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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think better late that never.

I'm pretty sure that as many women victims there are there are also a couple dozen teen boys who have been violated as well and never spoke up for being labeled as weak or gay.

https://variety.com/2014/film/news/x-men-director-accused-of-sexually-abusing-teenage-boy-1201158645/[/quote]

I think just the sheer volume of complaints indicate that this was a well known and for whatever reason - tolerated - problem in Hollywood.  Somehow people were just accepting that this crap happened.

I don't begin to understand how agents and other prominent people in the industry (including other actresses) were continually introducing young actors/actresses to these perverts.  But they apparently were doing just that. It boggles the mind.  But Hollywood really needs to look inward to figure out why this was ever deemed in anyway o.k. and why they were giving these known predators such great power.[/quote]

People didn't 'accept' anything. It was just swept under the rug as 'oh, she's crazy - his wife says he's a fine man' while the actress was pushed out of Hollywood or the actress put up with it to get the job and career she dreamed of. Some women just internalized it as their fault for what they were wearing or doing or drinking.

Look at Old Hollywood and see this as well. Sometimes it couldn't be hidden but that didn't affect his career nearly as much as hers. Loretta Young won an Oscar in 1948 but before that she was raped by Clark Gable.

" However, in 2015, Linda Lewis, Young's daughter-in-law (and Christopher Lewis's wife) stated publicly that in 1998, Young told Lewis that Gable had raped her and that though the two had flirted on set, no affair and no intimate contact had occurred save for that one incident.[14] Young had not revealed the information before to anyone. According to Lewis, Young stated it only after learning of the concept of date rape; she had previously always believed it was a woman's job to fend off men's amorous advances and had felt the fact that Gable had been able to force himself on her was thus a moral failing on her part."

Loretta Young, Clark Gable
[img]https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/07/13/11/0033F8EB00000258-3159062-image-a-33_1436782094856.jpg[/img]

[img]https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/loretta-young-1.jpg[/img][/quote]

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