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oyster  ·  2349 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Harvey Weinstein is gone. But Hollywood still has a problem.

    the revelations about Mr. Weinstein are a tipping point: “This is the moment we look back on and say, ‘That’s when it all started to change.’” I hope she’s right.

Was she high ? This won't affect anything, the woman who deal with it will lament about the crap they put up with and then will go back to just putting up with the bullshit to keep their jobs. As angry as this stuff can make you you'll still laugh it off when push comes to shove and you are reminded to feel small. Even worse, the men will still not realize they did anything wrong. They think it's just PC bullshit. I know this because of that lovely job interview where the woman told me about how funny the men were, and they just loved to joke around. That it wasn't a PC workplace and I probably shouldn't take the job if I wasn't okay with that. I'm pissed about this shit and I still played it off like it was fine because I needed a job.

The shitty thing is that in order to elevate yourself to a position in life were you are untouchable you've got to deal with this crap first. I can guarantee you every single woman in a position of power has had a point in life were she had to make a choice like I did in that interview or the woman he harassed had when they knew he could fuck up their future. It's a long road of clawing your way through that bullshit if you want to get anywhere.





kleinbl00  ·  2348 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm wondering how long it took Meryl Streep's publicist to strike exactly the right tone of outrage, disgust, and personal distancing to explain that she hadn't been harassed by Harvey Weinstein.

And it still wasn't enough.

oyster  ·  2348 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean, where is the fun in harassing women who are close to your age ? I'm so stoked to be 30.

Having said that, I can also see how people actually don't know what's going on around them. I don't really know this guy who worked for the company I was working for but I heard the rumour that he assaulted a friend of his. I don't think it went anywhere with charges and it sounded like she just wanted to put it in the past. A few weeks later a friend of a friend asked if I knew this guy and more importantly if I know if he was still around. Turns out that there was another incident and this girl went to him instead of the cops. I think myself, my friend, and this guy are the only ones who know there have been at least 2 woman saying he assaulted them in the a pretty short time period. I don't know either of these woman's names, I am just by some weird coincidence aware of something most people honestly aren't. I'm still not sure what to do about that, I don't know anything else about these people's lives. And that my friends is why so many woman come out with allegations after it's in the news