Weinstein still harassed Paltrow and she was not only a child of Hollywood aristocrats, but her godfather was Steven Spielberg ... Famous connected family isn’t much protection.

Well yes, I was condensing an entire hypothetical conversation into 6 words. Even *if* she had heard a 1st hand account from a victim and *if* that victim asked her not to name them/name their abuser/whatever, then we still have no idea what they asked or didn’t ask. But also yes, mentioning the GG awards wouldn’t be…

Here we are in 2020, the richest country in the world, with large safe borders (no invading armies coming). With peaceful relations with our neighbors, with the 4th largest land area of any country, with the 3rd largest population in the world, with a dynamic high tech sector, and plenty of space for growth and…

“Any industry that has that much power and is that competitive, because after a while it starts to become, ‘Well, who can take the most abuse?’” she said.

Me too! My mom was raised the same way except she’s a mental health professional? Still didn’t know better though . Weird, huh?

That sounds like a good therapist. Eventually I stopped telling my mom anything because she would either get hair-on-fire mad and embarrass me or just discount my feelings completely. We have worked on our relationship over the years. She says she was raised in a very old fashioned household in where the girls were…

Sometimes just focusing on the worst allows for people to keep behaving badly as well because they can point to “well at least I didnt do this”

The most likely reason is that there is a massive difference between “knowing” something and having proof. That’s not the type of claim you make against someone on the basis of something you heard 3rd hand (at best), unless you actively want to get sued into destitution. 

Here’s some free therapy for you.

A journalist here in Canada made a short documentary about child abuse in sport. When she interviewed kids at the Canada Games (a competition of mostly under-20s) pretty much every girl she spoke to had either been sexually abused by a adult related to her sport, or knew someone who had. Any time there’s something…

This is unfortunately not a phenomenon unique to Hollywood. The powerful prey on the vulnerable in every industry- sports, media, politics, business- and it just happens over and over because there so many people who are complicit.

Absolutely- look what happened to Katherine Heigl. Looking back on the smear campaign against her, even though she did make some ill thought out comments, at the end of the day, she was blacklisted because she was a big star after Knocked Up and she was demanding what she deserved and a woman demanding to be paid what…

Particularly if those abusers know which parents submit to authority without question like my parents. It’s pretty easy to figure that out too.

My only experience with pageants is watching a couple episodes of Toddles and Tiaras and it was so upsetting. It’s definitely a scary world where mothers are living out their dreams through their daughters, the same way sports dads do with their sons. 

And she’s neither a victim nor witness to the abuse (she has already testified about her own rape) so she’s not really in a position to call out names. These are likely assaults described to her by friends so they’re not her stories to go public with. Naming the assailant may expose victims who aren’t willing or…

When I read that Larry Nassar made a freaking POWERPOINT full of completely fabricated reasons to justify why he had to put his hands inside young girls’ genitals (and the cops bought it) I wanted to vomit for a thousand years. There will always be “reasons” for parents and authority figures to believe abusers over…

Yea its wild that it crested with an asshole like Weinstein and then....poof when Harvey is just the tip of a goddamn huge ass iceberg and its gets a lot more grosser (and more recognition of a LOT of familiar names if the rumors are true).

I dunno. Spacey has been pretty much neutralized. I’m thinking Bryan Singer.

I also feel this outraged on why we keep letting abusers walk around like nothing.

Very true. I look at guys like Singer and Spacey and am beyond confused how teflon they seem.