1. Weinstein-style sexual abuse in industries like Hollywood can be seen as a collective action problem is grossly unequal system.
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2. You have a few powerful producers who can make/break careers & many actresses competing in attention economy.
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3. It's a system where a predator like Weinstein can thrive because there are so so few avenues for collective action against him.
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4. I try to think through how Weinstein thrived in Hollywood system & possible solutionshttps://newrepublic.com/article/145269/hollywoods-inequality-enabled-harvey-weinstein …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
It seems strange to talk about systems of power here without once talking about race and gender.
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Replying to @sarahrhamburg
The whole piece is about the gender imbalance between producers and actresses!
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I ask in all seriousness: can you point to a place in the article that discusses gender (or race) *itself* as a source of power?
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Replying to @sarahrhamburg @HeerJeet
I see "money" "capital" "position at top of hierarchy" "sway over publicity industries" "access to the money"
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Replying to @sarahrhamburg @HeerJeet
But not discussion of how gender/race is at the core of those structures of inequality, or how addressing this = part of solution
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I'd say that the proposals (formalizing whisper network, union contracts that protect women who speak out) address gender inequality.
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