{"id":738774,"date":"2021-09-10T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=738774"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:50:53","slug":"weinstein-accuser-blasts-hollywood-me-too-group-for-focusing-on-left-wing-political-interests-instead-of-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weinstein-accuser-blasts-hollywood-me-too-group-for-focusing-on-left-wing-political-interests-instead-of-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein Accuser Blasts Hollywood \u2018Me Too\u2019 Group For Focusing On Left-Wing Political Interests Instead Of Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fweinstein-accuser-blasts-hollywood-me-too-group-for-focusing-on-left-wing-political-interests-instead-of-victims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=738774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1078642052-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Louise Godbold was one of the dozens of women who came forward in 2017 to tell her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/harvey-weinstein-accuser-louise-godbold-trauma-specialist\/\">story<\/a> of being assaulted by convicted rapist and former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>In the nineties, she was a young producer interested in an internship at Weinstein\u2019s production company, Miramax. When she went to tour his Tribeca office, Godbold says the man Meryl Streep once called \u201cGod\u201d cornered her in a conference room. The events she described next were harrowing \u2026 and familiar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of nowhere he grabs my hand and puts it on his crotch,\u201d she said, \u201cwhich was incredibly shocking because I\u2019d known this man for many years and had never had any inkling that he would behave in such a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Godbold resisted, Weinstein apologized and let her go. But then, in a scene that matches the experiences of so many of his other victims, he arranged a meeting in a hotel room where he took his clothes off and cajoled her for a massage.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, Godbold told The Wrap in 2018, her sense of self-preservation \u201ckicked in,\u201d and she fled. But, as the world now knows, many other young actresses and would-be filmmakers weren\u2019t able to escape so easily.<\/p>\n<p>Today, working as a trauma specialist, Godbold has some choice words for Time\u2019s Up, the anti-harassment group some of Hollywood\u2019s most famous women helped found ostensibly to hold abusers accountable.<\/p>\n<p>In a scathing op-ed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/times-up-crisis-louise-godbold-op-ed\/\">The Wrap<\/a>, she says the millions of women who believed Time\u2019s Up would be a champion for survivors of sexual violence \u201chave been disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar from acknowledging the women who dared to tell the truth about powerful abusers, Time\u2019s Up completely ignored our existence,\u201d Godbold said. She believes that Time\u2019s Up sacrificed its professed mission to support women\u2019s safety in the workplace on the altar of general left-wing preoccupations like \u201cequal pay,\u201d \u201cdiversity,\u201d and \u201cbroad equity initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past four years,\u201d Godbold said, \u201cmany in the survivor community became resigned to the fact that the focus of Time\u2019s Up was on anything but the needs of survivors.\u201d She went on:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>So why do I feel so betrayed by the news stories reporting that the leadership of Time\u2019s Up did not consider supporting survivors \u2014 indeed, that they actively worked against the interests of survivors, such as by assisting Andrew Cuomo in his response to sexual harassment allegations? \u2026 Am I the only one who at some level believed TIME\u2019S UP existed to help survivors, despite its clear track record suggesting the contrary?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Godbold said that in the beginning, she felt \u201cemboldened\u201d by the celebrities who showed their support for Time\u2019s Up through displays of solidarity like wearing black gowns to the 2018 Golden Globes:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>I was on my feet cheering along with everyone else when Oprah Winfrey made her rousing speech that evening about looking forward to \u201cthe day when nobody ever has to say \u2018Me too\u2019 again.\u201d \u201cWhen that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight,\u201d she said. Only we weren\u2019t. The Weinstein survivors hadn\u2019t been invited.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But now, Godbold says she and the other victims in the entertainment industry feel betrayed by Time\u2019s Up and everyone who associated with it, saying they feel as if \u201cthe story has consistently moved forward without [them],\u201d and:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>Journalists write prize-winning books. TV shows and movies help themselves to the now-infamous details of our assaults. And wealthy, powerful women declare TIME\u2019S UP on the entertainment industry \u2026 only to end up oscillating between campaigns to support caregivers and advocating for Scarlett Johansson in her multi-million dollar salary dispute with Disney.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This ricocheting between the interests of low-income workers and those of the entertainment world elite, plus what that reveals about a seeming lack of strategic direction at Time\u2019s Up, has been dizzying.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Godbold finished by highlighting the organization\u2019s indifference to politically inconvenient victims like disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s accuser, Lindsey Boylan, and Joe Biden\u2019s accuser, Tara Reade:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p><em>The recent scandal and subsequent resignations at Time\u2019s Up has revealed the central contradiction and, to survivors, the essential flaw in the organization: survivors are not and never have been the constituents of Time\u2019s Up\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That is because, as we saw with Tara Reade and Lindsay Boylan, sometimes the individual needs of survivors will run contrary to the organization\u2019s desire to maintain friendships with the powerful. Thus, certain survivors are sacrificed for \u201cthe greater good\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We didn\u2019t cry #MeToo because we wanted pay equity for female movie stars. We didn\u2019t speak out about our abusers only to have women leaders cater to them in order to retain power. Yes, survivors want an end to sexual violence and for abusers to be held accountable. But more than that, we want our expertise to be integral to finding solutions and implementing change. Every time someone else takes on that role for us, however well-intentioned, survivors become sidelined and our interests ignored.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/times-up-dissolves-advisory-board-to-shield-a-listers-like-reese-witherspoon-and-natalie-portman-from-unfair-scrutiny\">reported<\/a>, even as Time\u2019s Up has been imploding over revelations that its leaders helped Cuomo discredit Boylan and ordered staffers not to support her, the group has focused on preventing the famous women who propped it up from having to answer awkward questions.<\/p>\n<p>On September 5, it sent out an email alerting Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Natalie Portman, Brie Larson, Amy Schumer, Julianne Moore, Alyssa Milano, and Jessica Chastain that it was dissolving the advisory board the actresses were all members of to spare them the need to formally resign.<\/p>\n<p>The email said the move was intended to \u201cshield\u201d the stars from \u201cunfair scrutiny.\u201d It did not specify what kind of scrutiny or from whom, but having to answer potential questions from the press about Time\u2019s Up\u2019s (and perhaps their own) hypocrisy, seems most likely.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Godbold was one of the dozens of women who came forward in 2017 to tell her story of being assaulted by convicted rapist and former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.In &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}