Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 12:45     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

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Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.


I didn't believe anything about them before the case. Never heard of them except for Baldoni being in Jane the Virgin. Hearing he was a "male feminist" immediately made me suspicious.


That’s fine, but it’s troubling that you think this amount of bullying and power-play was deserved by anyone. so he claims he was a feminist and it out he’s not that much of a feminist. Though it’s interesting that Liz Plank who has made her whole platform being a feminist was fooled by it for three years and 124 podcast episodes wouldn’t you say? He must’ve had something to say for her to work with him like that.

Either way, he didn’t deserve to have his life destroyed and people calling him a predator. Ryan texting influential people in the industry that he should be in jail? Blake lying about what happened on set.

I just don’t get how anyone can justify this. He may not be a good guy, but it really seems like harassment and defamation on Blake and Ryan’s part.


Look, did he tell an actress he wanted her to do a birth seen nude because "it's not normal" for women to wear clothes during childbirth, or not? Without advance warning or involving the intimacy coordinator. We still don't actually have the answer to these questions. Yes, we know she wound up wearing some clothes (though as a woman I would argue that if you thought a scene was going to be filmed above the waist and clothed, finding out at the last minute you would be wearing a modesty garment and filmed below the waist with the intention of making you appear nude below the waist on screen would not be an exciting reveal at the last minute -- Blake should have had a heads up about that and should have had a nudity rider in place, IMO, if you want to be totally on the up-and-up with something like this) but we still haven't seen the testimony from Blake, Justin, or Jamey about what happened that day. And we know the IC wasn't there.

I'm sorry but until I get more information on that, I am not going to feel sorry for this guy. Also, if that incident went down as Blake describes (and again, Justin has not responded to the allegation that he pressured her to be nude or that he said those things to her), I personally don't have a problem with Ryan calling Justin names like "predator" to other people in the industry. In fact I wish more people would speak out against that kind of behavior on sets and I would comment Ryan for sticking up for his wife.

We truly do not know. People act like they have every piece of information they need to make a decision here, and there are lawyers and PR people on both sides working hard to convince us all of that because they are trying to force a favorable settlement for their client. But we dont' actually know. I personally would like to hear testimony on the birth scene and a few of the other allegations and I'm tired of being told "Blake lied" when we don't actually know that to be the case and we actually have not heard Baldoni et al even deny some of these allegations.


She had a nudity rider. It was very clear, what she was willing to do and not do. Also, it was a PG-13 movie. No one else ever gonna get blake full frontal. It’s ridiculous that we’re even debating that.

Also, she wasn’t pregnant. They were filming her giving birth. How do you think nudity would’ve worked?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 12:44     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.


I didn't believe anything about them before the case. Never heard of them except for Baldoni being in Jane the Virgin. Hearing he was a "male feminist" immediately made me suspicious.


That’s fine, but it’s troubling that you think this amount of bullying and power-play was deserved by anyone. so he claims he was a feminist and it out he’s not that much of a feminist. Though it’s interesting that Liz Plank who has made her whole platform being a feminist was fooled by it for three years and 124 podcast episodes wouldn’t you say? He must’ve had something to say for her to work with him like that.

Either way, he didn’t deserve to have his life destroyed and people calling him a predator. Ryan texting influential people in the industry that he should be in jail? Blake lying about what happened on set.

I just don’t get how anyone can justify this. He may not be a good guy, but it really seems like harassment and defamation on Blake and Ryan’s part.


His whole life destroyed? But his legions of fans are going to drop everything to see anything with his name attached. Has his career ever looked better?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 12:10     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.


I didn't believe anything about them before the case. Never heard of them except for Baldoni being in Jane the Virgin. Hearing he was a "male feminist" immediately made me suspicious.


That’s fine, but it’s troubling that you think this amount of bullying and power-play was deserved by anyone. so he claims he was a feminist and it out he’s not that much of a feminist. Though it’s interesting that Liz Plank who has made her whole platform being a feminist was fooled by it for three years and 124 podcast episodes wouldn’t you say? He must’ve had something to say for her to work with him like that.

