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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why did these women agree to meet with him in his hotel room? Who does that? [/quote]

CAN YOU NOT BLAME VICTIMS [/quote]

I'm not blaming the victims...what Harvey did was wrong.

But what respectable woman takes a meeting in a man's hotel room? Befuddling. Meet in an office. Meet in a restaurant. [/quote]

You’ve got to be kidding me.  [/quote]

No, I'm not. No respectable woman would take a meeting in a man's hotel room. It puts him in a position of power. Smart women select the location and take control. [/quote]

1. He was a huge deal. There is no way these aspiring actresses could set the location. 
2.  I have a friend who works in the entertainment industry and is is very common practice to meet outside of the office in all sorts of places. 
3.  Did you know a lot official on campus recruiting interviews actually take place in hotel rooms? I guess if women at top business and law schools participate in that it's their fault if something happens?[/quote]

+1 all my law firm interviews were conducted in hotel rooms. Also if you truly think "Smart women select the location and take control" was a reasonable thing to say about this situation, you are not an intelligent person. Do you not understand the position of power and influence he was in? He called ALL the shots in terms of when / where / of such a meeting occurred. As an unknown aspiring 22 year old actress...you were "lucky" to even get a meeting with him, you would have been laughed (or maybe yelled...) out of town if you tried to come in and strongarm the logistics. How do you not get that?

Furthermore, if you read up it's pretty well-documented that he coerced them to his hotel room - he'd set up a meeting in the lobby or bar, then "forget" the script up there. He'd have the woman arrive at the hotel and the front desk would tell her last minute that actually, she needed to go up to his room to meet him. He'd have her invited to an industry party, and she'd arrive all dressed up and be led to...an empty hotel room. He was conniving and relentless and manipulative and knew exactly what he was doing. [/quote]

Any actress who was actually being considered for a legit role would have had her agent with her. All of these encounters were with aspiring actresses at the time...and I suppose they were desperate. This is classic casting couch behavior.

If he really wanted to meet with Suzy Aspring Actress about a legit role, he would have his male assistant call her agent. Picking her up in a club or at an industry party and inviting her back to his hotel? Red flag. Hopping in a limo with a bunch of men? Red flag.

"Call my agent."

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I think you're missing how extremely powerful this individual was in an UNREGULATED industry. No whislerblower protections or code of ethics. Reputation is everything, that's why Farrow highlighted the whisper campaigns that came out shortly after a woman refused/pushed back. [/quote]

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