Hollywood pedophilia scandal.

[marylander1940]

It's not for you to believe in conspiracy theories but then you link to a thread on another website that is rife with conspiracy theories and fake news?

 

Can you please quote me so I know you're replying?

 

Can you please tell us which websites you consider reliable when it comes to this subject.

 

I just can't help post and quote to make sure yinz know where did I get my information.

[BabyBoomer]

Can you please quote me so I know you're replying?

 

 

PACK ATTACK !!!!

 

~Boomer~

[YoungAD]

...you don't contribute to this forum not even with pictures...

 

You're a child.

[marylander1940]

You're a child.

 

PACK ATTACK !!!!

 

~Boomer~

 

Damn, such a serious subject brings up your true colors.

[maninsoma]

Can you please quote me so I know you're replying?

 

Can you please tell us which websites you consider reliable when it comes to this subject.

 

I just can't help post and quote to make sure yinz know where did I get my information.

 

When I am looking for medical information, I tend to look at sites like webmd.com, not some person's blog who may simply have an axe to grind.

 

The same holds true with respect to news. Sure, different news sites are going to have their own biases in terms of reporting but I don't think any serious news site is going to publish stories about Podesta and Clinton being part of a child pedophile ring where children are being pimped out of a pizza parlor basement. That's the stuff of looney tune conspiracy theorists. Similarly that illuminati BS. That you would choose to link a blog where the participants are still ranting about "pizzagate" nearly a year after that fake news story appeared and was debunked in an attempt to support the idea that there are child sex predators is worrisome.

[+ Gar1eth]

I tend to think most people who do it don't openly brag, but they might leave clues, consciously or unconsciously.

 

And...although the accent here is on Hollywood (and you mention sports and priests as well), the other performing arts aren't immune either. There was a higher-up involved with the original production (and tour) of Les Miserables who ran a veritable casting couch for the younger men (meaning the college age guys - I'm not aware he ever went for the young boys playing Gavroche and god help him if he did). I don't know if this was 100% consistent in terms of casting results, but it was pretty common swept-under-the-rug knowledge that if you were cast as (or understudying) Marius, you were most probably doing sexual favors for this guy. I don't know why they let it go on for so long - except maybe the fact that the victims weren't underage made it seem different - even though it was still coercion.

I hope you aren't talking about a well-known gay British producer.

 

Gman

[bostonman]

I hope you aren't talking about a well-known gay British producer.

 

Nope. An American producer/director, who also was an actor early in his career. But mostly known for producing and directing, and being a record producer as well. Though no, he's not one of the big Broadway household names - but he'd certainly be known to anyone in the biz.

[marylander1940]

Awhile back, Corey Feldman made allegations that weren't listened to about powerful men in Hollywood who groped and raped boys and young men.

 

More recently, there was a denied and mostly hushed up scandal surrounding the director of the X-Men films, Bryan Singer.

 

I doubt Feldman was lying and there's a reasonable possibility that Singer really is a predator, it's just that no one wants to deal with it because any predation on boys and men brings up the memories of the homophobic canard that gay men are pedophiles and inherently predatory.

 

No, gay men are not pedophiles or inherently predatory, but masculinist culture encourages sexual predation and entitlement irrespective of the sexual orientation of the perpetrator or the gender of those targeted.

 

Finally someone serious posting about this subject!

[marylander1940]

I hope you aren't talking about a well-known gay British producer.

 

Gman

 

or Polanski.

[bostonman]

or Polanski.

 

Nope. Not a household name. But one certainly known to the Broadway community.

[jjkrkwood]

I cant believe you are all still talking about this. Its hardly a scandal anymore... Its been beaten to death from the time the "Corey's" brought it to light. Now its just Old and tired news....

[marylander1940]

Molly Ringwald Was Sexually Exploited When She Was 14 Years Old

 

She begins: "When I was thirteen, a fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection," she writes. "At fourteen, a married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set. At a time when I was trying to figure out what it meant to become a sexually viable young woman, at every turn some older guy tried to help speed up the process. And all this went on despite my having very protective parents who did their best to shield me. I shudder to think of what would have happened had I not had them."

