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The Human Stain: Why the Harvey Weinstein Story Is Much Worse Than You Think (NYC/Hollywierd swamp)
The Weekly Standard ^ | Oct 11, 2017 ast | Lee Smith

Posted on 10/09/2017 9:20:53 AM PDT by drewh

Hollywood is full of Weinsteins, men whose erotic imaginations are fueled primarily by humiliation, who glut their sensibilities with the most exquisite refinements of shame. A journalist once told me about visiting another very famous Hollywood producer—you’d know the name—who exhibited for my friend his collection of photographs of famous female actresses—you’d know their names, too—performing sexual acts for his private viewing.

As with Weinstein, this man’s chief thrill was humiliation, and the more famous the target the more roundly it was savored: Even her, a big star—these people will do anything to land a role; they’re so awful, they’ll even do it for me!

One of the refrains you hear today is that they’d known about Weinstein’s transgressions for a long time. The problem, they say, was that no one was able to nail down the story.

Nonsense. Everyone had it, not just Waxman. Sure, reporters hadn’t been able to get any stars to go on the record. But that means the story journalists were pursuing wasn’t really about Weinstein’s sexual depredations. It means that what they wanted was a story about actresses, junior executives, or assistants who had been humiliated, possibly raped, and chose to remain quiet in exchange for money and/or a shot at fame.

Of course no one was going to get that on the record—very few journalists would even want to publish a story like that. But journalists always had the actual story of how a Hollywood producer humiliated and sexually assaulted women.

The real issue, as Traister notes, was that “there were so many journalists on his payroll, working as consultants on movie projects, or as screenwriters, or for his magazine.”

Or, to put it another way: More than 20 people in one magazine office alone all had the story about Harvey Weinstein’s “mistreatment” of women.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billclinton; clinton; elitists; harveyweinstein; hillary2016; hollywood; media; sexscandals; weinstein; workplace
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To: drewh
Nothing new really.

The stuff out there about Errol Flynn in the 30s was pretty bad.

101 posted on 10/10/2017 2:22:59 AM PDT by M.K. Borders (All I require of my government is the liberty my Grandfathers were born to.)
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In the case of Weinstein, it’s hard to tell which is which.

I'm going to say the one selling sex for money is the prostitute. The one buying sex with money is the John.

102 posted on 10/10/2017 5:10:55 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: DungeonMaster

Just ‘money’?


103 posted on 10/10/2017 5:54:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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