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Michelle Trachtenberg (age 15 when she started on ‘Buffy’) reveals Joss Whedon wasn’t allowed to be alone with her after some “very bad” behavior (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by YesMovement 5 years ago by YesMovement +49 / -0
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– BulbasaurusThe7th 32 points 5 years ago +32 / -0

Just as a sidenote. What sort of fucking parent allows this to go on? If I hear someone can't be trusted around my kid, we are out the door faster than you can imagine. I am NOT risking that. I'm not waiting and seeing if "by accident" something happens.
Entertainment industry parents are the kind of people who should have gotten neutered like we do with dogs.

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– Fmantothemaxagain 17 points 5 years ago +17 / -0

Yeah, if any of my friends ever have their kids try out for movies or commercials, I would ask them point blank "why do you want your kid to be raped?". Because unless they are going to be the kind of parent that's literally always with their child no matter what, it is a non insignificant possibility. An inevitability, even.

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 18 points 5 years ago +18 / -0

Also, why do it in the first place? A 5-year-old's need to perform in front of people and get attention can be fulfilled in ways that don't end with them being raped by producers, get groomed into having no self-worth or hangups about debasing themselves for money, get perverted stalkers who call themselves fans and fantasize about them online ("shippers"), lost privacy for life, getting addicted to meaningless, hedonistic luxury, develop mental health issues, get horrific "beauty" treatments done, etc.
Like what's wrong with small children performing on a small scale, things appropriate for their age (no sexual stuff, no horror, no psychologically fucked things, etc.), with other kids, in ways that don't impede on normal kid life?

Recently we had a child actor/performer on TV here. Now we are a small country, but she somehow ended up performing in some things alongside worldwide actors like Luke Evans, I think.
The kid doesn't fucking sound like a child. She sounds like a mini 30-something career woman and she is pre-puberty.

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– SR388-SAX 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

why do it in the first place?

Money. Narcissism.

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– APDSmith 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Because they're empty, hollow people who rely on external validation rather than self-confidence?

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

why do it in the first place

Some parents want to live vicariously through their children. And there probably are some who genuinely just want their kids set up well financially before they grow up and honestly don't know how pervasive this issue is.

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– YesMovement [S] 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

Wouldn't surprise me if they kept the parents in the dark and threatened Michelle that she'd lose her job if she made an issue out of it.

The real question you have to ask is WTF is wrong with the adult crew who all knew about this and their response was "Well let's just not let him be alone with her, that's an acceptable solution to this"?

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

Media people would do anything for their empty, shiny world. I have no love for any of them.
It's funny how in Hollywood everyone is a strawng womyn, but they are mentally brought into this cult where they would do anything just to be allowed to be actresses. They justify it by "but I want to act, it will make me happy for sure" when they are told to do disgusting things.

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– coke501 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

But think of all the moneys they get for prostituting their children. Totally worth it, no? /s

On a serious note: As with women that happily pleased Mr. Weinstein when it looked like a chance to bolster their career, a lot of parents will put up with some truly disgusting behaviour, because doing so guarantees their child will be the money-making property they always dreamt of and not the child of parents that actually love it.

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 34 points 5 years ago +34 / -0

Then again, look at how many children got absolutely wrecked by Hollywood. Do you think children barely at puberty become addicts, overdose, kill themselves or just "magically" die of seriously fucked up shit because of no reason?
You can blame women for everything, from inflation to stubbing your toe, but a 12-year-old doesn't start doing drugs because of no reason. Again, you will come up with some convoluted story about how women are behind it all.

I specifically don't give a shit about Whedon. Like I don't give a fuck if he goes or stays. Now again, you will claim the New Vagina Order plan involves bullshit film people, when we have everything, from electron cheating and an overblown intentional virus to do whatever anyway.
The lunatic left already has government power.

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– yvaN_ehT_nioJ 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

No, no, the evil wammens are baiting for sympathy those darn women >:(

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

It's not at all suspicious when a man keeps saying all men rape and need to die to turn out to be a perv. It must be the women lying.
Also, men need to protect other men who would throw them under the bus and do so every day, because what you guys need is being just as retarded as feminazis are.

