being revealed and understood about how power has been wielded, especially sexually. it is part of a conversation that obviously has exploded over the past six weeks. and here it is in that incredibly painful story. and also, what i was struck by was that line you re a child, i m district attorney. no one will believe you. here she is telling us with the expectation that now 40 years later she will be believed. and i think the effect. it is a gamble, though. let me say. usually, yes. we are at this moment where maybe she has been persuaded by the tenor of the conversation, by the fact that for the first time in decades, in generations, we are taking these kinds of power abuses and sexual abuses seriously and putting them on the front pages of newspapers, and talking about what they mean structurally as far as gender impairty. yes, we re taking it seriously for the first time.
we are taking these kinds of power abuses and sexual abuses seriously and putting them on the front pages of newspapers, and talking about what they mean structurally as far as gender impairty. yes, we re taking it seriously for the first time. we took this seriously a year ago. 20 women, more than 20 women accused donald trump of assault or harassment. donald trump was caught confessing about being able to grab women, you know. if he wanted to. it didn t matter. he was still elected. arnold schwarzenegger. there is this piece about the women who covered arnold schwarzenegger who was accused by multiple women of being groped. he was elected governor of california. there is a long history in the united states of women coming forward with stories like this. not being believed. his promise that 40 years being made manifest in the fact that, and he is trying this right now, roy moore is saying this is false news. it is literally the trump
the threat of that is what kept weinstein s secrets for so long. absolutely. that s how the power dynamics work. they re not about sex, they re about power abuses. it wouldn t sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldn t happen if they didn t have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women when we re talking about this in a professional context, that s one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed, that they re shamed, that they re made out to be untrustworthy, crazy, vindictive, have axes to grind, that s part of the threat. and the fact that they should feel ashamed. all of these things are part of what works to make sexual harassment and assault possible. you had this incredible story
work. they re not about sex, they re about power abuses. it wouldn t sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldn t happen if they didn t have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women when we re talking about this in a professional context, that s one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed, that they re shamed, that they re made out to be untrustworthy, crazy, vindictive, have axes to grind, that s part of the threat. and the fact that they should feel ashamed. all of these things are part of what works to make sexual harassment and assault possible. you had this incredible story that you wrote about, a small sort of window into the power that weinstein had in which you
it is related to the kind of imbalance of power, the way that male public, political power has been associated with sexual power and power abuses, the way that women have been viewed and treated as objects having less power, less equality than the men who have behaved toward them in this way and that those are the bigger forces that have contributed to the kinds to the reasons why we haven t had a woman president yet, right? this is not unrelated. in is very related to the kind of bias that kept the presidency male for our entire 240 years of american political history. the society of america and patriarchy and the roles of gender that have produced a cadre of men who have risen to the very top of their respected fields and become public figures with tremendous power and who have also been alleged to have engaged in this wide variety of misconduct of sexual power abuses. sexual power abuses against women. right.