I don't get the impression that this is about being in Harvey Weinstein's back pocket, although it's hard to be sure. She's not coming off as a mealy-mouthed liberal who has to come up with some way to split the difference between doctrinaire feminism and taking care of your sugar daddy. I know that spirit. I don't discern it here.
What I think I see is an old-time, traditional woman - probably from the black church tradition - who remembers what she was taught as a girl and probably thinks it's still good advice. And I'm not saying it isn't, but trying to apply it here seems to completely misread what really happened at Miramax, and what appears to be going on more generally in Hollywood:
