Why do some men insist on humiliating their sex by defending bad conduct? These same guys blame "feminists," but they are the ones shooting themselves in the foot by defending those among them who do these sorts of things, showing a total lack of moral standards.
They defend this behaviour because the don’t believe the victims. When women come forward with their stories, they refuse to believe it without evidence. There’s seldom any evidence of abuse or harassment.
But when 5 women come forward with the same story, with nothing to gain in its telling, refusal to believe there’s a problem is indicative of an attitude that women lie, make stuff up, or are only looking for a big payday.
It shows disrespect for the victims, but sexual harassment, groping, grabbing them by the *****, and thinking you have the right to do so isn’t indicative of respect for women in the first place.
The same guys who defend Roy Moore, are the guys who call Weinsteins victims “whores” for going along with what it took to get the job and not have your career ended, at a time when they had no power to do otherwise.
Just because women “went along” with guys like Weinstein doesn’t make them whores. It makes them realists. This is how the system works. Suck it up and get it done cause you ain’t big enough to do jack shit about it.
Marilyn Monroe had a weekly standing “appointment” with a studio executive until the day she signed her first big contract. Women do what they have to. Always have. Doesn’t mean we have to like it but the smart ones know what it takes and where the power lies.
Early on we decide what we will do and what we will walk away from. But those choices have often limited what could be accomplished. Reaching for the stars can get you burned. Badly. But still she persisted.