So, hopefully this isn't a "too soon" moment
and I don't mess up what I'm trying to say...
As yet, I haven't heard anyone except Donna Karan talk about how these women "deserved it", or were whores, or almost anything other than extremely supportive to the victims.
I mean, is there
ever a workplace scenario where it's ok to masturbate in front of a prospective employee without repercussions? (that's rhetorical...if there is, I don't want to hear about it).
In that case, why didn't, for instance, Gwyneth Paltrow come out against getting molested back in 199X? Or have her boyfriend Brad Pitt call the guy out? Why didn't Angelina Jolie talk about her assault when it happened (or soon after)? I mean, in 2001 she was an Oscar winner, the daughter of a long-time actor and making bad-ass Lara Croft movies. If anyone would've been bulletproof, I'd imagine, it'd be her. Rose McGowan (she of the "DEPLORABLE" tweets to Donna Karan)
took $100k in a settlement in 1997 instead of turning him in. I'm glad she had some level of satisfaction, but if this dude had been outed publicly in 1997 how many of these other assaults wouldn't have happened? A bunch of women were molested and assaulted (or just had to deal with vileness) partially because no one came forward to denounce this guy.
And those that did, stuff like this happened:
Daily Beast said:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-nypds-sting-on-harvey-weinstein
At the prospect of her now figuring as the victim in a case against a high-profile figure such as Harvey Weinstein, the DA’s office seemed to hesitate. The DA’s office asked the SVU questions and the SVU answered them and the DA’s office asked more questions that the SVU also answered.
“They knocked it around about a week, back and forth,” the NYPD commander says. The DA’s office finally reached an official determination, following what a spokesman rightly described as “a thorough investigation.” After analyzing the available evidence, including multiple interviews with both parties, a criminal charge is not supported,” the spokeswoman announced.
The NYPD commander offers a different analysis based on long experience.“When you say no after a week, it’s not usually over the facts,” he suggests.
Well, NY Daily news may know why it was "no" after a week:
NYDN said:
Shortly after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. declined to pursue sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein in 2015, the producer’s lawyer allegedly donated $10,000 to the DA’s office.
I have two little girls. I pray they are never in a situation these victims went through. But I am pretty sure I would not be sympathetic if a predator was able to assault my daughter because someone else he molested took 100k to shut up about it, or didn't want to risk losing a prospective job over it. I have read enough to logically understand (I know I can never "understand") how in the past a rape victim may not have wanted to come forward due to shame, or being accused of asking for it, or in fear of physical retaliation from the abuser?
At what point does someone who took 100k to shut up become an enabler?