Posted on 10/17/2017 9:55:05 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
At last check, 47 women have now said they were sexually harassed and/or assaulted by the producer Harvey Weinstein. That number is certain to grow. There’s no way a psychopath with a 30-year history of meeting with young women alone in hotel rooms clad only in a bathrobe only had 1.566 such assignations per annum.
These astounding numbers do not suggest, as many now are, that Weinstein is a representative figure of American maleness in our time. It’s precisely the opposite: His is a story of demonic excess that is so horrifying because it is so exceptional.
In that sense, it tracks precisely with the Bill Cosby story, who stands accused by dozens of women of having drugged and then molested them. These are habitual and repetitive fetishistic behaviors that make Weinstein and Cosby more akin to serial killers than to the handsy creep down the hall or the sleaze who dangles a job prospect even as he’s asking for a date.
Cosby and Weinstein have something else in common, of course. They work in show business. And here, too, the habits and behaviors of powerful men in show business set them apart from other men in almost every other profession (save, perhaps, election-campaign politics, which has a libertine sexual culture similar to the entertainment industry’s).
Unlike most other industries, the entertainment industry runs on scarcity. The unemployment rate in the United States is 4.2 percent right now. But for people who want to go before the cameras or stand at center stage, it’s closer to 90 percent — always has been, always will be.
What’s more, jobs performers do get are mostly short-term and evanescent. This means the power imbalance between the person who doles out the work and the person who is looking for work is more extreme
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It is also interesting the number of actors and actresses who claim abuses by someone in their family or close friends prior to entering the profession. Seemingly at a much higher rate than the rest of the population.
I always thought it was the catholic church.
From the movie `Chicago’:
Roxie: Oooh, I’m a star, and the audience loves me... and I love them. And they love me for loving them and I love them for loving me. And we love each other. And that’s because none of us got enough love in our childhood. And that’s showbiz... kid.
This lack of love, or the wrong kind of love, might explain a lot of the bizarre `virtue signalling’ we get from these freaks.
They are always bravely standing ... and repeating verbatim what every other Hollyweirdo is thinking.
Now that a few of them have strayed from the fold, the floodgates seem to have opened.
This is not new. It has been going on for 60 or 70 years.. That is why they called it the casting couch!
It’s because Hollywood is full of liberals; and to a liberal, the only crime is not being one.
It’s because Hollywood is full of liberals (unGodly people); and to a liberal (unGodly person) the only crime is not being one.
The rise of liberalism in America has corresponded with the decrease in belief in God, and we’re living with the unholy results. Increases in crime, the breakdown of the family, etc. pervs in the country are having a field day.
Praying our country can get back on the right track.
Now that Harvey is disgraced and ruined I’d love to see him go scorched earth and do a major takedown. I’ll bet he has mountains of dirt on the Glitterati and politicians who lust after them. It could end up being his biggest blockbuster ever.
Great line!! “...to a liberal, the only crime is not being one”.
I find it’s pretty much true. They have no moral code other than their pack instinct.
Well there ARE other ways to make a living, ya know.
If they willingly put themselves into these situations and don't walk out when they occur because the money is so good, they are prostitutes, are they not?
I’ve always thought that Hollywood kept throwing ugly scrags like Sarah Jessica Parker, Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder, Anne Hathaway, Hillary Swank, and Kate Winslet at us because they were loyal communists. But now I guess it’s just because they put out.
Kate Winslet an ugly scrag? Are you blind?
If anyone is in shock over Weinerstein they have led a very protected life
I remember the Scarlet O’Hara Wars, a made-for-tv movie about the casting couch atmosphere around the making of Gone With the Wind.
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