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women are there to protect other people.
“Why has this come to us now? Why haven’t they been fi ghting for some sort of recognition of this behaviour? Why?”
She added: “Forty years ago, there were very few of us women in power and, I have to say, we had a much more robust attitude to men behaving badly.
“Now what seems to have happened, the glass ceiling has been shattered but running alongside that is a sort of fragility amongst women who aren’t able to cope with the treachery of the workplace.
“It shouldn’t be happening but, on the other hand, why have women lost confi dence and why do, certainly MPs, a PA to a trade minister, feel they have to buy sex toys when they’re asked to? I despair.”
She added: “How come the Prime Minister, only 24 hours ago, decided this was a problem?
“What has happened is it has become inconvenient to ignore it any more.
“It shouldn’t be going on but it would be helpful if women, particularly older women and women in power, stopped it being tolerated.
“There needs to be a collective amongst women.”
Her comments provoked outrage on Twitter. Gailf wrote: “Now we have Anne Robinson blaming women for not speaking out.
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“She clearly doesn’t understand the balance of power in all cases. If you speak out, people don’t believe you.”
Peasoup wrote: “Anne Robinson is a dinosaur who should not be given air time.”
Weinstein, 65, is now facing numerous sexual assault and rape allegations from more than 60 actresses and assistants.
He has “unequivocally” denied any allegations of non- consensual sex and claims many of the accusations against him are “patently false”.
In an ensuing statement he said he had “confi rmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances”.
Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow are among those who claim they were abused. Weinstein faces police investigations in the UK and the US.
He is under civil rights investigation in New York state.
He has also been fi red from the Weinstein Company he helped found, expelled by the Academy Awards and suspended by BAFTA.