SINCE ACTOR ANTHONY RAPP CAME OUT WITH ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST KEVIN SPACEY, AT LEAST EIGHT MORE MEN HAVE COME
FORWARD.
THIS INCLUDES ACTOR HARRY DREYFUS WHO WAS THE SON OF
RICHARD DREYFUS.
THE NEIGHBORS FEED ESSAY HE DETAILED HIS EXPERIENCE OF BEING
GROPED BY SPACEY.
THIS IS A GREAT ESSAY AND A BRAVE ESSAY BY DREYFUS.
SINCE THIS ALLEGATION CAME OUT ALL THESE MEN HAVE COME OUT.
THIS PATTERN FROM SPACEY SEEMS TO DATE BACK DECADES.
I WILL WALK YOU THROUGH SOME OF THE TIMELINE OF THE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST KEVIN SPACEY SO WE CAN SEE HOW LONG THIS HAS BEEN
GOING
ON
AND THE PATTERN.
THESE STORIES GO ON AND ON.
WE COVERED LAST WEEK THAT MULTIPLE ANONYMOUS CAST AND CREW
MEMBERS OF THE SET OF HOUSING CARDS TO COME FORWARD ABOUT
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR.
THIS IS GOING UP UNTIL NOW FOR ALL THAT WE KNOW.
WE DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS GOING TO BE MORE ALLEGATIONS, BUT WHAT
SEEMS CLEAR IS THAT THIS WAS HAPPENING UNFORTUNATELY A LOT OF
PEOPLE KNEW THAT IT WAS HAPPENING, AND SPACEY
THOUGHT THAT HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE.
IN THIS ARTICLE BUT I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO READ ON BUZZ
FEED, HE DETAILS SPACEY'S AUDACITY IN DOING THIS WITH
HIS FATHER SITTING THERE.
THIS IS A COMMON THEME WITH ALL THESE MEN IN POWER WHO
PERPETRATE THIS.
THEY DO NOT THINK THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE TOUCHED.
AND FINALLY IT IS JUDGMENT DAY AND THESE MEN ARE COMING DOWN
ONE BY ONE.
>> I THINK THE STRIKING THING – I THINK YOU TOUCHED ON IT SO
WELL AT THE VERY END, THIS HARRY DREYFUS, THE SON OF RICHARD
DREYFUS, YOU SEE HOW HE IS CONFLICTED.
ON ONE HAND HE WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING AND DO SOMETHING BUT
ON THE OTHER HAND HE IS AWARE OF THE FACT AND CONSCIOUS OF THE
FACT THAT HIS FATHER DEPENDS ON THIS GUY, HE DEPENDS ON THIS
GUY, AND THERE IS A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP HE'S TRYING TO
PROTECT BECAUSE HE KNOWS IF HE MAKES TWO BIG DEAL OF THIS HE
COULD BE RUINED.
YOU SEE IN THAT THE SAME PROBLEM THAT WOMEN HAVE HAD WITH
ALL THESE POWERFUL MEN.
THEY WANT TO DO BUSINESS WITH THESE MEN, THEY WANT TO
ADVANCE IN THEIR CAREERS, THEY WANTED TO BE THE END.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN LITERALLY THREATENED WOMEN.
IT WAS BOTH IMPLIED AND EXPLICITLY STATED DON'T YOU
SEE NOW IN THIS MAN ON MAN TYPE SITUATION.
THE VERY SAME DYNAMIC WE SAW PLAYED OUT WITH THE
POWERFUL MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN.
>>
IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IT IS BECAUSE OF A POWER DYNAMIC.
OFTENTIMES WHEN THESE CASES HAPPEN IT IS I AM GOING TO
GO SEEK SEX THERAPY AND I AM GOING TO HELP MY SEX ADDICTION.
IT IS NOT ABOUT SEX, IT IS ABOUT A POWER DYNAMIC.
THERE IS A POWER DYNAMIC HERE THAT THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE
UNTOUCHABLE AND THINK THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT BECAUSE
THEY KNOW THAT THEY CAN EXERT SOME SORT OF CONTROL OVER THESE
PEOPLE'S CAREERS, AND ESPECIALLY IN A CAREER IN INDUSTRY LIKE
HOLLYWOOD WHERE YOU CAN BE BLACKBALLED.
>>BECAUSE IT IS ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS.
>> THEY ARE USING THE AND CAPITALIZING ON THAT.
>> ME BEING AN ACTRESS MYSELF, I CAN UNDERSTAND HOW WOMEN FELT
PROBABLY INTIMIDATED IN THAT MOMENT TO SAY WHAT DO I DO?
I
WANT THIS JOB, WHAT DO I DO?
DO I SAY SOMETHING BECAUSE IN THAT
WILL HURT ME IN MY CAREER.
WILL PEOPLE BE ON MY SIDE?
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE
COMING OUT.
THAT'S WHAT I THINK IT IS SUCH A BRAVE MOVE TO DO SO.
>> IN YOUR MEETINGS AND CASTINGS HAS OR EVER BEEN ANYTHING THAT
IS APPROACHED THE SORT OF WEIRD PLACE.
>> NOT TO THE EXTREME OF THAT, BUT SOMETIMES THERE IS A LITTLE
ROOM FOR SOME UNPROFESSIONALISM THAT I HAVE GONE HOME LIKE
DID THAT HAPPEN?
BUT NOTHING TO THAT EXTREME AT ALL.
FORTUNATELY I HAVE NOT HAD MANY ISSUES IN THAT DEPARTMENT.
>> HONESTLY YOU ARE USING THE RIGHT WORD THERE.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN HAVE
EXPERIENCED – WE ARE SEEING ADDITIONALLY YOUNG BOYS, I
BELIEVE IT IS ONE IN SIX BOYS WILL BE SEXUALLY ABUSED BEFORE
THEY ARE AT 18.
THIS IS HAPPENING.
AND IT IS ABOUT GETTING – HAVING CONSEQUENCES FOR ACTIONS.
NOW THE PEOPLE SEE THAT THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES – YOU WILL LOSE
YOUR JOB, YOUR COMPANY, YOUR ENTIRE LIFE BECAUSE OF THESE
SORTS OF ACTIONS.
WERE PREVIOUSLY IF THERE WERE RUMORS, IT WAS WHATEVER IT
WAS CONSENSUAL.
BUT NOW IT SEEMS TO BE PROFITABLE AND IT SEEMS TO BE IN
THE BEST INTEREST OF THESE COMPANIES TO COMPLETELY
DISASSOCIATE WITH THESE CHARACTERS WHICH I THINK IS A
REALLY GOOD SHIFT IN OUR CULTURE AND SO WE ARE SEEING THAT
WITH KEVIN SPACEY.
EVERYONE IS CUTTING TIES WITH HIM FROM NETFLIX TO THE
THEATER HE WORKED OUT.
I HOPE THAT OTHER MEN LOOK AT THIS CONSEQUENCE AND
RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS NOT OKAY.
EACH AND TAKE CONSEQUENCES TO KNOW THAT.
>>BUT IN THE PAST THEY PROTECTED THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF MONEY.
THAT WAS THE ONLY REASON.
KEVIN SPACEY WAS PROFITABLE.
WEINSTEIN, SAME STORY.
NOW PERHAPS AS THEY SEE THEMSELVES VULNERABLE FROM
A PROFIT STANDPOINT, THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE.
>> MONEY IS THE DRIVER IN THIS CASE AND AT THIS POINT IN
TIME MONEY IS ON OUR SIDE.