Harvey Weinstein

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if Gwynneth and Angelina both experienced this, then Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Julia Roberts, all buddies, must have known all about it, right?

Brad Pitt knew what happened to Gwyneth because she told him and then he told HW not to touch her again.

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Anonymous wrote:Think of how many more women there probably are hat were victimized that haven't come forward. It's beyond disgusting. So is all the people who knew and looked the other way.

The recording sounds exactly like three incidents that happened to me when I was younger. You don't have to be a model or an actress to have this happen to you. The recording made me cry. It's awful.

I'm so sorry. That recording was beyond horrific and probably triggering for many women. So many of us have gone through that particular horror. But how awful to have to listen to it and have that feeling flood back

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly most of you on here have not been sexually harassed at work before. If you had, you would know you can't simply blow up your harasser without doing serious damage to yourself and your reputation. If you see a powerful man at work possibly sleeping with the hot new secretary, how do you know it isn't consensual? What are you supposed to do, go to the HR department of your big law firm and report that the managing partner seems to be having sex with a young secretary?

What Weinstein did is despicable. And it continued because countless people -- including the women he victimized -- failed to stand up and say something. He was an incredibly powerful man who did this to women who were not yet powerful at all. I think it's crappy to blame them and others instead of the the ONLY person who deserves the blame here -- Weinstein.

Yep. When the hiring partner of NYC Dechert many years ago tried to "neg" me one evening by telling me I could use more time on the Stairmaster, I was just a summer associate. Given the climate at the time, I didn't seriously consider doing anything about it. Powerful men who harass know how to do it in ways that escape repercussion.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we applauding any Hollywood celebrity for coming forward now? It's easy now. No risk. They cared more for their careers before.

Not really. Nobody really cared if a woman was being sexually harassed or even assaulted 10 years ago. Time are a changing. I was not given a promotion because I just had a baby 17 years ago and that was legal. It was in writing. While you are the most qualified we believe that you won't give 100% with your new responsibilities with a new born. I contacted a lawyer and he said that you can't be discriminated agains based on your status as a parent. Now you can.

Ten years ago a woman would have been told to fight harder or do you have physical evidence?

Without the many women and the audio this would still be a non-story.

Oh, you think you are good enough to act but your not really that good, that is why you did not get the part. How do you prove you were good enough but didn't get the job because you refused to have sex with somebody.

It is impossible to prove. He said, she said.

How old are you? Sexual harassment has been a big issue since Anita Hill in 92.

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Anonymous wrote:He's fired and many more women coming forward. The men that have stood by and let this greedy, sex abuser thrive all these years should feel shame.

There were plenty of women too. They should be doubly ashamed.

Anjelilina Jolie said he harassed her and she tried warning other women, but they ignored her.

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly most of you on here have not been sexually harassed at work before. If you had, you would know you can't simply blow up your harasser without doing serious damage to yourself and your reputation. If you see a powerful man at work possibly sleeping with the hot new secretary, how do you know it isn't consensual? What are you supposed to do, go to the HR department of your big law firm and report that the managing partner seems to be having sex with a young secretary?

What Weinstein did is despicable. And it continued because countless people -- including the women he victimized -- failed to stand up and say something. He was an incredibly powerful man who did this to women who were not yet powerful at all. I think it's crappy to blame them and others instead of the the ONLY person who deserves the blame here -- Weinstein.

Yep. When the hiring partner of NYC Dechert many years ago tried to "neg" me one evening by telling me I could use more time on the Stairmaster, I was just a summer associate. Given the climate at the time, I didn't seriously consider doing anything about it. Powerful men who harass know how to do it in ways that escape repercussion.

How many years ago was this? If you are sure it was the hiring partner (as opposed to a random male partner involved with hiring), then I think I know who you're talking about

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Anonymous wrote:He offered to exchange his power for sexual favors in a consensual manner. There is nothing wrong with this and if you disagree you are a feminist puritan who thinks having sex with a prostitute is rape. You are also denying the adult women the chance to make their own pro/con decisions.

