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"Bull" actress Eliza Dushku received $9.5 million settlement for verbal sexual harassment/abuse.....thoughts? (1 Viewer)

DocHolliday said:
Nobody should be harassed and Ms Dushku deserves to be paid even though she seems like a pain.  
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She's published a letter response to the NYT article and other articles detailing her side of the story. Sounds like Weatherly was allowed to do and say what he wanted on set and he repeatedly crossed the line. Some of her examples of harassment seem fairly innocuous if they were isolated incidents, but it seems as if Weatherly was given this show and had full reign to be as crazy and unprofessional on set as he wanted. Dushka frames it that she tried to work with him to get things changed to be more professional and less uncomfortable and he got her fired.

She also does come across as being a huge pain and pretty humorless, especially in her letter. I have no experience in show business, but based on what is often talked about by actors and in blooper reels, etc. and as some faceless guy on the internet serving up his opinion, it seems like some level of frivolity and crassness is to be expected on many sets and especially in the case of comedies/dramedies. These aren't dry corporate America office environments, but maybe they should be in this #MeToo era?

None of that excuses that CBS clearly retaliated against her.

 
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Buckna said:
She's published a letter response to the NYT article and other articles detailing her side of the story. Sounds like Weatherly was allowed to do and say what he wanted on set and he repeatedly crossed the line. Some of her examples of harassment seem fairly innocuous if they were isolated incidents, but it seems as if Weatherly was given this show and had full reign to be as crazy and unprofessional on set as he wanted. Dushka frames it that she tried to work with him to get things changed to be more professional and less uncomfortable and he got her fired.

She also does come across as being a huge pain and pretty humorless, especially in her letter. I have no experience in show business, but based on what is often talked about by actors and in blooper reels, etc. and as some faceless guy on the internet serving up his opinion, it seems like some level of frivolity and crassness is to be expected on many sets and especially in the case of comedies/dramedies. These aren't dry corporate America office environments, but maybe they should be in this #MeToo era?

None of that excuses that CBS clearly retaliated against her.
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She does not come across well in her own letter.  Seems petty.  Wanting to meet with Speilberg was lol funny

 
pantherclub said:
I am not saying she was "asking for it" but yeah your post has a lot of truth in it.
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I find it dangerous when folks in the entertainment or sports entertainment industries pretend that they are in any manner representative of folks or situations as a whole.  The behavior is inappropriate and unacceptable and should be subject to civil law opprobrium.  To go a step further and to imply that the party whose rights were somewhat abridged is a victim when they have been an enabler of the process in the past, and a beneficiary of the process in the past is a bit further than I am prepared to go. 

Victim, no, rights abridged to a compensable degree, yes.

 
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