Constance Wu says she was sexually harassed by a Fresh Off the Boat producer

[silverstarry]

I had a pretty traumatic experience my first couple of years on 'Fresh Off the Boat,' @ConstanceWu says at #TAF22. “That show was historic for Asian Americans … and I did not want to sully the reputation of the one show we had representing us. So I kept my mouth shut.” pic.twitter.com/fR4KJyYoKm
- The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 23, 2022
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[astrofisica]

It sucks that she had to disclose this in order to people to reconsider than reaction to her frankly harmless tweet. The amount of insane projection was hard to witness.

[heyignatzmouse]

mte!
I thought her tweet spree was hilarious at the time and could not find it in me to be outraged when so many terrible men do outright sociopathic shit and thrive.

It really should’ve been a thing that everyone laughed off as kooky Hollywood shenanigans and moved on from in a week.
the fact that she was run off the internet and had peers calling her a disgrace was such a massive overreaction.

[inandoutofgrace]

that's what happens when POC don't have enough representation that for the few who do make it big, they have this unfair 'responsibility' to represent the rest of us 'well'/perfectly when literally everyone is flawed

[vespertinev]

It was! The posts here were horrible too.

[drownsodapop]

Tbh I never watched the show and never cared for her in movies, but the way the public treated her over a few rage tweets was too much. I hope we as a culture have learned a lesson - like the woman didn't outright hurt anyone that was too much

[breadprincess]

I appreciate her speaking up, and I absolutely hate that she "had" to in order to help rehabilitate her career - whereas the predator that caused so much of this harm will likely not ever face any backlash on the same scale.

[beegotry]

mmm...this adds context to why she couldn't wait to move on from the show, you never really know what's going on.

[oatmealcrispcer]

I never got why there was SUCH a huge and lasting response to her reaction to the renewal. Like I get that she already had a reputation (fair or not) for being unpleasant (at best) to people ‘beneath’ her on set, and maybe that coupled with people generally feeling anyone (let alone a woman of colour) should be eternally grateful to have such an opportunity, but it still seemed oddly outsized a reaction to her reaction. Especially because if you’re seeing the star of a show reacting that way so publicly (especially a woman of colour who knows she will be perceived as ungrateful and difficult by doing so, both of which can be career ending - see Aunt Viv #1), clearly everything on set isn’t copacetic.

[sandstorm]

People were just so unfair to her about it. Like it may be so many people's dream to be on a TV show, but at the end it is just a job, even setting aside the fact that she was harassed - which should not have happened, of course -- she was 100% within her rights to not want to be in that environment anymore and move on.

[oatmealcrispcer]

Exactly. It was her job, and who hasn't wanted desperately to quit a job at some point in their life?

[weighty_ghost]

I mean, most of us dont have million of followers that are watching us want to quit our jobs. Or have three child actors who depend on that same job. and hundreds of other jobs on the line if that job does disappear