# Dustin Hoffman the predator **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dustin-hoffman-the-predator/804586 "2017-12-15T21:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dustin-hoffman-the-predator/804586/1 "2017-12-15T21:22:48Z")
When the first allegation about Hoffman appeared a couple of weeks ago I was willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Now though the [Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/five-dustin-hoffman-accusers-tell-harrowing-stories-sexually-predatory-behavior-1055544) has published a reporting detailing the accusations of five more women and it’s explosive stuff. This involves the actual molestation of vulnerable women, some as young as 15 and 16. It makes for difficult reading. A sample: > [@](#): > > Kathryn Rossetter was an inexperienced young actress in 1983 when Hoffman took a liking to her at an audition for a Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman. > > After stepping in to help her land the part of Willy Loman’s mistress — as Rossetter details in a first-person account of her time on that production — she says Hoffman would put his hands up her skirt each night before her cue. One night, Hoffman began to “stick his fingers inside me,” Rossetter says. This allegedly happened every performance, six to eight times per week. > > Rossetter adds that Hoffman would order her into his dressing room during long breaks and demand that she “get on my knees and rub my feet. … Dustin would whisper, ‘higher, higher,’ trying to get me to move up his pants toward his genitals.'” > > One night, she says, during a live performance, Hoffman instructed the crew to gather in the wings, then began groping Rossetter before lifting her slip above her head, “exposing my breasts and body to the crew and covering my face.” I’ve followed your career with pleasure ever since The Graduate, Mr Hoffman, but now for the first time it’s apparent what sort of man was behind the mask of the actor. A predatory little fucking creep. I hope you never get another acting job. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dustin-hoffman-the-predator/804586/2 "2017-12-16T08:30:41Z")
Just a few years ago, [this interview clip with Hoffman talking about _Tootsie_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPAat-T1uhE) was widely shared on social media. He got such praise for his Feminist message, for admitting that he had been part of the problem but then committed himself to being better. I’ve only read about two of the accusations against him but both of them occurred well after his work on _Tootsie_. So, apparently, the only epiphany he had was an angle he could use in presenting himself to the world as a “good guy”. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dustin-hoffman-the-predator/804586/3 "2017-12-16T08:42:16Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I’ve followed your career with pleasure ever since The Graduate, Mr Hoffman, but now for the first time it’s apparent what sort of man was behind the mask of the actor. A predatory little fucking creep. I hope you never get another acting job. It’s a bit too late to wish that against him since he’s 80 years old and semi-retired. How many more acting jobs does he have left anyway? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dustin-hoffman-the-predator/804586/4 "2017-12-16T09:26:45Z")
I guess Dustin can forget about remaking the Sunshine Boys. 😉 He’s basically retired and untouchable. No one is going to prosecute a groping that occurred 30 years ago. Men of that generation and earlier were pigs. They treated women terribly. That’s not exactly news. Sexism has been discussed, at length since Womens Lib started. A lot has changed for the better and some things are the same. It is disturbing that we have modern men who still act in such disgusting ways. Dustin is the exception today. Most men today have more respect for women.