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Post by MiketheMechanic on Dec 10, 2017 14:35:19 GMT
I think its important to make something clear... I DONT feel sorry for Weinstein. He abused his power and he deserves what he's getting. What I am trying to express is surprise at how quickly people that expressed adoration for him threw him under the bus when the tides changed. To be perfectly clear I do believe the people coming out against him and I do believe that people who have gone through such experiences should come out and should be taken seriously. I just wish that more than rumor and accusation was part of the equation too. In many of these cases there's nothing more than an accusation and an entire life is destroyed. While the one side needs to be seriously taken into consideration, so does the other angle too. What if a person is accused is actually innocent? In this climate the accused has NO recourse. And that's not fair either. Who's life is destroyed though and by what measure or means? Just because someone claims they were abused or harassed, doesn't mean they are internally destroyed. I don't disbelieve the claims either, but grown up intelligent women with their own agenda and tools— which is sex, regarding men—knew what they wanted and what they were doing at the time. We live in a society that makes assumptions, presumptions about how others are feeling, or project our own insecurities onto them to make them think they "should" be feeling a certain way. Isn't that self-absorbed? People will deal with their own pain in their own way and they also have their own agendas. In Hollywood, which is an actor's playground and full of narcissism and ego, mightn't it just be possible that some of these so-called destroyed feelings are make-believe also? I don't think that every single person who has made allegations has been destroyed to the point that they can no longer function on a daily basis. However, as everyone is different and internalizes each situation differently, each person that has made allegations had to go through some emotional turmoil. It couldn't have been easy to be kept quiet, especially, in some cases, for an extended period of time. |
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