Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo/sexual misconduct scandals

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So it seems loads of women are coming out with their accounts of HW assaulting them now.
They didn't speak out before.
I still find the silence on what must be scores of other abusers deafening.

Why not all speak out now about any abuse and not just HW.

Why, despite the accounts from affected women over how they were ignored or discredited or punished for speaking up, do you persist in suggesting that it is the "women of hollywood" who are more to blame, rather than the men of hollywood who typically have more power and influence? Is it impossible for a man to be guilty of inaction or actively covering up systemic abuse?

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Nobody is saying it their fault because they re women. But you are saying they are innocent because they are women. It actually applies to both sexes.
If someone had of tried to abuse a man and he looked on at the steady supply of even younger potential and eventually victims going through the door of the abuser and only spoke up AFTER they had all been abused he would be savaged here.
Look even Seth McFarlane is getting worse abuse than anyone else who didn't speak up that they knew about it. And he only had second hand info.
You have a duty whether you are make or female to help stop abuse even if you survived it yourself. If you care more about your career than the next naive kid you watch walk through that door then you are to blame front and center.
So man or woman. Speak up and prevent the next persons abuse.

The ones who spoke up were doing the right thing. The ones who left them speaking in their own, because they might get punished career wise are just scum. They enabled him and left the others who were doing the right thing out to burn.

Being a victim of sexual assault or rape is hard enough without someone mounting a high horse and telling you via the internet that you have a responsibility to confront your attacker, especially in a society that routinely ignores sexual assault as a serious crime and is so bad at dealing with it that at best maybe a fifth of rapes or sexual assaults even get reported, much less adequately investigated, and far fewer lead to a conviction after a trial. (See this recent news story for just one depressing example of the sort of fear that every rape & sexual assault survivor has about reporting their attacker.)

The men who knew about it and didn't do anything are more responsible than the women, because we are in a society where being a white man automatically confers upon you more credibility, authority, influence and power than any other gender and ethnicity combination. So they had a greater ability to act, which makes their inaction more egregious.

Imagine you're a woman who has found herself victim of a sexual assault or rape, who talks in confidence to a male friend about it, and that friend says something like "I'll talk to him about it" or "I told him to stop doing that", rather than "we need to go to the police and I will unambiguously support you". Even if you believe that you, in that position, would be a Tireless Pursuer of Justice (and somehow had the legal and financial resources required to do so without immediteately being sued into oblivion), to insist that every woman in Hollywood, regardless of how they may have been personally affected by what happened to them, should just shrug it off and put themselves at personal risk (while male colleagues of an alleged serial rapist and sexual attacker do nothing of consequence to stop him) is at best a very naive assertion that ignores the realities of systemic inequality and the psychological impact of assault upon the victim.