PhotoMr. Weinstein’s social diagnosis successfully invoked the era that we had just memorialized after Hugh Hefner died. Mr. Hefner invented the Playboy ethos that Mr. Weinstein used like a get-out-of-jail-free card. “The culture then” encouraged men to loosen their libidos and women were expected to tolerate it. When Oliver Stone and Woody Allen came forward to express sympathy for Mr. Weinstein, everybody rolled their eyes at them, too. Women were inferior to men because, for Playboy, they were scenery — pretty, passive, usually white, often blonde, there.

Source: New York Times October 27, 2017 12:00 UTC