Yea, there’s so many celebrities with checkered pasts, etc.
Affleck would be one among many who are out there.
Very disappointing, but I’m not sure we should treat this too seriously right at this moment. We’ll see what happens, but if JL ends up getting hit because of this, that’s upsetting on many levels.
Agree. The actual accusation being levied against Affleck is that he groped an MTV VJ back in 2003. The footage was just released since it occurred live on air. Honestly, while he was a douche for doing that, and it clearly made her feel violated so it's a freaking problem, it's not in the same universe as the Weinstein allegations. If this is the only accuser that comes out against Affleck, my professional opinion (I'm a communications/PR consultant) is that this could blow over with the majority of coverage focusing on Weinstein.
Affleck should apologize to the woman he groped and apologize with zero caveats. No, "I was young and stupid" or "I now realize what I did was wrong." It needs to be a sincere, "Let me tell you how much it bothers me that I did this and what I truly stand for as a 48 year old man and let me make it up to you and others who have suffered in the following ways..." He should also get in touch with the woman through a third party (in case she's uneasy with him going directly to her) and try to make his apology known personally.
Well, he was quick to apologize, at any rate. https://twitter.com/BenAffleck/statu...26autosize%3D1
Not sure how much weight an apology tweet holds, but it's a start.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson--
Well, the wider adoptive family is one Johns element that seems to be making it in.
I wonder if they'll use the adoptive parents or use Uncle Dudley?
And yeah, if we're getting everybody else then they've got to have Mary in there. It's not the Marvel Family without her.
Man, that just makes all the mom/Martha stuff seem even weirder...
The only person who can claim that its a start is the person who he offended. And if he is only apologizing 14 years later because he got called out, I don't think it weighs that much. I honestly don't get why it is so difficult for a man, and even a woman (in some cases) to keep their hands to themselves. It takes narcissism and privilege for a person to do something like this.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson--
Well, if he was a stand-up guy he wouldn't have done it in the first place.
These people never apologize for the crap they've done until it goes public and it starts to get them bad PR. It's not the damage to other people they're sorry for, its getting caught. Far as Im concerned these apologies are worthless, they're not sincere on any level and might as well not be made at all. Who cares if they apologize twenty years later after the offending act has gone public?
"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."
~ Black Panther.
Ugh, haven't been able to comment on this until now, but man is this seriously disappointing. I liked Affleck a lot, both as the character and even as a celeb, but I feel no sympathy as far as all of this goes if it all turns out to be true. Fat load of good the apology does this long after the fact, and only prompted when he gets caught.
The only thing I kind of feel bad for him for in the regard isn't even really him, but his kids.
The Batman with Affleck most likely isn't happening now, and before I wouldn't have said this, but I can't really say I'm sad to see him go.
If WB didn't have enough reason to recast Batman at this point, they probably do now.
The oddly specific side effects of this Flashpoint will include Bruce de-aging by a decade or so and looking like a completely different person, whereas everything else will go back normal.