Rotting fish head

The Weinstein effect. The other night I had one of those Weinstein conversations, you know the one; where a group of people bring their prejudices to the table on the subject of abuse of power in the form of sexual harassment. We had everything from outraged women to men in complete denial. I made the point (mostly misunderstood at the time) that the best outcome isn’t to scare the Harveys into a change of heart (which is quite unlikely), but to force behavioral change upon them through a shift in power structures. The Harveys of the world, being adroit in the black arts of abusing power, are also quite sensitive to fluctuations in the power structures above them. All it requires is that the CEO, board or Chair of their organisations takes a position that deviations from a mystically understood norm will not be tolerated, and then the exploiters will cease and desist because generally they are more interested in themselves than anything else. By corollary, the conclusion is unavoidable that any indulgence in abuse only occurs where the organisation in question tacitly and often unconsciously condones such behaviour.