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The "casting couch" symbol may be exclusive to Hollywood, but the transactional significance absolutely is not.
Why do you presume that all careers outside of entertainment are fungible and easily discarded? Male bosses exploit female underlings all the time in every industry. Even the "dead end jobs" are relied upon by persons needing to get by and put food on the table.
It's why employment discrimination law exists: tangible employment actions attached to quid pro quo propositions.
Solely and exclusively? Most often not. Besides that, yes, physical appearances penetrates hiring in just about every possible career field.
From your perspective, I'm sure that male bosses exploit everybody, all the time, not merely the females. But the fact is that what happens in Hollywood is exclusive to Hollywood. There is no culture around women granting sexual favours for job opportunities, except in the film industry. A nurse or a shopkeeper doesn't need to suck someone's prick in order to keep their job. They don't get involved in the drug-fueled and sex-crazed partying that Hollywood celebrities are known to partake in, on a regular basis. You do not see paparazzi following regular people in hopes that they'll do something insane, because they generally don't. Hollywood celebrities do. They're a collective of some of the craziest people in America, who are willing to do pretty much anything to make it.
The average "boss" doesn't get to hand out promises of money and fame, to every individual that works for them. The average boss also isn't surrounded by an "enabling" work environment where having sex with the boss is seen as a "rites of passage" for getting hired, for as long as people can remember. The average boss also doesn't work with vulnerable people who suffer from drug addictions and a variety of mental instabilities, due to the public role and pressure involved with the job.
Everybody knew what happens in Hollywood, it's hardly something that came as a surprise except to the most ignorant of people. We're seeing the sleaze center of America being exposed for what it is. But to say that this casts a shadow over all of America, over every industry?
While I can understand the temptation to use this scandal to stir up division and rally up fervor within the "ranks" of the easily excited, we have to take a step back and look at Hollywood for what it is. A cess-pool. Famous for being such, for the past century or so. Not the average representation of America. Not even close.
What we see is what happens when people's sexual activity is turned up to a fever pitch, to where sex comes to dominate all human interaction. We ought to learn to not idolize the extreme. There are, unfortunately, some dark aspects to that, and we are now seeing it for ourselves.
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