Not good

[owlmoose]

With the floodgates opening, especially in Hollywood, it was just a matter of time before allegations of sexual misconduct were made against a celebrity that I cared about. But I'm pretty bummed that it turned out to be George Takei.

I do want to see if he does a better job of responding than, well, pretty much everyone else. But my expectations are not high. And I fully believe that we need to hold everyone to the same standard, even the celebrities that we love. Especially the celebrities we love.

I'm glad this is happening. It's long past time that more people started taking these types of allegations seriously. But I hate that things had to get this bad in order for it to happen.

Comments

[lea_hazel]

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty shattered.

[owlmoose]

It's pretty awful. :(

[ossobuco]

I've been angry in a "men are awful and the world is awful" way for a while, but this is the one where I finally felt deeply personally angry, even betrayed. Unfortunately, it looks like he's not responding well, too...

[owlmoose]

Ugh, agreed. It's one thing to deny the allegations, but trying to claim that it's all Russian bots whipping up false charges is not a good look. At all.

[zen_monk]

It felt deeply troubling to me because he is a very high-profile Asian American activist whom folks could point to when discussing such issues, and whom other Asian American activists looked towards. Now it felt like all the work he did was invalidated.