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The Bloom Memo

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The memo Lisa Bloom wrote for Harvey Weinstein has been made public in She Said, and it is remarkably vile:

Monica Hesse comments:

The most horrible thing about Lisa Bloom’s memo to Harvey Weinstein wasn’t the advice it offered. An experienced male crisis manager could have come up with a similarly odious battle plan.

The most horrible thing was the life experience she brought to writing it. She knew, intimately, how women were treated in the court system and the public eye. She knew how accusers can be portrayed as crazy — “increasingly unglued,” was the phrase she used when detailing how they would frame Rose McGowan for the general public. Lisa Bloom knew everything that would happen to Weinstein’s victims if they executed her plan, and she wrote that memo anyway.

She has since apologized, calling her involvement a “colossal mistake.” She has vowed to make her law practice 100 percent victim-focused. She sounds truly sorry.

But while I was reading “She Said,” I couldn’t stop marveling over how much Bloom seemed to relish her role as Harvey Weinstein’s adviser. How heady all that power must have seemed. “As a women’s rights advocate, I have been blunt with Harvey and he has listened to me,” she proposed as one public statement. In the next sentence, she mentioned a movie project Weinstein was going to help her get made.

It’s funny how some women talk about “women’s rights,” when what they really mean is, “me.”

Cf. also Lisa Blatt, Amy Chua, etc.

Paul went through this in detail in re: tenured academic losing his side gig as a Dorm RA-ghazi, but attempts to conflate joining Harvey Weinstein’s legal defense team — which is mostly a PR and witness-intimidation racket — with being an indigent defendant’s lone bulwark against the state is intelligence-insultingly absurd. Transparently self-serving arguments deserve to be treated with high levels of skepticism, and this is no less true of arguments made by lawyers.

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