It’s absolutely not true in every industry, many, if not most have very strong anti-nepotism rules. Plus, nothing ever gets better if you just give up. A fairer, more equitable system is always worth striving for, especially one with so much money and global influence.

I feel like these are obvious Ace Attorney style contradictions.

And who uses a public bathroom without locking the door?

In some cases, it’s just about getting the person in the door - If your dad can get you in for an audition and you’re a good performer, they’re going to cast you largely on your merits. It’s the audition part where the connections made the difference. Look at Jamie Lee Curtis - She’s a nepo baby, but she’s also a…

I write things down in my notes app all the time, is that hard to believe?

His job was to lie on the floor, he complains about how she stepped near him

Less so in Hollywood, I think, since having recognizable names on your marquee is worth something, even if they’re not all that great at their job.  It might also be worth something to you to do a favor for Julia Roberts by hiring her niece.  

Not if you’re also in the business. If you work for a company you know if it’s the boss’s dumbass son in a director position.

In fairness, sports has objective measurable performance stats. Someone may get over the line on “all other things equal” because of nepotism but some star quarterback’s kid isn’t going to get signed to an nfl team if they can’t throw a ball

Over the last few weeks it’s kind of felt like everyone just got bored of this story and let her off the hook. Nice to see some gender equality there, I guess.

Just imagine if the genders were reversed here and how it would look if people were this skeptical of a woman complaining about being assaulted physically and verbally.

Maybe this is a generational divide, but I assumed “written it down immediately” meant the Notes app on his phone. Because no, people don’t usually bring a pen and paper into a Portapotty these days.

The wealthiest people my age I personally know were second-generation family business owners who were cut into the equity by their parents before the companies sold. So the commentary was “person X sold their company for a ton of money!” followed by “no, person X’s dad sold his company that he built for 30 years for a…

Yes, a large part falls on the people doing the hiring and those who set up the business. It also falls on the famous, wealthy parents who wield their clout to push their offspring to the head of the line, ahead of equally or more qualified folk who never get a shot.

Believe the victims, is what I keep hearing.

Which is not the point, at all. The point is not that there aren’t very talented nepo babies (and I like Jack Quaid!), it’s the unfair advantage that works to exclude equally talented artists from ever getting their shot. It makes for a industry more centered on and run by the rich and predominantly white.

“he ‘was able to get representation pretty early on, and that’s more than half the battle.’”

I think what makes people not care about the Nepo Baby thing in Hollywood is not only if they’re chill about it, but if they’re also genuinely talented. And while I have no academic research to back this upcoming claim (...yet), it feels like the Hollywood Nepo Babies that are actually talented usually ARE the ones…

With most other nepo baby actors, I would dismiss this out of hand as a slightly more sophisticated PR tactic...

I will never not love him just for being the world’s biggest doofus, Bradward Boimler.