In Sicily, a court cleared a man of sexual harassment charges, determining that sophomoric humor, rather than sexual intent, had motivated his groping of colleagues. That is not to suggest that the 81-year-old, whose girlfriend is nearly 50 years his junior, has changed his ways. PhotoAnother right-wing paper repeatedly argued that Ms. Argento knowingly entered into a transactional relationship to further her career, and even people whom Ms. Argento might have expected to count among her allies instead cast doubt on her innocence. Natalia Aspesi, a self-described feminist, said that Ms. Argento should not have been surprised by how things progressed after she agreed to give Mr. Weinstein a massage. In response, Ms. Argento has cast herself as the avenging angel of the Italian Twitterverse, promoting the hashtag #quellavoltache, or “the time that,” which was conceived as an Italian answer to #metoo but has had far less impact.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2017 09:12 UTC