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Not really.

These stories are as old as Hollywood itself.

I mean, really, who hasn’t heard of ‘The Casting Couch’?

Sex and power in Hollywood is nothing new, only the names change.

It will be told over and over again, decades from now.........................

To borrow a line from "Wall Street"/Gordon Gecko:

Any adult -- male or female -- who works or aspires to work in this business who doesn't know this goes on -- a lot -- is "walking around blind without a cane."

The Casting Couch myth was always thought to be about quid pro quo, at least the way I understood it. I don't think a lot of people understood it to be about rape.

Never thought it was about being lured into a hotel room and then left alone with a bloated, disgusting, rutting, masturbating pig-man. A pig-man who was being protected by and enabled by other women...the women who did the luring! That story in The New Yorker actually gave me nightmares. I'm not kidding. No wonder these "starlets" are so completely eff'd up. They are surrounded by these people: Pig-men, Femi-Nazis who probably think they deserved it for being pretty and naive, and effeminate fags who giggle and look the other way.

There are plenty more pig-men yet to be revealed. That's why the Pussyhat girls popped the cork on their rage against Trump. That was a guy they could legitimately unleash on and be commended for it. The ones who are actually doing the abusing were untouchable. Classic case of misdirected anger.

I remember reading the Kitty Kelly book about Nancy Reagan. In the part about Nancy’s acting career, back right after dirt was invented, there were casting couches. No it’s nothing new. Neither is the behavior from the ‘perpetrators’ or the ‘victims’.

A little curious though about what Hollyweird considers harassement and what they consider assault.