Peter Coates
1 min readSep 25, 2023

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Indeed. It's a difficult situation in part because the cost of being one of the first to say something can be terribly high. 99% of all actors wait tables for decades and never get the big break. They are betting their futures on a career that the Weinsteins of the world can devastate with a word and/or make happen with a nod. Anything you do is almost certain to get you branded as a troublemaker, even in the unlikely event that your troublemaking has any effect at all. With a line of similarly qualified applicants stretching to the horizon behind you, what's the motivation for the person making the hiring call to pick the person who got their last boss dipped in the legal shit? How often does anyone stick their neck out even in an office situation where the stakes are next to nothing? And it's not just at the point of hiring. You have to go to the right parties and get seen at the right tables; what's in it for the other people a the table to be seen as being close to a known troublemaker? That's why so often the women accept the miscreant's subsequent calls and continue on as if nothing has happened--the alternative is a so often a few more years of waiting tables followed by an economy ticket home.

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Peter Coates
Peter Coates

Written by Peter Coates

I was an artist until my thirties when I discovered computers and jumped ship for a few decades. Now I'm back to it. You can probably find some on instagram.

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