Our betters, those fine Hollywood types who are forever going on about how enlightened they are, how tolerant and diverse and whatnot they are, and how those of us in flyover country – you know, the little people, the deplorables, the unenlightened – should leave our backwards ways and be more like them… it seems they have themselves a bit of a problem:
Andy Dick Fired From Movie Over Sexual Harassment Claims
Jeremy Piven accused of sexual assault on set of ‘Entourage’ by actress Ariane Bellamar
Kevin Spacey: More allegations of sexual harassment surface
NPR’s top editor placed on leave after accusations of sexual harassment
Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual harassment
‘Sex and the City’ heartthrob was ‘a piece of meat’ for Hollywood execs
Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct
… and so on.
On a surface level a lot of this just simply doesn’t make sense: if you are rich and famous (at least, if you’re rich), you don’t need to use force to obtain sex. You can just easily pay for it. But it seems to me that a whole lot of this seems to be less about the actual sex and more about the exercise of *power.* That’s certainly what it seems to have been with Weinstein.
But here’s the thing: the infotainment industry seems to have more than its share of this problem right now, which would seem to indicate that it has more than its share of people who are in it for the *power.* Which should, I would hope, inform public opinion about the wisdom of listening to these people when they start yammering on about political issues. Couple their excess in preverion, their lust for power and the fact that they live in a world of make-believe and fantasy, and you’d think that people would be smart enough to not ever listen to them.
