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The roots of MeToo


Stretch back decades https://ew.com/article/1998/06/19/alyssa-milano-and-online-celebrity-exploitation/

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DON'T RAPE OR HARRASS PEOPLE...END OF STORY.

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Read the article and engage with it, before you offer your thoughts. End of story

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I READ IT...


MY CONCLUSION...


DON'T RAPE OR HARRASS PEOPLE...


END OF STORY.

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Obviously you didn't... That article had nothing to do with rape or even harassment, though Alyssa Milano clearly had a highly elastic definition of the latter, even back in '97

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ARE YOU DENSE?....THE ARTICLE DETAILS GROSS HARRASSMENT...CELEBRITIES ARE PEOPLE TOO.

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As said, even back in '97, there was a segment of our society who had already taken an increasingly elastic definition of "harassment". In Milano's case, she really equated movie aficionados online admiring her naked body in scenes that she'd willingly agreed to as "harassment"

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FALSE...THE QUESTION OVER A CELEBRITIES NUDE PICTURES FROM FILMS IS ONE THING...CUT AND PASTE PORN AND PAPARAZZI SHOTS ARE VERY DIFFERENT AND ALL ARE INVOLVED IN THIS ISSUE AND ARTICLE.


In Milano's case, she really equated movie aficionados online admiring her naked body in scenes that she'd willingly agreed to as "harassment"


ALSO FALSE...THE IMAGES WERE FILMED FOR MOVIES...SHE NEVER AGREED TO THEM BEING SNIPPED AND SHARED OUTSIDE THE FILM...THESE MOVIE AFICIONADOS COULD BE FOUND ON PORN SITES DISCUSSING HER LIKE SHE WAS A PIECE OF PORN MEAT...NONE OF WHICH DID SHE AGREE TO IN HER FILM CONTRACTS.

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You're an idiot, Kowalski.

While most of the photos that Milano is suing over were undoctored—nude images lifted from the 1995 film Embrace of the Vampire

It's screenshots from a movie that she chose to be in. Next you're going to say it's harassment when I post my "guess what movie this screenshot is from" threads.

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"MOST"....PLUS...I ADDRESSED THT 26 MINUTES AGO...DUMBASS.

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Yeah, the others are fake. I posted 10 screenshots of movies with your ugly face in it literally yesterday. Did I need to get permission from the movie studio? In fact, you didn't even consider it harassment by me using your picture to cover the dick of a giant troll.

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I AM A FREAKING WEIRDO...SOMEONE ELSE MAY HAVE BEEN HURT BY THAT....IRRELEVANT.

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Anyone can be hurt by anything. Just yesterday, Kumail Nanjiani said he had to go through therapy because he faced trauma from the negative reviews from "The Eternals". I guess we should refrain from negative movie reviews because he was hurt by it.

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WOW...YOU REALLY WANT TO LEAN INTO THIS BULLY ASSHOLE PERSONA,HUH?

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Negative movie reviews are bullying now? You're softer than a marshmallow.

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I DID NOT SAY THAT....APPARENTLY KUMAIL HAD SOME ISSUES WITH THE RESPONSE TO THE FIL...I AM SAYING HIS MENTAL HEALTH IS A REAL THING AND NOT A JOKE FOR ASSHOLES LIKE YOU TO TOSS AROUND.

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From a negative review? If he was talking about being racially profiled, fine. But trauma from a negative review?

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NOW YOU WANT TO QUALIFY AND JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE REACTIONS TO SITUATIONS WITHIN THEIR OWN LIVES?

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If it's something stupid like that, then yes. It's victimizing yourself. Imaging how someone who went through real trauma would feel about his statement.

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YOU SOUND LIKE AN ASSHOLE RIGHT NOW...LIKE...MORE THAN USUAL...CHILL OUT,WEIRDO.

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Dude, I've been through real trauma, and it's not up to me to decide what can break someone's mental state.

It can be crushing when you put your heart and soul into something that you think is going to be really great, and then people just shit all over it. So he talked to a therapist? I think the world might be a better place if more people could have access to therapy instead of just shitting all over other people on the internet.

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If he had said he was hurt or upset about the negative reviews, there would be no problem. But where is the trauma of starring in a movie that was poorly received? It's happened to literally every actor. How can he give the same term of experiencing bad reviews to someone who was raped, suffered mental anguish, witnessed someone die, surviving an accident etc? I mean, the fact that you said you've been through "real trauma" is pretty much my point. What he went through wasn't real trauma. It's just hurt from the bad reviews.

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If you listen to the whole podcast, he talks about having anxiety that he had for years. It's a podcast about mental health. I think the articles about it took the conversation out of context, and now people like you are making it out to be a big thing.

Maybe give it a listen and see if you still think he's making a big deal about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wM8216D8kg


If you don't want to watch the whole thing (it is like an hour long interview) start here. https://youtu.be/6wM8216D8kg?si=xJbp6dqVzsUlxTdT&t=1875

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I mean, the fact that you said you've been through "real trauma" is pretty much my point


Trauma is not just one thing though. A quick google search can give one this answer to what is trauma

"Trauma is when we experience very stressful, frightening or distressing events that are difficult to cope with or out of our control."

You also left out the part where I said it's not up to me to decide what can break someone's mental state. You don't get to decide what is actually traumatic for someone else.

Again if you watch the clip, he actually says that his wife told him that he had trauma from it, and he agreed.

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Again if you watch the clip, he actually says that his wife told him that he had trauma from it, and he agreed.

Fair enough.

You don't get to decide what is actually traumatic for someone else.

I disagree. I've seen people victimize themselves and society is doing it more and more. Imagine if someone has brain cancer and someone says to them, "I know how you feel. I had a really bad headache once that lasted two days. It traumatized me." I think the person who had brain cancer has every right to judge that person.

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YOU SOUND LIKE A THIRD GRADER....THAT COMPARISON IS BOOTY...TRY HARDER IF YOU ARE GONNA PLAY REPUGNANT TROLL.

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Kowalski: "You sound like a third grader."

Also Kowalski: 'That comparison is booty".

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I TYPE HOW I SPEAK...A COMBINATION OF STYLES AND RHYTHMS SMASHED TOGETHER....MY STYLE IS HODGEPODGE....YOURS ISN'T...YOURS IS LAME AND SOMETIMES PATHETIC.

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Being an idiot verbally is not an excuse to be an idiot online.

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PURE OPINION,MY MAN...THAT IS PURE OPINION...JUST AS MANY PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE AN IDIOT AS THERE ARE THINKING THAT ABOUT ME.

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I doubt there are just as many people who think I'm just as stupid as you.

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LMAO...SHOWS JUST HOW MUCH YOU KNOW.🤣

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You just used the words "troll burger" on another reply. I think that speaks for itself.

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IT'S DIFFERENT AND FUNNY....AS AM I...WHAT ARE YOU?...PUNNY AND MEAN....I WANT TO LIKE YOU...BUT YOU MAKE SO EASY TO HATE YOU.

