By Miss Maudine
Hollywood — and the entertainment industry, generally– has long been rumored to be highly exploitative, especially of young people trying to enter into the field, girls and boys. However, no one is immune and many see it as the “price of admission,” dues if you will.
In industries which run on who you know, almost exclusively, despite what you know or what talent you have, it is easy to fall prey, to fall down the rabbit hole of victimhood. There are no known means to restrict the depravity of others, particularly those in high places. And, there is almost no way to fight back until now.
That the “Me, Too Movement,” was started by Tarana Burke in 2006, a Black woman, is largely “un-remembered.” Credited in accelerating the idea some eleven years later, the actions of Alyssa Milano and Ashley Judd, among others, gave this cause the push to grab headlines. Before then, it had largely been ignored as an issue limited to Black and women of color in the public mind.
Weinstein and Diddy are two examples of a bad thing. But, they are hardly alone, hardly the first and will, in all probability, not be the last. They had the misfortune of getting caught. That’s the gamble they took in the high stakes game they played. It is operational with frequency in high as well as low places.
Aside from the judicial revenge about which suits and news exposures have informed us, the question remains: what preventative measures will replace the old methods? If none, then some time in the future, this sorry, sordid scheme of things will repeat.
Miss Maudine is an alias that was created by From The G-Man in order to conceal the author’s identity.