Every day starry-eyed pretty boys and girls arrive, desperate to "break into Hollywood". If a producer tells them this is the price they must pay, to be used and degraded, many will pay it.
If Weinstein called for auditions tomorrow, willing young wannabes would be waiting outside his door.
That situation needs to be fixed, not sure how.
The Hollywood game is largely selling sexually attractive individuals to the public, both female and male, and the monetary compensation for successful applicants to potential “openings” can be mind-boggling. So, the gatekeepers and arbiters of such success have long been known to be sexual predators, we’re talking a century here, and I’m not even sure the word “predator” is correct if the vast majority are crawling into their web willingly in the full knowledge that they’re basically prostituting themselves, unless they’re underage. The occasional innocents who get caught up in that web truly anger me, though. Corey Haim is currently a prominent example, but I’m quite certain there are many others. I do find that I can no longer enjoy watching some older movies that I once enjoyed, for wondering if this or that child star was being sexually abused at the time.
Exactly correct. I said the same thing here as the story broke, and too my surprise all sorts of Freepers seem convinced that everyone other than Weinstein was a “victim”.
Exploiting people like this is/should be a serious crime. But, participating in the game while not a crime, is an act of enabling that perpetuates the problem.
Anyone that indeed DID step up and complain, or refuse to participate, those indeed are REAL victims.
A very very long list of Hollywood actors and actresses should be DEEPLY ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES for enabling this kind of thing. Hey, toss me in there, or anyone that watches tv and movies, as we’ve long known what really goes on.
Oh, and how about one name....
MICHAEL JACKSON...
Weinstein is just one of the hundreds of pervs in Hollyweird. Until they are named, nothing will change.