Posted on 10/17/2017 9:42:41 AM PDT by doug from upland
Actress Reese Witherspoon has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a director when she was 16 years old, the latest in a series of claims about abuse in the film industry.
“This has been a really hard week for women in Hollywood, for women all over the world, and a lot of situations and a lot of industries are forced to remember and relive a lot of ugly truths,” Witherspoon said at an event in Beverley Hills this week.
“I have my own experiences that have come back to me very vividly and I find it really hard to sleep, hard to think, hard to communicate a lot of the feelings that I’ve been having about anxiety, honestly, the guilt for not speaking up earlier.”
She divulged, “I have my own experiences that have come back to me very vividly and I find it really hard to sleep, hard to think, hard to communicate a lot of the feelings that I’ve been having about anxiety, honestly, the guilt for not speaking up earlier.” Witherspoon, who debuted on the silver screen at 15, continued, “[I feel] true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16 years old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment.”
The Academy Award-winning actress went on to claim that the incident was just one of a number of times she had been sexually abused throughout her career. “I wish that I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly it wasn’t,” she said. “I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often.
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I posit it was the movie where she was lost in the African desert with a boy and they were hunted by ivory poachers.
OR....Man in the Moon, with the T.D. Waterhouse guy.
You sound like a pretty grounded person...I very much appreciate your outlook and I aspire to that direction, and feel like I have to work every day at it.
I have made **some** progress since I was much younger...”
I strive every day to do so. LOL, FR sometimes forces me to as well...:)
Lots of women lie about sex. Are ALL these women innocent victims? Did not one of them say no and mean it? I suspect not. What about those of us who did not put ourselves in those situations? What about personal responsibility? What about?? oh nevermind
Could have been a director even from a movie that she didn’t end up starring in. Though, if she was assaulted you would think she would get the role if he wanted to keep her quiet.
One would think some of these Walmart employees would have taken notes from Monica and kept their stained clothes.
Names.
Not with her being friends with Weinstein and it brings back all the stories about BJ.
Modeling, certainly. Music, perhaps?
The key factor is the oversupply of labor. Many more people want to be actors, models, or musicians than the market will support. Therefore, those who get a chance to make it will do things that retail clerks, programmers, accountants, or trash collectors won't.
It would seem that could play in.
Andy Tennant was one of the dancers in the dance competition in the original film version of Grease.
There’s also the age issue: all three industries I mentioned employ children and adolescents to a large extent than, say, the truck-driving industry or construction industry. Add the oversupply factor to the employment of children, and you have an even higher likelihood of abuse, because people who want to have sex with kids are abusers by definition, whereas most adults in adult relationships are not.
Thank you, as your post made me think of it...:)
While I don’t necessarily disagree with you, I’m not in the excuses game.
If it happens, it’s wrong.
I agree that it’s wrong, every time, all the time. Using other people as objects is always wrong.
I’m just pointing out factors that allow it to happen in some industries more than others. Most of these situations are not acts of brute force. The victims are complying, rather than fighting, and being silent for decades, rather than naming names when something could be done, legally.
For adults, they know they have something to gain. With children, their basic weakness and conditioning to comply with adults is in play, but the “supply” factor is why their parents allow them to be in that position.
It's the rare occasions that stand out, like the rumored affair between Megyn Kelly and Brit Hume. Kelly flamed out later, but was her rise due to sleeping with the boss? Who initiated it? Was it suggested that she'd advance if she accepted the proposal? We'll never know, but...
-PJ
IMO, the adults are being abusive by allowing their children to be in those circumstances unprotected.
You touched on it, and I agree with you.
Further, the tide of the entertainment industry has gone very dark over the last 15 years or so.
With the driving forces behind the industry, one can scarcely wonder why.
It’s as if the industry is driving an urge to exploit individuals as young as possible, teens, early teens, and beyond downward.
I agree with all of that. It seems that in every type of performance, the trend is for ever-younger children to be presented as sex objects.
I’d like to see the viewing public take a pass on clearly exploitative movies.
Unfortunately the viewers are younger people who don’t recognize what’s going on.
So would I, starting with anything involving children in sexual or other abusive situations, no matter how "true" or "artistic" it is. There are real children involved in making a movie.
Yes, I agree.
I’m an easy target though, because I think these beauty contests for children are clearly abusive.
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