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Bullies and Their Enablers: What Harvey Weinstein and the NRA Can Teach Women About the Power of Our Voices

This is a post about bullies and their enablers. Granted, two very different types of bullies and their enablers, but on closer inspection I think you’ll find they have more in common than you think.

Bear with me.

The entertainment world was rocked this week by revelations that Harvey Weinstein, a powerful movie producer, had spent his career leveraging his considerable influence in the entertainment industry to sexually assault and extort sexual favors from Hollywood actresses.

The revelations were made as a result of the New York Times’ good old fashioned investigative reporting: interviews and reviews of documents, which unearthed zero surprises to any woman who has ever propositioned or extorted for sex by any man in a position of authority.

Although Mr. Weinstein denied many of the allegations, he admitted to the behavior and gave the usual spiel that all the Harvey Weinsteins of the world do when their misdeeds finally—though, sadly, not inevitably—catch up to them:

He’s seeking therapy. He’s going to spend more time with his family. He’s going to take a leave of absence “to deal with this issue head on.” He was raised in the 60’s and 70’s when times were different. He hired a woman to speak for him and tell everyone that he’s just “an old dinosaur learning new ways,” which was why he turned into a rapist and “some of his words and behaviors can be perceived as inappropriate, even intimidating.” It's all about perception, you see. In other words, gaslighting.

Too little too late. Mr. Weinstein's company fired him before he could check into rehab for exhaustion or stick to whatever crisis P.R. script he was following. A subsequent New York Times article described it like this:

Even in an industry in which sexual harassment has long persisted, Mr. Weinstein stands out, according to the actresses and current and former employees of the film companies he ran, Miramax and the Weinstein Company. He had an elaborate system reliant on the cooperation of others: Assistants often booked the meetings, arranged the hotel rooms and sometimes even delivered the talent, then disappeared, the actresses and employees recounted. They described how some of Mr. Weinstein’s executives and assistants then found them agents and jobs or hushed actresses who were upset.

Now let’s rewrite this paragraph as follows, in a different context:

Even in an industry a country in which sexual harassment a slavish devotion to weapons of all kinds, no matter how deadly, has long persisted, Mr. Weinstein the NRA stands out, according to organizations like Everytown for Gun Safety—a merger of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and elected officials. the actresses and current and former employees of the film companies he ran, Miramax and the Weinstein Company. He had The NRA has an elaborate system reliant on the cooperation of others: Assistants often booked the meetings, arranged the hotel rooms and sometimes even delivered the money talent, then disappeared, the organizations and some elected officials actresses and employees recounted. They described how some of the NRA’s lobbyists Mr. Weinstein’s executives and assistants then found them agents and jobs and helped them get re-elected or hushed families of shooting victims actresses who were upset.

A day after Sandy Hook, Shannon Watts of Indianapolis, Indiana founded Moms Demand Action. The New York Times' exposé of Mr. Weinstein—and an end to his reign of sexual terror—would not have been possible without the courage and participation of his female victims in outing him.

90% of adult rape victims are female and 82% of all juvenile victims of rape are female, while the perpetrators of sexual abuse are usually—though not always—male. Perpetrators of mass shootings are overwhelmingly male. As of 2013, the NRA’s board of directors was 87% male.

In these two seemingly different scenarios, there are are three common denominators: (1) male bullying and aggression; (2) its enablers; and (3) women’s willingness to fight back—and to keep fighting—in the face of even further bullying, abuse, silencing, and discrediting. (A tiny microcosm of this phenomenon will be apparent in the inevitably not-very-civil pushback I get for this post, which I can never meaningfully engage with due to its level of distraction and futility).

My point is this:  Bullies like Harvey Weinstein and Wayne LaPierre do not work alone. They are enabled by people—their debtors, their victims, or their hired guns--whom they threaten, belittle, pay to make excuses for them, and who stand to lose the most by falling out of favor with them. 

Left to their own devices, most bullies eventually lose their grip of power and control. And without women, that power and control is rarely, if ever, called into question in the first place.

Women, keep fighting.

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