The scale of it was astonishing to me, and more and more kept coming out, she says.
I thought, If this many have come forward, how many have not?
I realized Hollywood hasnt changed much since the 1920s, and I really thought it had.
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The men there were professing sympathy for Harvey, which I found stunning, she says.
It felt very uncomfortable.
So when the new reports came out …
I had to pause before I commented on Twitter, before I said anything about anything.
It is a lot harder to be loud about this when its someone you know.
And that pause made me feel like a terrible hypocrite.
When you sit down at a table now, its all women are talking about, says one writer-producer.
Its on everybodys brain, like, Oh my god, how did we not talk about this?'
The gut-punch devastation was due to the severity and the extent:Weinsteins alleged behavior wasthatcriminal and depraved?
Women talk about things like this all the time, says a veteran writer-producer.
What I have been surprised by is the magnitude.
How could that be allowed to continue?
A lot of people had to make that okay.
But there are a couple of reasons insiders feel this moment in Hollywood history is very different.
The times have changed.
Why did she stay in the room?
Why didnt she run out?
And the pivot to: What about the women who worked for him?
Its like:Theydidnt do anything!Hedid!
I heard a man say that he called his buddies, asking, Are you worried now?'
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And theyre all saying, Im shaking in my boots.
Or as a producer put it: Woody Allen said, Dont let this be a witch hunt.
Hes saying what a lot of men are feeling right now:Uh-oh, my behavior isnt accepted anymore.
What the hell am I going to do?
I hope that nobody nails me on it.
Everybody [will] become much more sensitive to it, predicts one male studio head.
You always hear a lot of stuff.
The saddest part about all of this is that number did not surprise me at all.
Or as the writer-producer bluntly put it: I wanted to write: #NoSh!
Of course #MeToo.
Every woman, 99.9 percent of women.
It would be 100 percent if those other women were just thinking about it.
Many times a systemic problem in a major industry can seem too complex or deeply rooted to fix.
This doesnt appear to be one of them.
There are plenty of reasonable prescriptive solutions out there.
While Milano suggests there should be no funding for any artists accused of wrongdoing in this manner.
Indeed, the current purge of alleged abusers is something thats seen as a painful yet ultimately healthy process.
The problem is there are also far too many villains.
Its the villains who need to be exposed and dealt with.
Youre pilloried for stating the obvious.
We have to say, Thats just not how you treat people, its not okay.
It really does feel like people are saying:Enough, enough, enough.
