Originally posted by BlackPanther7
What she said IS the Bitter Truth.
Nobody can exploit u without ur consent. U need not pay bribe just bcoz u are asked. Nor u shud take bribe just bcoz someone is offering u. If ALL women/men dont pay Bribes when asked and dont offer Bribes to get Roles, Industry wud get cleaned. But, some people want the easy route.
Opportunists on both sides is responsible for this mess.
According to me, Victims are only those persons who refused to do so and hence missed out on the roles. Not those like Sri Reddy who readily did everything to get roles but plays victim when the deal broke. Had she landed a big role, she wud hv shut her mouth.People like her who sleep around for roles botch the chances of other self respecting actresses who was relying only on their Talent.
Of course. I find it laughable that some women will sleep for roles and then claim they were exploited.
It's horrible that amazing actresses like Mira Sorvino were denied roles because they refused to sleep with the likes of Weinstein. Or here in India cases we know of like Adi Chopra offering all roles to Vaani or Mamta Kulkarni and Monica Bedi getting roles through their mafia boyfriends. Talented women were denied their rightful place and everyone knows that.
Then today we have cases like that Shanoo Sharma casting director. She's known to ask for sexual favours from the men she casts. And we all know about a couple of gay power weilders. Maybe some of the men will start their own METoo also. I thought Feminism was about equality.
There are women willing to offer their bodies and they are in no way exploited. They do it of their own freewill. If you don't get a role out of it and then cry rape...BOOO...better get it on some kind of legal agreement in black and white. Like that woman who accused Madhur Bhandarkar of rape after he had consensual sex with him in the hope that he would offer her a film role.
People need to open their eyes and smell the coffee. Telling the truth is not misogyny.
