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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How disgusting Mila and Ashton wrote letters. Gross fake wile celebs. [/quote]

That’s a tough one for me.
If they are friends, which they have been for a very long time, they likely do not believe that their friend is capable of such atrocities. 
A character letter doesn’t speak to the veracity of the charge. It just says we know him to be a swell guy, and we love and trust him, etc. 
If you were accused of doing these things and you swore up and down to your friends and to the world that you didn’t do it —wouldn’t you hope that one or two of those friends would say “yes of course I will write a character reference for you”

They may truly believe him to be innocent.
And in that case, it isn’t disgusting for them to write a letter on his behalf that says something to the effect of “these accusations are not aligned with the person that I’ve known him to be over the past 30 years”[/quote]

I can't view it this way because I've experienced, as a rape survivor, being told by people "that's just not who he is," and it's just gaslighting. Good for you he never raped you, but you don't actually know he is, and acting like your experience with him can be placed next to my experience and weighed equally is BS.

Statements like this also tend to emphasize to survivors that they were chosen as victims specifically because they lacked the power and social capital of others. Masterson would never have attacked Kunis because she, like him, was famous and wealthy and there was no power differential to exploit. He only raped people he could dominate. This is a horrible feeling as a survivor, to realize you were chosen for your relative weakness, that your attacker knew people would be less likely to care about what happens to you or believe what you have to say.

And usually it works, and it dies so specifically because people in power will circle up and protect one of their own. Which is what Mila and Ashton were doing. Glad to see it didnt work this time.[/quote]

Thanks for sharing your perspective. It was a helpful counterpoint to the PP.

Not a rape situation, but I was asked by a friend years ago to speak on her behalf against her husband in a divorce/child custody case. She said he had been abusive to her, and I saw bruises.  I told her I could speak to her character and honesty, but I could not say that I [b]knew [/b]he abused her because I had not witnessed it.  Our friendship was never the same after that, and I often wondered if I should have handled it differently.[/quote]

You handled it horribly, and your friend should ghost you. [/quote]

This was about testifying in court—she had to tell the truth.  She had not witnessed her friend being abused.  I can understand the friendship suffering, but I don’t think she did anything wrong.  You can’t just walk into a court and say things because your friend wants you to.  “Your friend should ghost you,” is such a childish thing to say.  I’m so sick of grown women acting like 13 year olds.[/quote]

You’re a wholesale idiot, does that work for you?There is nothing written indicating that the “friend” was being pressured to lie and say she witnessed the abuse. You and that poster are so certain that your respective inability to make difficult calls means you see things with unusual nuance, and you’re both wrong. You, like PP, just don’t listen well. She was not being coached to lie in a court proceeding. [/quote]

NP. What do you think the PP should have done in court[/quote]
DP. PP could have testified to seeing the bruises.  Would not need to say the husband did it but just that PP saw them.  [/quote]

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