Either way, he didn’t deserve to have his life destroyed and people calling him a predator. Ryan texting influential people in the industry that he should be in jail? Blake lying about what happened on set.

I just don’t get how anyone can justify this. He may not be a good guy, but it really seems like harassment and defamation on Blake and Ryan’s part.


Look, did he tell an actress he wanted her to do a birth seen nude because "it's not normal" for women to wear clothes during childbirth, or not? Without advance warning or involving the intimacy coordinator. We still don't actually have the answer to these questions. Yes, we know she wound up wearing some clothes (though as a woman I would argue that if you thought a scene was going to be filmed above the waist and clothed, finding out at the last minute you would be wearing a modesty garment and filmed below the waist with the intention of making you appear nude below the waist on screen would not be an exciting reveal at the last minute -- Blake should have had a heads up about that and should have had a nudity rider in place, IMO, if you want to be totally on the up-and-up with something like this) but we still haven't seen the testimony from Blake, Justin, or Jamey about what happened that day. And we know the IC wasn't there.

I'm sorry but until I get more information on that, I am not going to feel sorry for this guy. Also, if that incident went down as Blake describes (and again, Justin has not responded to the allegation that he pressured her to be nude or that he said those things to her), I personally don't have a problem with Ryan calling Justin names like "predator" to other people in the industry. In fact I wish more people would speak out against that kind of behavior on sets and I would comment Ryan for sticking up for his wife.

We truly do not know. People act like they have every piece of information they need to make a decision here, and there are lawyers and PR people on both sides working hard to convince us all of that because they are trying to force a favorable settlement for their client. But we dont' actually know. I personally would like to hear testimony on the birth scene and a few of the other allegations and I'm tired of being told "Blake lied" when we don't actually know that to be the case and we actually have not heard Baldoni et al even deny some of these allegations.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 12:01     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.


I didn't believe anything about them before the case. Never heard of them except for Baldoni being in Jane the Virgin. Hearing he was a "male feminist" immediately made me suspicious.


One positive outcome of this case might be that men won't try to market themselves as Male Feminists (tm) anymore. I'm all for men supporting women and women's issues, and supporting feminist values -- I think in the long run most feminist goals benefit men, anyway. But men who have tried to make a living selling themselves as Male Feminists tend to be grifters. Why would you make that your professional identity, especially when you already have a whole career? Justin could have just made movies and sought to support his wife and other women through his actions, rather than trying to make money and get famous off of it.

It's similar to those people who sell themselves as anti-racist gurus. Like, yes, let's oppose racism, obviously. But when some white lady is like "hey, buy my book about how to be a good white person, like me!" I'm suspicious. Come on.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 11:59     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.


I didn't believe anything about them before the case. Never heard of them except for Baldoni being in Jane the Virgin. Hearing he was a "male feminist" immediately made me suspicious.


That’s fine, but it’s troubling that you think this amount of bullying and power-play was deserved by anyone. so he claims he was a feminist and it out he’s not that much of a feminist. Though it’s interesting that Liz Plank who has made her whole platform being a feminist was fooled by it for three years and 124 podcast episodes wouldn’t you say? He must’ve had something to say for her to work with him like that.

Either way, he didn’t deserve to have his life destroyed and people calling him a predator. Ryan texting influential people in the industry that he should be in jail? Blake lying about what happened on set.

I just don’t get how anyone can justify this. He may not be a good guy, but it really seems like harassment and defamation on Blake and Ryan’s part.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 11:54     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.


What about Justin and Jamey making over 100 episodes of a podcast, the premise of which is "we listen to women and are open to feedback and want to do better as men" and Justin had a TED talk and a book on the same premise (and a children's book, for boys!) but then when multiple women on the set of this movie were bothered by their behavior, their instinct was to ignore, minimize, condescend, and pressure compliance? Can you not see how that was especially frustrating to the women who signed onto this movie in part because Justin had put out a reputation as being "one of the good guys" who listens to and empathizes with women, which made it okay for him to make a movie about a woman realizing she's in a DV marriage and deciding to leave? And to play the abuser in that movie?

