{"id":43359,"date":"2018-05-08T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43359"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:05:51","slug":"working-at-rolling-stone-in-the-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/working-at-rolling-stone-in-the-early-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Working at Rolling Stone<\/em> in the early days"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Joe Hagan\u2019s Sticky Fingers<\/em>, the magazine was everything a well-heeled sexual predator could possibly want in a workplace<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Last fall, as the first #MeToo scandals scrolled across the cable news chyron, I happened to be reading Sticky Fingers<\/em>, Joe Hagan\u2019s superb new biography of Rolling Stone<\/em> founder Jann Wenner. As Hagan describes the magazine\u2019s early years in the 1960s, just about everyone on the staff \u2014 male and female \u2014 was having sex with everyone else, under and on top of desks, on the boss\u2019s sofa, wherever the mood struck them. Hagan quotes one writer claiming that Wenner told him that \u201che had slept with everyone who had worked for him.\u201d Compared with Wenner and the early Rolling Stone<\/em> crowd, Harvey Weinstein was a wanker.<\/p>\n

Did the women of Rolling Stone<\/em> consent to the goings-on at what today would be regarded as an illegal den of workplace harassment? They appeared to. In the company\u2019s bathroom, women employees scribbled graffiti ranking male staffers for their sexual performance \u2014 not, as they do on college campuses today, the names of rapists in their midst. Jane Wenner, Jann\u2019s wife, was known to judge job seekers by \u201cwhether a candidate was attracted to her\u201d and, in some cases, to test the depth of their ardor personally. Photographer Annie Leibovitz, who made her name at Rolling Stone<\/em>, routinely slept with her subjects and was rumored to have had threesomes with the Wenners.<\/p>\n

Different as they seem, there\u2019s a direct line between that revolutionary time and our own enraged, post-Weinstein moment. What started out as a clear-cut protest against workplace harassment has mutated into a far-reaching counterrevolution \u2014 a revolt against the combustible contradictions that the sexual revolution set in motion 60-odd years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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