Is Time's Up going to continue to refrain from condemning Quentin Tarantino's casting of Emile Hirsch?
What about the fact that Mr. Hirsch's conviction was for strangling a woman, a crime for which Mr. Tarantino seems to have a fetish? Mr. Tarantino has strangled women in two separate movies with two separate actresses. When the articles about Mr. Tarantino's strangling fetish were published months ago, those actresses naively defended him, and now he has hired Mr. Hirsch, whose victim said choked her so forcefully that she felt the front of her throat touch the back of her throat.
Is it the plan of Time's Up to refrain from criticizing perpetrators of misconduct from the entertainment industry unless the accused are black (R. Kelly), not that high up the totem pole (James Franco), have a list of VIP accusers who have box office power, or haven't donated large quantities of money to Time's Up?
Is that the future of gender "equality" in Hollywood? Is that the "evolution," from nondisclosure agreements to nondisclosed sums to Time's Up from known, chronic perpetrators whose victims in the entertainment industry and other industries will mysteriously find that their requests for help receive polite letters of a few sentences expressing the regret of Time's Up that, due to so many people asking for help from all over the world, Time's Up cannot provide legal counsel or other assistance?
How many men whom Harvey Weinstein and others from the entertainment industry know to be harassers and rapists have donated money to Time's Up? Is that what he meant when he carried that book to the police station?
Send a check to Time's Up? Is that Hollywood's new Get Out of Jail Free card?
It won't only be the Get Out of Jail Free card for Hollywood, will it? It will be for all of the richest and most powerful people for every industry, everywhere, because the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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January 1, 2018:
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That statement is still at the first page of the Time's Up website.
Not that there aren't millions of women around the world who need help. Not that it isn't admirable that celebrities have talked about using their fame and money to help women in low-paying jobs improve their working conditions. However, I have worked in low-paying jobs my entire life, and, as I have said since 2010, I have never interacted with or even heard of people in developed countries who treat women as badly as the entire entertainment industry treats women.
The Time's Up Twitter is also full of Tweets by politicians and about politicians. It talks about making money. It talks about accruing power. It talks about film critics.
This is a picture of the Lily article; can anyone read it?
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This is not necessarily true:
When men are in power, that does not mean that they do not oppress other men. History has proven that.
When is the entertainment industry going to confront its own demons?
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