Twitter Suspends Rose McGowan After She Goes H.A.M. On Weinstein Protectors

Trigger Warning: This article discusses sexual assault and rape.

Rose McGowan was suspended from Twitter yesterday after apparently posting someone's private number in her epic tirade against Harvey Weinstein's protectors.

The offending Tweet has now been deleted but many were outraged that McGowan, who has been extremely vocal in the wake of the Weinstein allegations, was silenced for calling out the numerous Hollywood personalities who apparently knew about the offences and swept them under the rug.

People were highly critical of Twitter's response to the matter given a number of users who go unpunished despite their offensive nature.

when will nuclear war violate your terms of service? https://t.co/72FiiyoZ59

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017

Rose McGowan's Twitter account has been suspended for inciting women to speak out against sexual harassment & rape. Anyway, lets hop on over to Richard Spencer's account & get the deets on the next Klan rally...

— LTone (@LTone) October 12, 2017

Since getting access to her Twitter back, McGowan has gone on to reveal that she complained to Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon.com, about an incident she had with Weinstein. She urged him not to let her script be produced by Weinstein because she claims he raped her in 1997. Bezos allegedly told her that he needed proof.

1) @jeffbezos I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof.

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017

4) @jeffbezos I am calling on you to stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers. I love @amazon but there is rot in Hollywood

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017

Allegations of further sexual harassment and assault are mounting as the ongoing investigation into Weinstein deepens.

Another actor, Kate Beckinsale, has come out against Weinstein today, speaking of an experience she had with him at the age of 17.

 

I was called to meet Harvey Weinstein at the Savoy Hotel when I was 17. I assumed it would be in a conference room which was very common.When I arrived ,reception told me to go to his room . He opened the door in his bathrobe . I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older ,unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him .After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left ,uneasy but unscathed.A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting .I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not .I had what I thought were boundaries - I said no to him professionally many times over the years-some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a cunt and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people oh "Kate lives to say no to me ." It speaks to the status quo in this business that I was aware that standing up for myself and saying no to things,while it did allow me to feel uncompromised in myself,undoubtedly harmed my career and was never something I felt supported by anyone other than my family.I would like to applaud the women who have come forward , and to pledge that we can from this create a new paradigm where producers,managers,executives and assistants and everyone who has in the past shrugged and said " well, that's just Harvey /Mr X/insert name here " will realize that we in numbers can affect real change.For every moment like this there have been thousands where a vulnerable person has confided outrageous unprofessional behavior and found they have no recourse, due to an atmosphere of fear that it seems almost everyone has been living in .I had a male friend who, based on my experience,warned a young actress who said she was going to dinner with Harvey to be careful. He received a phone call the next day saying he would never work in another Miramax film ;the girl was already sleeping with Harvey and had told him that my friend had warned her off.Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder,and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick,and that we have work to do.

A post shared by Kate Beckinsale (@katebeckinsale) on Oct 12, 2017 at 6:02am PDT

"I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him," Beckinsale wrote on Instagram.

It comes just a day after Cara Delevigne revealed that Weinstein had tried to force her into having a threesome with himself and another woman.

"At that moment I felt very powerless and scared but didn't want to act that way hoping that I was wrong about the situation," she wrote.

The stories that are spilling out are emblematic of a greater issue in which men in positions of great power are taking advantage of young actors at the beginnings of their careers. The fall of Harvey Weinstein is a good start, but with incidents as recent as 2015 on top of the sheer magnitude of offences, there is still a long, long way to go.

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