using his power to put them in sexually compromising positions.
Their accounts of Louis C.K.
A day after the accusations were made public,he admitted in a lengthy statementthat they were true.
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The set, which was described astypical Louis C.K.
could not have chosen a worse possible way to stage a comeback.
Recall, if you will, the specifics of the stories women recounted about him.
In response, he turned them into props for his sexual fantasy.
And so, after what were undoubtedly the worlds most introspective ten months, Louis C.K.
Its math that just doesnt yet exist.
And yet, forno onecan the answer to the question What should these individuals do for redeem themselves?
be Just wait a few months.
Inthat statement Louis C.K.
releasedafter theNew York Timesexpose, he wrote, These stories are true.
He concluded it by promising, I will now step back and take a long time to listen.
be banished for eternity?
That sort of hyperbole, rhetoric often thrown back at people who express their misgivings about Louis C.K.
(Oh, so you think he should just have to go awayforever????)
serves to obfuscate, to gridlock any possible productive conversation.
But the very choice of his first comeback event reveals that Louis C.K.
has not achieved whatever level of soul-searching he sought out last November.
flaunting that power again.
As someone who was once a Louis C.K.
fan, I hope it is the former.
According to the club owner, Louis C.K.
was greeted with a standing ovation before he took the stage.
It seems he has come back to a comedy community that also has a long way to go.
