I’m not making it a moral imperative. I’m making it a PRACTICAL imperative. They either do it, or things go back to the way they were after a decent interval. The cold, hard fact about this case is that the NY Times outed Weinstein, this is NOT a case of Hollywood policing itself. Now that he’s down, he’s getting kicked, but even that is more about self preservation for many people in the industry than anything else. Ben Affleck has been called out big time on his attempt to be on the “right” side of this issue while actually being a part of the problem.
Hollywood by it’s nature is good at making things look important through drama and publicity, but anyone can see that all this drama is meant to protect the status quo.
It would be great if this were true, but what are you basing this on? Apparently one of the reasons people are willing to publically accuse Weinstein now is because he doesn’t have the same power to destroy careers as he once did. (My source for this is NPR’s coverage of the issue.) Who’s to say there isn’t a younger version of Weinstein whose abuses won’t come out for another decade or two?
And I didn’t have to wait long for proof that nothing is changing:
Kate Winslet Breaks Her Silence on ‘Disgraceful and Appalling’ Harvey Weinstein Sex Abuse Allegations
Winslet next stars in Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel,” set for release December 1
I wish I could explain better - I can say that once, when I was backed into a corner and was going to have to tell my chain of command about one incident (and it wasn’t a secret, in that one the offender was arrested, charged and convicted), I prayed that I would get into a car accident on the way into work. I would rather have suffered physical injury than talk about what that incident was making me feel.
I am not “weak” (at least most people don’t think so), but coming forward about this stuff is incredibly hard, and I will never think less of someone that decides not to. I always try to support and empower those that come to me, but I certainly can’t make them face this pain.
Setting aside any compare/contrast of the allegations – The movie releases in 41 days. What exactly did you expect Winslet to do? Go set fire to all the finished copies?
Dylan Farrow as well. Now granted, it is possible that Allen is innocent, and I do not think that Allen should be driven out of Hollywood. But I do think that industry people who are serious about fighting sex abuse should consider him damaged goods. That’s the only way to deter people like Weinstein. And given the testimony I’ve seen, I believe it is probable that Allen did it.
Now Polanski, he’s just a damned rapist and should never make a movie again, much less get a standing ovation at the Oscars.
I think you’re making WAY too broad a statement there, as some will actually limit themselves to one person in a family even though they have multiple kids to choose from. But it’s true that most do not, so this is a piece of doubt in the Allen case. But I’ve heard Dylan’s story many times, sounds like a classic escalation which may have come to a head when Allen and Farrow separated and got into a custody battle. And sure, the custody battle made Farrow’s accusations suspicious, but Dylan has stuck to her story, which makes me come down on the side of Dylan. And I think that’s where most people should fall, especially in an industry where this kind of thing is considered not terribly unusual.
You’re probably going to crucify me for this but isn’t there a dichotomy between US culture and other - Winslett can’t conceive of it happening because no one would think to try anything on with her, and the Italian went straight to the police and wore a wire. The American women took money from him.
I read one young British actress felt violated because he wore a bath robe in his hotel room. I wonder if he was more cautious outside his own culture.
The sound and fury from the right is thunderous. A remarkable departure from the silence when the accused were Trump, Ailes et al. It’s heart-warming to see such wholehearted condemnation. I wonder what’s changed in the past few months.
Trump is boorish and his “locker room talk” is repulsive, but Bill Clinton has been accused of sexual assault several times and his accusers have never backed off of their claims. If the accusations of Mr Weinstein are true, he should go to jail for sexual assault.
She makes it sound easy. Yes, it’s very easy to not be a piece of shit. It’s a lot harder to not make a faux pas that can cause an incident. Many companies define sexual harassment barely at all, saying it’s “in the eye of the beholder”. Which is true, but actual disciplinary offenses should have bright lines.
One interesting thing she did say was, “Don’t touch your coworkers”. This is probably good advice and I myself don’t ever touch people who aren’t family or close friends. But some people, many actually, are casual touchers. The kinds of people who like to put a hand on the shoulder, many women who like to put her hand on your hand while she tells you something, and of course the omnipresent back slappers. Not touching anyone is probably a good rule for professionalism, but there is a clear seperation of sexes issue here, since guys are always touching each other and girls are always touching each other. Which gives guys a personal advantage with other guys and leaves women at a disadvantage, much as in the case of private meetings that many male managers won’t do with female co-workers now.
So we should probably stop touching each other and definitely stop fraternizing after work. and we still haven’t solved the issue of how to handle things when a person unintentionally says something racially or sexually charged out of ignorance, slip of the tongue, or lame attempt at a joke. Oh yeah, jokes at work. Bad also.