{"id":8042,"date":"2018-01-07T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2024-01-29T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T14:09:38","slug":"the-danielle-metz-show-008-the-ins-and-outs-of-harvey-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8042","title":{"rendered":"The Danielle Metz Show – 008 – The ins and outs of Harvey Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harvey

Once you have a phenomenon like the “Weinstein Effect”<\/strong> named after you, it\u2019s pretty obvious that the phenomenon itself is not about you. It\u2019s about a pattern, in this case a social pattern exhibiting itself in the society of the rich and famous. Even Donald Trump is being accused of suffering from the Weinstein effect.<\/p>\n

As described by Wikipedia: \u201cThe Weinstein effect is a global trend in which people come forward to accuse famous or powerful people, mostly men, of sexual misconduct.<\/strong> The term came into use to describe a worldwide wave of these allegations that began in the United States in October 2017, when media outlets reported on numerous sexual abuse allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein. Described as a \u2018tipping point\u2019 or \u2018watershed moment\u2019, it precipitated a \u2018national reckoning\u2019 against sexual harassment. USA Today wrote that 2017 was the year in which \u2018sexual harassment became a fireable offense\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

What makes many of the sex scandal stories surfacing in the media suspicious are many of the other factors at play that get no air play. <\/p>\n

Most significantly, since when are \u201csexual assault,\u201d \u201cinappropriate behavior,\u201d \u201cmisconduct\u201d and \u201crape\u201d all considered equally serious? These are extraordinarily different acts, and the failure to distinguish clearly between has many negative consequences.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

As warned by Ross Douthat in Dec 6\/17\u2019s National Post, \u201cwe\u2019re on a path to criminalizing normal relations between the sexes. In the New Yorker, Masha Gessen warned about a \u2018sex panic\u2019 that might \u2018criminalize bad sex and trivialize rape.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Absolutely so. Failing to create and maintain the necessary distinction between \u201cinappropriate\u201d behavior and criminal behavior (physical coercion that obviates consent) is an affront to both justice and to the victims of true criminal acts.<\/p>\n

To add fuel to the fires of the Weinstein Effect, our public \u201csex educators\u201d indoctrinate young students about gender issues, sex techniques (including masturbation) and other matters related to procreation and the sex act, while appropriate and innocent relationships between children of the opposite sex is forbidden.<\/p>\n

Many schools have adopted \u201cno hugging no touching\u201d policies for children in elementary schools, going so far as to not permit the word \u201cgirlfriend\u201d to be used by young boys in describing their own relationships with their friends of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n

These and many other considerations go lacking in the daily media barrage of \u201csexual misconduct allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

When all we ever know is one side in the Hollywood allegations, it\u2019s refreshing to hear Danielle and Robert look and some of the other ins and outs of the Weinstein Effect in a way that creates a perspective closer to being Just Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once you have a phenomenon like the “Weinstein Effect” named after you, it\u2019s pretty obvious that the phenomenon itself is not about you. It\u2019s about a pattern, in this case a social pattern exhibiting itself in the society of the rich and famous. Even Donald Trump is being accused of suffering from the Weinstein effect. [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,538,28,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-feminism-society","category-latest","category-society","issues-harvey-weinstein","issues-sex-scandals","category-12-id","category-538-id","category-28-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14217,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/14217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}