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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t wait to watch Blake and Ryan, the mega narcissists, go down. The day is coming soon!![/quote]

We know, Baldoni Bro, we know.[/quote]

I’m actually a woman that’s worked with DV survivors since I was in college. Now 45. I’ve never seen such a frivolous lawsuit in my life that is an insult to women who are actually survivors of DV, SA, and SH. This is doing a massive disservice to the whole community. It does seem that there is one specific Blake troll on here who is posting way too much. I will ask Jeff about it.[/quote]

Your personal experience is pretty irrelevant to a lawsuit. Employers are legally not allowed to create workplace environment that is toxic, hostile, uncomfortable for any specific group of people…be it women or African Americans or Jews or Muslims. Being a director and a boss doesn’t give you carte blanche to make a protected class of people uncomfortable in their workplace. Although Blake brought the case, there is testimony from multiple women about being made to feel uncomfortable on set. Workplace sexual harassment doesn’t require sexual comments or actions, it is about harassment based on sex (being male / female) and treating the women on set differently from the men in a way that makes the women uncomfortable. There has been sufficient legal evidence to support that claim to get this case all the way to trial. [/quote]

Sufficient legal evidence is a low bar- it is just a circus of exploitation and a waste of resources. Imagine if the money spent on this crap actually went to survivors of SA, DV, or war and genocide. Instead we have to watch a white, blond, wealthy woman have a temper tantrum for the world to see. It's not a good look.[/quote]

How is filing a lawsuit "throwing a tantrum." That's a weird way to characterize it. Did you read Lively's deposition? She is clearly not just throwing a tantrum. Whether you agree with her or not, she obviously feels genuinely injured by what Wayfarer and Baldoni did to her, and is pursuing what she believes to be justice. It's not a frivolous suit and she's gone to great lengths to prove her case.

If she can't prove it, she will lose. That's how the courts work. It's literally what the civil court system is for.

Also, as someone who has volunteered and raised money for survivors of sexual violence for decades now, this is not an either/or. You can raise money for survivors who, unlike Lively, lack the resources to get the help they need. IME high profile women speaking out on these issues tends to help the movement. It all helps. And there are lots of women who, like Lively, experienced much lower level harassment and discrimination in the workplace and told themselves "oh I'm not a real survivor, this isn't that big of a deal." But even these less severe experiences add up and can really impact people over time. It can hurt careers and impact your mental health. People deserve safe, respectful workplaces, regardless of their gender.[/quote]

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