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Originally Posted by Krutch
It can happen, but it ain't gonna be a lightswitch. Give it another 100 years and we might be somewhere.
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You have a very optimistic view of humanity.
It's already been 100 years since The Biz was a thing and we're only now seeing the tiniest sliver of "progress". I figure in another hundred years, we won't have made any progress insofar as rich, powerful people being rapey pedos, BUT, we'll have made a lot of progress towards replacing actors who say "No" with robots.
I mean, the entertainment industry is relatively new. But powerful people using their clout to rape women and kids is a "tradition" that goes back thousands of years.
My late father, a "professional" drug abuser with many decades of "experience" had a saying about people's bad behavior, and especially when they talk about cleaning up their act: "NOBODY gets 'clean', people just get discreet." That's what I've always seen as well.
It could help if we started out by holding people like Singer to the exact same standards we hold "normal" people who are caught (or accused of) doing the same exact thing, but we all know that isn't gonna happen because we think celebrities are heroes, somehow, so I really don't know how we're ever gonna see any real change.
Like many things, it's possible, but collectively we're not interested in making the sacrifices necessary to get us there.
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I love how Singer still gets to direct Red Sonja, and the producer almost word-for-word says, "Bohemian Rhapsody made $800 million dollars, so frankly I don't care if Bryan Singer f*cked an entire junior high school track team, he's good for my bottom line." Gotta admire the f*cking balls, at least. Wow.
This is the sh*t I mean. Sh*t ain't changing.