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Asia Argento flees Italy after public condemns her for speaking out about Harvey Weinstein
Posted on 10/20/17 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 10/20/17 at 5:10 pm
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Italian movie actress and director Asia Argento is facing pushback in her home country after speaking out about an alleged rape at the hands of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. While Argento’s courage in speaking about what happened to her was praised in Hollywood, and helped encourage at least 40 women to speak out about their own experiences of assault at the hands of Weinstein, public opinion in Italy has sided more with Weinstein than with Argento, according to Quartz’s Annalisa Merelli.
Merelli points out that the opinion writers have been remarkably bold in their condemnation of Argento and other actresses speaking out against sexual assault — former journalist and MP Renato Farina, for instance, has suggested that the assaults described by actresses are “prostitution, not rape.” Vittorio Feltri, editor in chief of Libero, a right wing populist newspaper, said that since Weinstein didn’t physically harm Argento that the sex must have been consensual — and that, if anything, Argento should be thankful to Weinstein for forcibly performing oral sex on her. Politician Vittorio Sgarbi went still further, arguing that Weinstein “was actually assaulted by her.”
Prominent Italian women have targeted Argento as well, questioning why she didn’t speak out earlier about the rape or claiming that she deserved what happened to her since she willingly visited Weinstein in his hotel room.
In wake of the public outcry against her, Argento has said that she is leaving Italy for Germany to escape the “climate of tension” and “victim blaming.”
“Italy,” Argento said, “is far behind the rest of the world in its view of women.”
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Posted on 10/20/17 at 5:20 pm to Bench McElroy
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Argento should be thankful to Weinstein for forcibly performing oral sex on her.
Weinstein “was actually assaulted by her.”
WTF is wrong with people?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 5:33 pm to Bench McElroy
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has suggested that the assaults described by actresses are “prostitution, not rape.”
Well, they're not wrong
Just because there is a video camera crew in the room doesn't mean that rolling around in a bed, naked, kissing someone you just met that morning, doesn't mean that you ae doing anything different than what one would do if they were working as a hooker
Both are paid to perform naked. With strangers
Posted on 10/20/17 at 7:39 pm to chickenpotpie
What Americans would call sexual harassment, Italians would call “Tuesday”.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 8:04 pm to Bench McElroy
I'm sure her father exposed her to much worse
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