Go to Villagebet.com.au for free horse racing tips - Click here now
Forum Home Forum Home > Community - Public Forums > General
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Harvey Weinstein
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login


Thoroughbred Village Home Page. For village news, follow @TBVillage on Twitter. For horseracing tips, follow @Villagebet on Twitter. To contact the Mayor by email: Click Here.


Harvey Weinstein

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123 17>
Author
Message
Passing Through View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 09 Jan 2013
Location: At home
Status: Offline
Points: 79533
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Passing Through Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Harvey Weinstein
    Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 9:26am
As he is being discussed in multiple threads and the scandal around him is growing fast and expanding to other people, and I think will follow to other areas including business and sport, it feels like a change is coming, so it might be worth a thread of it's own. Huge social issue waiting to explode


Has anyone fallen faster than Harvey Weinstein?

One might say it’s among the most stunning falls from grace Hollywood has ever seen, but the word “grace” has rarely been used where Harvey Weinstein is concerned.

In less than a week, the mounting scandal over allegations of sexual harassment and assault has rapidly consumed the once-powerful film mogul — and the entertainment industry as a whole. With fresh accusations against Weinstein continuing to emerge after stories involving stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie broke in the New York Times and the New Yorker, organizations and individuals across Hollywood and in politics are scrambling to distance themselves from him, while large and uncomfortable questions are arising about what the scandal reveals about the culture of Hollywood.

Since the first New York Times story appeared last Thursday, Weinstein — a man who for decades was renowned for his ability to mint award-winning hits like “Pulp Fiction,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The King’s Speech” and whose films have racked up more than 300 Oscar nominations — has become a pariah. more....


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-harvey-weinstein-collapse-20171011-story.html

Back to Top
oneonesit View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 06 Aug 2012
Status: Offline
Points: 36892
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote oneonesit Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 9:47am
Just read the list of women who have come out against this fellow & the brief story each are saying about him. Amazing how many are saying the same thing - that they were invited back to his hotel room & on arrival he was there waiting in a bath robe. Umm - hello - why would you go into the room then ladies ? Anyway, fortunately ALL seemed to get away from the fellow before any real harm was done. Not sure about the "huge social issues waiting to explode" though PT. Deary me !
Refer ALP Election Promises
Back to Top
Passing Through View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 09 Jan 2013
Location: At home
Status: Offline
Points: 79533
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Passing Through Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 9:56am
Dozens of women so far, several rape accusations, at least a dozen paid off, at least two police and prosecutorial investigations silenced. 

Powerful people abusing that power to sexually assault women whose entire career might live or die on the next decision they make is a big deal. 

Other names are coming out now, including a leading actor apologising in advance, and another well known abuser being named. No wonder he begged for and was granted Russian citizenship last year. They dont extradite 
 
Back to Top
Tlazolteotl View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 02 Oct 2012
Location: Elephant Butte
Status: Offline
Points: 31290
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tlazolteotl Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:00am
A lot of enablers. Famous women who were groped early on in their career by Weinstein, chose not to work with him again, but said nothing publicly.
Back to Top
Passing Through View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 09 Jan 2013
Location: At home
Status: Offline
Points: 79533
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Passing Through Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:02am
There are always enablers and apologists involved with so much at stake for everyone involved All are as guilty as the the abuser. 
Back to Top
oneonesit View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 06 Aug 2012
Status: Offline
Points: 36892
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote oneonesit Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:05am
Well I just hope this "social adjustment" does not lead to a lot more unattractive women in movies. Hang the bugger if so !
Refer ALP Election Promises
Back to Top
oneonesit View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 06 Aug 2012
Status: Offline
Points: 36892
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote oneonesit Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:08am
This stuff has been around since pussy was a kitten. Since when do people in a position of power not try to use it to feed their "fetishes". If they get caught out - so be it. However its never going to "REALLY" change how things are done....esp in the movie world !
Refer ALP Election Promises
Back to Top
djebel View Drop Down
Premium
Premium
Avatar

Joined: 07 Mar 2007
Status: Offline
Points: 53960
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote djebel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:28am
The good old casting couch.

reductio ad absurdum
Back to Top
acacia alba View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Oct 2010
Location: Hunter Valley
Status: Offline
Points: 41241
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote acacia alba Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:42am
I am amazed that a father or husband didnt smash his face in years ago.
How could so so many women stay silent for so long ???Cry
animals before people.
Back to Top
Gay3 View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group