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So how do you get to decide how someone is traumatised? What level of trauma is acceptable to you?

I don't think I've ever encountered any one who would compare a pet frog to a child like you mentioned below, or brain cancer to a headache, so that comparison isn't really in good faith.

I think in your arguments you are also forgetting that people use language loosely. The amount literally is used in language to express something figurative is astounding. But we don't call them to task.

If you watched the podcast you would know that no one is playing victim, but society needs to realize that words do hurt. I'd rather break a bone than have had some of the shit said to me over the years. You, and the media need to start taking a deeper dive into some of these stories and not just want to make a headline out of a soundbite.

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You, and the media need to start taking a deeper dive into some of these stories and not just want to make a headline out of a soundbite.

I already said your point on Kumail Nanjiani was fair. Now to answer how I would get to decide what trauma is. The answer is what people refer to as "the oppression Olympics." For some reason, there are people who like to victimize themselves to gain sympathy.
Oppression Olympics is a characterization of marginalization as a competition to determine the relative weight of the overall oppression of individuals or groups, often by comparing race, gender, socioeconomic status or disabilities, in order to determine who is the worst off, and the most oppressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression_Olympics#:~:text=Oppression%20Olympics%20is%20a%20characterization,off%2C%20and%20the%20most%20oppressed.

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AND AFTER SAYING FAIR...YOU MADE MULTIPLE SHITTY COMPARISONS AND ANALOGIES THAT CONTRADICT EVERYTHING PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED....TROLL BURGER!

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From Psychology Today

Psychological trauma is a person’s experience of emotional distress resulting from an event that overwhelms the capacity to emotionally digest it. The precipitating event may be a one-time occurrence or a series of occurrences perceived as seriously harmful or life-threatening to oneself or loved ones. People process experiences differently, and not everyone has the same reaction to any event; what one person experiences as trauma may not cause distress for another.

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but society needs to realize that words do hurt."

Our thoughts and beliefs about the words we hear dictate how much pain we experience over them. However disappointed and displeased with someone else's opinions and thoughts we might be, they're not sticks or stones. They cannot break anyone 's bones

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And if you had a limb hacked off in an accident down at the lumber yard, you wouldn't agree with someone who incurred a small bruise, after bumping into a countertop, asserting that you both had suffered comparable injuries. That's exactly what folks who now claim to be "traumatized " by words alone are doing

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That's a really poor argument as you are comparing a physical injury to a physical trauma.

I hate to break it to you, but words can cause trauma. That being said, I'm not actually defending Kumail Nanjiani as someone who has suffered a trauma. I'm defending his words being used out of context to create a headline. I'm defending that you don't get to decide what trauma is for someone else. Here is yet another study that shows that.
https://rdouglasfields.com/2010/10/30/sticks-and-stones-hurtful-words-damage-the-brain/
Sure this is mostly about children, but it can affect adults too.
https://wellbeingscounselling.ca/impacts-of-verbal-abuse/

Again, this isn't just in defense of Kumail, this is to let you understand that words can hurt someone just as much as breaking a bone. Bones heal. Bruises heal. Words can impact the brain for a lot longer than either.

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You do agree that there are degrees of just about everything in life, do you not? As such, the loss of a limb is far more debilitating than a bruise, and a five year old who's regularly told that he's a fuck-up by his bar trash floozy of a mother isn't comparable to a multi-millionaire celebrity (Let's take Kumail out of the picture for a moment )who's latest product receives unflattering reviews

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SO YOU ARE JEALOUS OF HIS FAME AND MONEY...NOW I KNOW WHY YOU ARE SO STUBBORN ON THIS SILLY POINT OF YOURS.

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Wasn't even referring to Kumail or any other specific celebrity in that last post, Vandal. Read more closely, before you react

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isn't comparable to a multi-millionaire celebrity (Let's take Kumail out of the picture for a moment )who's latest product receives unflattering reviews




DUDE WORKED FOR HIS LIFESTYLE...YOU CAN DO THE SAME...DON'T BE JELLY.

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And I've never claimed that he didn't work hard for all that he has

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FAIR ENOUGH...BUT YOU ARE SUPER JELLY...IT SEEMS TO CLOUD YOUR JUDGEMENT ON THIS TOPIC.

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I'm far more jealous of Martin Kemp, who got to do this

https://youtu.be/H5P1Y9QDyt0?si=YZzGJ2Ta0zZv1LtF



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Of course there are degrees, I'm just saying that you can't see someone's mental health so don't be too quick to judge.

I dont know what that multimillionaire celebrity had to endure in their lifetime. Perhaps they had a bar trash mom? The point is we don't know what anyone's life has been.

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Verily as I agree with you, SJ, I also wish you luck in persuading The more Woke among us that hearing/reading words we find objectionable isn't comparable to physical assault

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I'd find it insulting if someone's kid was missing and someone compared it to losing their pet frog. It's the definition of someone wanting to take away the attention of someone else.

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YOU KEEP MAKING SHITTY ANALOGIES....TO COVER FOR THE FACT THAT YOU DUG YOURSELF IN DEEP OVER THE POSITION OF TRAUMA OVERLORD.

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What makes it a shitty analogy?

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IT AND YOUR GENERAL SHIT NATURE.

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If you can determine that my analogy was shit, then you shouldn't be confused how someone can judge someone else's trauma. I agree, it's a shit analogy. And that was the point. You could tell it was shit, the same way I can tell someone being scarred over bad a bad review is a shit excuse for trauma.

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NOPE...FALSE...YOU CAN'T BACKPEDDLE AND MAKE SHIT UP AND FROST A CAKE...I SMELL THE SHIT STILL...AND IT'S YOU!

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You still haven't answered the question properly: what makes it a shit analogy?

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I'd find it insulting if someone's kid was missing and someone compared it to losing their pet frog. It's the definition of someone wanting to take away the attention of someone else.



LISTING A CLEARLY TRAUMATIC EVENT AND A SMALLER ALSO TRAUMATIC EVENT DOES NOT GIVE YOU ANY INSIGHT INTO A STRANGER'S HEADSPACE DEALING WITH A LIFE YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.

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So then by your logic, my analogy was in fact accurate because if someone's pet frog dies, you know nothing about their life.

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NO... It's the definition of someone wanting to take away the attention of someone else....YOU FUCKED IT UP ALL ON YOUR OWN WITH YOUR ASSUMPTIVE HYPOTHESIS.

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Your argument is a catch-22.

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WHAT ARGUMENT?🙄

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I know you're slow, but holy shit.

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YOU ARE AN IDIOT...YOU ARE WRONG...THOSE ARE MY ONLY ARGUMENTS...AND THEY ARE BOTH ONJECTIVE FACT...YOU ARE THE WORST!

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This is why there's no point of talking to you.

