Longtime lurker. I've wanted to post for a while but I feel like a fraud because I'm only just 15. Hardly Mumsnet's intended demographic!
I really love reading Feminism Chat, you mumsnetters out there have taught me an awful lot. (and it can be hilarious)
This isn't really news, but it shocked me, I really posted this because I can't believe Dustin Hoffman could SAY this in a interview, and apparently nobody thought it was wrong, back then. I mean, it was in Playboy in 2004, way before the Me Too movement took him down, but still..
Playboy asked him how he lost his virginity and this is what he said-
PLAYBOY: Let’s talk about sex. How did you lose your virginity?
HOFFMAN: My parents went to Las Vegas one New Year’s Eve weekend, and my brother Ronny threw a party. I loved that he let me be part of it—I was 15, and he’s seven years older. I cooked steaks. It was one or two in the morning, and I saw a line of guys standing outside a bedroom door. They said, “Do you want to go next?” “What do you mean?” “Barbara’s in there.” I had met Barbara, a beautiful older woman, about 20. She was what in those days we called a nymphomaniac, which is not a word you hear anymore. She was servicing these guys, one after the other. I had never been laid, and I couldn’t believe my good fortune. I went in. It was dark, and she said, “Is that you, Ronny?” I said yes, lying for fear that she’d reject me. I wasn’t old enough to drive a car, so I thought maybe I wasn’t old enough to drive a woman. I remember whistling because I wanted to appear relaxed as I was taking off my clothes. It was wonderful. I came quickly and kept humping and humping. I thought, Is that all there is? I kept waiting for the next fireworks. The humping went on for about 20 minutes until somebody opened the door. It was just like a movie: A shaft of light was thrown from the hallway onto my face, and she screamed because I wasn’t my brother.
PLAYBOY: Were you traumatized? Was she? Have you recovered?
HOFFMAN: She was shocked just because I wasn’t my brother. I jumped off her, stark naked, and left the room. I was kind of shocked and dizzy. I wound up in the living room, and guys were sitting around having beer and talking, and I was naked. This may have been the beginning of my acting career without my knowing it, because they stood up and applauded, and I liked the applause. What was disturbing about it was that I couldn’t get laid again for another two years.
So basically , dear Dustin admits to raping her by deception, and he says this, in an interview, and nobody back then thought it was rape..
Datalounge called it out though, -
but poor Barbara, she's had to live with that all this time.
What a wanker.
I actually can't believe this, found it on Datalounge, and I've checked , it seems to be genuine