Harvey Weinstein, after being accused by dozens and dozens of white women of sexual harassment and threatening some careers, only chose to specifically attempt to discredit Lupita N'yongo, the only black woman to accuse him of sexual harassment at the time.
In my mind it is likely he chose to go after N'yongo because she is perceived as the weakest, socially speaking. And she's the weakest socially, likely the easiest to discredit, because she's black.
It's like the man that grabbed Terry Crews genitals saw the same thing in Crews' blackness, social weakness as compared to white people.
Brett Ratner, after being accused of sexual harassment by six women, he chooses to counter-sue the one woman who isn't rich and isn't famous. And some are saying that's likely because she's the least financially able to fight back. I guess it is too bad/so sad for Ratner that she has supporters.
Sexual harassers have historically chosen those they know (knew) they can sexually blackmail into silence.
So the acts of retaliation described above are not surprising. These sexual blackmailers were crossed, and they followed through on their implied threat.
Men have been getting away with these implied threats, this blackmailing of women (and children) into silence for decades and decades because their victims, and everybody else, knew these powerful men of Hollywood could crush a woman's career with barely any effort at all.
Everybody in Hollywood knew, men and women. The casting couch used to be a big joke. (The couch where male producers and directors reportedly forced actresses to have sex with him before he supported her career. The joke was, most of the time these men did no such thing.)
Today, not that much has changed. The only victims the Hollywood elite might not have known about were the pedophiles (I hope)
Despite all that's been said so far, a lot of male people aren't getting a deep enough message on what's been happening in Hollywood and in workplaces across the country.
Not that I believe this at all, but George Clooney and Matt Damon were on Good Morning America talking about how shocked they were about all the women coming forward about being sexually harassed. I think they knew and just took sexual harassment lightly. Maybe I can buy that they didn't know how deep it went.
Think about this: Damon's good film-writing buddy Ben Affleck grabbed a woman's breast while on camera. Do you know how cavalier all these men have to be about sexual blackmail --whether they participate in it or not -- for Affleck to have done breast grabbing while he knew he was being filmed?
Clueless as usual, Damon said, he was going to teach his girls to have good self-esteem. (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpECVHzrw8Q)
Kidnapping, extortion, and blackmail all involve victim participation in the crime. "Self-esteem" doesn't have much, if anything to do with it.
Bad "self-esteem" isn't what landed these women in these situations. Men put these women (and men) in these situations
Predator men trapped their victims. These victims, mostly women, made split second decisions on whether or not they would throw away 1 year, 2 years, or 7 years of effort trying to make it big in Hollywood by making a powerful man mad AFTER that repulsive man physically trapped them.
Other women didn't even get to make a decision, they were simply present and trapped when a man ejaculated as they walked into a room.
There was a lot of noise about a Saturday Night Live skit last week because the comedian observed that a lot of the accused men were Jewish. I'm not sure about that. The thing I did notice though is that most of the men were short or extremely unattractive (even when they were younger.)
That is, these sexual harassers were not alpha-males in school.
To me, almost all of them look like the loser guys who hoped they'd be rich one day and be able to "get all the girls" they wanted. Now that they have waged patriarchal competition in this life and won, they expect to be paid back for their high school suffering in vaginas and breasts.
These repulsive men, repulsive inside and out, expected their money and power to make them attractive, to make them the winners-- and it didn't work out nearly as well as they thought it would.
Hence, the hostile aspect of sexual blackmail a.k.a. sexual harassment.
To me it is obvious that all levels of sexual blackmail, from level 1 to level 10, have to taken seriously enough for the law to be able to take action. Right now, there's a lot of noise about sexual harassment. But in truth, nothing has changed. Legal action is only being taken against those who crossed the line into sexual assault...and fairly significant sexual assault.
President Bush, the elder, reaching out from his wheelchair to pat a woman's bottom with gnarly, liver-spotted old hand is still pretty much, a laughing matter for some.
I think all of us ought to be keeping our hands to ourselves or facing assault charges.
If we are not keeping our hands to ourselves, then all of us are not keeping our hands to ourselves. So if a woman can't file charges regarding a man touching her ass. then slapping a disgusting old man's dentures out of his mouth ought to be an option.
The rule of law needs to apply to men same as it does women. For now, it really doesn't.
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