Why Charlie Sheen Got Away With Abusing Women -- but Galliano Didn't

The author writes, "Sheen, at the same time, built up an impressive list of sexual abuse charges, many of them front-page in the tabloids and featured on the entertainment and gossip shows."

If he got away with ANYthing, where are the police reports? if there were legitimate complaints - not just allegations and innuendo (which, by the way, the author is perpetuating), then where ARE they??? The rhetoric of battling couples, paparazzi, and pseudo-journalists like Ms. Terregrosa is baseless, unless one lends credence to unsubstantiated allefations and rumors.

Charlie Sheen was accused of being abusive to women, but he wasn't convicted of it. In fact I don't think a single charge was prosecuted - they were all dropped. Even people accused of domestic violence deserve to be considered innocent until proven guilty. Men should not be automatically considered guilty of abuse just because they are accused! With Charlie Sheen, it is pretty much what she said against what he said and it is very wrong to assume that anything a woman says is right and anything a man says is a lie or wrong.

Violence against anyone is wrong and men are stronger than women, but women can also be violent and guilty of domestic violence and emotional abuse. It usually takes two to tango or fight and honestly, I have known plenty of women to contribute just as much to domestic violence situations as men, and even be the violent one. Don't get me wrong, I definitely think when there is clear evidence of abuse or assault, anyone, man or woman, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but I have a big problem with the way women are encouraged to be victims and men are automatically blamed for every domestic violence situation. I have personally witnessed many women treat their men very badly including inflicting emotional and physical abuse. There are bad men and bad women, and good men and good women, but this idea that women are saints and men are evil is flat wrong.

Charlie Sheen may be an ahole, and maybe he is abusive, or just overly emotional and prone to saying stupid things. It is hard to know since I wasn't there, but since he is a popular celebrity and wealthy, I take the accusations with a grain of salt, especially since he was not prosecuted or convicted. The media is happy to jump all over Sheen's every action, and the more dramatic the better, because it attracts viewers and sells papers and commercials. What may have simply have been an ugly fight between a couple, quickly becomes hyped up national news when it happens to a celebrity. Also women are not above over dramatizing fights and situations to squeeze large amounts of money out of wealthy men. Personally, I find that disgusting and also having custody battles with your ex and using your children as pawns to extort large amount of money from them or to get attention. I don't know if CS exes are doing this or not. I am not up on the details of their situations. The point is women play an equal role with men in domestic problems including ones the end in violence. Since Charlie Sheen has not been convicted of a crime in any court that I am aware of, I consider him innocent until proven guilty, and since he makes me laugh, I keep watching his show. Relationships are hard for men and women. I don't expect or need TV actors and comedians to live saintly lives with perfect relationships. As for sleeping with lots of women, so what to that too. Women enjoy sex too and for every man having a one night stand, a woman is having a one night stand too!

PS. Galliano didn't get away with it for the same reason that Sheen is no longer getting away with it - they both made racial slurs and we view racism as worse than beating a woman!

Reading this blog absolutely disgusts me, our toleration for celebrity status is absolutely ridiculous. They live in America and should abide by the law just like a normal citizen just because they are a celebrity or a male one at that does not make them any greater of a human being where rules don't apply to them. It is almost unbelieveably what this country lets men get away with as long as they make a profit from it. Some changes definately need to be made and the tolerance for this kind of abuse sexually, emotionally, and physically has to stop.

Sexism is just good, clean, sport in America. Feminists like myself have been writing anti-sexism retorts for ages and like women everywhere, we are simply invisible. "Oh. did you say something, I guess I just didn[t hear you, or see you or notice that you were even nearby."

And now the Republicans hav 83 anti-woman bills ready to vote on. Seems the Tea Party faction thinks it has a mandate to war on women even though they were elected to create jobs. They never mentioned their woman-hating ways and the Democrats apparently never pointed it out to the electorate. Pity, we are going back to the dark ages.

Sociopath-Carlos "Charlie" Sheen is an insulting menace to women everywhere, an embarrassment to his family, and a huge shame for his parents (especially his poor mother)...They certainly don't deserve this, and for their sakes I hope the "shrinks" evaluate him, & find that he does have some kind of severe, latent mental illness/imbalance that would explain his bizarre, & abusive, behaviors. Perhaps then he could get the help he needs...Better that, then just a plain-old, selfish spoiled- rotten-Hollywood brat, turned contemptible-vile-human being...called Charlie Sheen.

Honestly, I have never liked Charlie Sheen. I've always thought he was a chump, for years. His behavior has corroborated my sentiments. I guess his fans can only be seen as people worshiping a chump.

I noticed that the writer included "indulged in public relationships with sex film stars" among a list of possible crimes presented as evidence of his status as a serial abuser. It does not belong in that list.

Sheen is just the type of man women should steer clear of entirely. I'm glad the show was cancelled. I don't care for him personally, nor the character he played on the show. In real life if he didn't have a dime, no woman would want him anyway. To play a playboy, you should have to at least look good!

Sheen got away with it the same way Roseanne got away with it at ABC. She abused everyone. But she made them money. It's Hollywood. No morals. So what's new.