Don’t you just love Hollywood actors? The hypocrites who preach to use common folk from their gated secure ivory towers. From preaching to us who we should vote for to telling their audience why they are not really that smart. And blaming online trolls for their own stupidity on social media. Not to mention treating fans of well-established franchises like garbage at every opportunity you get. And acting like douchebags and self-entitled assholes at every given opportunity. But when it comes to sexual predators and harassers in their own ranks, they are extremely slow to wag that finger of morality when it is one of their own. Even going as far as covering it up and keeping it away from the mainstream media.
Hollywood’s sexual abuse problem stretches back decades and thinking that these actors both male and female not to mention industry veterans were aware of this. And it would be the purest form of naivety possible to assume they did not.This is why I am struggling to feel sympathy for the #MeToo movement and the successful women involved, who only start this movement after all the Hollywood abuse revelations that happened in 2017. Why only now? I tell you why they knew about people like Harvey Weinstein for years and allowed woman fresh in the industry like lambs to the slaughter to be sexually abused by people like Harvey. They were far more concerned with their fame and the money that goes along with it to worry about silly things like morality.
People like Oprah Winfrey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, and many other celebrities knew about this and yet decided to stay silent about it. Only after the fact and the reveal by the media did these “brave” individuals decide to step out and call out people inside their own industry. So were where these brave individuals and this new movement when it happened? This has nothing to do with bravery and everything to do with self-interest on the part of these Hollywood actors, they saw the media shit storm approaching and knew they would face a backlash. So the best course of action for them was pleaded ignorance and start a vapid shallow movement like #MeToo and make it big at the Golden Globes. Deflecting all criticism away from them in the process.
The irony in this is we got to see some amazing hypocrisy on display by these people and the movement. Adam Carolla has the best saying for this situation: “Stupid or Lying” Either they knew nothing about people like Weinstein and they are completely stupid or they are just lying their asses off to save themselves. These are the only two possible answers. I’ll take the later when it comes to these people. The entertainment industry seems to be riddled with sexual predators and everyone involved seems to just let it go. Jimmy Saville, Gary Glitter, Bill Cosby and Polanski are just the tip of the iceberg. And yet they seem to be unphased by this sleeping like angels in their ivory towers each night.
[Editorial Note:] Don’t let the moral posturing of Hollywood fool you. They absolutely knew for a fact what people like Harvey Weinstein was doing and, to protect themselves, they didn’t say anything. They aren’t really outraged at what he did to those women. They are scared because he got caught.