 

https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/hollywood-pedophilia-scandal.114721/

 

Evan Rachel Wood: Hollywood’s Pedophilia Is ‘Next Dam to Break’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/evan-rachel-wood-hollywoods-pedophilia-is-next-dam-to-break

[marylander1940]

Barbara Walters wasn't sympathetic when Corey Feldman admitted abuse by Hollywood pedophiles

 

Barbara Walters was more concerned with Hollywood's reputation than Corey Feldman's allegations of sexual abuse against him as a child.

 

In a recently resurfaced "The View" interview from 2013, Walters shoots back at Feldman's story of pedophilia in the business, declaring, "You're damaging an entire industry."

 

"There are people that were the people that did this to both me and Corey (Haim) that are still working. They're still out there, and that are some of the richest most powerful people in this business," Feldman said.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/corey-feldman-talked-hollywood-abuse-barbara-walters-2013-article-1.3568826

[+ quoththeraven]

Barbara Walters thinks an adult woman having sex with her barely-teenage student and getting pregnant by him is romantic if they go on to marry later on, so I wouldn't judge by her, but there's a lot more hypocrisy about this subject in all directions than one might expect.

[OCClient]

Molly Ringwald Was Sexually Exploited When She Was 14 Years Old

 

She begins: "When I was thirteen, a fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection," she writes. "At fourteen, a married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set. At a time when I was trying to figure out what it meant to become a sexually viable young woman, at every turn some older guy tried to help speed up the process. And all this went on despite my having very protective parents who did their best to shield me. I shudder to think of what would have happened had I not had them."

 

https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/hollywood-pedophilia-scandal.114721/

 

Evan Rachel Wood: Hollywood’s Pedophilia Is ‘Next Dam to Break’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/evan-rachel-wood-hollywoods-pedophilia-is-next-dam-to-break

 

She (E.R. Wood) mentions Terry Crews.

 

What Terry Crews described is certainly awful, but it is not pedophilia. Can any of this vile behavior the thread is referring to really be called pedophilia? I mean, look it up.

 

I'm concerned how the discussion here and across the Internet continues to lend itself to haters and their ignorance that G@Y MAN = PEDOPHILE.

 

For context, looking at the Harvey Weinstein case, does the media run off and call him a pedophile for touching very young women? No, because they are women, not prepubescent children. Also, do people hit the alarm bell about letting straight men near teenage women? No they don't. Should they?

 

I get the sense that is where the dialogue ends up where it's gay men preying on young actors, that gay men are innately perverted in their behavior towards young men. Personally, I do not believe gay men are any different then straight men in that regard. Some behave badly. Most don't. I believe those kind of double standards end up as roadblocks to solutions, and perpetuate hatred against gay men as if they are somehow worse then straight men.

 

All of the jokes and sideways comments these young male performers try to laugh off (and now it seems much more than laughing about it), what all these young men have had to put up is terrible. We can't be surprised that all of these muted comments have represented a smoking gun of some terrible behavior that has been going on and has been ignored for fear of losing opportunities. This is not a good way to run an entertainment business, but sounds as though it has been part of it since forever.

 

I'm glad that E.R Wood brought it up. I just wish that the language was correct and free of double standards that harm us.

[marylander1940]

Barbara Walters thinks an adult woman having sex with her barely-teenage student and getting pregnant by him is romantic if they go on to marry later on, so I wouldn't judge by her, but there's a lot more hypocrisy about this subject in all directions than one might expect.

 

I've always wonder how the hell she got her job, now after the Harvey scandal I have an idea.

[+ quoththeraven]

She (E.R. Wood) mentions Terry Crews.

 

What Terry Crews described is certainly awful, but it is not pedophilia. Can any of this vile behavior the thread is referring to really be called pedophilia? I mean, look it up.

 

I'm concerned how the discussion here and across the Internet continues to lend itself to haters and their ignorance that G@Y MAN = PEDOPHILE.

 

For context, looking at the Harvey Weinstein case, does the media run off and call him a pedophile for touching very young women? No, because they are women, not prepubescent children. Also, do people hit the alarm bell about letting straight men near teenage women? No they don't. Should they?

