The Plucking of the Flower

I hope it doesn't come across as of not pitying. But I originally entered the discussion trying to see the danger in using language as "forced" in this actresses's case. We do no one any favors by using language in "I just couldn't help myself" way. Certainly we don't know the state of the poor girl's soul or her weaknesses. However, the message we send out there is that selling one's body for career advancement is something that is quite rampant in the world and when we find it circumstantially exuseable this ends up evolving into permissable. May we instead encourage our sisters to heroic virtue and may they encourage us men in the same way. The banner of victimhood will not help either of us. This case makes me angry because these men took someone beautiful and used her; also that our culture sees career as so important that we are readily to see the logic in using one's body to advance in the business world. A shame that no man encouraged her (I assume) to say "no!" and that she sold her birthright, so to speak, for a bowl of porridge. She was a flower of the field and allowed a man to pluck her up for a momentary whiff of her fragrance. May we encourage the roses in our midst to put out their thorns when such men come around.