Man! That New Yorker article in the OP. Good grief. I didn’t know the details until I read that and listened to the audio of the NYPD sting tape. Just SICK.
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The sad thing is, from everything I read in film school about old Hollywood this was the norm with the old Studio heads.
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Was or is?
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Was, as in Hollywood’s golden age of the 1930’s through the 60’s and 70’s. I’ve never read anything about more recent movie history as it doesn’t interest me.
Weinstein is a scumbag. But this is the same group of people that cheered on Polanski, and neither of them are even close to the worst Hollywood has to offer.
It’s a cesspit with an code of omertà that would make the mob jealous.
Edit: And you can quote me on that.
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Speaking of old Hollywood and the Mob; in the Godfather, when T Hagen goes to Hollywood to talk to the big director, some mother is in the act of pimping her young daughter out to the big director when Tom arrives.
-Some woman goes to the police after being groped, and the police make her wear a wire to get some kind of proof? That seems like a bad episode of the Dective Olivia Benson TV show.
-Good for Brad Pitt.
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If it wasn’t for people like Weinstein pretending to be charming only to lure women into vulnerability, I don’t think anyone would care about “micro aggressions.” Micro-aggressions are only triggers because people worry about macro aggressions being next.
I suspect the reason guys like Weinstein could blackball women who didn’t sleep with him was because of the anti-gentlemen’s agreement among producers to back each other up.
The only point upon which I disagree is that Hollywood is the only place a guy could be this big a predator. I’ve read interviews about women in Washington DC warning each other which Congressmen they should stay away from. And sometimes obviously Presidents, too.
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Part of what I really liked about being a local dive bar bouncer was dealing with the creepers. It is quite satisfying to directly confront a guy and tell him that he’s making the girls uncomfortable with his unwelcome caresses or overt sexual advances, and that he’s no longer welcome at the bar.
Sadly, none of the creepers I dealt with had any nerve for getting violent. They all left meekly, requiring no force on my part.
If local dive bars can figure out these simple measures, why can’t the rich and powerful?
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That may be true, paules, but I don’t want to live in a world where we regulate speech as a precaution because you never know where it might lead.
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Please give an example where a phrase that sjw’s would consider a “micro agression” leads to forced oral sex.
I don’t see how asking an Asian person ‘where they’re from’ leads to a dick in their mouth against their will.
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Here’s a privileged white male shamelessly appropriating an ancient Asian self-defense technique for this exact scenario.
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What I’m saying is that if society did a better job of punishing people like Weinstein, then women wouldn’t be so worried about the little stuff.
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I only used the phrase “micro-aggression” because the person I was responding to was talking about them. I heard an interview with a woman who had to flee Weinstein, and he didn’t come on strong at first. He slowly moved on her over a period of time until he could get her alone. It if because of men like Weinstein that women worry about the rest of us men, too. When I lived in China, I could compliment women all I liked because I also let them stay in their situational comfort zones.
“Hold My Beer.” - Harvey Weinstein - probably
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You let them stay in their comfort zones huh … how noble of you. So, I’m curious, now that it seems you don’t live in China, when you compliment women do you not “let them stay in their situational comfort zones”? Or is bc you assume women elsewhere are too fragile and not in their comfort zones to be complimented? I’m curious why you think women are so fragile as to seemingly breakdown due to compliments?
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Maybe the problem is that we take one person that is far from the norm and extrapolate their behavior to mean something that it doesn’t by introducing non-factors to an imaginary formula- then project those results on to an entire population.
Maybe.
Thats why chinese people are better at math than us and don’t mind complements.
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Typing “attacker sues victim” into Google tells me that this is a risky move. Isn’t this an amazing country? Anything’s possible in America.
Related. If you haven’t read The World According to Garp, there’s a scene with his cheating wife and her young lover in a parked car… Signature John Irving. He puts some quirky but strangely hilarious tragedy into all of his books. The film adaptation with Robin Williams is very good.
Biting a guy’s penis off might not be the best self-defense move in real world context anyway. One’s goal should probably be to survive in a bad situation like that. Maybe that involves biting off a penis, maybe it doesn’t. I’m not judging either way.
However, if some creep says he needs your help for a “self-defense” video, then makes you get down on your knees and shoves a cucumber in your mouth, you should probably kick him in the balls and then get out of there.
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