I’m not sure which reply you mean, but I have no idea whether Peyton Brown is making a reasonable complaint or not. I was simply questioning the certainty of others here, like b-wood, who seem pretty sure Brown is the party at fault.

I don’t. I’m not assuming one thing or the other.

Who is lumping rape together with being shouted at? Do you really think that anyone has made a genuine equivalence between the two? Or is it more of a case that we shouldn’t tolerate any form of abusive behaviour, even relatively minor forms?

So, because some forms of sexual abuse and harassment, like rape and child molestation, are worse than others, we don’t deal with the more ‘minor’ stuff?

I thought it was weird, but then I remembered it’s also technically correct. The best kind of correct.

Well, it’s tricky like. Generally directors should learn to not be verbally abusive dicks (if it’s a pattern and not an isolated incident) because it creates toxic work environments and doesn’t help make the art better (except in some rare cases, but some people just really respond to antagonism). And male directors…

Or you shouldn’t yell at your employees at all for any reason. I don’t know why this is such a weird concept. If you yell, you’re a shitty boss and should quit.

It’s perfectly acceptable to say “They went to the beach” and not “She went to the beach”. Both are correct.

Some languages don’t even have gendered pronouns, only neutral. Finnish, for example. Seems to work quite well for them... :P

I just figured that, for some reason, they weren’t 100% certain of the gender of the complainant at the time this article went up.

I’m not categorically assuming anything. I hope the Duffer Brothers treated all of their cast and crew with respect, irrespective of gender. All I’m saying is, I wasn’t there and, so, I don’t know.

‘They’ doesn’t imply that a person’s decision regarding their own gender is ‘irrelevant’, but it does avoid presumption or potential offence regarding a person’s gender (alas, most of us are not mind-readers and despite what another poster says about ‘research’ asking someone “what is your gender” is far more rude…

It’s neutral, grammatically correct (or at least, widely used), and less likely to be attacked as insensitive, though people like you try anyway.

11.5 is not a lot anymore. Public figure status kicks in at 100K+. A network of Stranger Things fanbloggers and tweeters will easily cross 10k.

I wouldn’t be offended if someone referred to me as ‘they’ and ‘their’.

I have no formed opinion about this other than I don’t know enough, but I will say, eh, people quit for all sorts of reasons and tolerances. I actually think getting yelled at obviously happens, but is totally a legitimate quitting reason.

I don’t think there’s enough here to have a firm opinion on—if this story has legs it’ll take an adult actor speaking up, presumably Winona Ryder or Natalia Dyer to really move it, but I wouldn’t take that much confidence from their reaction to Kevin Spacey. What he’s accused of is substantially worse, for a…

True, but if that’s the job she is qualified for then it’s not for us to judge how much it means to her.

Yep, I think this is all very likely, especially since folks on other forums are piecing together that this whole thing likely originates with the troubled production of episode 7 of season 2, “The Lost Sister.” The one person who’s come forward with a vague corroboration of Peyton Brown’s story, the show’s script…

‘They’ and ‘their’ pronouns do seem to be the safer bet overall, and communicate the same information as ‘she’ and ‘her’. I’m not sure why anyone is bothered by the former.