But not surprising.
Because it’s a whore magnet?
Because its full of Liberals
Funny... I didn’t see the words ‘Homosexual rape’ used or even implied. I mean it said ‘busineessMEN” were the molestors, but seemed to skip over the fact that it was homosexual rape.
I cannot fathom why ....
One knows that the moral standards in Hollywood can be improved significantly. One needs a religious revival directed at them.
Bump
My mother has told me for years that Shirley Temple’s mom went with her everywhere to prevent her from being molested, so prevelant it was.
It’s not new. The films showing kids saying things kids would NEVER say are written by these creeps.
Judy Garland was reportedly assaulted by Louis B. Mayer so this is a long-time Hollywood tradition.
Maybe it’s concentrated in Hollywood but it’s everywhere. We saw it in the Jon Benet Ramsey case, and every time parents let their kids involvement in football, or dance class, or whatever it is become so much about winning that they sacrifice their morals and ethics. We’ve seen it in the Catholic (and other) churches, and in the classroom (with both male and female perps).
It boils down to people who know full well the difference between what’s right and wrong, but put their own personal self-gratification first. And yes, it is disgusting...all of it.
"Recently" revealed? Really?
What year was Mario Puzo's novel "The Godfather" published? 1969? Based on his description of the behavior of a Hollywood movie-maker and a 'stage mother' in that book, it appears to me that the "secret" has been pretty well known for at least 40+ years.
Makes me sick.
So are our schools.
It should be obvious to everyone why - it is where the hunters go to hunt. It is where the victims are.
If you want steak you don’t go to a fish market.
Predators go to where the victims are
This is all about the prevailing culture in Hollywood/the film industry.
In the rest of America, when a woman applies for a job and is informed that she will have to sleep with the boss to get the job, we are (rightly) outraged. Lawsuits, firings, etc. ensue.
But in Hollywood, people seem to expect this kind of gross extortion. People in “the industry” still speak jovially about the “casting couch” as if it were some sort of time-honored cultural institution. One imagines that Hollywood expects to be exempt from legal norms in the rest of the world in the same way that Eskimos are allowed to hunt whales.
One need only watch an episode of Kiddy Porn on Parade (aka Toddlers in Tiaras) to know the answer is that the LAST thing on Stage Moms' minds is the innocence of their children.
Interesting that this topic would come up this morning; only a few hours ago, on an entertainment gossip site, I saw pictures of a leering Miley Cyrus licking the frosting off a very large — and obscene — penis shaped birthday cake.
Big Entertainment is culturally very powerful in the USA and Hollywood is the center of it. Indeed, this phenomenon is very common - partially because people going to Hollywood for work offer themselves up for such abuse.
I do not expect lurid exposes nor even local enforcement to be able to change it. Therefore, they do not fear consequences.
What it may take is an outraged parent of a victim, or a victim themselves, to kill some perpetrator(s) to blow the facts of this into the open.
Why is Hollywood a pedophile’s paradise?
Because people will do anything to get admired by masses.
I am so sorry for these kids. It is just criminal.
Dakota Fanning is mentioned in this article. I can’t understand how it can be legal to coach a child to act as though she is being raped. Even if she is not actually, at the time, being raped, I can not IMAGINE how traumatizing that is to an 11 YEAR OLD GIRL.
Nothing but criminal, it makes me so mad I could spit.
I am not opposed to having kids in movies/on tv, but they should not be making all these sexual wisecracks and etc., I see the kids on the sitcoms and think I would not let my kid hang out in most of these situations and here they are working at performing it all week. Like the teen boys who are apparently pretending they are homo on Glee, which I’ve only heard about, again, absolutely criminal. Or the kid on 2 and a half men, nothing but sexual innuendo crude jokes all around him all the time.
NAME NAMES!!!
The only way to stop this is to shine a light on the people involved. Let's hope Corey Feldman's book does just that.