I’ve thought of this post a while ago. I could have done it sooner when I first thought of it, but I now have a reason regarding more recent events that make this relevant still. It is long overdue for me to do updates on the Me Too movement, so I might as well get started. Note that some of this will cover more movie stars than TV stars, but this is still a post worthy of this blog.
It seems to have started with a woman named Gwyneth Paltrow. Long an eccentric throughout the whole Hollywood community, she’s not so much known for her strangeness as her reputation for being hard to work with. While I have never met her and am not sure if I ever will, I feel that there is a very good reason not to believe the rumors that she’s not actually hard to work with: Harvey Weinstein was the one who gave her that reputation.
As we all know by now, Harvey Weinstein is a horrible person who did horrible things to a lot of people. He had the power to ruin people before he himself was ruined. The stigma against Gwyneth exists still. She may not be difficult to work with. He just may not have liked being rejected by her or the fact that she didn’t become one of his many victims.
Me too should have been a turning point against this type of thing, but it wasn’t. Sadly, the stigma that exists against women still exist where the person that they accused presents himself as the victim of a smear campaign and she is seen as a liar still works. This is a classic gaslighting technique. And it sadly works. Plus, you have to keep track of who controls the narrative.
Case in point: it seemed to me at first that the allegations involving Eliza Dushku against Michael Weatherly were convenient. It seems that it was one offhand comment that he made that got her so outraged that she refused to work on his show, Bull, but still got the pay she would have gotten if she had worked at least one full season under the show. But it was CBS that partly controlled the narrative and they made it seem like Michael was sorry for this one thing without even painting Eliza in that bad of a light. But this was only part of the story.
Eliza came out and made it clear that Michael had done a whole lot more than just the one comment and she was the one who was effectively blacklisted from the Hollywood community for what he had done wrong. She’s also under one of those infamous NDAs where she can’t even discuss things as much or as well as she would have liked to or been able to otherwise.
That’s not the only case. It would seem that Ruby Rose might have had to deal with a lot of problems with the production of Batwoman. Some suggest that she was the problem herself. She gave a lot of different proof to back up her side of the allegations. But it was still her getting fired from a show that she was even the star of when she was more likely to be a whistleblower than the one causing issues herself. I don’t even know the full story and need to check out more of it myself sometime.
And now we get to the media circus regarding Johnny Depp and Amanda Heard. For those who aren’t aware of this, Johnny Depp is a wife beater and will sue anyone who calls him that. I have no issues calling him that because that is what he is. Go ahead, Johnny. Sue me. I’m not worth being sued. Hardly anyone reads this blog outside of two regular readers most of the time. I endorse fully the cancelling of Johnny Depp as he shouldn’t have the types of fans that he does now.
Why am I convinced of the allegations against Johnny being true? Because the UK has already proved this in a defamation case that you can read about here. The UK has to prove the burden of proof in their cases. That’s why one famous case of theirs had a person proving the Holocaust had happened in order to win their case. They proved quite clearly that Johnny is a wife beater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depp_v_News_Group_Newspapers_Ltd
But the case didn’t end here, which is sad for the betterment of society. When his ex-wife, Amanda Heard, wrote an op-ed, Johnny sued again since there was a new person to sue. Something that I did not understand about the UK case was that it said that Amanda was negatively affected by this. I still don’t understand as she is seen in a negative light. You can read more about this other case here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depp_v._Heard
Johnny knows how to play to the audience. He’s a very capable actor after all. I’m shocked that he still has fans in all of this with people thinking that he’s the victim. The whole point of this blog post that I’m writing is that sometimes men are able to flip the script: claim that they are the victim and that it is the woman who is really the abusive one out to ruin them. What evidence even exists that he’s the victim here? I don’t even know if he is treating the case seriously.
It’s sad that so many people are seeking to defend Johnny still and destroy Amanda. There are over 4 million signatures seeking to remove her from Aquaman 2. They better not work. She better be in that film in the end. I may arrange a boycott of it if she isn’t. I hate the fact that YouTube suggested one of these videos in my feed from the trial, I clicked not interested, and the video still loaded anyways. What’s the point of having a not interested option anyways? And why did you start the annoying autoplay option in the first place?
A co-worker of mine was talking to me about the case. He may not know this, but he was royally pissing me off about it. He thinks that she was lying and negatively affected women who actually do have real cases to make. I don’t think that either of us could see the other side of this. But while I’m not against watching parts of the trial online, it would have to be unedited live feeds. I’m not going to watch any of the videos called Johnny Depp being hilarious in court since they would only show one side, especially since Amanda’s side was not even brought forth in court yet at that time.
I’m at least glad that there are people supporting Amanda in all this, but there are far more people on the side of Johnny and I just don’t get it. I know that a criminal case was settled out of court, but that does not mean that Johnny is innocent. (To be fair, though, that doesn’t mean he’s guilty either.) I really hope that Johnny loses this case as well as he should. I can only hope that this would be the victory for women’s rights that it should be.
This all ties into the final point of this blog post: me too was a much needed thing, but it still did not bring forth what it meant to for the movement. People still aren’t believing women all of the time. And while not every story or allegation will be true in the end, we should make more of an effort to believe them than we are. While there are some cases where it is true that the woman is lying for whatever reason, it is so rarely the case that we should assume that it isn’t before we assume that it is. It needs to be taken on a case by case basis in the end. We can only hope that it works and that women still have the credibility that they should have.
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