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IT'S TOUGH BEING FRIENDS WITH AN AWESOME JUICE DADDY LIKE MYSELF...I GET IT...BUT DESPITE HOW MUCH I HATE YOU FOR BEING THE ABSOLUTE WORST PRSON EVER SHAT OUT OF THE GOD'S ANUSES....YOU ARE MY FRIEND...AND I COMMEND YOUR EFFORT.


GOLD STAR.⭐

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You could tell it was shit, the same way I can tell someone being scarred over bad a bad review is a shit excuse for trauma.
Yet you also said....

I already said your point on Kumail Nanjiani was fair.


Look....I'm really not trying to fight with you here, but I just think that it's shitty to say what someone can and not say was traumatic to them. Above I shared what psychology says trauma is. I don't know someone's circumstances are to be able to process an event. If someone suffers from depression or anxiety, their ability to process something happening to them. What may be traumatic to them right now, may not be in a few years.

Also, in regards to the Metoo movement, that trauma can come later. Some people have acute trauma from those events, or it can manifest later as PTSD.

So to make a long story longer, I think your analogy is crap because while maybe not a frog, someone could certainly not be able to process the loss of a beloved family pet, like a dog or a cat. Does that mean it would be traumatic for you? No. But someone certainly can experience acute trauma with that.

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Yet you also said....

I'm aware. I was just defending my original argument before your context.
I think your analogy is crap because while maybe not a frog, someone could certainly not be able to process the loss of a beloved family pet, like a dog or a cat.

That's my point. I think it would be ridiculous for someone to claim trauma over the dead pet frog, but I could understand a cat or a dog.

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I ONCE HAD A PAIR OF HENS...NOT FROGS...BUT I HAVE KNOWN PEOPLE WITH PET FROGS...WHEN JESSE AND BECCKY DIED IT BROKE ME A LITTLE...THEY ARE WHY I DON'T EAT CHICKEN...YOU ARE PICKING AND CHOOSING WHAT YOU WILL ACCEPT BASED ON WHAT YOUR TINY BRAIN CAN FATHOM...WHICH IS LIMITED TO SAY THE LEAST....YOU ARE BEING A DICK AND YOUR ANALOGIES ARE STIPID....MOVE ON ALREADY.🤫

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I think the problem here is that you named your hens from characters from Full House.

YOU ARE PICKING AND CHOOSING WHAT YOU WILL ACCEPT BASED ON WHAT YOUR TINY BRAIN CAN FATHOM

That's what you did when you said my analogy was bad. You said I couldn't compare a frog dying to something like rape. Of course it's a bad analogy, that's my point. There is a threshold of what should be considered traumatic.

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NO...THERE IS NOT A THRESHOLD...AND EVEN IF THERE WERE....YOU WOULDN'T BE IN CHARGE OF DETERMINING IT....TRAUMA IS A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND EVEN SOMETHING THAT SEEMS INSIGNIFICANT TO YOU COULD BE TRAUMATIC TO ANOTHER....MEANIE PANTS.👖

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Then why bring up a pet frog being a bad comparison?

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OOOOH....SNEAKY BUTTHOLE....LMAO...YOU KNOW VERY WELL...YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT YOU SAID AND WHAT IT MEANT AND NOW YOU ARE TALKING IN CIRCLES....BUT I DIGRESS....WE ARE REALLY GOOD FOR EACH OTHER'S POST COUNTS,BRO....LIKE HOLY SHIT....AND MOVIE CLUB STILL UPCOMING...50K FOR ME BY SUNDAY...GUARANTEED...YOU ARE CLOSING IN ON 48K...EVENTUALLY 50K.....WE ROCK!@!@!@!@!@!

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Careful, SJ. By asserting that a human life is worth more than that of a frog, you're perpetrating species ism. That dude who won an Oscar for playing joker is going to want to have a word with you

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Joaquin is crazy anyway.

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NOT WOKE...JUST HUMAN.

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The irony.

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🥱

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And possessing all of the flaws which charcerize our species. Namely, equating words we don't like with physical violence

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NOPE.

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I'm relieved to read that you've finally seen the light, and no longer mistake language alone for something which can be traumatizing

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ROUND AND ROUND...YOU DON'T KNOW OTHER'S MINDS...YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IS TRAUMATIC AND WHAT ISN'T...BEING SO DENSE AS TO ACTUALLY BELIEVE YOU HAVE OBJECTIVE FACT WHEN ALL YOU REALLY HAVE IS TWISTED OPINION...THAT IS YOUR PROBLEM.

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I complimented you in the post to which you're replying. Show s9me gratitude

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GRATITUDE IS EARNED...YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT CREATE A THREAD THAT INSPIRES THE WORST KIND OF POSTS AND DEFENDED IT INTO THE TOILET...NO GRATITUDE EARNED...NONE GIVEN.

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EARNED...YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT CREATE A THRED THAT INSPIRES THE WORST KIND OF POSTS"

No one here has called Milano a "cunt", "whore", or any variation therein. Dunno how much more sanitized you want things to be

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DIDN'T SAY THEY DID AND THAT ISN'T THE POINT....YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHY YOU DO THESE THINGS...AT LEAST BE A MAN AND OWN UP TO IT.

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"Negative movie reviews are bullying now?"

Goes to a larger problem in our civilization these days https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/dangers-of-concept-creep-podcast/ "Bullying", like "harassment", is one of those terms we now have an increasingly elastic definition of

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NO...THEY AREN'T...NOBODY SAID THEY WERE...WHAT WAS SAID IS....EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT AND EVERYONE RECEIVES STRESS AND TRAUMA IN DIFFERENT WAYS....PLUS NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SOMEONE ELSES LIFE...ALL THE STRAWS SO TO SPEAK PILIING ON THE CAMEL'S BACK.


THERAPY IS NOT A BAD THING EITHER....SEEKING TREATMENT FOR NOT FEELING RIGHT IS A SMART MOVE.

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Never said psychotherapy was a bad thing. Let's all hope and pray that KN's shrink is steering him towards keeping events in perspective. Words written online or in print ARE NOT the equivalent of being physically assaulted and maimed beyond recognition. Our thoughts and underlying beliefs about those words dictate how much pain we experience, whenever we encounter sentiments we find objectionable

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I'm sharing this again down here, because this conversation was on a podcast which focuses on mental health. It was one sentence where he says that his wife said he had trauma over it. He also talks about what led to his feeling that way, and that he has suffered with anxiety for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wM8216D8kg

Like I said to SJ, the media took a soundbite, made a headline out of it, and you all are now shitting all over him

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It was one sentence where he says that his wife said he had trauma over it"

Clearly then, we need to be shifting all over her instead

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That's what you took from that? I'm assuming that you didn't watch any of it.

The fact that you all are taking one sentence out of an hour long conversation about life and mental health, and making a big deal about it is really sad to me. Since you said

Clearly then, we need to be shifting all over her instead
just really emphasises that maybe we shouldn't be talking about it at all.