 

I get the sense that is where the dialogue ends up where it's gay men preying on young actors, that gay men are innately perverted in their behavior towards young men. Personally, I do not believe gay men are any different then straight men in that regard. Some behave badly. Most don't. I believe those kind of double standards end up as roadblocks to solutions, and perpetuate hatred against gay men as if they are somehow worse then straight men.

 

All of the jokes and sideways comments these young male performers try to laugh off (and now it seems much more than laughing about it), what all these young men have had to put up is terrible. We can't be surprised that all of these muted comments have represented a smoking gun of some terrible behavior that has been going on and has been ignored for fear of losing opportunities. This is not a good way to run an entertainment business, but sounds as though it has been part of it since forever.

 

I'm glad that E.R Wood brought it up. I just wish that the language was correct and free of double standards that harm us.

Pretty sure I've seen allegations about Weinstein and actresses under the age of 18. Amber Tamblyn has said that actor James Woods hit on her when she was 16.

 

Irrespective of whether these constituted attempted statutory rape (age of consent in California is 18, but it's 16 or 17 in some states), I hope we can agree that's inappropriate behavior. Anyone under 18 isn't considered an adult. Though I agree that the term pedophilia is used incorrectly here, it's widely used to mean sex with underage (i.e., non-adult) individuals and not just its original meaning of sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

[+ quoththeraven]

I've always wonder how the hell she got her job, now after the Harvey scandal I have an idea.

I wouldn't go that far, and outside of this topic consider her a skilled interviewer, but she sure shows a shocking lack of judgment in this instance.

[OCClient]

Pretty sure I've seen allegations about Weinstein and actresses under the age of 18. Amber Tamblyn has said that actor James Woods hit on her when she was 16.

 

Irrespective of whether these constituted attempted statutory rape (age of consent in California is 18, but it's 16 or 17 in some states), I hope we can agree that's inappropriate behavior. Anyone under 18 isn't considered an adult. Though I agree that the term pedophilia is used incorrectly here, it's widely used to mean sex with underage (i.e., non-adult) individuals and not just its original meaning of sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

The behavior is certainly reprehensible, and is an awful way to run a business. I'm more than sad to realize how widespread this kind of behavior is. Entertainment industry. Political figures. Teachers. Clergy.

I just hope that double standards are avoided and the language is not colored by anti-gay stigma.

[Walker1]

This seems to be a thing among the rich and powerful. Weinstein, Trump, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby and probably John F Kennedy??

 

Not pedophilia, but just the numerous women.

[P Gren]

She (E.R. Wood) mentions Terry Crews.

 

What Terry Crews described is certainly awful, but it is not pedophilia. Can any of this vile behavior the thread is referring to really be called pedophilia? I mean, look it up.

 

I'm concerned how the discussion here and across the Internet continues to lend itself to haters and their ignorance that G@Y MAN = PEDOPHILE.

 

For context, looking at the Harvey Weinstein case, does the media run off and call him a pedophile for touching very young women? No, because they are women, not prepubescent children. Also, do people hit the alarm bell about letting straight men near teenage women? No they don't. Should they?

 

I get the sense that is where the dialogue ends up where it's gay men preying on young actors, that gay men are innately perverted in their behavior towards young men. Personally, I do not believe gay men are any different then straight men in that regard. Some behave badly. Most don't. I believe those kind of double standards end up as roadblocks to solutions, and perpetuate hatred against gay men as if they are somehow worse then straight men.

 

All of the jokes and sideways comments these young male performers try to laugh off (and now it seems much more than laughing about it), what all these young men have had to put up is terrible. We can't be surprised that all of these muted comments have represented a smoking gun of some terrible behavior that has been going on and has been ignored for fear of losing opportunities. This is not a good way to run an entertainment business, but sounds as though it has been part of it since forever.

 

I'm glad that E.R Wood brought it up. I just wish that the language was correct and free of double standards that harm us.

There has been a lot written lately about predatory behavior in the fashion world and what young women (and young men but not with the added size zero issue) face there.