Some thoughts on Win Butler’s cancellation I posted on r/antiwoke, would appreciate this community’s perspectives as well.

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[–]jet199 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

He's a violent thug who was well known for throwing punches at work.

I have no doubt he was violent to women too, not casting couch style manipulation.

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He did look like a mob enforcer. I'm certain he was a total piece of shit, it's just the accusers often seemed complicit in exchanging sex-for-work. The victim list reads like a who's who of untalented actresses. It was an open secret what was going on, it was joked about in public. The women largely just don't seem like innocent victims to me.

Speaking of Weinstein being a piece of shit, I heard in Mallrats he was going to scrub the film if Joey Lauren Adams, Kevin Smith's gf or perhaps ex at the time, didn't show her tits. And nobody liked that ultimatum. Her career didn't end there but it sure fizzled out. The last role she was nominated for anything was Big Daddy.

That bothers me more than a woman going up to his hotel room and whatever happening in order to get a role. That's Adams only topless scene in her entire filmography.

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I think it's reasonable to assume a man like Weinstein had innocent victims and not so innocent ones. And that the more opportunistic women are probably a lot more likely to have gone public and try to cash in.

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That's an excellent point, I'd feel differently if a different sort of woman spoke up against Weinstein.