Posted on 10/11/2017 7:19:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan
At the time of writing, it's just shy of twenty women making accusations against Harvey Weinstein, the star of Hollywood's longest-running superhero franchise, Pig-Man.
That makes it hard to keep up. So, if you want a single vignette that sums up not just the Weinstein story but the broader cultural environment, I commend this one, from Ronan Farrow's reporting - the story that NBC, covering for Weinstein, declined to run and that he wound up taking to The New Yorker. It's 2010. Weinstein is at the Cannes Film Festival, where he meets the French actress Emma de Caunes (whose dad I was on TV with a zillion years ago). A few months later, he asks Mlle de Caunes to lunch at the Ritz in Paris:
Weinstein told de Caunes that he was going to be producing a movie with a prominent director, that he planned to shoot it in France, and that it had a strong female role. It was an adaptation of a book, he said, but he claimed he couldn't remember the title. "But I'll give it to you," Weinstein said, according to de Caunes. "I have it in my room."
So they go upstairs, and Weinstein steps into the bathroom. He comes out naked, with an erection.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Lost in the discussion are what enabled all the misbehavin’ we currently are experiencing.
First the pill. Then the legalization and subsequent promotion of abortion.
Radical feminism intended to free women from traditional sexual restraints, but also resulted in freeing men to have sex with women without consequences.
Female modesty, the value of virginity, and shame were easily dispensed with, so we end up with Weinsteins, Polanskis, Bill Clintons, Madonnas, the destruction of the nuclear family, and a permanent under-class with no hope to escape.
Hollywood was a hellish pit of sleaze long before 'the pill'.
When the Pope sits shiva.
I never said that. As you know.
I, too, have been a member of FR for "damn near 20 years" (starting out in my husband's name) and I recognize strawman arguments when I see them.
Baiting,too.
OMG OMG!
Back to the lemonade!
But wait. It’s Thirsty. I mean Thursday. And so.
Lost in the discussion are what enabled all the misbehavin’ we currently are experiencing.
First the pill. Then the legalization and subsequent promotion of abortion.
Radical feminism intended to free women from traditional sexual restraints, but also resulted in freeing men to have sex with women without consequences.
Female modesty, the value of virginity, and shame were easily dispensed with, so we end up with Weinsteins, Polanskis, Bill Clintons, Madonnas, the destruction of the nuclear family, and a permanent under-class with no hope to escape.
Most important comment on this stuff.
Oft thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
I’ve been reading quite a few comments, and it looks like the developing consensus is that women’s statements can be evaluated based on whether the commentor finds the woman appealing. Thus, for the pickiest, they’re all false.
Errol Flynn’s defense ... “Her? You think I would notice HER?”
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