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They can really hurt people for years and get away with it, because they are supported by the entertainment media and because to outward appearances they are caring in times of known crisis.
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Hailee Steinfeld? Didn't she date Charlie Puth? And didn't Mr. Horan also date Selena Gomez last year, with whom Charlie Puth had a hit song a few years ago and about whom Mr. Puth encouraged rumors that he had also dated?
They're not sluts, though. Of course not! How dare I say such a thing! None of them are; not the guys, not the girls. There's nothing incestuous, circular or perpetually immature about how they live their lives. People who make money for an industry are above criticism by that industry and by anyone who can profit from that industry or whose image depends on it.
Maybe the closed-in social lifestyle of celebrities is also why they acclimated quickly to the digusting idea that watching innocent, unsuspecting people in showers, bathrooms and locker rooms is normal. Not only does the entertainment industry have a rigid hierarchy of stardom which discourages people who attain that status from spending time with or dating regular people so that they and the rest of the world think of stars as being superior, sex is already kind've a group thing for them.
Maybe I also shouldn't have been surprised that the "reckoning" that began in 2017 didn't inspire anyone from the entertainment industry, male or female, to try to put a stop to the voyeurism criminally victimizing thousands of people every day. Even people who had personally experienced abuse within the entertainment industry continued to have no empathy or feelings of responsibility about this situation. I'm not sure why so many of them keep acting as if I'm supposed to understand that they like me and that they're there to date me or try to help me be less poor as soon as I say that's what I want. They don't seem to understand that I don't want to date, be friends with or have my career facilitated by abusers. I don't think of sexual abuse as a rite of passage. It is a crime. A crime that an entire industry or group of industries participates in or refuses to acknowledge is still a crime. The fact that so many people know about it, that the older and established stars have set such a terrible example and corrupted the younger ones and that it's been a pastime and a joke among them all for years doesn't legitimize it; it is more shameful, not less, for that.
