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mipond posted...

I just question why all of a sudden this is coming up now.

Because it's a matter that, for many years, victims have been strongly pressured not to talk about. In the wake of people starting to talk about it, though, everyone is starting to feel more comfortable fighting back against that pressure and breaking that silence, and you've got a whole lot of people sharing their stories.

SmokeMassTree posted...

Some of them tho just feel like propositions for sex. Are we calling that sexual harassment now?

If it's from someone in a position of power, potentially. There's definitely an established norm wherein turning down a director's advance can cost you the job and result in an influential person badmouthing you to the rest of the industry. There's ample precedent of exactly that happening, such that those fears are pretty well-founded. To that end, anyone who is in a position of power needs to be very careful about how they approach subordinates that they want to sleep with. That's one of the responsibilities of having that kind of power. That abuse of power is the actual problem, and what needs to stop, but until it stops it's important for everyone in such a position to recognize the potential for intimidation there and ensure that any sexual activity they engage in is fully consensual.
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