Comments on: GOSSIP: STEVE EDWARDS SCANDAL

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 23:21:06 +0000

RPSABQ; Your entire screed seems to be projection into Karen’s life, hoping that she’d agree with you. You must be so disappointed that she didn’t. She WAS an adult and not some starry eyed groupy when all this happened. She didn’t have to reveal what she thought of as a friendly mentor helping her career and your insinuating unsubstantiated pseudo psycho babble into her memories is YOUR form of sexual assault. Leave Karen alone.

By: Karen Salkin

Karen Salkin — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:59:23 +0000

Thanks for weighing-in, but I promise you, Steve did absolutely nothing wrong. Many show biz higher-ups invest in the careers of others. I’m sure some people have not-pristine motives, but that was certainly not the case with Steve. Nor is it with lots of other successful people in the business. Helping people is the way that ALL industries should work. Lee Majors also did a good deed for me back in the day, with not a hint of impropriety. Some females did, as well. One woman from a major ad agency called my show to try to get me a major radio advertsisng campaign. She was a stranger to me, but I met her several years later, at an event, and she not only came to several of my tapings, but she and her husband lived near me and we became good friends. There was no ulterior motive there, either. When you’re a young girl in the business, you have to work hard to weed-out the creeps, which I’m proud to say I did pretty well. But, of course, I do not discount your skepticism.

Karen

By: rpsabq

rpsabq — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 08:49:40 +0000

One more very important point: sexual harrassment is about power. He used his power and influence to control the career of a young, beautiful co-worker, not because you were so uniquely talented. I’m sure you were but weren’t there also other talented people around you and did you really need his help? Was he often in the business of offering large amounts of cash to newcomers? Though that may be hard to hear, that is what sexual harrassment is all about. Even though nothing sexual ever happened between you two, you were still sexually harrassed. Whether you believe that or not about Steve, imagine if is was true (and it most likely was), wouldn’t you feel violated over Steve doing and saying those things to you just because he was sexually attracted to you? Of course. So, THAT’s what sexual harrassment is and THAT’s why it’s wrong. Just because you didn’t notice it happening and were naive enough to belive that an older man just wanted to give you money and use his power and influence to further your career out of the goodness of his heart doesn’t mean that sexual harrassment didn’t take place. So when the next woman DOES notice it and DOES say something and the whole scenario ends up playing out differently in her life, she deserves our full support. She does not need a bunch people coming to the guy’s defense saying things like, ” he was always nice to me, offered me money and helped my career – not sure what her problem is.” See how ridiculous you sound now? What, did you think he was this Good Samaritan Angel that came down into your life especially to help you and only you? That’s not how it works and not how human beings, especially well known men who are celebrity journalists in such an egoistic industry are wired.

By: rpsabq

rpsabq — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 08:34:04 +0000

Yes you are and were VERY naive. Nothing is ever for free, especially in this business. Sexual harrassment comes in many forms – doing favors, showing favoritism, extraveggant gifts or offers of gifts, including money are all ways to “sexually harrass” a co-worker. Even if it never leads to anything, that kind of behavior is unprofessional in the work place mainly because most of the time it does lead to something. You were just lucky. Obviously you were young and beautiful and it was his obession with you at the very least, that made his behavior unprofessional. So he’s turned on by you and so you get all the promos and perks? How is that fair? Did he do the same with promising young men in the industry? Why not? See how it works? Maybe it was because you never asked him for anything in return and didn’t aceept his gifts or maybe he just got distracted by something or someone else. Still, you were lucky.