How the Hollywood sex panic will end

How the Hollywood sex panic will end

Written in 2017

 

Here's my prediction re the sex panic in Hollywood:

First the big men will try the Pence rule; no solitary meetings with any woman. This ostensibly to protect the women; actually it protects the men, and shuts out the women. Having cooties interferes with doing business; so this won't last.

Then the real issues will come out. The problem with the casting couch, lately, isn't the couch, that's a constant; it's the casting. There just haven't been many good roles and awards for actresses lately. So the actresses have been putting out for nothing. A swindle!

Sex for fun; that's dating. Sex for cash; that's whoring. Sex for a job; that's showbiz. And sex for half ownership; that's matrimony.

The actress/director bargain has long been; for the couch, the casting. Jerks like Weinstein didn't deliver on their side of the bargain; he was a toll-taker on a bridge to nowhere. He was a deal-breaker; so the actresses broke the 'discretion' part of the deal. It's like labor/management friction, breaking into a strike.

So I predict that the Hollywood sex panic will end the moment the big money funds lots of must-see flix starring chix. Especially there should be good roles for the older, washed-up actresses who have some real dirt on the big money. That, plus a volley of Academy Awards for those older women; and in a year, and the Hollywood sex panic will just fade away.

 

But it won't end in DC that easy.