A few thoughts about the Harvey Weinstein scandal...

Harvey Weinstein. Washington Post/AP.

As you are surely aware of by now, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is involved in a major sexual harassment scandal. The story originally broke in the New York Times and detailed how Weinstein reportedly sexually harassed multiple actresses and other women including Ashley Judd and how he had settled multiple lawsuits. 

Now, Weinstein has been fired from his own production company. The Weinstein Company has fired Weinstein because of his behavior. He had previously taken a leave of absence, perhaps hoping the scandal would not last on the headlines. The scandal did not go away. 

So why care about this at all? Well I think it just goes to show that Hollywood really is a disgusting hellhole of degeneracy and evil. We have all heard rumors of the casting couch and even before this scandal broke, it was fairly common knowledge that Weinstein was scum. There are so many pictures of him touching and manhandling actresses that it was already a major joke that he was attacking them. There is a very famous series of photos where Weinstein is with Emma Watson and she looks terrified... 

Hell, considering the rumors we have all heard about Hollywood, it's fairly surprising that what took Weinstein down was a fairly minor sexual harassment scandal. That's not to downplay what he did, but there are really much worse rumors about Hollywood. There are major allegations of sexual misconduct against kids and rape. People like Corey Feldman and Elijah Wood claim that pedophilia is common. In comparison to that, what Weinstein did was fairly minor. 

I was fairly disgusted with how Weinstein reacted to this. Though he did release a statement saying he was sorry for what he did, he immediately tried to deflect attention by attacking both Donald Trump and the NRA. This is a classic distraction tactic and it is pretty clear that it didn't work. Even among the news media, Weinstein's remarks were condemned as a fairly obvious attempt to regain the good graces of Hollywood. 

Speaking of Hollywood, I am not buying the outrage against Weinstein. His actions were long tolerated by the elites there and even the victims didn't complain because he was so powerful. People didn't care how he treated women because he raked in the cash and Oscars. They didn't care that he harassed women because he made so much money. Even the victims didn't come forward because they knew that he was powerful enough to blacklist them if they went public. 

But that started to change. Hollywood has long faced a downturn in revenues due to lower ticket sales and ballooning costs and Weinstein's films in particular weren't making any money. Hell, I don't even think that this was even because he sexually harassed women. It's because he wasn't making money and people wanted him gone. With his power mostly gone, it was fairly easy to take him down. 

I do have to say that behavior like Weinstein's goes a lot to explaining why so many women in Hollywood are raging feminists. I don't think it is a coincidence that Ashley Judd was sexually harassed by Weinstein and is now a far left feminist. To be air, it's not surprising that women who are harassed this way would latch onto an ideology that rejects this behavior...