I agree with the PP that what is alleged here isn't even as bad as what likely happens every single day of like your average Brett Ratner or Tarantino film. But those guys don't hold themselves out as male feminists who want to listen to and elevate women, and those men aren't making movies based on books written by women and beloved by largely female fan bases. I think Baldoni basically set himself up for his own downfall. I don't know that the case is going anywhere because legally, it's all so mild. But I don't feel bad for Justin or Heath. I also think they could have avoided the lawsuit if they'd just apologized and had some self-awareness about what had happened. But they instead blamed Blake 100% for the fallout (when they were definitely at least 50% at fault) and instead went nuclear on her. She ultimately did the same, and likewise think the end of her acting career will be a price she pays for lacking self awareness and not knowing when to pull a punch.

But I'll never get people who think Baldoni is some sympathetic figure here. He did this too himself. Don't hold yourself out as some feminist icon if you can't walk the walk. He walked right into his own downfall.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 11:25     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.


I didn't believe anything about them before the case. Never heard of them except for Baldoni being in Jane the Virgin. Hearing he was a "male feminist" immediately made me suspicious.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 11:22     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


Oh please. They were making a crappy Colleen Hoover book into a movie. If you believed they’re trying to answer to a higher calling through moviemaking that’s on you. Everything I know everybody in this industry is total BS and branding.

I just don’t think anything he did on that side went against feminism. Give me a break. It’s a Hollywood set and all these people are terrible.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 10:56     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


This is spot on.

People don't like to hear it because they want a hero in this case, or they personally identify with Baldoni so aren't willing to face the truth that he brought this on himself. But it's spot on.


Ah. He “begged for it” 😉
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 10:55     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:Enough of your pontificating!
It just goes and on.


A second poster here agreeing with you.!
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 10:55     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.


This is spot on.

People don't like to hear it because they want a hero in this case, or they personally identify with Baldoni so aren't willing to face the truth that he brought this on himself. But it's spot on.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 10:43     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

I’ll be so glad when the judge rules or this case goes to trial.

So tired of the same posters for over a year now, who remain toxic as ever.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 10:43     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Anonymous wrote:Enough of your pontificating!
It just goes and on.


It wouldn’t be that bad if she had some new material but she just says the same, often disproven, things over and over.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 10:39     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Enough of your pontificating!
It just goes and on.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 10:38     Subject: Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

Re: Baldoni's career, I find him to be creepy and a jerk but in the context of Hollywood, I don't think what he did was *that* terrible.

The irony though is HE is the one who built his persona around this feminism crap. He's the one who said he would be man enough to listen to women when they call him out, but instead he gets huffy when they don't want to hug, or jokes "I must have missed the HR training" when he's told they don't want to be called sexy, and opens up with incredibly weird comments about consent in his personal sex life. That's 100% on him. He was the one who made that important. Wayfarer is the one that marketed itself as having a higher calling, making movies for the greater good... and then you have Baldoni and Heath running around like asses (which multiple people confirm) and Sarowitz saying he wants to destroy people, as Israel did to Hamas. Baldoni wanting to use DV as the marketing plan to make himself look good, even discussing lifting "survivor content" from his DMs. This is all a problem they created, they are hypocrites, and it came out. It's not unlike the argument that Lively has always been a bully and difficult and it just came out, "organically."

I don't see what is sympathetic about the Wayfarer guys, they don't practice what they preach, and they are the ones who promoted themselves as being better than everybody else. I would not be surprised at all to hear Directors making comments about actresses being sexy (and much, much worse) or Hollywood financiers comparing themself to Israel against Hamas... but they marketed themselves as not being the typical Hollywood studio. They obviously believed that this stuff about Baldoni and Heath coming out would hurt their reputation (IMO, it's why they hired Wallace) because they chose to build their reputation on this higher calling. It's what makes them so distasteful to me.