Joined: 19 Feb 2007
Location: Miners Rest
Status: Offline
Points: 51818
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gay3 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 11:38am
For the same reason stable staff stay silent; they won't risk black listing Unhappy
Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!
Back to Top
ExceedAndExcel View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Status: Offline
Points: 16226
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote ExceedAndExcel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 11:41am
Originally posted by Gay3 Gay3 wrote:

For the same reason stable staff stay silent; they won't risk black listing Unhappy



This is exactly right. Same thing happens everywhere. To speak out without several others doing so at the same time is to confine your career to the scrap heap.
Back to Top
djebel View Drop Down
Premium
Premium
Avatar

Joined: 07 Mar 2007
Status: Offline
Points: 53960
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote djebel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 1:13pm
Image result
reductio ad absurdum
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 1:24pm
Amusing to read that actor Ben Affleck, who was highly critical of Weinstein, now has women coming out accusing him of groping them. It's all phoney in Hollywood.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 2:52pm
There must be some Hollywood starlets who worked with Weinstein, who didn't have the "moves" put on them. I wonder what they are thinking
about that.
Back to Top
maccamax View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 19 Jun 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 41473
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote maccamax Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 3:38pm
One said she rebuffed his sexual advances 3 times of the 5.

     The Usual , wait 20 years then have a breakdown for a dollar.

Boys will be boys.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 3:47pm
It has been rampant in Hollywood, forever. The women are largely cast because they are attractive specimens. The people who decide who is cast, are in a powerful position, and take advantage of it. Marilyn Monroe said she spent a lot of time on her knees, getting the roles she played.
Back to Top
JudgeHolden View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 16 Apr 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 11716
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JudgeHolden Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 4:02pm
Insecure little men with huge egos and no self control. Not just Hollywood, they’re everywhere.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 4:17pm
One of the catches inherent in making your fortune out of sex appeal.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 4:23pm
....an ole Harvey Wallbanger denies all accusations, "unequivocally". I can only laugh at Hollywood and its movies, I lost interest long ago.
Back to Top
JudgeHolden View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 16 Apr 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 11716
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JudgeHolden Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 4:24pm
Not all women who are sexually harassed in the workplace are “ trying to make a fortune out of their sex appeal”. Even in Hollywood they don’t deserve to be subjected to this sort of predatory behaviour. No ifs no buts, it’s just plain wrong.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 4:34pm
If you fear ostracization from an industry for reporting assault, find another industry, I would say.
Back to Top
JudgeHolden View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 16 Apr 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 11716
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JudgeHolden Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 4:40pm
Of course it would be much better if you didn’t have to report anything in the first place

Egregious victim blaming right there.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 4:47pm
If everyone reported it, that would stop it. They don't, because they consider the potential gain from silence outweighs the insult/indignity they endured.
Back to Top
JudgeHolden View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 16 Apr 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 11716
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JudgeHolden Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 7:40pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

If everyone reported it, that would stop it. They don't, because they consider the potential gain from silence outweighs the insult/indignity they endured.

You wouldn't need to stop it if it didn't start. Not being a sexual predator is not too high a of a demand to place on someone, I wouldn't have thought. Failure to report it is considerably the lesser of two evils, by any reasonable measure.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 7:44pm
If no-one reported crime, do you think it increases ? No-brainer ! These women submit because they see a big earn at stake.
Back to Top
JudgeHolden View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 16 Apr 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 11716
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JudgeHolden Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 7:55pm
You keep repeating yourself. If a victim doesn't report a crime they are still the victim. The perpetrator is still the perpetrator. There is a an enormous chasm in culpability here.
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 7:58pm
I keep repeating myself because it is the truth. Non-reportage of crime is itself a crime in many cases.
Back to Top
JudgeHolden View Drop Down
Champion
Champion


Joined: 16 Apr 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 11716
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JudgeHolden Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 8:02pm
This is a pathetic attempt at rationalisation on your behalf. There is simply no equivalence between the actions of Weinstein and those of his victims. 
Back to Top
max manewer View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 32947
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote max manewer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 8:07pm
The silence of the victims, who are seemingly a victim of their ambitions as much as anything, just keeps it rolling.
Back to Top
oneonesit View Drop Down
Champion
Champion
Avatar

Joined: 06 Aug 2012
Status: Offline
Points: 36892
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote oneonesit Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 8:07pm
I would have thought sexual predatory behaviour was almost hard wired into most males. A matter of degrees of self control I would have thought !
Refer ALP Election Promises
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123 17>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 12.05
Copyright ©2001-2022 Web Wiz Ltd.

This page was generated in 0.078 seconds.