"The world Lizzo has built around herself is essentially a cult: it’s dependent on everyone thinking the same extreme, bizarre, contradictory things as she does."

"You find it a lot nowadays: in the arts; politics, obviously; even in banks, for God’s sake. People rush to reinforce warped thought systems, like the pathetic Beyoncé, who has constantly sucked up to Lizzo, chasing the fat dollar. Until last week, of course, when the allegations came out, and then it was as if Lizzo had died: no regular shout-out from Beyoncé on her tour any more."

Writes Camilla Long, in "If you sign up to work in the seedy world of Lizzo, you must expect some XXXL lunacy" (London Times).

On Tuesday three dancers (two from the TV show) filed court documents saying that Lizzo had sexually harassed them. One claimed she’d fat-shamed her. During rehearsals, she claimed, Lizzo questioned her “commitment”, which she took as “thinly veiled concerns about [her] weight gain”....

I think, when they signed up to work for her, these women expected Lizzo to be the queenly, inclusive, superhuman, empowered, 100 per cent that bitch she constantly droned on about being. What in fact she apparently enjoyed doing was visiting sex clubs, making sex jokes, snogging her boyfriend in public and shrieking at people. We are told, for example, how Lizzo invited her dancers to a banana-themed sex club in Amsterdam. She “cheered loudly to motivate employees to eat bananas protruding from performers’ vaginas”; she “hounded” — hounded — them to “catch dildos” fired across the room. She also goaded one of the dancers to touch a nude performer’s breasts; they became so frightened of the singer they had no idea how to stand up to her. At one point one of them wet herself during a rehearsal because she was too scared to go to the loo.... 

Read any section of the court filings and you will be blown away by the indelible stupidity and wetness of the dancers, who at one point claim that listening to “explicit songs” on the tour bus made them “fear for their safety”. Have they heard Lizzo’s lyrics? My feeling is these dizzy jellies can keep each other. 

Long makes interesting points, but you can only get so far with this "what did you expect?" argument! The dancers were employees, and if you take a job anticipating that your employer will not follow legal standards, you are not precluded from suing if what happens is just what you expected. The only questions are what really happened and whether it violated legal standards. But then maybe all Long wants to say is that she doesn't care about the dancers' complaints any more than she cares about Lizzo. That's not a legal argument, that's an argument in the court of public opinion.