Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton on Why They Continue Talking About Alleged Assaults

[hewontgo]

Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton on Why They Continue Talking About Alleged Assaults on ‘One Tree Hill’ and ‘Chicago P.D.’: ‘Face Some F-ing Accountability’ https://t.co/TUJCJmfRsI
- Variety (@Variety) April 18, 2023
Bush, Burton and Lenz were joined by Danneel Ackles to recap the Season 4 finale of OTH

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[inandoutofgrace]

I’m glad they’re not allowing themselves to be silenced. Men get away with entirely far too much and I despise their audacity sf much

[doriiansz]

I hope they never take their feet off Schwahn's neck. No accountability whatsoever from him or even the network which allowed for that behavior to last for as long as it did. And fuck everybody on Chicago P.D. too. Cowards.

[afeelingunacted]

"When #MeToo was breaking that October, a story was coming out about my coworker in Chicago and executives managed to get that story killed. My rep said to me, ‘You’re going to have to pick. You can either tell the story about your first boss or you can tell the story about your coworker but you can’t tell both because then it looks like it’s your fault.’ That was professional advice,”

This is heartbreaking but too real. The scary thing is women who are sexually assaulted are more likely to have it happen multiple times, but for some reason culturally they're given like, one shot to be the victim and if they speak out about multiple assaults people think the woman is lying.

[rubie_dubidoux]

or people start implying - or outright just saying - that she needs to ~start taking responsbility for her actions~. you get one chance to be a victim, after that you're clearly just relishing it!

[cassismagic]

[aleksie]

Yep. That is why I don't share all the terrible things I've experienced.

[er1s]

"I don’t know what I’m supposed to do that my next employers rebranded sexual assault with witnesses as ‘anger management issues’ in the press.”

I didn't know this. I legit remember everyone implied he was a raging asshole and that was that.
wtf?

[paint_it_golden]

I’m a fan of Sophia, and she has spoken about this situation on enough podcasts and interviews that I knew she left because of some kind of sexual assault/sexual harassment situation by someone on that set

[theactualworst]

What’s so fucking wild to me is she was dating one of the guys on that show and he STILL didn’t have her back. Fucking trash, trash, trash!!

[paint_it_golden]

Yep! I wonder if that’s why they broke up. I’d imagine it at least factored in.

Also, that seems to be a pattern because Hilarie also talked about how her boyfriend at the time, boyfriend’s dad and her own brother all worked on the crew and witnessed Mark mistreating her. They were all on the other side of a paper thin wall in the production office while Mark screamed at and berated her for telling him to keep his hands off of all of the girls.

[wowsolovely]

i’m so sorry they experienced so much and i’m glad they feel comfortable speaking about it and i just love them. I have talked about sexual assault openly and a lot and I know some people are why do you talk about this…because it does help we just thought her had to put up with this when we were younger it was “normal” and I really hope one day we don’t have to keep educating people on how terrible shit can be for us and that it is not okay or normal.

[silverstarry]

we just thought her had to put up with this when we were younger it was “normal” and I really hope one day we don’t have to keep educating people on how terrible shit can be for us and that it is not okay or normal.

And even when someone tried to speak up, they were told to shut up. Being given professional advice that you can't publicly complain about incidents with two different assholes because you will be seen as the problem just teaches women that even if you try to do the right thing, you get shut down.

It's sickening how quickly we are taught that boys and men sexually harassing us and sexually assaulting us is just something to be expected. I always think of the conversation that Angela and Brian had after she went to Let's Bolt with Rayanne and Rickie for the first time.

Angela: These guys started hitting on us.

Brian: What? Like, sexual harassment?

Angela: Like guys.

[buries]

It's sickening how quickly we are taught that boys and men sexually harassing us and sexually assaulting us is just something to be expected.

I don't know why this made me think of the "If a boy tugs your pigtails, that means he likes you", but I feel like this is in the same vein as that. Boys/men can get away with harassing and performing violence against a girl/woman because it's always twisted into some sign of "Well, he liked you enough to do it!"/"You wore a short skirt!"/"You encouraged him!".

[staygoldpnyboy]

I got punched in the stomach in sixth grade by a boy. As gut punches do, it took my breath away. I managed to ask my (woman) teacher if I could go to the nurse and she said no. And she said he only did it because he liked me. I wish her nothing but the worst every day of her life.