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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
The reality though is you don't understand what power is. He was an older, relatively established actor, having parties with other professionals, getting into night clubs in VIP sections without ID. To a 14 year old that's a power player and someone to be obeyed. Even if Spacey was Joe Blow, a manager at the arcade some random 14 year old worked at, he could be in an equal position of power if he chose to be.
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And you don't understand how common power disparities are in all relationships. In any group of five actors out for a night on the town - or students at a bar, or athletes at a tournament, or writers at a conference - there will likely be power disparities. Some who have higher social or career status than others. People in those groups may very well - as people do - engage in sexual relations. Some of those will even develop into long-term relationships.
We can't do away with power imbalances in sexual relations any more than we do away with them in all other aspects of our lives. Sometimes it's egregiously exploitative, and should be punishable by law, such as in the allegations against Weinstein. But it's neither just nor practical to sanction it in all cases.
The creepy part about this is that Rapp was a minor. Not the fact Spacey was a higher-status actor.