Just for the Record

My anger surrounding the whole Weinstein thing hasn’t been directed at people for what they did or didn’t do in the past. It’s directed at those who, even now, seem to need to check with their publicist and agent before supporting the women who are speaking out.
However, I also don’t buy the notion that because he was incredibly powerful there was nothing that anyone could do. When he was born, the doctor didn’t hold him up, smack him on the behind and say, “It’s a powerful Hollywood producer!” He was made. Made by hundreds of people who decided gradually, incrementally, as his power and his offenses grew, that his abuse of the vulnerable was a price they were willing to pay if they could hitch themselves to his star.
Is he alone? Of course not. But he’s the one being brought down right now. So, he’s the one we focus on right now. And one way that some of those enablers could expiate their guilt would be to stand up and form a protective phalanx around those who are coming forward. Own your enabling, and now enable a different, better kind of culture, one mea culpa at a time.