Men who buy women drinks to purchase their gratitude &/or lowered inhibitions seldom think they're predatory either. It's transactional too.
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Which is the point. Weinstein doesn't think he's a rapist because he thinks he held up his end of the transaction: giving the women roles -
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- or "lavishing" them with gifts, or the perceived gift of his attention, which he used to extort more sexual favours. He GAVE to them!
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I can very easily imagine Weinstein screaming that he can't POSSIBLY have raped a woman by giving her oral, because it was for HER PLEASURE.
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This is an argument which, if manifested into physical form, I would cheerfully set ON FIRE.
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What fucking enrages me in this is how practised his predations were, down to having his staff arrange his meetings & cover for him.
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Weinstein views actresses as self-trading commodities, where "self" is always less vital than his ability - and desire - to buy them.
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Weinstein does not belong in rehab. He belongs in fucking jail. His rape system was extensive and practised, and he thinks it was all okay.
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Weinstein doesn't want to view himself as coercive, because that might imply (to him) that he's not good in bed, or that he's unattractive.
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Weinstein doesn't want to live in a reality where all the beautiful women he's boasted about sleeping with think he's gross, criminal, vile.
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He wants to tell himself that he won them over. That he relaxed them with wine or massages or the fake security of having others present -
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- that he impressed them with his forthright intentions; that the knew better than they did what they wanted and gave it to them regardless.
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Weinstein doesn't want sex with him to be an unpleasant but unavoidable evil at best & degrading rape at worst. But that's what he made it.
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