Kevin Spacey is the latest Hollywood deviant to get his turn on the chopping block. It’s been a long time coming.

Actor Anthony Rapp alleges that Spacey invited him to a party at his apartment when he was 14 years old, where, he says, Spacey “tried to seduce” him. There is of course only one reason why a grown man would invite a young boy to his apartment for a drunken party, especially in Hollywood, and that reason became clear at the end of the night. After everyone had left, Spacey carried the boy to his bed, climbed on top of him, and “made a sexual advance.” Rapp was able to wrestle himself away and flee the building.

People are calling Spacey’s alleged treatment of Rapp “attempted molestation” or even just “harassment,” but it is neither of those things. What Rapp describes is actual molestation. It is the sexual assault of a child, far beyond “harassment” and several steps past a mere “attempt.” It is, to say the least, disturbing that we speak in harsher tones about a 93-year-old George Bush touching the butts of grown women than we do about a grown man luring a child to his apartment and forcibly climbing on top of him.

Spacey himself all but confirmed the accusations when he issued a statement conspicuously devoid of anything approaching a denial. He said he was drunk and doesn’t remember what happened. Note: all non-child molesters can definitively declare, drunk or not, that they’ve never sexually assaulted any children. Spacey’s inability to make such a proclamation tells us everything we need to know. Spacey also used this statement as an opportunity to announce that he’s gay, hoping that the media would focus on his gayness rather than his sexual assault of a child. It worked.

Several prominent media outlets turned Spacey’s alleged molestation of a child into a coming out party. Headline from Reuters: “Spacey declares he lives life as a gay man.” Headline from New York Daily News: “Kevin Spacey announced Sunday night he will live life as a gay man.” And the worst one from ABC News, which has since been deleted (the headline, not the news organization itself, unfortunately): “Kevin Spacey comes out in emotional tweet.”

Perhaps Weinstein should have responded to allegations that he exposed himself to various actresses by coming out as an exhibitionist. Headline: “Harvey Weinstein boldly reveals nudist identity in brave statement.”

Truly, this is why people hate the media.

But the worst aspect of this story, once again, is how unsurprising it apparently is. As soon as the news broke, Twitter was flooded with comments from people who work in Hollywood, all confirming that Spacey’s affinity for little boys is an “open secret.” Everybody knew. Everybody knows a lot of things in Hollywood, it seems. According to these reports, young kids are warned to stay away from Spacey on the sets of his films and television shows. They’re warned, we should specify, in private by people who may be somewhat concerned about protecting kids but apparently not concerned enough to have come out in public and said, “Hey, everyone, guess what? Kevin Spacey molests kids.”

Spacey’s alleged pedophilic ways are so widely recognized that Family Guy made a joke about them in 2006. Gawker ran an article about Spacey’s “aggressive love for men” in 2015. Spacey was even cast as a grown man sexually infatuated with a teenager in the terrible movie American Beauty, which came out in 1999. Hollywood was practically taunting us.

Do you know what it’s called when you stay silent about a man who molests boys (allegedly)? It’s called being complicit. Hollywood is populated by predators and those who cooperate with and cover for predators, and maybe, like, five or six people who fall outside either camp. Now, allowing assault and molestation to go on because you’re more worried about your career isn’t as bad as actually doing the assaulting and molesting yourself — but it’s almost as bad. There is not much daylight in between the two groups, morally speaking. The predator is driven by his perverse sexual hunger and the complicit bystander by his professional ambitions. They are different but not that different. Both bear an enormous amount of guilt.

We seem to have made excuses for those who look the other way here, even though we made no such excuses in the cases of the Catholic Church and Penn State. Joe Paterno’s statue was torn down and he died in disgrace because he didn’t do enough to stop the serial rape of kids. But Hollywood actors and others in the business sat around whispering to each other while women, men, and kids were raped and molested for decades, and we give them a pass. We don’t want to pass judgment. They were in a difficult spot. It’s not their fault.

Nonsense.

It is their fault. We should pass judgment. There is no excuse. How many people were at that party with Kevin Spacey and a 14-year-old boy he was clearly grooming for assault? How many people have been at other parties with Kevin Spacey and potential victims? How many people heard first hand about Weinstein yet said nothing and still worked with him? How many people witnessed his behavior themselves yet still gushed about him while accepting the Oscars they received as rewards for their cooperation? How many rapists and pedophiles are there in Hollywood, and how many people in Hollywood have seen these predators in action, have known with certainty that they are predators, and yet still today, at this moment, are hiding in a corner with their mouths shut like gutless, spineless, shameful cowards? How many in Hollywood have direct knowledge, or at least reliable secondhand knowledge, of the powerful pedophile ring that allegedly operates in that town, yet have made no attempt to put a stop to it for fear of seeing their acting roles in stupid films dry up?

Enough of this.

And while we’re at it, enough of the people who come forward with extremely vague #MeToo stories, declaring that some unnamed Hollywood big shot acted inappropriately with them, but they won’t say who and they won’t reveal any more details. If a “high-level” executive grabbed your penis at a party, he’s surely done much worse. Name him, for God’s sake. I know that we’re not supposed to “victim blame,” but can we at least request that if you’re going to come forward with a story about a Hollywood predator, you do so in a way that doesn’t protect the identity of the predator? How else can we interpret such a move other than to conclude that you want attention more than you want to protect the next victim?

Corey Feldman says he has names of numerous Hollywood pedophiles, including one who is still active and powerful today, and he’ll identify all of them — once we give him 10 million dollars to produce a documentary on the subject. I’m sorry for the abuse Feldman suffered, but what kind of a game is this? If there are men in Hollywood currently raping boys, and you know who they are, and you can name them, then just sit down with the Today Show and tell us what you know. Why is 10 million dollars a prerequisite for saving these boys from abuse? Why tease us with the information? What about the boys who are victimized while you promote your crowdfunding campaign? “Coming soon: I’ll tell you which men in Hollywood are currently molesting boys as we speak!“ It’s gross.

One more thought: Where are the parents of these kids? These stories of molestation always seem to happen at a party, in a home, in a bedroom, in a hotel room — why would you allow your child to ever be in that situation? Why would you allow your child anywhere near Hollywood to begin with? It seems that approximately every child actor has ended up abused, drug addicted, and ruined, yet there is a never ending supply of them. It’s a shame.

I’m disgusted by almost everyone involved here. Very, very few people in the film business have acted with anything resembling courage or selflessness. Hollywood is a cesspool of perversion and moral cowardice and stifling self-interest. The industry appears to be collapsing, and I hope it does. It contributes nothing worthwhile to society anyway. Let it die. Let it burn. We’d all be better off without it.