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Kumail Nanjiani's wife has persuaded him that he was not simply displeased and disappointed with the media's unfavorable take on The Eternals, but "traumatized" by it https://www.mensjournal.com/news/kumail-nanjiani-lasting-trauma-marvel-eternals-negative-reviews

When KN arrives home early one day, to discover the missus on all fours in the middle of their living room, while The Fed Ex guy is balls deep in her rear end, let's see if she can persuade him that TFXG was really just helping her retrieve the car keys she swallowed the night before, while they were chowing on tofu burgers

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So, you share an article written by someone just looking to sell a story instead of watching the entire conversation that he had to base your argument and then make up a story? No wonder this world is shit.

Also, I'd ask the headline writer where "lasting" trauma was mentioned.

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The article quotes the interview directly. Did she not persuade KN that he'd been traumatized?

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That's the line. It doesn't take any of the conversation before or after into context. It's click bait because they know that people will get annoyed that someone has emotional distress over anything. They don't mention that the Inside of You podcast is about mental health. All these "articles" all use the same quotes lifted from the interview. They don't talk about how he's answering a question posed to him. They don't talk about how he said that he knew it wasn't him that got the bad reviews it was about him. He talks about how they had to travel the world while Marvel thought they would be getting great reviews. He talks about how it was hard because of how he approached his work. How he can't be so results based.

But no....just take the quote where his wife said that he had trauma from it, while assuming that the trauma only comes from bad reviews and not the entire situation surrounding that event.

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Kumail is wise to stay in acting rather than stand-up then. If he found the press saying unpleasant things about The Eternals traumatizing, he's really not going to enjoy the general audience 's response to him standing on a stage, reciting Woke Dogma and mistaking that garbage for "comedy"

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Again, you are completely missing the point.

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In this day and age, not falling in line behind those who misuse concepts like "trauma " is now considered "missing the point"

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From Psychology Today

Psychological trauma is a person’s experience of emotional distress resulting from an event that overwhelms the capacity to emotionally digest it. The precipitating event may be a one-time occurrence or a series of occurrences perceived as seriously harmful or life-threatening to oneself or loved ones. People process experiences differently, and not everyone has the same reaction to any event; what one person experiences as trauma may not cause distress for another.

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Ah, conceptual drift https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/concept-creep/477939/ Nothing like it

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Yes, and we should still believe that the earth is flat, that people who aren't white are inferior, that we need to be ruled by a king, women shouldn't vote....

I'm sorry that you have no empathy or understand that the more that we understand about the way our minds work, the better we can understand each other.

I'm sorry that you are harping on the use of the word trauma and not bothering to listen to entire conversation and see that there is more to it than just "TRAUMA" which was barely even touched on, and was taken completely out of context for all those articles about it.

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Non-whites who behave like Riley Freeman and women like Kumail 's ol'ball'n'chain probably shouldn't be allowed to vote, this is true

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Okay. I'm done. You don't actually want to discuss anything.

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I wasn't finished yet... No one ever believed the world was flat, and empathy isn't the force for benevolence we've been led to believe it is
https://www.econtalk.org/paul-bloom-on-empathy/

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"Just yesterday, Kumail Nanjiani said he had to go through therapy because he faced trauma from the negative reviews from "The Eternals". I guess we should refrain from negative movie reviews because he was hurt by it."

Don't give anyone ideas

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NEGATIVE REVIEWS HAPPEN...MAYBE NOT TURN SOMEONE ELESE REACTION AND EXPERIENCE DEALING WITH THEM INTO A JOKE THOUGH.

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Anyone who publicly rejoices in pretending that they're that fragile sets themselves up to be satirized

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A LOT OF ASSUMPTION THERE...FOLLOWED BY BIASED OPINION.👍🏾

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If someone has volumes of research proving that words written online or in print alone can traumatize a person, it's incumbent on them to produce the evidence for such a thing

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THAT ISN'T HOW IT WORKS...PEOPLES REACTIONS AND DEALINGS WITH OUTSIDE STRESSERS ARE VARIED AND EXTENSIVE.

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Our reactions are dictated by our thoughts and beliefs about those same events

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SURE.

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We were all traumatized by the sight of Kumail, Aziz Ansari, Nanette, and every other Woke non-comedian continuing to book gigs, even though their material is less hilarious than a case of smallpox, while Dina Hashem was cowed into apologizing, and Jimmy Carr had to fend off cancelation

Goddamn State Farm, for refusing to foot the bill for the exhaustive psychotherapy we all required in order to recover from these events

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🙄

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It's all too much, I agree

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SHE SIGNED A CONTRACT TO APPEAR IN A FILM....DID IT HAVE A CLAUSE SAYING HER IMAGE WOULD BE CUT FROM THE MOVIE AND USED ON PORNOGRAPHIC WEBSITES?

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You don't need a clause in a contract. It has nothing to do with the person who is signing the contract. The only way it would be illegal is if you're using their image for purposes like advertising something they didn't agree with.

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YEAH....PORN AND CELEBRITY NUDITY WEBSITES...WHICH CHARGE MONEY...AND USE THE IMAGES TO CHARGE THE MONEY...LAWSUIT WAS JUSTIFIED...THE BEHAVIOR WAS HARRASSMENT.

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Only some charge money. Most porn websites don't. But that has nothing to do with them being nude and it's not harassment. That's just monetary gain without the permission of the person involved. You are not allowed to profit from someone else's image.

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BULLSHIT...THEY MAKE MONEY...MAYBE NOT OFF THE CONSUMER...BUT ADS AND SHIT MAKE THEM MONEY..


BEING USED ON AN ADULT WEBSITE WITHOUT PERMISSION IS HARRSSMENT...OR AT THE VERY LEAST A JUSTIFIABLE LAWSUIT.


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According to you, this is harassment:
https://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/index.php?cat=2
I guess this site better pay up.

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NOPE...NOT AT ALL WHAT I SAID...AND YOU KNOW IT.

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It is what you said. There are ads on this site and they have taken screenshots from Star Trek and put it on their fan site without permission.

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THAT SITE MARKETS THE TV SHOW TO THE TV SHOWS FANS....FOR THE SAKE OF THE TV SHOW...


QUITE DIFFERENT THAN TAKING ONE PIECE OUT OF A FILM AND USING IT ON AN ADULT SITE TO MARKET MASTURBATION.

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That's like someone doing a nude scene and saying, "I feel so embarrassed. I didn't do the nudity for my next door neighbour to see it and then feel awkward around me now." Like, what did you think was going to happen?

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NO IT ISN'T.🤣

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It definitely is. I remember Emmy Rossum saying that she doesn't get naked on screen, her character does and that the context matters. This is the argument you are making.

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WHAT YOU SAID MADE NO SENSE...SORRY...YOU MADE A TERRIBLE COMPARISON.

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So you think this would be normal?
https://i.imgur.com/qEUBXug.png

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YOU ARE BEING EXTRA ASSHOLE TODAY.



DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON IN HIS LIFE AT THAT TIME?....THINGS COMPOUND...SHIT COMES UP...THINGS LINGER...NOTHING IS EVR AS SIMPLE AS ONE ANSWER...THE MAN HAD SOME ISSUES AND SOUGHT TREATMENT...THAT IS A GOOD THING...GROW UP.

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Then without specifying, he should mention that there was other stuff going on at the time. Him being in a critical bomb is something literally every actor goes through. Oh no, the poor millionaire actor needs therapy for bad reviews.

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NOW YOU DICTATE WHAT A PERSON SAYS OR SHARES?....OR HOW THEY EXPRESS THEMSELVES REGARDING A SITUATION?....GROW UP,BUTTHOLE.

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Isn't that what you're doing right now with my opinion?

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NO...I AM SHOOTING DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS ON OTHER'S THOUGHTS....THAT IS SECOND HAND BULLLSHIT.

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And I am shooting down his thoughts on trauma from bad movie reviews of thoughts of reviewers.

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YOU ARE BEING A PRICK...BUT THAT IS YOUR USUAL STATE...SO...PRICK ON,PRICK.

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Thoughts within a thought within a thought? Like Inception 🤔

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I just like pissing Kowalski off.

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HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?...I FUCKING LOVE INTERACTING WITH YOU...YOU FUCKING PRICK.

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Do you blame the woman for what she is wearing when she gets raped too?

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You should look just above your comment. I said I just like to piss Kowalski off.

https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/65c526c5bd83f27d803cfa5c/The-roots-of-MeToo?reply=65c5500eb6f03e262d7eb71e

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“Most porn websites don't (charge money)”

How do you know this 🤔

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Because I'm on the committee for porn sites regulation.

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SAME REASON HE NOW MASTURBATES WITH HIS FEET...CHRONIC MASTURBATOR...IT HAS DESTROYED HIS LIFE AND HIS HANDS.

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Exactly

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FALSE.

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"You're an idiot, Kowalski."

He truly is. He needs to stop getting involved in these kinds of discussions and just leave it to his socks.

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"He" gets offended at everything. Someone could say that they love God and "he'd" be like, "that's offensive. Not everyone believes in God". I believe someone should shove their foot up "his" ass.

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Maybe his "daughter" should grab a chainsaw and shove it up his behind.

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I DO NOT GET OFFENDED...I DO NOT SAY "THAT'S OFFENSIVE"...FALSE STATEMENTS.

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It wasn't a direct quote, numbnuts.

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On a side note:

Doherty has an excuse(She's dying of cancer), but Good God do the other two of Milano's former cast mates look like hell these days https://youtu.be/MM4WGr7CEu0?si=qL8o1Y9tVgHXsNxf

You'd be forgiven for thinking they're in their late 60s, instead of early 50s

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Here's the film in it's entirety https://youtu.be/H5P1Y9QDyt0?si=BOrOcOpMguWdu0oU Compared to most Cinemax fare that was airing both then and throughout the 2000s-early 10s, EOTV was mild

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if that only applied to democrats...

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If only what applied to Democrats?

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rape

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ya gotta ignore KowPieSki. he/she/it is never in tune with discussions.

what the article ACTUALLY takes about is an interesting problem that hasn't gotten better, really. and now with AI faking things up , it's only worse. Celebs used to make bank off their swim suit poster photos being legally sold as copyrighted images. Now, it's almost anything goes on the internet for free, plus the addition of fake nudes being created. How do youstop this? The answer is, you can't.

I'll be curious how the recent taylor swift nude AI stuff will shake down when her lawyers are done with it. One thing for sure, those pics with remain online forever. Brave Nude World. (see what I did with that pun there? just pointing it out incase it was missed.

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WHICH IS HARRASSMENT.



YOU TALK SO MUCH BUT NEVER SAY MUCH OF ANYTHING.

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I'm familiar with Kowalski from our shared tenure on TMDB. He doesn't bug me that much. This "problem" is mostly one celebs themselves exaggerate. An actor or actress doesn't own images of themselves in a movie

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CORRECT....BUT THEIR NAKED IMAGES SHOULD NOT BE USED TO MARKET,SELL AND MAINTAIN ADULT WESITES....THE LAWSUIT WAS JUSTIFIED IN BEING FILED AT THE VERY LEAST.

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Sites like this are still around today, and not even Milano has the audacity to continue accusing them of using her image to sell their website, which is a transparently trumped up charge. This first lawsuit was frivolous, and provide us with considerable insight into the psyche of the gal who would eventually spearhead MeToo, nearly 20 years after that article was published

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#METOO IS ABOUT PEOPLE SPEAKING UP WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN WRONGED....PLAIN AND SIMPLE...


YOU HAVE FUCKED UP THOUGHTS...THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHERS HERE TO HELP YOU ECHO THEM SHITS AROUND...ENJOY.

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"METOO IS ABOUT PEOPLE SPEAKING UP WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN WRONGED....PLAIN AND SIMPLE..."

Even back then, Milano believed that she had been "wronged" by folks enjoying nude scenes she'd both willingly agreed to and been paid for, and mischaracterized suing those who weren't making nearly as much as money as "speaking up"

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SHE HAD THE RIGHT TO SUE....SHE WAS WRONGED.

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He, robocat, and Skavau aren't worth the trouble. Block 'em and be done with it.

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Never encountered robocat and Skavau. I've known Kowalski since we were both on TMDB, where he went by VHS-Vandal. He doesn't trouble me in the slightest

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You're lucky. I will tell you MC is a much nicer place without them, and certainly smells better.

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"Luck" plays no role in this. When you recognize that folks like this aren't capable of having an actual conversation, they cease to anything more than a mild annoyance

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I normally use fly-swatters for stuff like that, but in the digital realm, you have to use something stronger.

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He's fairly mild, compared to folks like sslssg, and regulars on TMDB like DRDMusings

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SHE IS WELL SPOKEN AND POLITE...KOWALSKI IS MILD COMPARED TO SSLSSG?...LMAO...I GOTTA SHOW HER THIS!

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What leads you to believe SDLSSG is a she?

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I KNOW HER...WE ARE FRIENDS.

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sslssg is one of the most reasonable, intelligent and respectful posters on here. The idea that Kowalski is mild compared to sslssg is ridiculous.

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RIGHT?...YOU SHOULD SEE THE SMILE ON MY FACE.🤣

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If "more underhanded" is now being mistaken for "polite", then yeah... Sslssg fits the bill

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Oooh. Please elaborate on how I'm underhanded?

I disagreed with you. That's it. I wasn't dishonest in what I posted to you. You are the one who changed the goal posts by saying shit like

Non-whites who behave like Riley Freeman and women like Kumail 's ol'ball'n'chain probably shouldn't be allowed to vote, this is true
when I replied to your comment on conceptual drift when you didn't agree with Psychology Today's definition of trauma.

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The author of that article also expressed misgivings about our recent expansion of the way now define "trauma".

End result of all this:

Actresses and run of the mill women alike are now insisting that they're "traumatized" after hearing mildly off-color remarks, while actors and everyday men alike claim to be "traumatized" by someone saying something less than complimentary about their work

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And again, you are completely ignoring my point that it was a slight comment in an hour long conversation about mental health that the media ran away with and made it a much bigger deal than it was.

Why are you so offended by it anyway?

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Also, nice side step by completely ignoring my question about how I am underhanded.

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It's much easier just to come out and say what you mean, and mean what you say:

"Like so many in our society today, I define myself as an ally. I demonstrate how down I am with marginalized people, by pretending to be traumatized by words, and endorsing others who also do so"

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Who said that quote?

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Those who've adopted highly elastic definitions of subjects such as 'trauma", "safety", and "harm" are clearly saying such things to themselves, albeit unconsciously

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I'm finding it interesting that you called me underhanded, yet I've asked you how I'm underhanded, why you are offended by the mental health community defining trauma in a way you disagree with, and who said something that you quoted when I asked again how I was underhanded, and you have not answered any of those questions. So, again, I am done with the conversation.

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sslssg is a classy lady.

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The scenes Milano filmed in EOTV https://youtu.be/H5P1Y9QDyt0?si=BOrOcOpMguWdu0oU Compared were pretty classy also

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🤣

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I agree with celebs who complain and threaten a legal ruckus when their faces are placed in pornographic scenes, I'd be #pissedofftoo.

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Anyone who gets bent out of shape over such things is wise to stay out of the public eye

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OH...THE OL SACK UP APPROACH.

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Yep... Chicks are capable of doing this also

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THAT IS OUTDATED AND STUPID...PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO BE UPSET OR OFFENDED...I AM NOT SAYING ALL OF PEOPLE'S FEELINGS NEED TO BE CODDLED...BUT BEING DISMISSIVE IS AN ASSHOLE APPROACH.

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Milano's entitled to say "I sometimes find it creepy that people are rewatching scenes of me naked and being fucked online". Resorting to lawsuits is an asshole move though

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IT COMES DOWN TO THE KIND OF WEBSITES THAT THESE ITEMS WERE POSTED ON...NOBODY NOT IN PORN WANTS TO BE LINKED TO IT...WHETHER THEY DID SOME NUDITY FOR A MOVIE OR NOT.

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I disagree.
Not to be too personal as this is not an attack but imagine your own daughter is a well known celeb who's likeness is 'faked' into sleazy scenes that she would never want to appear in. Is it not normal to be upset as a parent and go after the company producing the videos or still images?

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"Is it not normal to be upset as a parent and go after the company producing the videos or still images?"

Had this been a 12 year old we were talking about, sure. Alyssa Milano was over 20 when she made a conscious choice to bare all on camera, so as to break away from her kid-friendly image. There's no justification for a lawsuit or feigning outrage over such things then

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Alyssa Milano was over 20 when she made a conscious choice to bare all on camera, so as to break away from her kid-friendly image


IN FILMS....NOT ADULT WEBSITES.

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She doesn't own those images, and has no reasonable expectation that viewers wouldn't share them. Let's note that all three of her Charmed co-stars(Doherty, McGown, and Combs)have all filmed nude scenes that are found on porn sites, and NONE have pulled shit like this

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IT'S NOT SHIT...IT WAS HER REACTION TO THE SITUATION...RIGHT OR WRONG...SHE HAD A POINT AND WAS ENTITLED TO TAKE ACTION...THE INTERNET IS UNCONTROLLABLE IS THE ANSWER SHE RECEIEVED OBVIOUSLY.

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"IT'S NOT SHIT...IT WAS HER REACTION TO THE SITUATION...RIGHT OR WRONG...SHE HAD A POINT AND WAS ENTITLED TO TAKE ACTION..."

Most of us experience emotions of annoyance and irritation, when someone walks into a restaurant we're eating at, wearing their MAGA gear or Bernie Bro shirts. We've got a point... Folks like this are going out of their way to flip so-called "normie" society the bird, by letting us all know how different they are from the rest of us rubes. It's to be hoped that we haven't degenerated to such a point that we now think physically assaulting someone like this is justified

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I STOPPED READING WHEN YOU STARTED GOING POLITICAL...STOP THAT.

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I was addressing the issue of these 'celeb fakes' porn images that have cropped up recently.
As to scenes that were filmed thirty years ago I suppose showing those scenes seems open game. After all, a person could just buy the movie and replay it over and over if they wanted to.

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IF ALI DID A TOPLESS SCENE IN A DRAMA FILM...AND THEN HER IMAGES ENDED UP ON CELEBSLUT .COM SANDWICHED BETWEEN HARDCORE AND SOFTCORE SHENANIGANS...AS PART OF A SPANKBANK FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO INTEREST IN HER FILM...ONLY GETTING OFF....THAT'S FUCKED UP TOO...MILANO'S LAWSUIT WAS THE RIGHT MOVE...NOBODY CAN TAME THE INTERNET...WHICH IS THE ANSWER SHE GOT...BUT SHE WAS RIGHT IN TRYING.

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IF ALI DID A TOPLESS SCENE IN A DRAMA FILM...

He was shirtless in every boxing match he partook in

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🤣

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Once a performer agrees to filming the act it will exist forever. It's the fakes that I have a problem with.
I should add that those hacked pics of dozens of celebrities from some years ago seemed like a serious crime and I hope the hackers were caught and prosecuted.

End of the day DON'T put anything on film you don't want people to look at.

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THOSE HACKED PHOTOS ARE STILL FLOATING AROUND EVERY "LEGIT" CELEBRITY SITE...ALONG WITH ACTUAL PORN....AND THE FAKES ARE ENDLESS NOW...IT'S A HORNET'S NEST TYPE PROBLEM...NEEDS TO BE HANDLED IN IT'S ENTIRETY.

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I agree, it's weird and likely an issue that can't be fully dealt with.
It's just a bad situation.

If I were a celeb and they faked me doing gay stuff I'd hire an entire artillery battery of lawyers to fuck shit up for anyone involved. Their wealth, their families, their freedom...BURN it all.

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IN 1998 WHEN THE INTERNET WAS A BABY...PERHAPS A COURT WIN COULD HAVE CHANGED SOMETHING...PROBABLY NOT...BUT MAYBE...IN 2024...NOTHING IS EVER GONE OR DEALT WITH ON THE INTERNET....IT IS ETERNAL AND UNCONTROLLABLE.

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If I were a celeb and they faked me doing gay stuff I'd hire an entire artillery battery of lawyers to fuck shit up for anyone involved"


You know you're not gay. Why does it upset you so much that some randos online have created pictures depicting you as such?


This isn't the equivalent of someone manufacturing photos of you taking a beefstick between your buns, then trying to blackmail you by releasing them

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I don't want to be represented in a false manner. I guess we just won't see any agreement on this issue, but you carry on and have a nice day.

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Npne of us want to be depicted in a fashion that's not reflective of our real lives. It's strange that so many of us moderns act as if we have no control over just how upset we become over such things

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Again, have a fine day.
Bye.

