[miss marmelstein]

FR has changed into something unrecognizable. The constant denigration of women here is peculiar and eerie. And his original vanity post has been debunked by several freepers.

[Maverick68]

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.

[Strac6]

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?

[Mastador1]

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.

[Yaelle]

Weinstein is a monster. He could have been stopped if victims had come forward. Some were threatened with bodily harm. But you must admit, some were only threatened with career harm. And some went on to huge fame and Hollywood power. AND STILL SAID NOTHING. Admit that if Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, and Angelina Jolie had had a powerful surprise press conference twenty years ago, telling about experiences that happened to THEM and mentioned others (not naming them in the presser, but having stories from others remaining anonymous for the presser), HARVEY WOULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED EARLIER.

Only when victims come forward are predators stopped.

I am one of the people who should have come forward about an abuser and children may have been hurt because I didn’t. And I didn’t KNOW he was still abusing, while Meryl et al KNEW DAMN WELL Harvey was still abusing.