Those women spread their legs to get roles in new movies. No one made them do it -- they did it for themselves as they wanted to become filthy rich & famous. Most of them were perfectly happy with the transaction and are merely capitalizing on it now as a convenient & shameless double dip, ex. Paltrow promoting Goop.

Wow, you are gross. The very fact he had that power over them is the problem, which you obviously don't see.

Not PP, but that is blatantly untrue! He didn't have power over them until they'd accepted a role. Half of them never got that far so there was no power at play.

You brainless piece of shit. He is a major Hollywood insider who is known for his vindictiveness and can and has been known to have people blacklisted.

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Anonymous wrote:He's fired and many more women coming forward. The men that have stood by and let this greedy, sex abuser thrive all these years should feel shame.

There were plenty of women too. They should be doubly ashamed.

No it’s only men.

One woman, quoted today in the NYTimes, said she wanted to report him but knew that word would get out if she did and other men would see to it that she was blacklisted.This is precisely what keeps women silent.

But there are plenty of women over the years that have fawned over him and praised him. Many times on shows where they are promoting movies, actresses would gush over "The Weinstein Brothers"

And there are many actresses who gush over and praised people like Woody allen and Roman Polanski, knowing that they were full on predators.

That bothers me just as much if not more than a bunch of sleazy guys protecting their own.

I do not fault any of the women who were victims but I sure do fault any of the women, particulary powerful actresses, who looked the other way while heaping praise and accolades on men they know to be predators.

If we women do not use our voices to speak up, then who will?

Well, what about his wife? Surely Georgina knew the rumors before (and subsequently after) she married him. How can she defend or even stand by his predatory behavior towards young, vulnerable women and girls? She and other women like that, who stand by and do nothing, make my skin crawl with disgust. I honestly don't know who is worse...the predator or the enabler/facilitator.

Please 99% of the people on this site would leave their husband to marry HW....the money, power, LA and fame! Get real.

Nah, probably only 90%.

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Anonymous wrote:And now the flood. Both Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow say that Weinstein harassed them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-harvey-weinstein.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Those two are powerful enough to have spoken up earlier.

+1,000,000 - I hate them for keeping quiet for all of these years.

You don't get it. Nobody cared. Okay he tried to have sex with you, big deal. Nobody cared 10 years ago if somebody tried to coerce you into sex. If you walked away unscathed there is no charge except being a dirty old man.

There is not charge for almost being raped.

I haven't read Angelina's account, but Gwenyth was not almost raped, she was propositioned by some old, slimy, sleezeball.

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly most of you on here have not been sexually harassed at work before. If you had, you would know you can't simply blow up your harasser without doing serious damage to yourself and your reputation. If you see a powerful man at work possibly sleeping with the hot new secretary, how do you know it isn't consensual? What are you supposed to do, go to the HR department of your big law firm and report that the managing partner seems to be having sex with a young secretary?

What Weinstein did is despicable. And it continued because countless people -- including the women he victimized -- failed to stand up and say something. He was an incredibly powerful man who did this to women who were not yet powerful at all. I think it's crappy to blame them and others instead of the the ONLY person who deserves the blame here -- Weinstein.

Yep. When the hiring partner of NYC Dechert many years ago tried to "neg" me one evening by telling me I could use more time on the Stairmaster, I was just a summer associate. Given the climate at the time, I didn't seriously consider doing anything about it. Powerful men who harass know how to do it in ways that escape repercussion.

How many years ago was this? If you are sure it was the hiring partner (as opposed to a random male partner involved with hiring), then I think I know who you're talking about

It was for sure the NYC hiring partner at Dechert. It was the summer of 2000. (I have two male witnesses who can corroborate my story; they are now powerful law firm partners themselves - thankfully, the non-harassing kind.)

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Anonymous wrote:He's fired and many more women coming forward. The men that have stood by and let this greedy, sex abuser thrive all these years should feel shame.

There were plenty of women too. They should be doubly ashamed.

No it’s only men.

