by William Skink
Has the fall of Harvey Weinstein really broken the dam of silence that kept open secrets of predation from making headlines? Certainly dozens and dozens of victims are feeling empowered to go public because their experiences are being taken seriously and action against sexual predators is happening, but will the full scope of what’s going on in power centers like Hollywood actually come out?
Because I’m immediately leery of social media campaigns, the quick springing up of #metoo from mostly women seemed to conveniently set certain perameters on who the victims of sexual abuse are: adult women. And what does that leave out? Pedophilia.
Power has no gender. Power is power. Ask Corey Feldman. He went public and took it as far as he could, but a person with more clout–Barbara Walters–not only shut him down, she said this: “…you’re damaging an entire industry…”
I don’t claim to know the full scope, but I’ve done my digging on the darker capacities of power and exploitation and understand why people would rather retreat into different forms of denial.
But doing so allows this predation to continue.
JC
My first reaction was “So Harvey is gay too!” Just like the Billy Bush misdirection psyop with Donald Trump, getting us to ask the wrong question solves a lot of problems, as Bill Clinton well knows.
But so what if Harvey is gay? Most of Hollywood is gay. He is not running for office, so has no reason to hide.
So the best theory I have read on the Weinstein is that it is a business power play, trying to squeeze him out and take over his company. It would not be the first … think Elliot Spitzer’s hooker, Michael Jackson’s sleepovers, all the way back to Wilbur Mills caught in a DC fountain with a hooker and long long before. And notice that all we get are accusations, no day in court.
Why do starlets come out and attack Harvey? That part is easy. Their fame is given them and can be easily taken away. They do as instructed.
evidence-free proclamations from Mark Tokarski.
Your vast storehouse of fear-based-morose-outlook-life-sucks opinions are evidence-free, but what the hell. At least I have a framework in which Weinstein easily fits … fabricated news, starlets given fame due to bloodline, and offstage maneuvering using public scandals to force players to submit to power. Add gays in every nook of Hollywood … I do not understand why, other than gays are attracted to the arts, acting as a magnet. I don’t know … perhaps Pitt, Clooney, Clinton and the other actors will come clean someday. Just know that in Hollywood, your daughters are safe. So are the starlets who publicly attacked Weinstein … as if.
If you ever develop a backdrop of non-self-reinforcing research, maybe you will break free. But I will bet you will still be boring.
you got the last word at your place because you banned me, but it’s not enough is it? you’re like a stalker, Mark, and I’m beginning to think it’s pathological. if you want to keep commenting here, fine, go ahead, but I really don’t get why you would want to.
Harvey killed John Denver because he left Weinstein for another gay lover.
Speaking if the evidence-free life …
“I don’t claim to know the full scope, but I’ve done my digging on the darker capacities of power and exploitation and understand why people would rather retreat into different forms of denial.
But doing so allows this predation to continue.”
So very true. Glad you don’t take the “it’s ALL fake, folks, sleep well, nobody is hurt and all is well” route.
I also suspect pedophilia with Schweinstein and the staged “outing” of Schweini groping women is just a cover for that. Now everybody can fall over him and say “look how bad he is, he touched adult women”, while in reality the Hollywood industry is way worse than that; children being drilled into the system from an early age by compromising their most private parts. It’s sickening.
The loss of fellow “truth seekers” (who appeared to be falsehood pushers, just like the media) is the biggest loss of all. After all those Hollywood guys and gals are out of reach, what we could have is a real momentum, a base of critical thought, but no, “it’s all fake, nobody is hurt, those people are not psychopaths” is the bullshit you hear from people who -in theory- still have working brain cells.
Pity.