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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What we really need more of is zesty Ryan posts.[/quote]

For real. I’m not that poster but….they aren’t wrong.[/quote]

Medium did a deep dive on every interaction he’s had with Joe Keery. It’s pretty disturbing. In isolation if you’re just a casual fan and you see a one or two off double entendre joke like that you’re like oh he’s being funny. But they put them all together over the course of a few months that they were working together, and shoot how uncomfortable Joe was with it and how pervasive it was.

Ryan’s not a normal dude. Something off about that. In his congratulatory email to Colleen Hoover he starts it by basically saying he has to extricate himself from the president of Sony‘s mouth or something. He can’t even just send an email without making a gay s-x joke. It’s odd. [/quote]

The medium article is incredibly damning. The Ryan stuff bugs me b/c it feels like we’ve seen this movie before with powerful men exhibiting awful behavior in plain sight but no one says anything until one day the FBI is raiding their home. There are people who immediately try to shut down the conversation by accusing those of us who call it out of being homophobic. No one wants to be accused of that so they don’t say anything and the abusive behavior continues. Then when the arrest warrant goes out everyone says oh everyone knew, worst kept secret in Hollywood. How many times does this have to repeat?[/quote]

This is the Medium article and it is crazy. Ryan Reynolds has issues with cuter men, so his deranged treatment of Justin Baldoni is not surprising.

https://medium.com/@eumoniadike/ryan-reynolds-repeatedly-engaged-in-sexually-suggestive-behavior-towards-joe-keery-c9d794d13f6a[/quote]

Wow. He is so disgusting [/quote]

Interesting, I read the Medium article and it's not at all clear to me that Joe Keery was bothered or that the press stuff was anything more than an inside joke based on the characters they play in the movie, where there is indeed -- as the article points out -- innuendo. There are tons of movies advertised by how hot the female lead is (e.g., anything with Anna Faris back in the day). Do we assume the co-star doing the bit in interviews is sexually harrassing them? When the Medium article starts getting into things that their *characters* do in the movies as though having characters do things is sexual harrassment (and as though the PR campaign isn't clearly a continuation of this bit), I think it goes completely off the rails. Like, what? We're going to say that one character hitting on another is sexual harrassment? Apparently, yes, if one of the folks is also involved in producing the movie. That is both very odd to me and pretty dangerous if we apply that standard to other movies.

And then it goes on to say that Reynolds has this same personna with other male co-stars... which, if true, makes the article's extreme focus on Keery particularly bizarre.

My honest takeaway from the article was that the author was kind of homophobic and uncomfortable with male sexual innuendo as a general matter. Also, Ryan may very well be bi... but, so what?[/quote]

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