Rain Dove is my favorite type of soap.

That's a reasonable, well-thought out statement about a complex, painful situation. What was she supposed to say?..."Burn the Witch!" or something like that?

Yeah. That seemed perfectly reasonable.

@2 Yeah it's not a bad statement. I think we (ok, I) expected a complete cop-out statement that betrayed the principles of #metoo in the name of protecting one of their own (ie, a longer version of her 'be gentle' tweet). So I'm "pleasantly" surprised by this one. I've never particularly believed that anything Argento did said anything meaningful about #metoo as a general movement; but she reinforced a lot of my negative feelings about the 'woke' wing of the progressive left. It's refreshing to see someone retreat to principle rather than rank chauvanism, and I'm certainly surprised that it's McGowan doing it (she's never been especially thoughtful or calculating). Perhaps there's hope for progressivism to reclaim the moral high ground again!

@4 I've largely seen Asia Argento as being a perfect example of how abuse is almost always cyclical in nature.

So Asia discussed being blackmailed after Anthony's death. Interesting she said it was all his idea and his money to pay the kid off. AA is a horrible person and she was never anyone's victim. She has made it infinitely more difficult for real victims to be heard and believed. She's just been fired from her X Factor job. Hopefully no one will hire in the future and since she can no longer leach off of Anthony as she has no access to his money now that he's dead, I hope her life sucks hard from now until it ends. Fuck her.

I'm a little bummed to learn anybody's named Rain Dove, but that's my cross to bear, and besides that this seemed pretty reasonable.

@5 the implication is, of course, that Weinstein himself was abused. Doors that matter to you?

Trump's biographer was as implicit as you can get that his father abused him. Does that matter to you?

Of course, Argento was not a child when she first came into contact with Weinstein. Does that matter?

Argento's character is opaque to me. And just HOW reprehensible or reckless her behavior toward Bennett has been is still a question. BUT, even if he'd been 18 in California, or the act had taken place in some venue where 17 was legal...it still is weird and ghastly. She'd worked with him before he was 10 years old, and referred to him as 'her son' over and over again.

The issue of alcohol, both as a compliance drug when given to Bennett, AND as a possible explanation of Argento's reckless adventuring at his expense, is strangely ignored in public discussion. It may well be that Argento was being blackmailed by some other person or persons. McGowan reports that she was making monthly payments, but Bennett seems to have been paid in a chunk or two.

Senator Portman did this sort of thing better.

At least the statement assists the case against the singular "they".