Talk:Casting couch/Archives/2021

The differences between a casting couch and a transactional sex

Casting couch is an unequal relationship or exchange in which a powerful person extracting sex by coercion and extortion (sexual misconduct) from a powerless person in order for the powerless person to gain employment. On the contrary, transactional sex is an equal sexual exchange or interaction between people. So casting couch absolutely does not come under the category of transactional sex. Does anyone have other ideas? BabesLooker (talk) 11:51, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

@BabesLooker: I think you've misunderstood what my objections to this edit are. My objection is not that I think "casting couch" isn't transactional sex. What I personally think isn't relevant, so I'm not going to tell you. What's important is that everything on Wikipedia needs a reliable source so that readers can check, by looking at the reference, that the information isn't just some editor's opinion or something they've made up. The source you gave is an opinion piece that does not say that "casting couch" is a type of transactional sex. I also gave an example of why your claim is quite heavily loaded opinion, and as such I don't expect reliable sources supporting your claim to exist: Some people will say that "casting couch" acts are rape and rape is not "transactional sex". The reason why this is relevant is because, as I said: Categories need to be neutral, defining and sourced by sources reliable for fact (not opinion pieces) in the article proper.

As such, my objections would also apply to any statement in the article like "Casting couch is not transactional sex because X" or the inclusion of Category:Rape or anything else—just as the idea that casting couch is transactional sex is opinion, the exact opposite idea is also opinion. Wikipedia does not work like an internet forum, where we get from "A is a B and B is a C, so A is a C" by logical reasoning. This is called synthesis and banned. Instead, we say literally the facts that the highest-quality reliable sources say, and we don't say what they don't say. (And for expert opinions we can say "X said that".) Let me know which part of this reasoning is not clear to you. — Bilorv (talk) 16:17, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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