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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one thinks Justin is a saint, people are defending him because he's being accused of career-ending allegations. Why don't the "neutral" people or pro-Blake people seem to get?

Imagine your loved one was accused of rape when the evidence heavily suggests they weren't. Someone deciding to be mealy-mouthed by saying, "the accused and the accuser are both bad" does not make them nuanced.

It is so disturbing that Justin actually fits the mold of the "imperfect victim," not Blake.[/quote]

He's not accused of rape. He's accused of calling actresses sexy on set, pressuring Blake to do a birth scene with simulated nudity without her prior consent or the involvement of an IC, adding intimate content to the script without consent of actors, talking about his past sexual history (including having sex with women without their consent) in ways that made Blake uncomfortable, etc. He's also accused of hiring a crisis PR team to attack BL online.

The question is not really even whether he did these things -- admits to most of them, and there is eyewitness testimony to others. The question is whether this behavior rises to the level SH and retaliation for SH. His defense is that these actions have been exaggerated or taken out if context, not that they didn't happen.

Well how do you decide if this was SH or if, I'm context, these were understandable or appropriate behaviors? Court case. So here we are.

Is it subjective? Yes. And I'm open to the possibility that a court or jury could deem this not SH. But this idea that JB has been unfairly attacked with false accusations has always struck me as bizarre -- he admitted to the vast majority of the allegations in that timeline he published early on. These are not invented allegations and to the degree these details are embarrassing for him, it's because of his own behavior, not a lie Blake is telling.

Plus we now know she wasn't the only one on set who felt uncomfortable. That tells us something about that set.

Comparing this to a loved one being falsely accused of rape is crazy. It's not like that at all. Who is exaggerating and ignoring important content now?[/quote]

Different poster, but this is a total miss characterization. You should read the text that he sent to his team the day after the January 4 list was read. He said he was paralyzed. He was completely shocked that Blake was reading those things from her phone and he couldn’t move. He said some of the situations were based on real events, but were so taken out of context - even the things that he admitted to doing are not problematic. calling the lead actors in a film filled with love scenes, sexy, when everyone was using that term widely in texts and emails because there was blatant pressure from the studio to make the movie sexier and “bring the heat?”

The whole consent discussion was taken out of context too. He wasn’t saying he raped women in the past, he was saying he didn’t always ask for consent when he was young. ever hooked up in a college dorm and had the kid not explicitly asked you for consent? Because that counts. It was so overblown. Just like talking about his genitalia ended up being a discussion about circumcision as Blake was preparing to have her first baby boy - so blatantly out of context. And just like a mother giving birth is not p-rn-  so offensive to women - Blake has given birth four times and she thinks it’s pornographic? This is why her career is ruined because people think this is absolutely absurd.

Some things were taken out of context and some things as you know, Blake completely lied about, and we have the videos to prove it. [/quote]

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