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Originally Posted by LessinSF

So his Weinstein's alleged forced oral sex on Argento (to which she has basically admitted she consented because he would have otherwise "crushed" her career) caused her to statutorily rape a boy actor 20 years her junior 20 years after the alleged Weinstein event? That is pretty tortured.

I would not be surprised to learn that when he was young some Rabbi had his way with young Harvey, too.

But I made no statement on causation, merely noted the very common correlation.

I find your above description interesting in the amount of equivocation on both counts - "alleged" and the parenthetical on the Weinstein/Argento incident, "statutory" modifying "rape" on the Argento/whatshisname incident. I have no argument with any of them, I just find it interesting that there is so much equivocation on two events where an older powerful show business player was forcing themselves on a younger aspiring actor. I might also note that there was more than twenty years between Weinstein and Argento. I think the equivocation comes because we know these acts are wrong, but the "forced consent" element blurs the categories and provides defenses, at least from a legal perspective.