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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think Amanda Palmer is getting enough hate on this thread. She not only served him up vulnerable young women, she was also complicit in making them vulnerable. I was so angry that nanny wasn’t paid until months later. She had no support system and no money- the power differential there [b]would make it very difficult for her to say no. [/b]

Amanda Palmer also love bombed fans to get them to do her favors and often didn’t pay. While people were probably excited by her fame, it’s a shitty thing to do. That pales in comparison to some of the other allegations. [/quote]

DP.  I don't really understand this.  We've never had a nanny but we've had house cleaners and babysitters, and I have worked before as a babysitter.  Sex has never been a part of any of it.  This woman made a decision to say yes.  There's a lot of pretending that the nanny was young and somehow had sex with her boss by accident or unavoidably.  Such a strange take.[/quote]

Do you not understand how power dynamics work? There is a reason that pressuring employees to have sex is immoral. The nanny was otherwise unemployed and homeless. She was estranged from her family. They hadn’t been paying her, so she had no money. That’s very different from most babysitting situations.

Also, from my reading of the story, there were situations where he did physically force women, painfully. [/quote]

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