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Sall Grover: "The Harvey Weinstein Culture" in Hollywood. · The Slippery Slope

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  Can I just touch on one thing you, you spoke about?
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  I'll be wanting for a second day and the me to movement one
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  thing. What I've bought, a really
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  wanted to ask someone, you might be the perfect person.
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  I thought it seemed a an obvious.
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  It didn't seem like much of a secret that that's what he was
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  into that he was doing things. And, and then when it all blew
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  up, I'm certainly going. Well, didn't use all know.
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  Like and then everyone's gonna go on pretending.
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  Like all, this is startling news, I have apps actually.
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  Having sentence is so Best friend at the time was having
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  Weinstein's longest-serving female assistant.
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  She was a system for four years and then was moved to the TV
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  department. So, she knew so many stories
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  about him. She took women to his hotel
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  room, but she didn't know what was happening on the other side
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  of it. The rate part of it was not
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  something people were aware of, they knew he was having sex with
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  girls. Yes, which does that.
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  But There is a difference between even if it's like
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  really, see there is a difference between a girl
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  consenting and rape of an obvious difference there.
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  So like my friend was absolutely coming.
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  He'd been horrible to her as well.
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  So she was traumatized from just working with a yes, everyone
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  knew he was a horrible guy. It was like every industry.
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  Thought he was this wonderful person or anything?
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  No, he was horrible, as our lots of others and there was so many
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  one of the things was because he was so Successful and so
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  powerful and then he's one of new many men who would who
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  behaved in that way. And so they have these these
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  tyrants sort of personas. And so, what happens, there is
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  that all the men coming up, try to replicate that they want that
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  Tyrant Persona. Yeah.
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  And so, so, so you're dealing just with hundreds of and you've
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  got the actual Harvey Weinstein, and then, you've got all these
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  little wannabe Harvey Weinstein. So that's what you're navigating
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  in the industry, basically. Yeah, so when it when the Harvey
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  Weinstein story broke. No, no one was.
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  I mean, I wasn't like, oh gosh, I'm absolutely shocked by this,
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  but I will tell you one thing that was revealed to me.
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  So when when I was like, writing scripts, and especially when I
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  was getting really desperate, one of the things, my agent
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  would say to me all the time is why doesn't your friend slip
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  Harvey? Your script filled by it and she
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  never did. And I ran four years like the
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  four years. I spent like that time, you
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  know, I never said anything. I asked her one time and she was
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  like okay you know I yeah I'll think about it and then she
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  never did never boarded up and so I was like, oh gosh, she does
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  not think I'm very good. Like I'm not talented enough.
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  She's embarrassed by me. Grab a bluff.
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  No, she informed me that she she didn't know about the roots but
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  she knew what? But he would what he would try
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  something. He knew what he was.
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  What was on offer? She didn't want to put me in
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  that situation. That's a good friend, right?
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  Yeah. The most amazing friend and she
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  never told me she never said anything.
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  Nothing about it. And so yeah.
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  So she saved me from that and because I mean I would never
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  done anything with him but the trauma of how much more
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  traumatized I would have been being.
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  Yeah. Situate.
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  Yeah. And so, even now from what I
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  hear of how it is over there. Yeah.
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  Nothing has basically changed. A lot of insurance premiums have
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  just been up to and now the yeah, there's less women in the
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  room because men are like, well, okay, I'm not even you, there's
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  just not even going to be a woman.
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  And for the job because what if she accuses us?
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  Yeah, of sexual harassment. So ya know in is it a successful
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  movement? I would say, absolutely no way
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  it wasn't necessary. Yes it has anything because I
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  don't think you can change it. Yeah.
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  I just I don't know what the solution is but it's it.
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  Women speaking up is such a small part of it.
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  There's no point. I speaking up, if there's not
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  actual change by These perverted Mmmm.
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  Yeah, it sounds like a massive, massive conversation.
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  Someone needs to have, and who knows?
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  You might. Yeah, you might be the voice.
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  Listen, I want to thank you very much for coming on this program.
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  It's been very helpful for myself to here to here and help
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  understand what's going on. Not just about the birthing
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  parent, but everything with giggle, but all, you know, where
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  women are standing where how other points of views, you know,
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  other The views that you know, in where we are in Australia at
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  the moment, this especially its birth in parent, gender
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  identity. Sort of things is going to
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  become news more and more because very few years behind
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  the UK and the us on this issue. And it's receiving stories every
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  day because just going to be more and more.
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  So, I would say to all your listeners, sort of just keep an
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  eye out because it is crazy. And the laws that have been
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  changed in stealth without our knowledge and things.
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  It's if ya got especially you've got Young Daughters check out
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  what the laws are and single-sex pieces because you might find it
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  there actually impact precarious situations or confine themselves
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  in precarious situations. Okay.
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  all, be worthwhile. Okay cell.
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  Thanks very much for joining me today to talk to you.
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  And right. Thanks very much for joining the
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  slippery slope. Thank you so much, have a great
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