www.fastcompany.com: As the sexual harassment scandals shake up Hollywood, most of the focus so far has been on rooting out perpetrators and establishing the scale and depth of the abuse—a process that is far from over. But increasingly, members of the entertainment industry are trying to look forward, beyond the ugly details of the scandals, to come up with solutions to, if not completely eradicate the problem of abuse, at least create a culture that will make it harder for predators to thrive.
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There seems to be this big question from men who are not abusive in my life now that says "how can I fix this?" "How can I be better?" "what can I do?" and I love that the questions are being asked because it is important that women are even being believed. The problem of the culture of abuse in Hollywood is that it's not a Hollywood problem to fix. This is a universal problem that women of all shapes, sizes, colors and ethnicities face. We are all abused, or assaulted, or made to feel like an object. I dare you to find a women over 16 on the face of the planet who has never been made to feel uncomfortable sexually by a man. She doesn't exist. We are on out way to fixing the culture of abuse, we are taking the first step right now which is starting to believe women and starting to present consequences to men. The fact that so many men are losing their jobs shows the world that this is not something we are going to stand for, and I'd be happy if every single man who lost his job was replaced by a woman or by a person of color. We are weeding out the disgusting right now, and it's going to get worse before it gets better, but this reckoning in our culture is not going to be defined by how many men lose their jobs, it's going to be defined by how we change after, and how we take our next step.
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