I'm not at all surprised that Harvey Weinstein was doing this.
I'm not shocked he did it is often as he did with no repercussions.
I'm only shocked that we, as a culture have the audacity to act surprised.
And no I'm not talking about society in general. I'm not talking about "institutionalized sexism," main stream media or anything exterior to the human condition. I'm talking about you, the American male and this bizarre and very dangerous obsession with sexual performance that many of us (I daresay most of us) have.
I've heard the phrase: "That bitch better put out for me after all I've done for her!" so often it haunts my dreams. Every time some group of males talk about other women when no women are around the conversation eventually includes some form of demand for sex. Not request, DEMAND. It's like they think they can snap their fingers and any woman of their choosing has to drop to her knees and suck him off. Many married men I have talked to said they only got married because they thought they would get laid anytime they wanted only to find out that's not how reality works.
I'm not telling women anything they don't already know. I've heard complaints about this behavior from pretty much every single female friend I've ever had. Some of them have even gone so far as to show me their social media inboxes which more often than any man knows has unsolicited pictures of dicks. It's a widespread problem, so widespread we're only just now getting a grasp on how it affects men in power and their female contemporaries. But if you think this is limited to just that segment of the population boys, sit the fuck down. You and I need to have a little chat.
I've talked about how in masculine culture there seems to be this direct link between the respect you're given and the amount of sexual or violent activities you participate in. Men who prefer quiet, more casual activities are derided while men who are very forceful in how they deal with others are elevated. "This is what separates the men from the boys!" is something we males have had to listen to all while growing up. We are pushed by our peers and our elders into activities that make us look 'tough.' We are surrounded by those who brag and boast about who they can beat up and what women they have recently fucked. And if any of us fall below this imaginary bar that is set we're bullied, harassed and threatened until we "grow a pair." That's how we end up with men like Harvey Weinstein.
Harvey isn't an outlier by any stretch of the imagination. In fact he's the norm, he's the gold standard that many men wish to achieve. For some reason in masculine culture your self worth is directly tied to your genitals. Their size and how often you use them have a HUGE bearing on how you feel about yourself. But most importantly of all it has a massive impact on your life with your fellow males. We judge each other based primarily on our perceived sexual proclivity which includes the size and shape of our dicks, how often we use it, the number and the attractiveness level of the women we use them with. Because of the consequences of being seen as "less than manly" this pushes many males into dangerous behavior. Drugging women, assaulting them, abusing them, you name it. Anything just to make it look like you're "a real man" and avoid being abused and harassed by your peers. While women have no way out of the abuse cycle men do and it's at the expense of women. Unfortunately, while for many men this is simply a desperate attempt to avoid getting their asses beaten again many, many more accept this as "normal." I imagine many ladies reading this would probably have resorted to abusing and harassing men if it meant they wouldn't get the shit kicked out of them by other women and that's the reality of day to day life for men. Sell your soul and avoid punishment or do what's right and be punished.
For men like Harvey Weinstein this type of behavior isn't optional. He feels he has to have sex as often as he does no matter how badly it hurts the woman he fucks. A man in his position no longer has to worry about being bullied or beaten by his peers but he has become so accustomed to his lifestyle that he accepts it. After all it's how he has always lived his life and up till now he was always rewarded. Why stop? This behavior didn't start for Harvey when he became rich or even when he started making movies. It started when he was a young, impressionable youth looking up to the men around him and being told how to behave. He embraced this attitude that "she better give it up" at an early age and because he was fortunate enough to receive recognition in his professional life it only emboldened him. Now, an older male set in his ways it's far too late for redemption. He'll spend the rest of his life bitter and disillusioned by the "feminazis" that were "out to get him." He will never accept that what he did to those poor women was wrong.
But it's not too late for you. Your self worth is not determined by those around you. You are a man regardless of whether you fuck 1 woman your whole life or 100. You are a man not because you have sex but because you love and cherish the one(s) you have sex with. You are a man because you treat women with dignity and respect and would rather "go without" than treat women they way a monster like Harvey Weinstein did. Your genitals are only good for one thing, injecting the life giving serem into the body of your partner that will help create a child you and your partner will raise, love and cherish for the rest of your lives. Well, and pissing out waste water. Aside from that your dick is useless flesh dangling in your shorts. Hell, I'm willing to bet that throughout 90% of your day you forget the damn thing is even there, why base your world view on it? It makes no sense and it never did.