I’m really enjoying Candace Owens’ series on Harvey Weinstein. At least in the first three episodes that I’ve watched, Candace blessedly keeps her commentary to a minimum and simply reads court testimony and evidence.
The women of whose rapes Weinstein was convicted pursued him aggressively both before and for years after the alleged rapes. They sent him unsolicited, lovingly worded messages, addressed him with loving names, and kept suggesting going out for dates. One “rape victim” wanted to introduce his mother to Weinstein and reached out to come over and get moral support for a breakup. All this after the alleged rape.
Weinstein is a scumbag. I despise people like him. But he couldn’t have raped anybody much after 1991 because, as one of the “rape victims” wrote to a friend, he didn’t have much by way of a penis after a flesh-eating infection and subsequent surgery in the 1990s. While describing the encounter with Weinstein’s non-penis in a letter to a friend, this victim didn’t even hint at anything non-consensual leading to that knowledge.
One of the “victims” claimed that Weinstein raped her for 5 years. In every of these “rapes”, she sought him out. All this is documented extensively in the “victims'” emails and text messages the “victims” themselves provided.
Of course, only a total scumbag would accept sexual favors from these women, knowing that they were prostituting themselves for jobs. But putting Weinstein in jail for rape with a 20+ -year term is shocking.
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I find this weird too, but over the past decade, therapeutic language has been used so aggressively to defend this kind of behavior that expressing even mild skepticism makes you feel like a criminal. You hear things like “this is a trauma response,” or “everyone reacts differently to trauma, so you can’t judge how women behave toward their abusers.” Remember mattress girl?
It shuts down any real discussion and ironically reinforces some of the worst stereotypes about women: irrational, emotionally volatile, lacking agency.
Also, remember Casey Anthony? Accused of killing her toddler. Promoted nightclub events and entered a swimsuit contest while her toddler was missing. Feminists at that time defended this behavior as a trauma response. If everything is a trauma response, nothing is a trauma response.
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One of those “victims” pursued him for half a decade with the tenacity of a pitbull in heat. There has to be a cutoff at least after some years of pursuit. Let’s day three years or five but for God’s sake, let’s all decide that there’s a limit beyond which rape accusations are not accepted.
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“Believe all women” was such an insane slogan. It ends up dehumanizing women by implying they’re somehow incapable of lying, manipulating, or responding to incentives like everyone else!
Everybody knows there’s a casting couch in hollywood and the actresses condemning it now most likely benefited from this system in the past. Now that they’re older and not as marketable, they resent younger, hungrier versions of themselves doing the same.
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Interesting. I didn’t know any of that.
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