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Every day now, some powerful man in the movie or television or music or political business is outed as an abuser of some sort or another.
Guys who try to get their assistants, fans, and fellow actors and actresses to perform oral sex, guys who grab asses, guys who attempt to trade professional success for a quickie, and in some instances try or succeed in raping someone.
I must report that I had never, not even once, watched the Today show with Matt Lauer so truthfully, I don’t give a shit about him. I know who he is from all the news about him, but I would not have known who he was if he walked right past me the day before the news broke. I am not completely out of the loop; quite the opposite. I just do not happen to have the time or inclination to watch garbage like the Today Show, Oprah, Ellen, or other gossipy shows that air while I am waking up in the morning or at work.
Likewise, I would not have known who Harvey Weinstein is had you asked me a day before the news broke about him. I suppose that I had heard of him as a producer, but he’s not exactly Tom Cruise or The Rock, someone who you see in movies, commercials, on magazine covers, and in every Internet news feed that exists. I had never seen Weinstein’s ugly mug prior to the story about him in October.
