Weinstein was not a star. He was a star maker. And he had money politicians depended on. He had no personal charms or sex appeal, which is why he had to resort to using his  power to coerce women. That happens in every walk of life.

It happens in academia, where the glamour of the intellectual, the genius, the big grants, the status, etc. gives some men power over young academics. Etc.

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with being attractive, sexy, charming, etc., and using those attributes to good advantage in a career, any more than there is in being intellectual, etc. That is just the old Protestant puritanism.