Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]I think I would blame the ACTORS for RUINING their Own Careers. [/B]
For full grown men and women, that's a fair point.
For kids who's parents pushed them into that lifestyle in the hopes of fortune and fame, that's something else.
And honestly, there's also a difference between having no sympathy for an adult making bad decisions, and condoning another adult all too happy to use their position to reap the benefits of those bad decisions (Like trading sexual favors for career advancement.)
Originally posted by cdtm
In what era of Hollywood was taking advantage of young minor's considered good?
Every era, there's always been stars that have been aggressively sexual, it's just recently people have been coming out of the woodwork to call them out for it.
Let's break it down [Hypothetical Situation for arguments sake]... you're a relatively new actor to Hollywood and you get an invite to a party at a big Producer's house and you figure you can maybe get some exposure for your career out of it, then everyone is drinking and doing various recreational drugs and some guy makes a move on you, you brush him off but he doesn't take no for an answer and some groping occurs. So you leave. Cut to 25 years later you're kind of a bigger deal now so you out the guy for perving on you...
1- everyone is a perv in Hollywood, that's gotta be common given the atmosphere.
2- now you can play the victim card and be praised like crazy
3- even if it wasn't all that pervy it's your word against them and now everyone is inclined to believe the worst thanks to the media circus surrounding this
I just wonder now if anyone is trying to take advantage of this. EVERYONE kept silent until now? Really? How many people were victimized and how many just feel ashamed they f*cked their way to the top?
I'm just cynical of ANYONE in Hollywood. These people willingly remained in this cesspool in order to get rich.
Originally posted by quanchi112
Because I don't need another Surtur obsession taking place with Kevin Spacey or some other Hollywood actor you're consumed with.
But nobody cares what you need short stuff. You think I'm obsessed and you want it to end yet you bring her up, are you braindead? I bet you'd try to cure someone of alcoholism by shoving booze in front of him. Just stop, don't go full retard. Keep that shit at half 'tarded.