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When you go to your job or a professional meeting, I’ll bet you don’t expect your boss to strip naked, masturbate in front of you, or ask you to engage in sexual acts with him or others in order to continue your career trajectory. You would know immediately that this is a crime and he is a predator. Harvey Weinstein would do just that to young, impressionable, relatively powerless young women he worked with and told them “This is how the biz works, honey”. The same way a pedophile priest would say “This is what God wants us to do” to a child. The same way a domestic abuser would say “This is what you get for talking to other men” to his battered girlfriend.

The bombshell of the Weinstein case is not that we’re finding out that a big Hollywood producer is a sleezy predator who preys on women with less power than him, coercing sex from them in return for keeping their careers fertile. We already knew that. We already accepted that. We already made a cliche out of that. The bombshell is that we are seeing it now for what it is: a crime that should result in punishment, in loss of power, in damage to reputation, and justice for victims. This is a wake-up call to an industry where sexual harassment and abuse has become a price to pay if you want to achieve your professional goals. This is us saying: Times are changing. All you predators better fucking run, because you could be next.