Jodie Foster: ‘Pretty much every man over 30’ culpable for sexual misconduct cases

Washington Times ^ | 12/21/17 | Douglas Ernst

[x1stcav]

Actress Jodie Foster says she knows who is to blame for a slew of sexual assault scandals in Hollywood since the fall of producer Harvey Weinstein: “Pretty much every man over 30.”

The Hollywood star who made Clarice Starling famous in 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs” told USA Today this week that almost every man above the age of 30 bears culpability for sexual misconduct in the world.

“It’s every industry,” the actress said Wednesday. “It’s not just one socioeconomic bracket or one complexion. Pretty much every man over 30 has to really look and start thinking about their part. And I guarantee, lots of it is unconscious. When you’ve been in a privileged position where you haven’t had to look at your part, you didn’t 100 percent understand you were in a bubble. It’s an interesting time for men.

[x1stcav]

“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important… so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)” – Robert A. Heinlein To Sail Beyond The Sunset (1987)

[dirtboy]

I’ve never sexually harassed anyone, you dimwit.

[Mercat]

2nd generation woman attracted to woman.

[GoldenState_Rose]

I don’t think so. Yes, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

There are too many honorable men out there to prove that statement otherwise.

[fhayek]

Good looking guys tend to be sexually aggressive. Nerdy guys tend to be perfect gentlemen. Guess which ones the females flock to.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Says the lesbo who has probably done her fair share of harassing.

[Az Joe]

[GoldenState_Rose]

Oops clarification. Prove Jodie’s statement otherwise...not the Bible.

I just meant, yes everyone is a sinner. But not every man is guilty in the way she describes.

[Zarro]

Ace must be running a special on broad brushes? She used a real whopper.

[outofsalt]

"2nd generation woman attracted to woman."

Resist we munch?!

[Pravious]

Dear Jodie,

FU.

Prav.

[dirtboy]

Let’s see. She talks of privilege, but was a child model and actress. And she played the role of a child prostitute in Taxi Driver. And went to Yale. Yeah, real paragon of virtue to be lecturing us.

[x1stcav]

Definitely a candidate for best reply of the day.

[Rurudyne]

This babe needs to be in some secretarial pool. 😃

[al baby]

Me either

[samtheman]

And thus she proves how easy it is to make false accusations.

[McGruff]

I’ll bet Jodie Foster did whatever she had to to get ahead in Hollywood.

[Jonty30]

Only industries where liberals dominate. Women are generally safe where conservatives dominate, because we view women in general as possible sisters, wives, and daughters.

[neverevergiveup]

“I’ve never sexually harassed anyone, you dimwit.”

Same here, and I resent this. I've never propositioned a woman, but I've been propositioned by women many times. This is bullshit.

[windsorknot]

You Talking to Me?