Harvey Weinstein and sexual allegations

I really don't remember when it was. I can see BC in my mind's eye standing in what looks like a doorway with a mic being held towards him, so, "whenever", it was on video. But I don't recall what he was talking about otherwise or where he was or what prompted him to say it. He obviously felt strongly about something that was likely fresh, because it was pretty obviously impulsive, and I seem to recall presumption about it at the time on IMDB being that it was something to do with Keira Knightly. 

And re Ellie talking about looking somewhat askance at the rush to jump on the condemnation bandwagon, I'm rather doing the same. I don't like the bandwagon of convenience approach to anything and it does seem to me as if some of it is indeed of the "competitive piety" variety and "self serving" and/or "butt covering". And it isn't as if HW is alone. He's obviously a ghastly man, but he's following in a very long and entrenched tradition of the abuse of the casting couch. There might not always have been "rape", but to be obliged into sexual favours with producers/directors/casting agents etc, as a necessary part of the process of getting a job, isn't so far removed. It's still abuse. And there'll be very few actors out there that that hasn't ever touched, male or female, and HW isn't the only culprit. But it's continued because it's been accepted as almost "normal". And it's that presumption of acceptability across the board that I'd like to see dismantled. But it's not going to be spoken about because there'll be embarrassment and shame involved.

What this whole issue with HW is going to do, though (hopefully), is put those who aren't also in the spotlight on notice that the reaction against abuse could spread, and that the vulnerable young actors (desperate for the all important leg up in a career where the vast majority get nowhere) may be less accepting now and that they aren't quite as voiceless as they used to be. Whistleblowers never do well personally out of going public, though, whatever the field and service provided, and that won't change and that will always be a disincentive to calling out abuse. And it doesn't help that there are just so many chasing every job, with sexual favours being something that many will still be prepared to offer in the hope of getting an advantage. But it certainly won't hurt for those who might be tempted to take improper advantage of the process, to know that it might be more likely to rebound against them now.

And for all the HW allegations are now coming thick and fast, and deservedly so obviously, I'm noticing that it's only older actresses who are now prepared to speak up, the ones who've got less to lose. And there's a lot more that could/should come out. Someone else mentioned the sweeping back under the carpet of the likes of Bryan Singer and underage boys being drugged and raped at big gay Hollywood parties...... 

It means that I find people’s defense of him confusing, disorienting, and something I can’t understand. In the the real world, surely most people, if they encountered a man who was sleeping with his children’s sister, would give him a wide berth and regard him and any of his friends who defended him with wary suspicion and contempt. Why do people treat this man differently. Is it because they like his movies? ...or think “artists” are different and don’t have to abide with the most basic human decency? I don’t get it.

I like Roman Polanski movies but I would never say there are doubts in his case. He admitted it, there are proofs and there are even more accusations by other women.

Actually it would be easier to say on Internet that Woody Allen is a pedophile. Period. But there are inconsistencies. He without doubt liked young women and old teenagers, which IMO it’s disturbing itself, but ephebophilia is not the same than pedophilia.

I don’t believe she is lying but there has been documented cases of kids influenced to accuse parents of abuse that didn’t happened. Some of those kids don’t lie they really believe it.



en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_allegation_of_child_sexual_abuse

She was very young as was Ronan, who also claims to remember weird behavior by Allen. The oldest one is the kid who now defend him. Now, who knows? It’s possible Mia Farrow is telling the true and Allen abused a little girl at the same time he had a romance with Farrow’s adopted barely adult daughter.

It’s an awful case and very perplexing.

I know there are false reports about child sexual abuse. There was a crazy hysteria about day care centers in the U.S. in the 1980s and 90s. I didn’t believe that garbage at the time. It was so clear that the things people were describing were not even possible. Lives were ruined.

It wasn’t just that Soon Yi was young and Mia Farrow’s daughter, as horrible as that is. He had a biological child with Farrow and adopted some of her other children. If his affair with Soon Yi wasn’t technically incest, it certainly was emotional incest and wreaked havoc on that family. He may not have sexually abused Dylan, but he deserves no benefit of the doubt at all. He deserves to be utterly shunned for what we know he did.