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Uma Thurman is angry and ready to talk.
After several months of saying she would reveal her sexual harasser, the Kill Bill star has detailed how Harvey Weinstein forced himself on her in a London hotel.
In a New York Times article by Maureen Dowd, Thurman also says she holds her agents at the firm Creative Artists Agency (CAA) responsible.
Thurman tells how, after the success of Pulp Fiction, “the bathrobe came out” when Weinstein asked her to meet him at his Paris hotel and then led her to the steam room, which she quickly exited.
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Not long after, she met him at the Savoy Hotel in London, where she alleges, “He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me”.
In the interview Thurman described how she felt “ultimately compliant” during the sexual assault.
“I tried to say no, I cried, I did everything I could do. He told me the door was locked but I never ran over and tried the knob. When I got home, I remember I stood in front of the mirror and I looked at my hands and I was so mad at them for not being bloody or bruised.
“Something like that tunes the dial one way or another, right? You become more compliant or less compliant, and I think I became less compliant.”
Thurman returned to the hotel soon after and threatened to expose what he had done, but instead Weinstein said he would ruin her career so she recounted.
Thurman said she feels bad that so many women were later abused by Weinstein and that in some way, they may have trusted him because actresses like herself were willing to work with him.
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Many of us were raised by parents who were raised by parents & grandparents influenced by the lack of ethics and the religious morals of Victorian times.
That's where the sense of entitlement to treat women as servants & subordinates came from in our Australian / British society. Of course before that it was often much worse.....Personally I think that it might have been a backlash to having a Queen ( instead of a King ) as head of the Commonwealth.
Men couldn't hack it - they were raised to believe (according to the bible ) that no matter how useless, cowardly, untalented or lacking in accomplishments they were - at least they were superior to women.
With at least 2 generations of men away fighting WW1 & WW2 , they returned battered & damaged only to find that these pathetic, unworthy, weak women had taken their jobs in their absence.
So many "old-school" men believe that the rise of feminism was inconvenient and unnecessary so a concerted effort has been made to discredit women who stand up for women's rights.
I think it also includes the lack of support for women who are standing up now to report acts of sexual abuse.
We now take notice of the complaints of celebrities because we feel we know them and we sympathize - but there are thousands of other women who've suffered under the weight of history and sexism - not to mention downright misogyny.