[lee martell]

As Jimmy Durante used to say; “Everybody wants to get into the act!”

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hollywood INVENTED and PERFECTED their “casting couch” explotation of women... and the cover-ups as far back as Fatty Arbukle’s accusations of murder in the 1920’s.

[Publius]

Others, like Lily (Barbara Stanwyck) in “Baby Face” (1933), use men’s relentless advances to build their careers, turning sex into a tool for economic ascension.

The first man who was seduced and betrayed by Stanwyck was played by the young, unknown John Wayne.

[Cicero]

Colleges used to teach Plato and Shakespeare. Now they teach “Me too” on the silver screen. I don’t think that’s a step forward.

[karnage]

The whole thing is dumbsville.

[nopardons]

The idiot author of the article is wrong, Hollywood, using this theme, was showing what used to be called "CAUTIONARY TALES" and they were NOT "accepting" nor "promoting" sexual harassment or worse.

Prior to "THE CODE", some movies dealt with all kinds of social "problems" and everyday life in a rather open ( considering the time ) way. These were movies made for ADULTS.

[nopardons]

Wanna put your two cents in, on this thread?

I've already posted a wee bit of film "history". :-)

[a fool in paradise]

A lot of pre-code films played up sex (prostitution, gigolos, adulterers and love triangles, unmarried mothers, etc.).

They cover the male boss who hits on the bright eyed woman who comes to work at the office and the dominating woman who runs the company herself and has competing suitors.

But to a Stalinist, history always begins “today” and the written record means nothing.

[DakotaGator]

Good grief! Men use power to get sex. Women use sex to get power.

History and sociology courses complete!

[ifinnegan]

“Moviegoers in the early 1930s watched films about such sexual aggression on a regular basis, suggesting the degree to which this behavior was known, if not tacitly condoned, by film producers who were, of course, all male. The Production Code certainly tamed such blunt plot lines.”

How does this author see this as condoning such behavior?

[rktman]

H-weird has NO problem blasting all sorts of 'bdsm' and assaults all over the silver scree just as the havo NO problem with hundreds, if not thousands, of acts of firearm violence. Too them, if it can make them a buck......... Hey h-weird...... 🖕🏻very much.

[fella]

The battle of the sex’s is designed into the systems intelligently.