Hoffman does like girls. When I worked on Tootsie, he was very flirtatious but I really liked him. But then I don’t consider flirtation to be harassment.
Had a friend who worked for SAG and Hoffman asked her out. She turned him down because she didn’t think it would be right to mix work with pleasure. Said she’s regretted it ever since.
I met Dustin Hoffman once at a writer’s house and he was very gracious and thankful for my work. On the other hand, at the same house, after meeting Warren Beatty and returning to my work a few feet away, Warren turned to the writer and made a vile comment about me. It was completely uncalled for and strange.
“Hoffman does like girls. When I worked on Tootsie, he was very flirtatious but I really liked him. But then I don’t consider flirtation to be harassment.”
1. But that is exactly where the Marxists and their feminazi friends are trying to get this issue morphed into - flirting IS “sexual harassment”; that’s where they want to see this go. Why? Because in many other ways they have already been supporting the dishonest intellectual error of making NOT your clear intentions in your actions that makes them “guilty” but only how I “felt” about them. Guilt is then derived solely in the mind of who some action was directed towards and not in any intentions of who the action came from. Thus women get to merely choose if the same action is harassment or not, by their “feelings” regardless of anyone’s intentions.
2. It is against masculinity altogether, in the sense that masculinity admits sexual attraction to female gender and with that attraction to what seems physically attractive. So the attack is that men should - at so point - always and only see any woman for her mind and character, period, nothing else. They think only then will “men and women be totally equal”. I got news for them. Minus even any “sexual attraction” women are no different than men in pursuing friendships and associations based on “who is physically attractive”, even within their own gender. It’s human, not “masculine”.
You worked on Tootsie?
One of my All Time Favorite movies! Set in New York City.
“I want to make her a little more attractive, how far can you pull back?” Producer speaks to Camera Man.
“How do you feel about Cleveland?”
“Knock it off!” Producer
Tootsie was a good movie. I’ve never met Hoffman, but know someone who did. They chatted for a while.
Do you think some of those things he said to her (an almost 50-year old man to a 17-year old girl) were just flirtatious?
Up until I was 14 we lived in Burbank (LA is what I usually say) and it was not at all unusual to run into Hollywood types like at Bob Hope or the mall. No one ever bothered me but I did get asked out once by Thomas Dekker who was really sweet and complimentary when I told him I was only 13 at the time. I was tall for my age and it was an understandable thing. I was never offended by it and he was a 100% nice boy.