The Looming Question in Rape Law After Harvey Weinstein

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The allegations against Harvey Weinstein reflect not just one powerful man’s lifetime of predatory behavior but also the challenges that the evolving law of rape and sexual assault must confront in the MeToo era, writes law professor Stuart P. Green

On Jan. 6, Harvey Weinstein’s trial for rape and sexual assault is scheduled to begin in a New York courtroom. But the charges that the disgraced Hollywood producer will face reflect just a fraction of the allegations made against him. More than 80 women have publicly accused Mr.

Weinstein of hundreds of acts of sexual misconduct over the course of more than 30 years. These allegations reflect not just one powerful man’s lifetime of predatory behavior but also the challenges that the evolving law of rape and sexual assault must confront in the era of #MeToo.

 

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What would that do to social climbing?

Me too is annoying as fuck, not all women tell the truth and not all men tell the truth

Me too is an awful example of mob rule. There should always be a due process . Not all women tell the truth and not all men do either. That is why we have a due process.

Power is only one factor. Prince Charles or Warren Buffett or Tom Hanks didn't go around grabbing women by the genital. Billionaire SUPER predators Trump Epstein have more in common with non-millionaires Larry Nassar and Sandusky! Digest that.

Whatever it takes to imprison the rich, shameless, and morally corrupt wealthy spoiled rotten babies.

🤬Boo‼🤬

Need tougher molestation and rape laws, harsher and extension of sentencing

And Disney

The world is on fire and on the brink of a WWIII and you're still talking about that ill-fated sexual predator. Please land the real world.

I would like for someone to ask him about THIS OTHER pervert and RAPIST!!!

this is a fab empirical question - could be tested. we design videotaped interactions or describe vignettes of people in consensual sexual encounters with a power differential (all gender ident and sexual pref combos); ask perceivers to rate appropriateness, consensuality, etc.

Harvey has gotten away with it well. He will now disappear into a country that doesn’t care for Hollywood. I know this sounds impossible but yes Americans some countries exist that don’t care for your films/humour/actors and production!

That picture doh! 'okay, okay, now look creepy as shit. Like halfway hide behind a wall and creep-peep. That's it!!! You're amazing!! Work it! Work it!'

Prof Green .

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