Not pressed on what she’d done

Here we foolishly thought Harvey Weinstein was at fault for three decades of (allegedly) sexually harassing and assaulting women, but it turns out it was Emma Thompson’s fault for not stopping him.

https://twitter.com/montie/status/918597392227880961

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4 responses to “Not pressed on what she’d done”

  1. tiggerthewing Avatar
    tiggerthewing

    “If it was wrong, Mother should have stopped me.”

  2. iknklast Avatar

    But what was Emma Thompson WEARING while this was going on? If we don’t know what she was wearing, her opinion is irrelevant, right?

    These people disgust me.

  3. John the Drunkard Avatar
    John the Drunkard

    She took more action than 99% did. But, like others, she took it at the level of the specific things she’d witnessed. Each victim, and each witness, saw only what they saw. Even they didn’t or couldn’t see the pattern.

    With rapists, stalkers, abusers etc., past conduct really is a major thing to investigate. That’s how ‘he said-she said’ is broken through.

  4. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    “Remember that every time a man commits a violent act it only takes one or two steps to figure out how it’s a woman’s fault, and that these dance steps are widely known and practiced and quite a bit of fun. There are things men do that are the fault of women who are too sexy, and other things men do that are the fault of women who are not sexy enough, but women only come in those two flavors: not enough, too much, and it is the fate of heterosexual men to endure this affliction. Wives are responsible for their husbands, especially if their husbands are supremely powerful and terrifying figures leading double lives and accountable to no one. But women are now also in the workforce, where they have so many opportunities to be responsible for other men as well.” — Rebecca Solnit