A Festival Is Set To Burn A Giant 36-Foot Tall Effigy Of Harvey Weinstein
Daily Mail- A famous British Bonfire Night festival will burn an effigy of scandal-hit Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein at this year’s event. A huge wooden likeness of Weinstein has been built by the Edenbridge Bonfire Society in Kent and will go up in flames on Saturday night. The effigy shows the sex scandal producer in an open-fronted robe clutching an Oscar. His crotch is covered by a star and a movie clapperboard. The society produces a Guy Fawkes-style dummy to set fire to each year, selecting a villain figure from the news to set alight. Previous effigies have included Donald Trump, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong.
I’m a big fan of this idea. It’s been a wild couple of weeks ever since Harvey Weinstein’s creepiness was revealed to the world. It has brought Hollywood to its knees (with consent). Nobody is safe. Anybody and anyone who pulled out their dick without permission or tried to exchange sexual favors for promised career advancement is getting hit in face with comeuppance bullets. And it’s all for the better in my opinion. You can’t be jerking off in front of someone who doesn’t wanna be jerked off in front of and finishing in a potted plant. You can’t be forcing people to do sexual acts they don’t wanna do. So ultimately all of this Harvey Weinstein stuff will hopefully lead to progress. It’s probably gonna get a whoooooooole lot worse before it gets better in terms of people coming forward and exposing the creeps (just ask Kevin Spacey) but it will get better I think.
But with all that said, nothing feels better than simply lighting shit on fire. That’s why I love this idea. Lighting shit on fire is the best feeling in the world. It’s why people love fireworks so much. Instant gratification without the allegations. Lighting a giant Harvey Weinstein on fire is gonna feel awesome. Watching a giant Harvey Weinstein burn to the ground is gonna feel awesome. Is the satisfaction short-lived? Probably but sometimes you need that. Sometimes you just need to light shit on fire.