Sexual Harassment of the DAY
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I dated a who a girl not too long ago who was raped by a celeb that everyone (almost literally) on this earth knows. He's always on talk shows and being interviewed and invited to various celeb-filled events. Anyway, he was in her hometown one day at a club and had one of his people invite her to his table. He made all kinds of suggestions about how he could help her business and eventually invited her to leave her friend behind and go with him to his hotel. When they got to his hotel he kept handing her drinks. The next thing she knew, she was waking up that next morning with his fingers inside her. She felt confused about the situation and didn't feel comfortable talking about it at length (understandable).
Fast-forward to several months later. One of her idiot guy friends who she was having a spat with, knew about the situation (which she was telling everyone about, but oddly leaving out the ending) tried to blackmail this celeb. So the celeb had his assistant reach out to her to basically make friends and ensure that if this were to get out or go to court that she would testify on the celeb's behalf. The assistant stayed in contact with her, keeping the conversations casual, and eventually offered to meet her for a 'fun business brunch' to discuss ways they could maybe help her business (this is still the assistant btw, not the celeb). When I pleaded with her to not go, she got defensive, stating that girls like her don't get many opportunities like this and that it could really help her career. We stopped talking shortly thereafter (for other reasons) but in the end the friend eventually had his bluff called and he never followed through with his threats to out the celeb, so I have no idea where things left off with her. But I'm just waiting for the day that someone outs this guy. And I'm curious, depending on whether she's gotten from him what she can use to further herself and her career, whether she'll jump on the bandwagon and cry foul.
It's a sad situation. Everyone in that story is a part of the problem. The celeb for using his influence to bait and manipulate a young girl (23 at the time). The young girl for tolerating his actions and willingness to help cover them up (to "save his marriage", reputation, etc. and further her name and associate with him) in spite of the obvious trauma it caused her. The assistant for being an accomplice to this whole situation. And finally, the asshole 'friend' for, well... for just being an asshole.
The thing is, in many other situations like this, trying to make every a clear case of the female being the victim is ignorant and undermines the efforts by those girls/women who are trying to spread awareness of the actual issue but struggle with abusive relationships because of mental health issues, or hoping to fix/rehabilitate the man, or save the relatioship, or family/kids, etc.
Having said that, these girls who fully understand what kind of trouble they are getting into with celebs but do it for the clout or to further their career only to later suffer the inevitable (bold, italicize, and underline that) emotional trauma/regret that comes with that kind of exchange - they are enabling other non-victims to do the same thing and destroying many innocent lives and the lives of anyone in their wake. What's that called? Oh yeah a sociopath... We need to stop enabling them.
- Interesting. thanks for sharing. You make good points. It gets very complex...but in the end...the perpetrator is...the perpetratordkoblesky
- And what is different is you describe one incident, where this MM situation takes place over years....dkoblesky
- I don't know MM or ERW personally and can't attest to their intent/actions, but his wrongdoing doesn't automatically exculpate her or others.SteveJobs
- But I'm hesitant to judge either way bc yes the situation is complex enough without us all weighing in on something we didn't witness first hand with each girl.SteveJobs
- Somebody has to pay the lawyersStoicLevels
- we dont know him. we dont know her. we might think we do, but we don't. we don't even know what exactly happened. too many detectives *srcsmpango
- he's a scum. she's an opportunist schemer.
blah blah blah.
why not just let it play out? maybe details will be released later and we will actually know what hpango - appened.pango
- Just curious, is the celeb known for this behaviour now or likely still getting away with it?mort_
- Names, ni**ababydick
- every time i hear one of these stories im reminded mathew broderick killed two women in ireland in 1987 through reckless driving and went on to star in a hondakingsteven
- superbowl commercial...kingsteven
- @SteveJobs so do you actually know who the celeb is? or just know from her that the celeb is world famous?Krassy
- @mort, no he’s not known for it at all. Maybe it was a one time thing? No idea
@Krassy, yes I know who it is.SteveJobs - Oops I just noticed I posted my notes in the wrong post.pango