Holy crap! I think I agree with him.
Where’s that popcorn meme?
No woman anywhere, at any time, traded favors for money/power/fame.
Trump’s “pussy” comment was precisely and specifically about the sexual domination of powerful men over willing women. He all but named HW in his comments.
Probably lots of far more talented but unknown actresses never made the big time because they said no to Harvey
Don't have a lot of sympathy for women who sleep their way to the top and the rich and famous bevy of entitled Harvey's girls trying the playing the victim card is blatantly offensive
True for some of the women involved.
But some were minors.
And some thought they were going to a business meeting and were then raped.
Hope the dude is in his bunker.
Where Weinstein’s behavior might be in trouble is if, somewhere in this cadre of women claiming boorish behavior, there were underage girls or physical force.
Most of these women waited far, far too long to have a court case and the facts are that most got the parts and even further roles and appeared on his arm in public!
It was simply a transaction: he had something they wanted and told them in no uncertain terms, what the price of admission was!
They took him up in the deal and the rest is history.
and i would imagine that it wasn’t actually rape rape for those alleging rape as well ...
Interesting that the columnist entitles his column Gates of Vienna. There is well published erotic novel entitled Josephine Mutzenbacher etc. about a turn of the century Viennese courtesan. It is now attributed to the author of Bambi. Josephine was not a victim, but used her looks and, ahem, skills to rise to the top of Viennese society.
They were free agents, and he was a man who was in a position to provide something that they earnestly desired...AND GOT!!
I do without a great many things because I am not willing to compromise for them.
No one on earth pats women like me on the back and says ‘hey, good girl!! Keep the faith’...but these bimbos who don’t want to WORK for what they get but rather trade on their looks for something in return NOW want to complain... Please!
Pigs like Harvey are everywhere... BECAUSE some stupid girl will make that trade with him...
Forced compliance... well-that is something else.
Back in the 80’s everyone knew about the casting coach. Decent girls went to the interviews in pairs.
Had a friend who was hoping to use the coach to further her career. She would dress so seductively, I often wondered what job she was applying for. Her mom used to coach her what to say and what to do on it.
Wonder what Weinstein did that he was outed.
It’s almost like this kind of thing is SOP in Hollywood. There’s even a subplot in The Godfather that deals with it.
Simple game of tit for tat...and Harvey had the tat.
Good article.
What’s the old saying: It’s cheaper to rent than to own.
I will agree that there are many women who are not above using their bodies and looks to achieve their goals. I’ve witnessed it.
I do believe that the women who deliberately used their wiles to get a part in a movie or a job on TV news are definitely not victims.
I’ll also admit that I resent these women claiming victimhood while preaching their version of morality to us peons.
There was a ‘famous’ person a few years back that had a well known habit of ‘hiring prostitutes’ and someone called him on it..
He (basically) replied
I have gone the other route and ended up with whiny, opportunistic gold diggers, drunks, slobs, etc
At least now I make a call a person comes over, I do my thing, I am satisfied, she is paid, she leaves when I ask her to, no follow up phone calls, no nagging, no extra presents, meals etc etc.
He went on to point out he wasn’t really a ‘people’ person and didn’t like to ‘waste time’ so his method worked for him and ALL were ‘happy’ with the arrangement.
I’ll say it again, who is worse the prostitute or the john?
Luring young, naive, subordinate women into a private lair for sexual purposes rather than business ones is not making it clear beforehand.
Many such women are naturally whorish. That in no way exonerates this molester.
The two are separate and distinct.
I don’t think sleep was involved.