place over a decade ago -- Louis C.K.'s publicist, Lewis Kay, said the comedian would not respond -- something peer Tig Notaro had implored him to do before it came to this.

Comedian Jen Kirkman, who was one of the first people to shine a light on the masturbation rumors, recently deleted a pocast in which she discussed them on the grounds that we were all too stupid to get her "nuances" -- saying it "might be a case of there's nothing there" -- and then openly complained that she didn't know why Tig Notaro was "talking about this stuff." (Her doing this was the first time it ever entered my mind that Louis C.K. maybe wasn't the perpetrator.) Thank god people DID continue to talk about "this stuff." We've come a long way in a very short time.

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