People owned slaves and yet they hated them. It's not like he had to treat them as equals.
dalstongirl
dalstongirl
You know what's weird? Your first paragraph.
Yes, because they are both alive right now.
I think she's AMAZING. But looking like a model doesn't exactly hurt. She's been totally embraced by the high fashion world in a way most aren't.
You'll find no bigger fan of Nyong'o than I. I sobbed when she accepted her well-deserved Oscar and I love that she has as much exposure as she does. But as a former PR person and as someone who has lived and worked in LA: talent is only part of this game. If talent, beauty, and personality alone made someone famous,…
I wasn't suggesting anyone get "credit" for her beauty, except her parents (genes) and herself (hard work)—- but the reality is, if you look at most "winners" of this People Most Beautiful cover, they are established big ticket stars like Julia Roberts, Halle Berry.... it's a known fact that People is lobbied hard by…
He probably looked the other way to a lot of stuff going down at Digital Entertainment Network, like massive fraud and he probably knew about the parties too and the predatory way that Collins-Rector was hiring, using, and abusing teenagers. He doesn't sound like a nice man. He sounds like someone who probably got…
I'm copy-pasting this comment from the io9 thread which said pretty much what I wanted to say:
It's nothing like a romance novel.
Egan was actually the victim of sexual trafficking when he was 14/15. Even if he isn't "clean," he was probably really fucked up by some very sick predators. I also think it's weird how much these people are given the benefit of the doubt. If an administrator of a school district went around to all the 18/19 year old…
The thing being offered in exchange for sex isn't a doughnut, it is advancement in the chosen profession of the person it is being offered to. He is using his professional position to extort sexual favors out of those beneath him, it's not different than if a boss told his secretary that she would have to fuck him if…
It's called coercion. If there's a person in a position of power who stands between you and something you're totally qualified for and yet tells you you can't have it unless you have sex with them, that's coercion. You very well may feel forced to have sex with them even if you don't want to. It's horribly exploitive…
Except the way women are constantly sexualized and objectified and experience rampaging sexual harassment and entitledment from men (NOT TO MENTION IN THE WORK PLACE) put things into a much different context than offering someone a couple of dollars for a fucking glazed donut or something. There is a huge difference…
Really? The fault is in women who will do 'anything' for fame, and not the men who will take everything?
Say you are offering a starving person the donut but only if they sign over the rights to the custody of their first born child. Then you are taking advantage of that person's position of weakness in order to sell your donut, right? Isn't that pretty morally shitty? It's the same thing here. The chance to do…
And there are also a lot of young women NOT willing to do "whatever" for fame who end up coerced into it. Have you read any of the accounts of victims of Richardson's? He preys on young models and uses his fame and the unequal power dynamics to get the women to submit to whatever he wants.
Oh victim blaming, how original. The problem isn't young women wanting fame; but the people with power willing to exploit young people and manipulate them into thinking they don't have any other options.
Yay, just what we need, more people refusing to believe that a man who hoards of women have accused of being sleazeball has done something sleazy because what? He's too famous?
... or men who take advantage of them.