Although I’m sure he has noble intentions, Ashton strikes me as the type of person who thinks sexual predators all hang out in dark alleys wearing trenchcoats and ski masks. He probably doesn’t know that a majority of sexual predators hide in plain sight and are almost always known to the victim.

And I am side eyeing Ashton Kutcher so hard right now. His entire philanthropy is stopping sex trafficking and he is still friends with dude in a cult with child slaves and rapists.

This Danny Masterson story has been around the interwebz for a while. I am very happy it’s finally getting the attention it deserves, interesting how he chose other Scientologists.... also FUCK YOU DANNY MASTERSON

This. As someone who is currently serving, I think it is important that people realize that the military is disproportionately made up of poor people, people of color, immigrants (including DACA recipients) and yes, LGBT people (like me!). There are numerous worthwhile discussions to be had about the size, cost, and…

In July, the president announced on Twitter that he would reinstate a ban preventing transgender people from serving openly in the military

This is what makes me most concerned about him being impeached or resigning, tho. Mike Pence is at least as bad, and a lot more effective at getting his hatred into legislation. Trump, monster-baby though he may be, is at least too incompetent to get his horrible ideas into effect.

Touché....since he is a victim, I feel sorry for his plight, but the idea of letting someone molest unchecked while you wait for film funding is extremely messy to say the least.

Thank you, that was what I was struggling to describe. He’s not being fair to other victims, and I’m struggling to be fair to him...as I should.

I’m sure the survivors he criticized don’t feel too good about being criticized by another survivor either. He doesn’t get a pass to say incendiary things like the Weinstein survivors “took a deal” and “kept their mouth shut” and got an “upside.” Did he ever consider that the Weinstein survivors are/were just as…

Yeah I get that. Even though I try to avoid it affecting my view it’s the IndieGoGo campaign that tarnishes it for me not just because of the goal but this weird system of “rewards” for donating (which has turned into a data protection disaster) like signed albums and social media shoutouts.

Me too. I don’t want to criticize or question, because victims get enough of that from the rest of the world. Still, I don’t really like or respect the way he’s doing this.

It’s a very uncomfortable situation. I absolutely believe his claims, and I think that he’s been traumatized his whole life. Maybe people are actively trying to kill him. I can see his fear and desire for better security regardless.

I am super uncomfortable with his assertation that there is a financial “upside” to victimization. Between that and his constant wriggling refusal to name names for vague financial reasons, I feel like it casts a lot of doubt over his intentions here, and potentially makes it even easier for his detractors to ignore…

“I was never awarded that opportunity...We never were given an opportunity to possibly get an upside for our victimization.”

This might have been just a bit more forgivable (final verdict coming from Anthony Rapp, of course... not me), had Spacey not turned the story of him inappropriately touching and coming onto an underaged person, who deserves our sympathy and support, into something which attempts to redirect that sympathy and support…

The behavior was not inappropriate because it was “drunken” nor do adults suddenly and out of nowhere create sexual situations with children because they’ve been drinking. So a hearty no to that, Spacey.

Clears up the rumors, but purposefully tries to deflect from what he’s being accused of. No one cares that he’s gay; hell, everyone already knew that.

I don’t know, either. He sounds genuinely contrite and is supportive of his accuser; not sure if outing himself is meant to be a distraction or he just figured the game was over.

Well! I wonder what exactly he’s trying to do here? Distract... or what? It’s like, I’m sorry you’ve been so deeply closeted, but this is sounding ripe with excuses to me. I don’t know.

The scary thing is that the likeliest explanation for why we’ve gone so long without this dam breaking is that most of the most powerful people in Hollywood are complicit, and are effectively keeping each other’s secrets. Kind of a mutual protection racket. A few dominos have started to fall, and it feels like many…