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"I was addressing the issue of these 'celeb fakes' porn images that have cropped up recently"

From a legal standpoint, there's a case for this being art. Celebs are free to start suing random folks around the world for inane shit like this if they want, but I question the rationality such things

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From a legal standpoint, there's a case for this being art.


OH...FUCK OFF...ART?....DEEP FAKE CELEBRITY FUCK TAPES ARE ART NOW?....THAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING I HAVE HEARD ALL DAY...AND I WAS TALKING TO THE samoanjoke EARLIER...SO...THAT'S SAYNG SOMETHING.

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Long before the internet or computers existed, humans have fantasized about seeing those we find attractive nude or/and having sex, then painted them as such. These manufactured photos online are just modern iterations of the same phenomena

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NOT ART...LMAO.

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We can refer to The Bond Films as "spy thrillers" instead of the power fantasies from now till the end of all existence. This doesn't change the fact that they are power fantasies

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THEY ARE BORING AND KIND OF STUPID.


ALSO...THEY ARE SPY THRILLERS.🤷🏾

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Much as I love The Bond flicks, they have nothing to do with spying

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OTHER THAN BOND BEING A SPY.🫤


AGENT?...BECAUSE HE DOESN'T SPY MUCH?...PFFT....SPY THRILLERS.

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Question all you like, it doesn't sit well with me.

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DID YOU HEAR THAT?....IF I PUT YOUR FACE ON ANOTHER DUDE AND FUCK HIM...THAT IS ART.

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I'd buy that for a dollar. (That's about all it worth)

Signed, million man

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I AM GOING TO BE AN ARTIST!....I LOVE FUCKING AND I DON'T CARE WHAT FACE MY HOLE IS WEARING.


ART ROCKS!@

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I don't work cheap, you better have like ten bucks.

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You are worth at least 10 but your picture is not.

Signed, million man

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Damn, that's cold dude:(

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That was a stupid weak argument from mechaguy LOL:)

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Which argument are you referring to?

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DEEPFAKE FUCK TAPES AS ART.

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Let Shogun answer for himself

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HE DID...SCROLL UP...THAT SHIT IS NOT ART...NOT EVEN CLOSE...THAT WAS A STUPID WEAK ARGUMENT.

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I did.
Read the thread you started.

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The scenes Milano sued over weren't fake https://youtu.be/H5P1Y9QDyt0?si=BOrOcOpMguWdu0oU

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I'm aware and this was already addressed. Are you keeping up with your own thread or just randomly bumping it?

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No one on this thread had yet linked the images themselves

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I was referring to the fake images, please follow your own thread.
Best wishes, 'bye.

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Maybe even a century or more. See, the casting couch thing was going on the moment acting in plays was invented (probably in ancient Greece). A lot of what you hear about in the film industry was happening in the theater world long before motion cameras were invented. They just moved it over to Hollywood when the first American film industry started up at the turn of the 20th century. Due to celebrity worship and tons of money being accumulated into that sphere, it's only gotten worse since then.

Back when this whole #metoo thing blew up, I actually read something interesting from a French dude who weighed in on it. He said he worked in the French film industry for years, and they had experienced a similar movement back in 2000, and after a few years of excitement, it all died down and things went back to business as usual; meaning nothing changed, there is still a casting couch over there, there are still powerful women who hobnob with powerful serial rapists and do nothing to help the lower level people who are targets of abuse, and people stopped caring about women (and sometimes men) being abused by those in power just to try and land a role in movies/tv shows.

Based on what I'm seeing now, the same thing is happening in America. People are now seeing women in power in Hollyweird for the hypocrites they are, the movement was little more than a weapon for women to get revenge on men they didn't like, whether they were guilty of abuse or not, and a lot of women (and some men) lower on the food chain in that field are still suffering from the cruelty of the industry. Plus, because of all the women who lied about getting raped to get attention and squeeze money out of powerful men (even if no rape occurred at all), now people are less likely to believe the women who truly were raped and sexually abused than before the movement started. Finding out that charities such as Time's Up were nothing more than a front for getting free money from ignorant donors rather than helping abused women didn't help things either.

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This is a PRIME EXAMPLE of what I keep repeating and nobody like hearing it:

LIFE is going to do what life does.
This case just proves it yet again.

YES, guys are dogs and are hard wired to want sex 24/7. With a bevy of sexy young women WANTING to sleaze their way into a movie - yes, their morals are not too good when they strive for riches, fame, glory, and they think screwing is the way to get it - this is just how life is, whether we want to SAFE SPACE wish it not to be or not. It just is.
I even had an actress tell me, joking (NOT joking) she was pissed off that now she can't easily sleep her way up. I know her and she wasn't joking. Life just is.

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SO...YOU JUST MAKE SHIT UP NOW?...YOU NEED TO REIN IN IT,BRO...YOU USED TO BE ALMOST COOL.

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How ironic that women who are okay with sleeping their way up the Hollywood food chain are actually unhappy over the movement, hehehe.

Oh, and Kowalski can eat all my used kotex pads, particularly the ones soaked the most blood. He makes a good pig garbage disposal.

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YOU ARE CLEARLY A MAN....JUST ADMIT IT...PLEASE.

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The same can't be said for you.

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Milano herself was clearly one of these sexy young actresses you describe, even while she was suing everyday people for enjoying the nude scenes she filmed

http://stephan.lanribeiro.free.fr/fhm.html Note everything she says in that article, and the dateline on it

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Alyssa Milano is a stupid slut that is yesterday's news and is as shallow as your average groupie in Hollyweird. She's the poster child for the phrase, "All actors are whores. They'll do anything for money."

The little bitch demonized anyone who wasn't as hard-left as she was for years, and then had the nerve to try offering a fake olive branch after her chosen candidate had the 2020 election handed to him on a platter, and she was soundly thrashed with said olive branch afterwards, and crying because she suddenly didn't understand why she got spanked like that.

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She's been a powerful and staunch advocate of criminal justice reform. I'll give her that much. Must confess, I'm unfamiliar with this "olive branch" you're referring to

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So what? Kim Kartrashian is an advocate of that too. It's just another bandwagon these sluts jump on to try and look good for the public. They don't actually care about those things. All they care about is which rich man they can steal money from through sex.

Yeah, the little bitch tried calling for a truce between her and all the people she had continuously shat on between 2016 and 2020 once the election was over with. She got deservedly dogpiled on social media for her disingenuous and shallow gesture.

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Yeah, the little bitch tried calling for a truce between her and all the people she had continuously shat on between 2016 and 2020 once the election was over with. She got deservedly dogpiled on social media for her disingenuous and shallow gesture"

I take it this is what's at the root of her and Rose McGowan's falling out

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I have a feeling the issues between her and her co-stars on "Charmed" had to do with ego and competition. Either one, or all of them got egos while working on that show, and they started bickering over who got the most screentime. That's often what causes former tv show cast members to hate each other once a series is over with. As far as I know, none of them are on speaking terms with each other anymore.

