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 produceryoud know the namewho exhibited for my friend his collection of photographs of famous female actressesyoud know their names, tooperforming sexual acts for his private viewing.
As with Weinstein, this mans chief thrill was humiliation, and the more famous the target the more roundly it was savored: Even her, a big starthese people will do anything to land a role; theyre so awful, theyll even do it for me!
One of the refrains you hear today is that theyd known about Weinsteins 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 hadnt been able to get any stars to go on the record. But that means the story journalists were pursuing wasnt really about Weinsteins 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 recordvery 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 Weinsteins mistreatment of women.
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The stuff out there about Errol Flynn in the 30s was pretty bad.
I'm going to say the one selling sex for money is the prostitute. The one buying sex with money is the John.
Just ‘money’?
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