I’m not defending the acts, but you also must admit that if a young lady told her husband or boyfriend about a breast-squeezing assault, the response would sometimes be “Well gee honey, you know that’s just part of the game, you just have to put up with it if you want to get those big parts and all the money so all our big dreams can come true”. Probably followed by “And it’s not like you were raped or anything”...
Again - not justifying bad behavior but that’s the attitude that many had and probably still have. Hopefully these revelations will change the attitudes and encourage more women to understand that they don’t have to “put up with it” in order to get ahead.
Sexual abuse is always more about power than about sex. These men didn’t act this way because they had no other form of sexual satisfaction, they did it because they COULD.
In your ideal world men are weakling jackasses. In the real world there are still a few decent men who do the right thing.
After Gwyneth Paltrow told Brad Pitt she’d been sexually harassed:
‘Pitt, who was dating Paltrow at the time, confronted Weinstein about the incident at a Hollywood party around 1995, a source tells PEOPLE.
“Brad threatened Harvey,” says the source. “He got right in his face, poked him in the chest and said, ‘You will not ever do this to Gwyneth ever again.’ “
The source adds that Pitt “made it clear there would be consequences” if Weinstein tried anything again, and “described it as giving Harvey a ‘Missouri whooping.’” (Pitt grew up in Springfield, Missouri.)’