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McGowan and Combs were on a Zoom interview not long ago. And Combs appeared on Doherty's podcast within the past month. Yeah, though... At least a couple of guest stars have shared less than flattering recollections of their time on the show, especially their interactions with the primary actreses https://talkscarytome.podbean.com/e/talk-scary-to-me-e9/ https://youtu.be/_zl24cHSS-w?si=hfwFWNTn45iBZGgv 7:36-8:35

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Plus, if you watch the snow in retrospect, the girls' behavior feels really fake. You can see Shannon Doherty's bitchiness leaking through her character, or Alyssa's sluttiness warring with the "cute" persona they were trying to put on her character. McGowan had a similar issue, because she's trying to play a similarly serious character, but the sex-hungry slut eventually wants out. Holly Marie Combs wasn't so bad. She at least could maintain the serious, mature sister thing.

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Holly Marie Combs wasn't so bad. She at least could maintain the serious, mature sister thing"


Serendipitously enough, a highly perspicacious Charmed fan made the following observations

https://youtu.be/AxFsB9vGazg?si=PwFS4PPkwHYNsrGZ

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"Alyssa's sluttiness warring with the "cute" persona..."

That predates Charmed


https://youtu.be/H5P1Y9QDyt0?si=VMAbL68ZMO_gCAKW

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Though it's little remembered today, S. Doherty had her own sexpot phase, in flicks such as https://youtu.be/_QE3ld6aYeQ?si=iDhOHnfksy34b5xT

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Presumably she read the script for EOTV before taking the role, and knew that she was in for https://youtu.be/H5P1Y9QDyt0?si=BOrOcOpMguWdu0oU

Strange that she now pretends that the very same dynamics which propelled her to stardom are "exploitation"

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Fascinating history in regards to the casting couch pre-dating the advent of cinema. Thanks for sharing!!! And yeah... Milano herself wasn't adverse to exploiting her remarkable figure as means of furthering her career, back when she was at the height of her fame http://stephan.lanribeiro.free.fr/fhm.html Note the dateline in that article, and everything she says in it

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JUST LIKE THE ROCK EXPLOITED HIS MUSCLES?...OR CHANNING TATUM EXPLOITED HIS SICK DANCE MOVES?...YOU SEEM TO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT OF THE WORDS YOU USE...LIKE EXPLOITING ....AND FURTHERING.

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And it would be just as ludicrous for The Rock and Tatum to now assert that they were sexually objectified, when they agreed to and were paid millions for the scenes they filmed

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THAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT...YOU KNOW THIS...YOU JUST WANT TO BASH ON MILANO AND METOO IN THE SAME THREAD WHILE PRETENDING TO HAVE A POINT...OTHER THAN DIVISIVE BULLSHIT.

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You're misusing "...:" just as badly as you have the Caps Locks button, VHS Vandal. Clearly, my words have gotten you more triggered than usual

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NOT MISUSING...USING THEM AS I USE THEM...AS I HAVE ALWAYS USED THEM...THEY BREAK MY THOUGHTS INTO BREATHS...VHSVANDAL IS DEAD...I AM BETTER THAN HE WAS...YOU COULDN'T "TRIGGER" ME IF YOU TRYED...IF YOU KNOW ME SO WELL..YOU SHOULD KNOW...MY BRAIN WORKS IN AN ODD WAY...ANGER OR "TRIGGERED" AREN'T AVAILABLE...BUT IF YOU WANT I CAN GIVE YOU HORNY...HUH,BABY?...YOU WANNA GET HORNY WITH KOWALSKI?

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KNOW...MY BRAIN WORKS IN AN ODD WAY..."

This has long been self-evident

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OBVIOUSLY...I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VERY TRANSPARENT AND PLAIN SPOKEN ABOUT MYSELF....I AM ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM...I HAVE OCD AND ADHD...I AM UNUSUAL...BUT I AM NOT AN ASSHOLE...UNLIKE MANY HERE.🤫

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I don’t think this bears much resemblance to me too. It’s more of case of imaging rights. Similar to Crispin Glover in Back to the Future 2.

Since the case is so old, I looked up the results, and she won the lawsuits. However I think the reason is that the sites were locking them behind a paywall and profiting off them directly.

I think that’s the reason that despite the outcome, the scenes can still be found in about 5 seconds on your favorite porn sites.

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"I don’t think this bears much resemblance to me too"


Thus the thread reads "The roots of MeToo..." The gal who elevated MeToo into public awareness during The Mid-10s was already viewing the enjoyment of her nude scenes as "a violation of her dignity", as far back as '97. Milano's idiosyncrstic way of thinking was a precursor to the highly elastic definitions of "harassment" and "assault" we would all adopt, a few decades after she(a multi-millionaire)sued a few folks of average income into submission

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YOUR OPINIONS KIND OF SUCK...I FEEL BAD FOR ANY WOMEN IN YOUR LIFE.

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Not as terrible as I feel, for your colleagues who have to read your TPS reports, constantly written in all caps

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Since I got caught up the whole other argument on here about trauma, could someone please explain to me how this has anything to do with MeToo or harassment? The article is about copywrite infringement, and the legalities of "wholesale misappropriation of celebrity images". MeToo is about sexual harassment and abuse.

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Quote the article:

"When Lin Milano saw some uncensored photos on the Internet in 1995, it wasn’t the nudity that shocked her: It was that the body on display belonged to her daughter, actress Alyssa Milano. Appalled by such “commercial exploitation,” the elder Milano went on to form Cyber-Tracker, an L.A.-based company that scours the online world for illegal images of celebs and E-mails cease-and-desist requests to errant sites. This April, as a result of her mother’s efforts, Alyssa Milano filed two lawsuits against several website owners for copyright infringement and usurping her control over how her name and image should be used commercially

Whether or not the actress wins, the case reflects Hollywood’s deep uneasiness with the wild and woolly Internet. While most of the photos that Milano is suing over were undoctored—nude images lifted from the 1995 film Embrace of the Vampire..."

This gives us a snapshot of Milano's way of thinking... She defined websites which were repositories of celebrity nude scenes including her images from Embrace Of The Vampire as "commercial exploitation". It's not surprising that a few decades later, she would spearhead a moral panic(MeToo)which takes an equally elastic definition of "harassment"

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Pretty sure it stretches further back than that, to a time when the internet wasn't available to the public, but still bad.

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Pepe Le Pew ( cartoon skunk ) was always chasing a girl cat everywhere and never accepting NO.

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When a girl cat says "No" to a cartoon skunk, she really means "Yes, for God's sakes... Bend me over the nearest park bench, and fucking do me right here!!!"

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Thus MeToo was born.

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As The OP has established, the genesis of MeToo wasn't nearly so colorful

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The cartoon definitely didn't help.

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Pepe didn't put nearly as many lascivious images into the minds of viewers as Jessica Rabbit did

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