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– NoGardE 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

If your theory is true, good. The industry is owned by a bunch of champagne communists. Let it burn.

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– NoGardE 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Do you have a better solution? I'm talking practical solutions, not ideal or final ones.

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– current_horror 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

When your hatred of women causes you to go to bat for Hollywood lol

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– YesMovement [S] 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

Not just Hollywood, Hollywood pedos.

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– onetruephilosoraptor 22 points 5 years ago +22 / -0

Whedon has been a predator for years huh?

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– YouAreAPirate 15 points 5 years ago +15 / -0

Has the clock already been reset in relation to Mr. Whedon?

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– YesMovement [S] 22 points 5 years ago +22 / -0

Literally yesterday

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– Freedom_burger 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

It's new, Charisma Carpenter ki Ked it off this time and more are jumping on now (at least three others: Dushku, Trachtenberg, and Gellar, though as usual, Gellar's response was pretty classy but the rest of them are playing the Blasey-Ford card for now.

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– current_horror 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

Kristy Swanson was hotter, aged just as well, and is now extremely based.

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– YesMovement [S] 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

It's not new, it's renewed. His wife made her own Zoe Post a few years ago. Gal Gadot said during the JL investigation into the Cyborg guy's complaints that Joss was inappropriate to her.

CC starting it up again, hopefully this will be enough to blacklist Whedon forever.

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– yvaN_ehT_nioJ 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

We just keep his clock permanently at the 12 o'clock mark now.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 15 points 5 years ago +15 / -0

SJW = Sensitive Joss Whedon.

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– onetruephilosoraptor 23 points 5 years ago +23 / -0

Dude I always believe in innocent until proven guilty and I try to defend all innocent men but Hollywood elites like Joss Whedon are just not innocent by any measure of the word. They all engage in the casting couch and many prey on underage girls and even boys. I understand that many actresses wait years to accuse someone but Whedon is a proven Hollywood degenerate with a long history of reprehensible behavior.

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– SR388-SAX 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

It's entirely possible that they're all awful.

Whedon's behavior screams of someone with a guilty conscience. I'm happy to say I don't know what the truth is, but i'm also happy to say that in my opinion he's more likely a piece of shit than not. I don't know for sure, and I don't know exactly what kind of shit he is, but he definitely emits a foul smelling odor.

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– Knife-TotingRat 14 points 5 years ago +14 / -0

Sigh, at everyone acting like startled deer over the Hollywood system that was inherited from Broadway that they inherited from lord knows where. Acting has always been for the sleazy, it's just too bad that "stars" literally got into people eyes .. and heads.

And yeah, Joss, the ones who cry "wolf" the loudest usually ARE the goddamn "wolves".

Or the Whedons just tell good stories, and the rest of Hollywood hates that, because they like shit stories that appeal to chinese.

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– current_horror 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

We know for a fact that Hollywood is a get-fucked-to-get-work industry. Why would anyone assume there's an age limit?

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– norwegianwikin 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

That's spicier than imagined.

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– Kweebecker 31 points 5 years ago +31 / -0

"Not liking someone" is indeed a poor excuse to believe their accuser.

But "historic record" is different. Joss is an avowed Male Feminist. That is, he heard the ideology "all men are evil rapist oppressive monsters" and thought to himself "yeah, sounds about right when thinking of myself, I'll join this movement".

The standard of evidence required to convict someone in the court of public opinion varies wildly person to person, for sure. But I think anyone who starts the proceedings with a confession that according to the ideology they adopted willingly, they themselves are the most irredeemably evil thing there is, the standard of evidence changes from "beyond reasonable doubt" to "is he protecting someone worse?".

If... I don't know... Mark Zuckerberg was accused tomorrow, I don't like him, few people seem to, but I'd give him the benefit of the doubt to wait on lots of evidence as he has not confessed to wrongdoing as far as I know for now.

But Joss preached "believe all women, believe them without any evidence, and immediately. Men like me, Joss Wheden, are all evil rapists". It would be untowards and immoral of me to go against his wishes and act contrary to his requests and ideology when judging him.

I would want to be judged based on my ideology and requests, so it is only moral for me to assume he would want to be judged based on his, too.

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