After his first film performance in LucasRyder starred in that of Tim Burton Beetle juice when she was only 15 years old. The actress became famous for her portrayal of eccentric characters who tended to lean toward the dark side, perfecting the art of the rumor mill and the withering stare. However, a sudden rise to fame always proved dangerous for young women, and Ryder soon became heavily obsessed with adult men in the industry who sexualized and harassed her, with no shame in doing so publicly.

After first meeting Ryder, Burton described her by saying, “I had a crush on her at the time. I was 27, she was 15. It was a bit illegal.” Burton has often been portrayed as a Hollywood outsider, seen as a harmless director who prefers to live off the beaten path. But in this statement, Burton proved that he is no different from other Hollywood freaks and mainstream pedophiles who openly express their sexual attraction to children.

Mike Nesmith also publicly expressed a similar sentiment to Burton, sharing how he was “madly in love” with Ryder when he was 44 and she was 15, despite being married and having young children at the era. The couple met during the production of Square dancewith Nesmith saying, “I was madly in love with her…there is a certain age at which young women blossom. They have a puppy side, very attractive. She was right at that age. I couldn’t say no to him.”

Many of these men seem to justify their sexual fantasies towards these young women by describing them as victims of their “irresistible sex appeal”, using this to defend their infatuation as if a child even had the capacity to have a sexual action, describing it as a flirtation of mutual partnership.

Jim McBride, the director who worked with Ryder in 1989, described her by saying: “She’s very sexy without seeming like someone who has a lot of sexual experience.”

At the time, Ryder had just turned 18. Johnny Depp was also extremely in love with Ryder, with the pair dating when Ryder was just 17 and Depp was 25, with the actor proposed to her just five months after they started dating. Ryder later described the troubles of this relationship, saying, “I remember my first boyfriend used to break things up – at eighteen it’s all drama”, speaking of the couple’s eventual breakup after his proposal.

As much as people would like to dismiss this problem as “old”, it continues to rear its ugly head, as we can see through the treatment of many other young women in the industry, who are subjected to d ‘Horrible levels of harassment. Time and time again, Hollywood proves that it is not a utopian place where dreams come true, but rather exists as a nightmare landscape that breeds and encourages this kind of behavior, with little to no consequences for men. who act this way.

Instead, they are rewarded with more projects and awards, only perpetuating the idea that the safety and well-being of women in Hollywood is not a real or thoughtful concern and that they will always protect the men who, frankly, deserve to be in prison.

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