Weinstein, Hollywood, and "Me Too"

Me too

Some hysteria for a while then everyone goes back to normal life and young actresses keep getting abused:

I saw one guy apologizing on Facebook for being a "nice guy."

He was polite and *didn't* harass or assault anyone but thought that being a nice guy meant he would get what he deserved. He's apologizing for that because it sexualizes women and perpetuates the idea that a person owes you something for acting a certain way.

So... he's apologizing for being nice

The biggest thing that seems to be missing in this #MeToo social media campaign, is any kind of recognition from women of their own complicity. There is a whole spectrum of complicity here in how individuals react, of course, but for the women who actually made the Faustian bargains typical of Hollywood, I haven't read anything indicating a smidgen of remorse for making the future environment worse for others. These women were effectively shitting on all the men and women out there who were trying to play it straight, and one could make a convincing argument that feminine acquiescence in these types of situations is much more socially damaging to ordinary men than it is to ordinary women.

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The biggest thing that seems to be missing in this #MeToo social media campaign, is any kind of recognition from women of their own complicity. There is a whole spectrum of complicity here in how individuals react, of course, but for the women who actually made the Faustian bargains typical of Hollywood, I haven't read anything indicating a smidgen of remorse for making the future environment worse for others. These women were effectively shitting on all the men and women out there who were trying to play it straight, and one could make a convincing argument that feminine acquiescence in these types of situations is much more socially damaging to ordinary men than it is to ordinary women.

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Yes, all of this.

I just wanna know why these female movie stars aren’t naming names. Doesn’t that protect the sexual harasser and enable him to keep doing it because he doesn’t get called out? ??