Lena Dunham: Harvey Weinstein and the Silence of the Men
I took it in stride, unloading the day’s injustices on the couch of my new friend (and now my work partner), Jenni Konner.
Roman Polanski, whose victims continue to come forward, is considered a visionary worth fighting for, and I recently had a male star tell me
that working with him would “obviously be the ultimate.” (In fact, Mr. Weinstein himself gathered Hollywood to sign a letter asking that Mr. Polanski’s charges be dropped and he be allowed to return to America
We imagined a set run by women, men who wouldn’t dream of overstepping or underpaying, a company where girls stretched as far as the eye could see, the chance to write scripts
that changed people’s perceptions of feminine identity.
This past week, reports that Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for years came to light, making it crystal clear
that not every woman in Hollywood has had the chance to walk our path.
The use of power to possess and silence women is as likely to occur in a fast-food restaurant as it is on a movie set,
and Hollywood has yet another chance to make a noisy statement about what we should and should not condone as a society.