Posted on 10/17/2017 12:30:23 PM PDT by Enlightened1
It’s Harvey Weinstein’s brother, Bob’s turn in the hot seat. The co-founder of The Weinstein Company has been slapped with sexual harassment allegations of his own, as Hollywood continues to real from bombshell after bombshell.
Variety reports:
Amanda Segel, an executive producer of “Mist,” said Weinstein repeatedly made romantic overtures to her and asked her to join him for private dinners. The harassment began in the summer of 2016 and continued on and off for about three months until Segel’s lawyer, David Fox of Myman Greenspan, informed TWC executives — including COO David Glasser — that she would leave the show if Bob Weinstein did not stop contacting her on personal matters.
“ ‘No’ should be enough,” Segel told Variety. “After ‘no,’ anybody who has asked you out should just move on. Bob kept referring to me that he wanted to have a friendship. He didn’t want a friendship. He wanted more than that. My hope is that ‘no’ is enough from now on.”
“Bob Weinstein had dinner with Ms. Segel in LA in June 2016. He denies any claims that he behaved inappropriately at or after the dinner. It is most unfortunate that any such claim has been made,” a representative for Bob Weinstein said in a statement to Variety.
Variety has more:
During the dinner, Weinstein asked Segel highly intimate questions and made romantic overtures to her, according to Segel. He wanted to know her age because he told her he didn’t want to date anyone younger than his daughter. He told Segel that he was staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel because his daughter was staying at his home in Los Angeles.
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I hear you. Bob Weinstein is guilty of poor judgement here, but he did cease his advances when asked to.
Well, that changes the picture. That's coercion, which seems to raise this to the level of sexual harassment.
It takes a lot more than that to make me feel “harassed,”
You have a point. It seemed like his money invested in her staying with the production was more important. But the article also said she had to get a lawyer to spell this out to him. I smell a settlement.
I don’t think you have truly placed yourself in that scenario to weigh how it would really sit with you, assuming you have bills to pay and need a job. Unless you are someone who changes jobs every few months and does not build a career.
Let me answer that....to a woman....ANY male att ention is sexual harassment....if its unwanted.
First, your analogy is not appropriate since the Weinstein scenario was presumably between a male and female, whereas your hypothetical scenario is between a homosexual male and a heterosexual male.
Second, apparently the definition of harassment has been dumbed down by lawyers, SJWs and virtue signalers because the “Bob” Weinstein situation as described in the subject article seems a long way from any kind of harassment I know about. If I were on a jury, based on those facts alone, I would find for the defendant.
Third, you don’t know anything about me.
You are putting up quite a defense.
It’s not working, however.
Sorry but i belive the gay element adds and changes the dynamic.
Nope, it doesn't. Unwanted sex is unwanted sex. Women who are subjected to unwanted sex have to fear that they will be violated in ways they really, really don't want by someone whom they cannot overpower. There is only one comparison for straight men, and it is not a smaller, lighter-weight woman. Women are entered, and when the entering is unwanted, it is soul destroying. Straight men do the entering, so if a woman imposes sex on him, it is not as disturbing. What is disturbing to a straight man is a man who has more power and who threatens to enter, or who does enter, because he has the ability to wreck his victim's life, so there is no good option—submit or have your livelihood ruined and/or your family threatened or your finances destroyed with a discrimination lawsuit. That compares to how total an experience unwanted sex is for women.
I agree. The Bible also says, "There is nothing new under the sun."
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