Lena Dunham: Harvey Weinstein and the Silence of the Men<br />I took it in stride, unloading the day’s injustices on the couch of my new friend (and now my work partner), Jenni Konner.<br />Roman Polanski, whose victims continue to come forward, is considered a visionary worth fighting for, and I recently had a male star tell me<br />that working with him would “obviously be the ultimate.” (In fact, Mr. Weinstein himself gathered Hollywood to sign a letter asking that Mr. Polanski’s charges be dropped and he be allowed to return to America<br />We imagined a set run by women, men who wouldn’t dream of overstepping or underpaying, a company where girls stretched as far as the eye could see, the chance to write scripts<br />that changed people’s perceptions of feminine identity.<br />This past week, reports that Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for years came to light, making it crystal clear<br />that not every woman in Hollywood has had the chance to walk our path.<br />The use of power to possess and silence women is as likely to occur in a fast-food restaurant as it is on a movie set,<br />and Hollywood has yet another chance to make a noisy statement about what we should and should not condone as a society.
