They’re calling it the “me too” movement. It’s a cultural push to unmask and identify any and all powerful people in Hollywood who have commuted sexual violence of any kind at any time. It’s a double-edged sword though, and the stars are falling like rain. So far, we’ve seen celebrity after celebrity disgraced.
In addition to the longstanding sexual assault scandals involving Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Bill Cosby there was the major producer Harvey Weinstein; his fall from grace started the trend.
Then there was Ben Affleck. He was caught on tape groping and harassing an actress. George Takei was recently accused of molesting a teenage boy. A tape from the Howard Stern show emerged where he appeared to have no remorse or second thoughts about the incident. There was the case of Keven Spacey sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy after a party in the 1980s. Spacey tried to deflect public condemnation by coming out as gay- a truly revolting attempt to run for ideological cover. Most recently, we have Al Franken. Several years ago he persistently sexually harassed a female soldier and photographed himself grabbing her breasts and smiling at a camera while the woman was asleep.
These cases are shocking and reveal a laziness and hubris that is ubiquitous among Hollywood’s big-name entertainers. But there is another thread of commonality that ties these sexual predators together, a thread that Fox Business covers in this report.