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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How come we never hear about sports stars like Serena Williams "sleeping her way to the top", we never hear anyone say "You know how that heart surgeon became the head of the unit, right? Yep, slept her way to the top."...you never hear this about lady astronauts, engineers, teachers....

Why is this such a prevalent thing in Hollywood?
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Athletic talent and cardiac-surgery can't be faked, mimicked, or [i]given[/i]. For Hollywood - its A) Beauty first, then B) Talent. Preferably a 75/25 mix.

RE Sport stars - WINNING is very different from profiting though. Serena's amazingly wealthy, but Maria Sharapova who couldn't win a game against her, is actually worth more. One guess why she got all of the endorsement deals while not winning anything - beauty and yes, I'm sure she had some interactions with some agents/managers who got her some [i]excellent[/i] deals. [/quote]

In Hollywood (and the like) it's beauty, talent and whatever little extras you might have thrown in to make you stand out from all of the thousands of other beautiful, talented people in show biz.

I'm sure that there are decent directors who don't expect sex in exchange for a role in their movie.  Audition for those directors.

Look at Taylor Swift - when a man grabbed her azz she called him out immediately and handed him his own azz in court.  Think he'll be grabbing anyone's azz anytime soon? lol.  No.

No, they shouldn't put up with this stuff.  But coming forward decades after the fact doesn't help anyone.

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Taylor Swift's father worked for Merrill Lynch and bankrolled her start-up to the tune $120,000 by purchasing a stake in the record label that signed her.

There is a big-big difference when you come from a position of power from the START. Her family's wealth protected her. She didn't have to go to a manager's casting couch or let a radio host paw her up without saying a word.

It's a similar case with Gwyneth Paltrow. She was born into Hollywood-royalty and when she was sexually propositioned by Harvey Weinstein - guess who stuck up for her? Her equally wealthy and influential boyfriend Brad Pitt. Most Hollywood women don't have lovers or family powerful enough to tell a man like Harvey Weinstein to f*ck off. He and generations of men before them make or break careers as Rose McGowan's history so aptly shows. 
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[b]If all you had to do was hand your kid 120K and they could become a top star in the music industry....wouldn't more parents be doing just that? [/b] Why the hell bother with VT engineering or med school if it was so danged easy?

Would I rather be one of the richest, hottest stars on the planet or....a podiatrist?  Tough call, right?[/quote]

No, because like that National Anthem thread so aptly shows - not every kid has the talent to make it. I'm sure those parents have spent around $5,000 shuffling that kid to auditions and stadiums and mall performances. By the time she's a teen she'll realize she isn't good enough for a contract. And even once you get the contract - its the rarified who make that into a career let alone a super-star one like Taylor Swift.

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O.k. then we can all agree that Taylor Swift is not where she is today because of her daddy's money.  She is where she is today because of her raw talent, hard work and determination.[/quote]

The PP brought up the point that TS is some amazing feminist for taking a radio host to court for pawing her. The point of the fact is that OTHER Hollywood women can't/didn't do the same with executive producers and managers because they weren't in the same position of power Taylor was in and has been from the start.

You think she had to take meetings alone with men at 2AM to get a gig? Hell no, her father owned part of the label. He had the power to make sure she was pushed, promoted, and booked. I applaud him for believing in her future career and Taylor for then doing the hard work to make it happen.

But don't act like she didn't come from a place of privilege to get there. If you want to see an example of women who tried to do the EXACT SAME thing as Taylor Swift and failed, read up on Ke$ha. [/quote]

There are plenty of powerful women in Hollywood who knew all about this crap, though, and watched while other, lesser known actresses got subjected to it.

I personally can not imagine watching a sweet, young woman much like Taylor Swift naively go into a room alone with the likes of Harvey...knowing what the expectation from him was going to be.

Makes me sort of ill to think about it actually.[/quote]

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