Thoughts on Hollywood now.

[Gage]

The in thing to do now is claim the consensual sex you had back in the 70's and 80's with the boss when you were trying to move up was instead sexual assault and rape. I read a piece where a woman had sex with her boss 50 or 60 times back in the 70's and has come out now saying it was forced sex and how humiliated she felt and how degrading blah blah blah it was. Ok you had sex with the guy 60 times and claim it was so awful but you never told a soul about it and continued to let it happen? Not until she was fired for excessive absences did she come out with the rape allegations. The funny thing is I have worked with many women that used foul language, flirted with the hotter guys, and some even had sex with some of the them. We fired a woman and the men involved just recently that had been having sex at work, if it had of been a guy sleeping with the female employees, they would of lawyered up that same day and claimed rape and most would of believed their side of what happened. Women know 9 times out of 10 they will receive the sympathy and the benefit of the doubt and the man gets labeled a rapist. So its not just men doing all the alleged harassing.

[Fiannan]

So its not just men doing all the alleged harassing.

I knew a woman who was a photo model who finally quit because of being hit on by the female photographers. It worked the same way I guess; a promise of being able to have your portfolio given to just the right people if you become that woman's girlfriend.
Heard that gay males do the same in charge of plays, etc. And many of the male companions that are the "boy toys" are not even gay.

[Fiannan]

Well, since the term "Casting Couch" has existed since the rise of the film industry in the very early 20th Century, I think it's clear this is nothing new, and while there'll be a backlash of this for a while, time will come again when some pretty young thing will try to make her mark on the film world by offering things to executives she shouldn't, and they'll eventually start seeing these things as "part of the business" if one wants to get ahead.

Sadly true. Was speaking with a woman yesterday who is more into researching entertainment issues - a very feminist woman I might add, but not an SJW. She noted that women are more protected from harassment in the porn industry than in Hollywood. Sadly both industries have a symbiotic relationship to each other though. I would no more watch any of these entertainment galas on TV than I would watch any of the adult entertainment awards.

[eddie]

This is old news, has been going on for decades. Even Trump has participated in the cesspool. Seldom do the actors stay in a marriage.

The sad thing is the people are no better and accept it, and even vote for a President with the background. So what is different?

Really?

Somehow no matter what the news article is it always turns into Trump's fault again. We can do better.

Exactly, that's messed up.

[Dave62]

Hollywood. What can I say? The actors and acrtesses are paid exorbitant salaries to pretend to be some else for our titillation. They are empty shells. They are the children of fools. Their father is the father of lies. They revel in their own debauchery and everything has a price. They have no standards and are vacuous moral hypocrites. What is more, they make poor movies with formulaic themes and predictable plots. They have far too much of an over-reliance on special effects. Put simply, if a movies comes from Hollywood, I always think twice before expending oxygen and brain space watching it.

[Dave62]

And I've something else to say while I'm at it! I remember the moral outrage spewing out of Hollywood when Trump was elected. They were raging about how Trump was a dirty, smutty man (which he may well be, I don't care) and they declared they would leave the USA and go live in Canada. Well. they didn't and they are worse than Trump because they are hypocrites. There is a two word phrase in Australian English that suits Hollywood but I won't say it directly here in polite company. Indirectly, it is "pretentious *ankers" and the second word starts with a "w". There I feel better now...

[Benjamin_LK]

Harvey's just a scapegoat to distract us off the bigger picture. There are plenty more of his type out there. They pile on him to divert from their own issues being brought to light.

[Benjamin_LK]

A notorious adulterer saved the church among the Jaredites from annihilation. His name was Morianton. I know what Trump is, but it's still possible that he has concern about where society as a whole is heading.

[JohnnyL]

Harvey's just a scapegoat to distract us off the bigger picture. There are plenty more of his type out there. They pile on him to divert from their own issues being brought to light.

Harvey is small shrimp compared to others...