re: A montage of Hollywood Thanking Harvey Weinstein

Sex and Hollywood has been going on long before any of us were born.

In 1916 it was going on and it is still going on.

Elvis bragged all the time about his game of sleeping with the leading lady in movies and he said he got them all but one.

This is nothing new, the only new angle is going for the character that makes them stars.

But that is not true as Fatty Arbuckle was thrown under the bus by a D.A. who knew the case was not there.

Meyer was known for doing the same thing as Weinstein, and he is not the only one in old Hollywood doing these things. Frank Capra made Barbara a star having a long affair with her.

Copper was not known as the "it guy" for nothing, the actress with "it" made him while their affair was going on.

That is the nature of Hollywood.

I think folks are getting this all wrong. Not that there weren't any women who did completely willingly (if you'll allow two adverbs back to back...it feels wrong) because there surely were. But the list to which you refer, it's actually overwhelmingly comprised of women claiming forceful sex or all out rape. That group is said to number more than 60.

In my mind some are, I think, considering it consensual sex if the woman was perhaps physically able to run away from the situation but didn't. Here, sexual acts were forced upon them with the constant reminder lingering over them that "if you want the role, you'll let me finish." I just don't see that as your common instance of "consensual sex".

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"if you want the role, you'll let me finish." I just don't see that as your common instance of "consensual sex".

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Every whore on earth knows you aint getting the payoff if you dont let him finish.

Big question is why have none of the gals been brought up on prostitution charges, seems to be a double standard going on here.

How else does a not very attractive walking bag of moles get parts in Hollywood? I would imagine with her, anything short of being in ol’ Harv’s personal snuff film was on the the table.

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I am still unclear why everyone is upset with him.

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Fake outrage. The entire industry was built on rape and sexual assault.

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I am still unclear why everyone is upset with him.

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Because I think he devolved in to a real predator. Some of the behavior was pretty gross and sounds like real rape. If the stories are true. Same thing with Bill Clinton, IMO. With Clinton it was pretty clear he raped these women.

Well, I ask you one back. If I had an appointment in my office with a young lady, closed the door behind her, say I'm in my dankest of suits, the young lady....a client, and not some power broker, rather a more meek person who nobody is really concerned with. I force myself on her and although she tells me she'd really rather not, and I clearly see she's mortified at what's happening, yet she doesn't kick me in the balls and runs out screaming. Instead she reluctantly lets me finish what I started....because she is most clearly in the subordinate position, me being the big shot.

As she's walking out the door I tell her I will pull extra strings in her case and she will receive that benefit for what just occurred. She walks out deflated.

But she happily accepts the benefit I promised. Sex occurred, girl received a benefit....she guilty of prostitution?

I think in some cases, absolutely, the woman likely knew going in what she was there for. But in others, IMO more in number than the former, there was probably apprehension about what could be thrown at them, yet that's not what they intended to happen nor in any way wanted to happen.

And it moved into what 60+ women similarly described....and it is pretty close to my hypothetical.

And keep in mind, such circumstances are exactly why prosecutors are empowered with prosecutorial discretion. And it's apparent that their discretion has led them to conclude that prostitution charges are not warranted.

Shows what a loser Streep always was and had revealed in her comments during Trump's Presidency.

"I want to thank Harvey Weinstein, God, the Punisher they call him."

They all prayed to this creep to get them famous and then cried foul when it became public that they whored themselves out for fame.