{"id":118438,"date":"2017-11-01T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118438"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T23:45:04","slug":"is-hollywood-different-after-harvey-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118438","title":{"rendered":"Is Hollywood Different After Harvey Weinstein?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danielle Berrin writes for the Jewish Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Last week, I had dinner with two high-level film producers, both male, and two women who worked for one of them. The only thing we discussed for three hours was Harvey Weinstein and the sexual politics of the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

And let me tell you something: The only sea change I detected at this gathering was the fish of the day.<\/p>\n

Both male producers agreed that Harvey Weinstein is an \u201cugly, pock-marked, smelly bully.\u201d But a rapist? Not so much.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the women accusing Harvey made a deal with the devil,\u201d one of them said. \u201cIf you go to a man\u2019s room at 11 at night, you know what you\u2019re in for. And believe me, I stayed down the hall from him at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes, so I saw the processional of actresses who knocked on his door at all hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, I guess sexual assault is permissible if it occurs after 11 p.m.?<\/p>\n

Next, I was told \u201cthe vast majority\u201d of women accusing Weinstein of sexual impropriety really were trading sex for career advancement.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s true, I asked, shouldn\u2019t more of his accusers be movie stars?<\/p>\n

When I puzzled over the fact that so many women would claim abuse if they had made \u201cdeals\u201d with Weinstein, I was told their confessionals were born of shame for having prostituted themselves early on.<\/p>\n

I brought up the actress Annabella Sciorra, who told The New Yorker that Weinstein violently raped her in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known Annabella Sciorra for many years,\u201d one of the producers said, going on to offer a preposterous claim intended to disparage her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t want sex,\u201d the other admonished, \u201cwhy would you open the door to a man in the middle of the night?\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that late,\u201d Sciorra told The New Yorker. \u201cLike, it wasn\u2019t the middle of the night, so I opened the door a crack to see who it was. And [Weinstein] pushed the door open.\u201d<\/p>\n

I also asked about Rose McGowan, who suggested Weinstein raped her in 1997. She, too, was callously dismissed.<\/p>\n

And when the subject turned to other infamous Hollywood abusers, I was lectured on how \u201ceach year, 2,000 young actresses come to L.A. and they will do anything \u2014 anything \u2014 to be famous.\u201d<\/p>\n

I got the feeling these producers feel like victims themselves, since so many young women must use them for parts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called ambition,\u201d one of them said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDecades ago, I was desperate to sell a TV show and I slept with the female executive who could give it the green light. So I closed my eyes during the act and fantasized about someone else. We do what we must.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consensual sex is the sort of ordeal that afflicts men in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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