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Has anyone noticed something a bit odd about the actresses accusing Harvey Weinstein?
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Posted on 10/28/2017 7:13:17 AM PDT by Strac6

Has anyone noticed something a bit odd about the actresses accusing Harvey Weinstein?

The trash talk TV floodgates have burst wide open with women who now accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment. But has anyone noticed something very odd about this group. With a few rare (and aging… or aged… or very aged) A-listers, the accusers are all women who never succeeded in Hollywierd.

We are hearing nothing from the major movie actresses, and I think the reason is obvious. These women, now household names, did what aspiring actresses (and actors) have done for 90 years. When they were fighting for roles early in their careers, and all the others up for the roles were willing to go down for anyone in the casting system, they did the Horizontal Mambo too.

And of course, once they were into the system, they couldn’t suddenly become reconstituted virgins and stop “laying down on the job.”

The reason they are not complaining now? They are still active and don’t want to be thought of as simply very high paid, very beautiful, and somewhat talented women (and men) who sold their bodies for dollars and fame.

Or if they are War Criminal Jane Fonda, who claims she just learned about Weinstein a year ago, they also don’t want the world to know these “Women’s Rights Champions” were willing to stay silent, not tell the world what they did to get their movie roles, and sacrificed the next generations of their sisterhood for their own fame and fortune,

They’re all hookers. Only the price is different.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: harveyweinstein; hollywood; sexualpredator; showbusiness; weinstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Perhaps if these women had not spent over a year defending the wife of a rapist and lying about our President the tone would be different.
I suspect if we were discussing Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones or any number of other women the tone would be different.


101 posted on 10/28/2017 8:58:47 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: tennmountainman

What you said = the truth...


102 posted on 10/28/2017 8:59:43 AM PDT by Bobalu (The NFL, Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Anyone who flames you for that very reasonable question would be an idiot.


103 posted on 10/28/2017 9:00:03 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Strac6

Sharon Stone is on record saying she didn’t have to hit the couch anymore after achieving success.


104 posted on 10/28/2017 9:00:52 AM PDT by diggerwillow
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To: Strac6

But, by your own admission, you are a lying, cheating, weasel so why should I believe anything you say?

I have been in show business since the 70s so I have it all over you in knowledge of the performing arts.

I think you posted that vanity as an excuse to call actresses “whores.” You haven’t responded to one person who pointed out the A list actors who called out Weinstein.


105 posted on 10/28/2017 9:01:06 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: RooRoobird20

If Hollywood never produced another movie or TV Show again, that would be fine by me, we’ve already got all the movies and TV shows we need.


106 posted on 10/28/2017 9:01:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: All

The same way that a reasonable person can hate both Nazis and Commies, a person can say that Weinstein and many of the women he victimized are scumbags......certainly not all, but many of us will reserve sympathy for those who haven’t spent their lives on a false crusade where Conservatives are the devil and islam/theLeft get a pass.


107 posted on 10/28/2017 9:02:32 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Bryanw92

Maybe you are.


109 posted on 10/28/2017 9:04:23 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

If you listen to Ashley Judd, she is the most harassed, molested, assaulted, sodomized and raped woman that ever lived.

In her seriously mentally ill mind, everything is rape : the US has a rape culture, coal mining is rape, fracking is rape, drilling for oil is rape, Republicans are rapists. Everything is rape rape rape.


110 posted on 10/28/2017 9:04:39 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: miss marmelstein

I hate what happened to these young women, (and men), but if some of the current and past A-listers had spoken up 20-30-40 years ago, it would have stopped long ago, and that is an uncontrovertable fact.

Years ago the liberal icon David Letterman admitted, on-air, that he has abused a young female staffer so she could keep her job, and everyone thought it was so “cute” that he did so.

On Carson one night, supermodel Lauren Hutton was asked why she had risen to fame so quickly. Her answer, not edited out was, “I arrived in New York on Thursday, did a lot of guys at parties on Friday and Saturday, and was working on Monday!” The audience howled with laughter.

Why didn’t it stop then?


111 posted on 10/28/2017 9:05:46 AM PDT by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: miss marmelstein
The unmitigated anger and lack of self censorship, just because someone is POed doesn't make it Ok to use extreme language or be vile. I know that I have stepped over the line at times and been rebuked by the Mods, but for some time now I have been left with the feeling that either FR lacks enough Mods or that they aren't concerned. How else to explain some of the posts that remain up for so long or the posters that repeatedly make those post and are allowed to remain?

No one wants a site hard ridden by censorship, but for sometime now a goodly number of forum members lack even a loose adherence to JR's stated standards.

112 posted on 10/28/2017 9:06:39 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Maverick68

Why thank you. I appreciate your kind words. I know there are strong emotions around some topics, such as this one.


113 posted on 10/28/2017 9:06:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: All

Actors and musicians are court jesters, nothing more.
People started losing sympathy for them when they forgot their only purpose in life is to entertain.


114 posted on 10/28/2017 9:07:15 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Flame Away. I’m just asking, did any women voluntarily seek out Weinstein and other powerful men, because these were the people you needed connections with to get ahead.

I'm certain that some women did. If it's consensual - and making a conscious decision to trade sex for career advancement certainly qualifies as consensual - then I don't see the problem. Two adults arriving at a decision that works for them. And I don't even doubt that some women who were not actresses willingly had sex with Weinstein simply because they were attracted by his power. The problem is that Harvey Weinstein seems to have raped and harassed women who made no such decision.
115 posted on 10/28/2017 9:07:36 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Strac6

You are just another male freeper with a bee in your bonnet about women. You guys are a dime a dozen. And that Lauren Hutton story sounds like something out of The Globe.


116 posted on 10/28/2017 9:08:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: dfwgator

If Hollywood never produced another movie or TV Show again, that would be fine by me, we’ve already got all the movies and TV shows we need.


I agree and second the notion. I watch very little current TV or current movies. ON the other hand, watch quite a bit of old movies and TV shows. I could go to my grave and be happy with the decades of old reruns out there, and be happy if I never saw a new TV show or movie again.


117 posted on 10/28/2017 9:09:03 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kickass Conservative

LOL that’s cute.


118 posted on 10/28/2017 9:10:33 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: miss marmelstein

What I did point out was that for everyone who has spoken out, there are dozens who did the deed, and stayed silent.

Example, Lou Pearlman, the creator of all the Orlando-based Boy Bands, required that each of the band members “service” him.

A few have very quietly spoken out, but the rest?

By the way, with your experience in the Performing Arts, did you not see what was going on, or, in order to preserve your own career, did you remain silent and allow the next generation of kids to be victimized?


119 posted on 10/28/2017 9:10:57 AM PDT by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: miss marmelstein

Amen to that.


120 posted on 10/28/2017 9:11:00 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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