Wonder why no one spoke up about Weinstein during his years of
abuse? For many years I spoke on sexual harassment and the groups response to
it. (In fact, the groups response to abuse, affairs and romantic relationships
was my first research paper in my doctoral program) People around the abuser
may know about the abuse to the victim or victims and let it continue. Think
about the people around Bill Cosby. There are many reasons they may need to
believe the abuser is innocent, as believing the truth. That the abuser has
abused and is in fact evil creates too much cognitive dissonance. They would
have to admit they know and are working with someone evil. Many prefer to keep
the mask on the monster and continue their lives as they are. They may not feel
comfortable tattling and or it is easier to look the other way, blame the victims
and or as in this story, they are being fed by the abuser. Sexual Predators
like to spread the goodies out to their "Apaths"or
"Enablers" In this case the very success of the journalist’s
livelihood depended on being friendly with the abuser.
Here is a good story on this.
