Domenica Feraud has some thoughts on Jake Gyllenhaal's thoughts

[sashheers]

As a reminder, Domenica Feraud is the woman who wrote the essay "The Movie Star and Me," which is 99.99999999% almost definitely about Jake Gyllenhall, and documented her relationship with a "movie star" she met when she was 19 while working as in intern for a play in NYC.

As Jake just said in some word salad, "At some point, I think it’s

Comments

[thinkweism]

Lmao as a professor of rhetoric & composition, if I have to re-read each individual part of a sentence repeatedly... you need to restate whatever the fuck you're trying to say without the fluff or unnecessary thesaurus dropping.

AKA Jake needs to just put his foot in his mouth bc he has fuck all knowledge of what he's trying to relay.

[analievelyn]

I didn't see a registration on the home page? Are you teaching classes outside of ontdU?

[crystalzelda]

Glasses houses my friend…

@ Jake, obviously. Fuck him. He’s whining about cyber bullying but no talking about how apparently his creative hobby is emotionally terrorizing barely legal teens. Sounds like a form of bullying to me, non?

[insomniachobs]

Also the fact that he’s done eff all to call out his own fans for attacking Domenica, when the power differential puts her at way more of a disadvantage against his fans than it does for Jake with the Swifties. Glass houses indeed.

[allmylines]

i know that ontd doesn't like taylor, and i know her fans can often be... unhinged, but the tone of the last post with jake's comments was very strange to me. a lot of calling out tswift fans and less "this man continuously preys on and grooms young women and it's a huge problem" than i was expecting.

[crystalzelda]

This place legitimately hates her which, you know, fair, but it gets to the point that commenters absolutely gloss or even excuse behavior from people she’s been in conflict with bc the enemy of my enemy is my friend and sympathy is only for women I personally like. People were legitimately arguing that she’s a psycho for being obviously hurt by her relationship with him bc they didn’t date for that long, ignoring the fact that abusive relationships (especially when you’re a teenager) don’t need to be super long to do lasting damage. That’s not how trauma works. There’s just so much to bag on her for, I really don’t think this is one of them.

[allmylines]

yeah i had to nope out of that post because it's upsetting how much their relationship is hand-waved here. like yes, she's guilty of constantly writing about her exes and probably exaggerates a lot of the stuff that happens, but when i was 21 i was in a relationship with a 32 year old that was similarly toxic and impacted me for YEARS after the fact, and we only dated for a summer. being in relationships with such a power dynamic really can fuck with you, no matter how long it lasts. men purposefully target younger women knowing they can manipulate, control, and gaslight us. this man convinced me to go off my anti-depressants cold turkey!!!!

anyway, maybe i'm projecting but i agree with you, this is one thing that i don't think we can really fault taylor for.

[miniglik]

I didn’t see that last Jake post yesterday when it happened and just read it a little bit ago. I’m honestly angry at the way the responses went. Who the fuck cares if her fans say mean things about an extremely rich, protected, coddled movie star? He got plenty of positive press out of it. Swift’s song didn’t hurt his brand at all. Who gives a flying fuck?

The only disturbing thing in any of this was how obviously the entertainment industry sacrificed someone for a movie star’s ego in that Medium article. The rest is just superficial stuff that doesn’t matter. Scarf, Taylor Swift, Jake’s little in-joke photo shoots? All just ways of making money. The real story is power dynamics and how non famous people get fucked over by them. But yeah, let’s all wax dramatic over how Jake G “has a point” about Taylor Swift and her fans.

[backrolls]

he really had her story buried. i wish someone would catch him off guard on camera and ask him about it.

[avingnon]

Taylor needs to stop her fans when they go too far

Jake is a pos

Cyber bullying should not happen, ever

These three things can all be true at the same time you know

[miniglik]

Three things can be true at once but places like ONTD primarily focusing on TSwifts fans extra-ness at the exclusion of much more egregious shit really bothers.

Jake was NEVER in a position where Taylor’s fans matter to his career. He can fully spin it into stupid women doing stupid things in support of a silly woman who made a big deal out of nothing. And we all run with that without evaluating that maybe he really is a piece of shit who is doing *actual* harm.