Russian TV host on Hollywood sexual misconduct accusers: What did they expect?

There’s at least one place where the storm of sexual misconduct and rape allegations sweeping the West isn’t resonating — Russian TV.

"What did they expect?" asked Dmitry Kiselyov, a high-profile anchor on state television with a reputation for ranting against the West, according to the BBC.

"They went up to a man's hotel room on their own, without compulsion,” he said of women who said they were victims in Hollywood. Kiselyov added that he was not condoning sexual harassment in the workplace, according to the BBC.

Valery Fadeyev, a host on the state-run Channel One, spoke of "great hypocrisy" in the men who tried to thwart "the great battle against men's desire for women," the British broadcaster added.

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And the private, pro-President Vladimir Putin channel Ren TV, displayed an image of a nude model of a man in a wheelchair with his mouth taped shut alongside the words: "An obvious impotent — limbless so he can't touch women, a mute so he can't make salacious jokes and blind so he can't leer at them lasciviously."

Allegations of harassment and rape against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein that emerged in October opened the floodgates of sexual misconduct claims against powerful men in Hollywood, business, politics, sports and the media in a number of Western countries.

Russia, which sees itself as a defender of traditional values, has a poor record on upholding the rights of women and LGBT people.

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Earlier this year, a law came into force decriminalizing a first offense of domestic violence, enraging women’s rights activists. And although homosexuality was decriminalized in 1993, many Russians harbor strong anti-LGBT sentiments and discrimination is rife.

Star Trek actor and social activist George Takei,who denies an allegation that he sexually assaulted a former male model in 1981, blamed Russian bots for attracting massive online attention to his case, blaming his criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBT policies, according to media reports.

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