One woman, quoted today in the NYTimes, said she wanted to report him but knew that word would get out if she did and other men would see to it that she was blacklisted.This is precisely what keeps women silent.

But there are plenty of women over the years that have fawned over him and praised him. Many times on shows where they are promoting movies, actresses would gush over "The Weinstein Brothers"

And there are many actresses who gush over and praised people like Woody allen and Roman Polanski, knowing that they were full on predators.

That bothers me just as much if not more than a bunch of sleazy guys protecting their own.

I do not fault any of the women who were victims but I sure do fault any of the women, particulary powerful actresses, who looked the other way while heaping praise and accolades on men they know to be predators.

If we women do not use our voices to speak up, then who will?

Well, what about his wife? Surely Georgina knew the rumors before (and subsequently after) she married him. How can she defend or even stand by his predatory behavior towards young, vulnerable women and girls? She and other women like that, who stand by and do nothing, make my skin crawl with disgust. I honestly don't know who is worse...the predator or the enabler/facilitator.

+10000 Absolutely zero respect or sympathy for wives like this. She was complicit in his behavior and sat idly by while he harassed and assaulted women presumably so as not to disrupt her comfortable lifestyle or gravy train.

Unless you work with your spouse, do you know everything that is going on in his/her office? Would your spouse tell you if they are sexually harassing and abusing the staff?

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Anonymous wrote:Hollywood is disgusting. Disgusting, greedy, hypocrites.

But we all get to listen to their political rants at every awards show. These people have no morals and every company who uses to push their product should drop just like Dannon did to Cam Newton. Time to move on from these fools.

+1,000,000 - No more use for Hollywood. Complete scum.

Well I saw Blade Runner II, it was excellent. I'm not giving up Hollywood. I love my movies.

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Reported and I urge other posters to report as well.

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Anonymous wrote:He's fired and many more women coming forward. The men that have stood by and let this greedy, sex abuser thrive all these years should feel shame.

There were plenty of women too. They should be doubly ashamed.

No it’s only men.

One woman, quoted today in the NYTimes, said she wanted to report him but knew that word would get out if she did and other men would see to it that she was blacklisted.This is precisely what keeps women silent.

But there are plenty of women over the years that have fawned over him and praised him. Many times on shows where they are promoting movies, actresses would gush over "The Weinstein Brothers"

And there are many actresses who gush over and praised people like Woody allen and Roman Polanski, knowing that they were full on predators.

That bothers me just as much if not more than a bunch of sleazy guys protecting their own.

I do not fault any of the women who were victims but I sure do fault any of the women, particulary powerful actresses, who looked the other way while heaping praise and accolades on men they know to be predators.

If we women do not use our voices to speak up, then who will?

Well, what about his wife? Surely Georgina knew the rumors before (and subsequently after) she married him. How can she defend or even stand by his predatory behavior towards young, vulnerable women and girls? She and other women like that, who stand by and do nothing, make my skin crawl with disgust. I honestly don't know who is worse...the predator or the enabler/facilitator.

+10000 Absolutely zero respect or sympathy for wives like this. She was complicit in his behavior and sat idly by while he harassed and assaulted women presumably so as not to disrupt her comfortable lifestyle or gravy train.

Unless you work with your spouse, do you know everything that is going on in his/her office? Would your spouse tell you if they are sexually harassing and abusing the staff?

You're kidding me, right? I'm sure he treats her with the utmost respect and has never hit on another woman in her presence. She also probably had no idea about the numerous allegations spanning 3 decades or the hundred of thousands of dollars flying out of their bank account for settlements. It was willful ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so disappointed ted in Matt Damon. He seemed like such a stand-up guy, but it turns out he was corrupt and power hungry.

Me too, he’s one of my favorite actors. And he has 4 daughters, I can’t even understand how you can look the other way look your daughters in the eye. No more Jason Borne for me.

All rapists, misogynists, sexual abusers, and sexual harassers have mothers, sisters, aunts and/or daughters. That doesn't stop that kind of person.