He took it like a man
More on Harvey Weinstein from the Guardian Live:
His lawyer decided it was a good time to troll everyone:
Donna Rotunno, Weinstein’s lead lawyer, has also been talking to reporters outside court, promising an appeal and saying of her client, in a remark which may prove controversial: “He took it like a man.”
Oh yes? Meaning what? He jumped on the prosecutors and raped them? He used his superior strength to overpower women and then terrorized them into staying silent? He tried to threaten reporters and publishers into staying silent?
Saying “the fight is not over”, the Chicago-based lawyer said: “It is absolutely horrible for me to watch my client be taken into custody. We don’t feel good about that at all.”
“Harvey is very strong,” she added. “Harvey is unbelievably strong. He took it like a man. He knows that we will continue to fight for him and knows that this is not over.”
We know Harvey’s very strong. Several witnesses testified about his great strength.
Cyrus Vance gave a press conference after the verdict.
Vance had a stern message for Weinstein’s defense team, lead by the highly contentious Chicago lawyer Donna Rotunno, who approached the court proceedings as though it was #MeToo that was on trial and not her client. She even reduced one of the key witnesses – a woman the Guardian is not naming who alleged rape for which Weinstein was found guilty in the third degree today – to uncontrollable sobbing.
The witness didn’t take it like a man.
“I hope that after this verdict it will become more obvious that those kinds of attacks on survivors and victims will no longer work in this day and age,” he said. “It’s time that the defense stop using them.”
They probably do work though.
The real problem is that he has always taken things like a man – taken things that did not belong to him, taken things that were not his to take, taken things because he had a man’s power, a man’s strength, and a man’s entitlement. So maybe if he would take it a little less like a man, the world would be better off. And he might have had more money than he does, because he wouldn’t have paid out all those settlements to keep women quiet. Most actresses would have willingly worked for him if he was making movies that sold and could advance their career; they didn’t require sleeping with him. He is the one who required it. And making him seem the victim is just perverse, because the women did not need to sleep with Harvey to advance their careers unless Harvey would advance their careers because he slept with them – and not otherwise.
So, yeah, stop taking it like a man, Harvey, and learn how to be a decent human being (which many of the men I know are, actually, so stop insulting them, too).