Abusers Continue to Win - Shia LaBeouf Cast in Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis'

[trekkiepetrelli]

Shia LaBeouf has been cast in Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming $100 million epic feature #Megalopolis.⁠ https://t.co/gUOCacvNRj pic.twitter.com/OJMtfbaYWp
- Variety (@Variety) August 31, 2022

• In the same week he revealed he lied about abuse from his father that inspired the film 'Honey Boy', abuser and compulsive liar Shia LaBeouf has been cast in

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[qween_tartii]

i am so fucking sick of hearing about how abuse allegations ~*~*~rUiN MEn'S LiVEs!!! ~*~*~

like, WHERE. yes, Weinstein's in jail. yes, R Kelly is in jail. but that's after LITERAL DECADES of getting away with this shit. everyone else gets a redemption arc with cutesy award show appearances and the industry welcoming them back with open arms. i'm so tired. so tired.

[sugarshocks]

same!!! it's so exhausting and frustrating! and speaking of weinstein, didn't he get tossed out by his own brother and business partners after he became too much of a liability? and as you said, it happened after literal decades of getting away with it. same with dept, really, except he managed to get away mostly unscathed (hopefully not for long). meanwhile, look at what happens to the women who decide to come forward. they are the ones that end up paying the price for the actions of a random waste of air man who wasn't capable to keep it in his pants. but yeah, men have it soooo hard nowadays...

[qween_tartii]

yeah he stopped making money so they stopped covering for his ass. it was nothing to do with justice or protecting women from a predator. #MeToo needed a high profile scalp and he was it. since then it's all been backlash.

[sugarshocks]

exactly! and i feel like this past year (probably longer than that lbr) men have been doing everything they can to "take back their power" and punish women for daring to speak up for themselves.

[automaticpeople]

I know rapists irl who have people defending them. This whole idea that accusations and even guilty verdicts ruin lives is a joke. One of them even committed statutory rape, because his “girlfriend” was 15, yet people still defend him and he lives a normal life in the same community.

[ahkna]

i think they truly believe that justice ends at the place where it interrupts their lives in any way.

[aleksie]

Yep. I have a former friend who has witnessed one of their friends try to rape me and another woman (two separate occasions), do other shitty things, and yet this former tries to act like the attempted rapist is the victim and I should forgive and forget.

All that has happened to the attempted rapist is I don't talk to him. No other consequences

[onestateofgrace]

[aleksie]

Thanks. Healing is a process.

[deja_vu822]

the thing that gets me about bill cosby, weinstein, and r. kelly when people try to point to them as if the system is working is that it took literally dozens of women coming forward for each to put them in jail. "justice" for one woman never happens, there has to be 50 of them to get the court to care.

[recognitions]

And Cosby got out anyway

[ahkna]

2 men out of literally hundreds exposed.

You could say that those stats line up with the conviction stats for rape in general, which is roughly 1% of them. Kelly and Weinstein are both prodigious predators, with dozens upon dozens of victims each, while men like Kobe Bryant and Ronaldo literally admit to rape to the police, on the public record, and still aren't charged. Men absolutely find those statistics acceptable because they believe women are always lying and they really only find the ones like Kelly and Weinstein bad.

[recognitions]

Kobe is still treated like a god and people act like the rape never happened

[aleksie]

In the eyes of the public, I'm not sure if there have been tons of consequences. I was in a Lyft the other day, and the driver (a woman) was blasting R. Kelly for the entire ride.