The Bigger Weinstein Problem

The sad thing about this whole Harvey Weinstein mess is that people are all concentrating on Harvey Weinstein. Talk to some women you know. This shit goes on all the time in all walks of life.

Men everywhere are pulling this shit, not only in Hollywood, but on Wall Street, in Washington, at the fucking diner or convenience store down the street. I have been hearing stories like this from women I know for decades.

This shit is epidemic, and is seen as normal by a large part of the population, and the fact that we're all acting shocked about one case of it shows that we have a very long way to go with this problem.

Men still run the world, and half of them are committing these acts, and the other half doesn't want to know it exists and ignore it. Some men are terrorizing and abusing women, and the rest are enabling it because they don't want to know about it.

That leaves very precious few men left to protect women and speak up for them. Hell, it leaves scant few men to even support women when they speak up and try to help themselves.

So a bunch of ineffectual, scared to face the truth men do what people have done forever. They wring their hands, and they heap scorn on Harvey Weinstein because now he's an easy target, and they lie to themselves and pretend it's an isolated incident and they are sticking up for women. Once the news cycle ends on this story, they pretend the problem is solved and they go back to hiding from the truth.

Meanwhile, their wives and girlfriends, their daughters, their mothers, all the women in their lives, continue to go out and face this shit all the time. These women don't even bring it up most of the time, they just deal with it because they see that the men in their lives don't even want to know it happens.

So yeah call out Harvey Weinstein and expose that piece of shit, but if it doesn't trigger a reaction beyond that, what's the point? Talk to the women in your life, find out if everything is okay in their world, and if it's not, join them in putting a stop to it. Support them if they speak out. Help them if they have a situation like this with their boss, or their coworkers, or any predator in their life. If you're not one of those predators, help make the world safe from them for the women you love.

Change this type of behavior in all facets of society. Stop pretending it doesn't exist. Stop acting like it's not a widespread problem, that it's just isolated to a couple of creepy Hollywood executives or politicians.

If you don't, you're not much of a man after all.