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Monday, November 13, 2017

Weinstein, Hefner and the Poor Excuse That Explains a Lot

NYTimes.com: There’s this smart moment on “The Deuce” in which Abby and Paul stand behind the bar at the Manhattan dive where they work (she’s straight; he’s gay) and take stock of their early ’70s erotic wonderland.

“The one thing I’m certain of — it’s just sex,” Paul says. “If you stand back and think about what we all look like chasing each other, you’d have to laugh, right?”

1 comment:

Anabel Shuckhart said...

“I came of age in the ’60s and ’70s when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different. That was the culture then. I have since learned it’s not an excuse, in the office — or out of it.” And since the 60's and 70's you have been asleep? You have been making and funding movies under the influence of a hypnotist? No. Mr. Weinstein has been living a life just like the rest of us have been living lives. Lives that, when lived, teach us new things every day, allow us to observe the actions and reactions of those around us every day, and allow us to grow mentally as people. There is no possible way to have learned nothing in the past fifty years, and to have not observed how the people, especially the women, in the world around you have changed immensely. The author of this article is right: there has never been a more stupid excuse for horrible actions, and, by the way, this "non-excuse" IS AN EXCUSE!!