Good. I am a totally leftist liberal but FFS people.

What they aren’t willing to admit is that they’re really mad at capitalism, not sexism. And sexism can get reflected in capitalism, but as for it being willfully generated by the power players within the Hollywood structure, I don’t buy that. What I believe is that there are many metrics used by entertainment…

“there’s no reason to pay her so much less than Wahlberg, whose commercial prospects have been declining so sharply he was named Forbes’ most overpaid actor of 2017.”

I mean, there is *some* correlation between talent and pay in Hollywood, but it’s still much more of a popularity contest. This might be wrong in the sense that in a perfect world, talent would correlate perfectly with popularity.. but not in the sense that the current popularity-based pay scale is skewed incorrectly…

If this was Charlize or Scar Jo or Jennifer Lawarence or Halle Berry or even Brie Larson then this is a story. While its a pretty ridiculous gap and Michelle is most certainly the better actor, not many people are going to see a movie just because she headlines it. Unlike Marky Mark, who will draw in a million of just…

You literally list the reasons that he’s paid more then say there’s no reason he should be paid more.

Goddammit, you’re turning me into a guy who says stuff like “If you’re going to say shit like ‘Oscar-winning actress Michelle Williams and former leader of the Funky Bunch Mark Wahlberg’ would you be ok with someone describing “Multiple Oscar-nominee Mark Wahlberg and former Dawson’s Creek co-lead Michelle Williams.”…

I’m not gonna argue that the element of a power imbalance hasn’t led to horrible things (the story about Dushku’s assault very much involved a power imbalance) but I try not to be too quick to judge even in the case of infidelity if the affair occurred between two consenting adults, obviously if it wrecks their…

I mean, it’s not like he was taking a baseball bat to her ribs in front of everyone. He very well could have been sinister enough to do it simply by loosening her support harness just a little bit, with everyone concluding it was just a freak accident. Kramer had been a veteran stunt coordinator for years at that…

Well, Cameron’s statement about how a director really isn’t told about on set drama is pretty accurate. Hell, I’ve only done some student films but it takes up 100% of your brain to do that kind of job and its generally the job of assistant directors and other crew people to deal with this thing.

lol, yeah right, then he’d get trashed for that, too. double bind.

I dunno, given the sheer depth and breadth of the various accusations, I do feel like some sort of “Harvey Weinstein-ness” scale would be appropriate here. Given that every male and (some female) celebrity is eventually going to be accused/exposed, I think we need to decide between the truly, unforgivably abhorrent…

I think AVclub has fully embraced the Tall Poppy Syndrome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome) and... that’s not a good thing. Every day a new allegation or sexual assault post. Every day. These aren’t productive. Abuse should be fought, and as someone who has fought it himself (yes, sometimes men get…

They tried that at the Golden Globes. Look how well that turned out for them.

If the media wasn’t repeatedly asking him and every other male actor about this topic, I’d agree with you. But what it seems like is happening is if a male actor says nothing or makes a non-statement when asked about this stuff, they get attacked for not taking a stand or being a quiet supporter of sexual harassment…

Eh, I don’t really agree with what he said. Still like him, though. So suck it, other commenters that don’t realize that is still a thing people can do.

Oh the irony of writing an outrage piece on someone who said that the movement is a witch hunt.

Well, he was just giving an honest answer when asked during an interview. This wasn’t a press conference he held or anything. That at least puts him one up on us Kinja commenters whose opinions weren’t asked for but we’re sharing them anyway.

He said it’s a bit of a witch hunt?!? GET HIM!!!

Sure, until “Agnes from Omaha” comes out with a story about Jim Cantore in a crowded tornado shelter...