One of the big lessons from the Harvey Weinstein scandal is the number of victims who weren't believed. Model Zoë Brock said Weinstein chased her around a hotel room naked, begging for a massage. It was 1997, and "no one believed my story," Brock said. Angie Everhart said no one believed her when she
recounted Weinstein barging into her guest room on a yacht, blocking her door and masturbating to completion. For quite some time, no one believed Rose McGowan's tweets that
heavily implied Weinstein raped her.
So: If "Believe the victim" is, in fact, the lesson here, why won't anyone believe Corey Feldman?
For years, Feldman has been adamant that he and childhood friend Corey Haim were victims of molestation in Hollywood, and that predators remain. Yet he's been treated as though he's reporting alien abductions. Feldman may have been easily dismissible from a career standpoint - even he's admitted so - but his accounts have never wavered. Still, his story has been treated with dubiousness if not outright contempt.
Look at a 2013 clip from "The View." A sad, calm Feldman tells Barbara Walters, "I'm saying . . . the people that did this to both me and Corey, that are still working,
they're still out there and they're some of the richest, most powerful people in this business. And they do not want me saying what I'm saying right now."
Walters fairly clutches her pearls. "Are you saying that they're pedophiles?" she asks.
"Yes," Feldman says. As he went on to warn parents of hopeful children, Walters chastised him.
"You're damaging an entire industry!" she said.
Comment: People the world over are recognizing the scourge of psychopaths in positions of power - and they are fed up!
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