There should never be another child or adolescent star.
Everyone who works for that industry should have to have a college degree.
Sexual harassment policies should be taken as seriously by that industry as they are supposed to be taken by other industries; "That's the script; do it or leave" has to stop being considered a legitimate excuse for the abuse of women.
The industry has NO AWARENESS of women's rights, other than to treat them like a joke. It hasn't changed for hundreds of years, other than to worsen in terms of how women are forced to be degraded and abused to have careers. The type of violence, particularly against women, that is routinely shown on television, in movies and in music, is more graphic and sadistic every year.
The entertainment industry can't be convinced by reason, facts or arguments; the entire industry is so uneducated and has conducted business in such moral corruption for so many years that the people who decide what the industry does have no frame of reference for reason, facts or arguments.
Female cashiers are degraded less at work than the most financially successful actresses and female musicians, and female cashiers are not asked or brainwashed to participate in their own degradation; that's not an exaggeration. Nobody forces a cashier to be stupid; people who hire cashiers pray for smart people to apply.
Other than to have rating systems, I don't think that you can tell people what to write, sing or film, but you can institute educational requirements for a for-profit industry that influences the public to the degree that the entertainment industry does. When the people who work for the industry are all educated people, WHEN YOU CAN'T BE HIRED without a college degree, and when advanced education correlates to promotions and higher salaries, which is what other industries consider normal rather than deserving of derision, the entertainment industry will self-correct.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 6, 2017 @ 11:28 p.m.
