Variety: Rebel Wilson opened up about her experiences with sexual harassment in the movie industry in a series of tweets posted Saturday morning, detailing two separate incidents in which men in the industry allegedly acted inappropriately towards her.
In the first alleged incident, Wilson described a male star “in a position of power” asking her to go into a room with him and then “repeatedly asking [her] to stick [her] finger up his a–.” She added that his male friends attempted to film the incident on their iPhones while laughing.
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Sexual harassment is an umbrella term. And often we only hear of sexual harassment cases where the most extreme forms of harassment have been committed. Rebel’s harassment is just as important as those more extreme/more aggressive cases. It’s extremely important for people with an experience similar to Rebel’s to share because sometimes people feel that a lesser experience might invalidate their harassment. While no victim should ever feel that their experience is invalid, it can often happen in the entertainment industry due to cover-ups and people trying to silence victims. While I don’t appreciate the forum that Rebel choose to come out to about here experiences - twitter is just a funnel of sadness - I think it’s really important that she did reveal her harassment experiences. It gives a voice to anyone who has felt victimized but also invalidated with the extremity of their harassment.
I like the main message that Rebel is advocating in her tweets. The fact that she will no longer "be polite". This message is interesting to me because it suggests that when things like this happened in the past, people ignored it in order to "be polite". Maybe the two things can't be directly compared but it's sad to me that when these instances happened in the past they were ignored in order to avoid trouble. I'm glad that Rebel has started the conversation about how you can start acting against these instances. The idea that she is going to stop "being polite" seems simple enough, but can mean a lot of different things. Overall, I am glad that this movement has not lost steam and that people are starting to take action. I think that this is a great start to changing the societal norm itself. Hopefully taking action will continue to spread as well.
I genuinely appreciate the honesty that I felt in Rebel Wilson’s message. Our society is a maze of social standards and cues, political correctness, and appropriate behavior. A large part of the reason our society is thoroughly shocked to hear so many people speaking out about being sexually harassed is not in fact because they truly believed it just wasn’t happening, but hearing people coming out, and so bluntly saying what they have gone through. I, personally, think that this takes a significant amount of courage and strength to come out about an experience such as this, and finding that strength within yourself shouldn’t be halted by fear of retribution or a social standard of systemized oppression. I also have hope that coming forward with these stories will allow us, as a community, eliminate this standard of silence and pain.
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