This. Promising (female) talent gets preyed on, then punished for objecting or speaking out, and oftentimes leaves the industry discouraged by the total lack of accountability or learns to keep themselves small and unnoticeable for their own safety.
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Maritza Campos
Lost in the conversation about the "merits" of "talented" men creeping on young women is how whatever contributions they have made to the medium is completely drowned by all the contributions their creeping has impeded. Women creeped on by their mentors/idols often just quit their dreams, betrayed.
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While Jim, who they sometimes still socialize with like it's NBD, cuts a path of destruction through a half-dozen girls and women.
No doubt he's done the same to many others, and gotten what he wanted from others using this threat.
You're SAFE. Act like it and step up. Quit tolerating your disgusting colleagues.
a supposedly "good" guy doesn't have to compete against talented women either if Handsy Jim terrorizes them all out of the scene.
I've been telling men (especially the ones I work with) to use their privilege, age, gender to lend power to others and call out the dickheads here, but this is even more succinct.
Similar things have happened at other studios. If all the top creatives are white men, it's not because they're the best available.
And not always about sexual harassment! Sometimes a guy in a creative head position just decides he doesn't want to work with women! As long as he doesn't put it in writing, it's hard to prove.