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tenderfoot

(8,982 posts)
38. you weren't abused - you're not a victim
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 12:25 PM
Dec 2017

Not even close.

“At one point Harvey asked me to take a walk down to the water, I walked down with him and he stopped and made some suggestive comment, a gesture, I just laughed it off, I was genuinely shocked,” she recalled on Twitter. “I remember thinking, it’s got to be a joke, I said something like.. ‘Oh come on mate?!?? It’d be like kissing my dad!! Let’s go get a drink, get back to the others.’ I was never in any other Miramax film.”

Another encounter with Weinstein took place years later in Los Angeles. The two met for what Headey thought would be a meeting to discuss potential work, she said, adding “I had always carried the thought that he’d never try anything with me again, not after I’d laughed and said never in a million years. I believed that he respected my boundary.”

“He asked me a few questions about the state of my love life,” she said. “I shifted the conversation back to something less personal. Then he went to the loo. He came back and said, ‘Let’s go up to the room, I want to give you a script.’ We walked to the lift and the energy shifted, my whole body went into high alert, the lift was going up and I said to Harvey, ‘I’m not interested in anything other than work, please don’t think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen.’ I don’t know what possessed me to speak out at that moment, only that I had such a strong sense of don’t come near me.”

After, she said Weinstein furiously marched her out of the hotel and told her not to tell anyone about their exchange. “I felt completely powerless,” she wrote, concluding, “I got into my car and I cried.”

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lena-headey-harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-1202592505/

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I have a feeling you didn't run out to your car and cry, or tell your husband or anyone until you wrote your ridiculous op ed.

Have a nice day and way to go undermining #MeToo at the expense of women that have truly been abused, like Ms. Headey above.

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She is a shitty person JI7 Dec 2017 #1
She's full of shit, that's for certain. nt oasis Dec 2017 #69
Fuck her cilla4progress Dec 2017 #2
If this account IS true ... LenaBaby61 Dec 2017 #3
Can someone explain the sexual harassment here? dhol82 Dec 2017 #4
She claimed that during a photo op, Franken put his hand around her waist and squeezed it twice. LisaL Dec 2017 #9
Well, she is an idiot. dhol82 Dec 2017 #16
Wait a minute....she has 'fans'??????????????? Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #5
She is described by wikipedia as an op-ed columnist, freelance journalist and a comedian. LisaL Dec 2017 #6
Hoping for bigger and better things with her accusstions against Franken JI7 Dec 2017 #7
"hoping for bigger and better things". That would also describe the oasis Dec 2017 #62
Yes. Embarrassed to admit I was one. mountain grammy Dec 2017 #52
I want to know the context of the mocking ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #8
Right. Depug is a phony. Waist groping is such a BS allegation it boggles the mind... brush Dec 2017 #10
Quite a huge disservice to the other women! ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #12
That's not what she (Tina) thinks. LisaL Dec 2017 #13
Didn't want to testify yet she allows an interview before millions on national TV. brush Dec 2017 #14
Excellent name! dhol82 Dec 2017 #17
She was definitely ready for her close-up with the make-up and hair-do and all. brush Dec 2017 #18
It wasn't hard for her to go on CNN though tenderfoot Dec 2017 #49
You bet. It is indeed hard for liars to testify under oath WyLoochka Dec 2017 #72
*googles Tina Dupay* Baconator Dec 2017 #11
I think I have been following her on Twitter for awhile. Different Drummer Dec 2017 #15
She reminds me of that Troll mannygoldstein that was banned here JI7 Dec 2017 #19
Some didnt like their purity questioned by manny. If memory serves. nt fleabiscuit Dec 2017 #92
Hey now, that's untrue and unfair Tina Dupuy Dec 2017 #20
You came forward for media attention Motownman78 Dec 2017 #21
There'a a "scale of social goofs and funny story (sic)"? OilemFirchen Dec 2017 #22
Cool story. MrsCoffee Dec 2017 #23
. dalton99a Dec 2017 #24
maybe stephanie miller should lose her job too? orleans Dec 2017 #25
I have an honest question for you, not about this dsc Dec 2017 #26
Wow. Some serious lack of self-awareness in this first post. Kali Dec 2017 #27
Putting hand on waist "lends credibility" to sex harassment claims? Honeycombe8 Dec 2017 #28
And if photos with hands on waist proved groping, then there would be a lot of people out of jobs. LisaL Dec 2017 #31
+1. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2017 #84
++++Franken is the celebrity in those pictures and he probably just signals to R B Garr Dec 2017 #41
I heard President was recently at an event and refused to do selfies........ JimBeard Dec 2017 #74
I think so, too. I wouldn't take selfies, any more, if I were famous. Too risky. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2017 #85
I am very confused by this story regarding the alleged mocking of fan. LisaL Dec 2017 #29
Yeah I don't get it GusBob Dec 2017 #34
"you cant say that Im a shitty person because you half heard a conversation out of context" Vinnie From Indy Dec 2017 #30
"Untrue and unfair" listen to you GusBob Dec 2017 #32
Go away. The damage you have done to the Democratic party and to the #MeToo movement... demmiblue Dec 2017 #33
+1000000! SammyWinstonJack Dec 2017 #47
Ill second that mountain grammy Dec 2017 #51
don't give her a hug before she goes. grantcart Dec 2017 #73
Lmao! Tipperary Dec 2017 #35
It will not get much fairer here, I'm afraid. marble falls Dec 2017 #36
I'm confused the "groping" that I heard you expound upon sounds exactly like a hug. blimablam Dec 2017 #37
you weren't abused - you're not a victim tenderfoot Dec 2017 #38
Well PatSeg Dec 2017 #39
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ hatrack Dec 2017 #40
You're not talking about the man you "allegedly" mocked in the tweet tenderfoot Dec 2017 #42
That's what I posted too. This story doesn't even sound like the same incident that is alleged in LisaL Dec 2017 #45
A "buttery Chardonnay" will eventually get us to the heart oasis Dec 2017 #63
Is buttery Chardonnay a code for something else? LisaL Dec 2017 #71
No code. It's the same kind of rambling liars engage in when oasis Dec 2017 #83
I think it's an inside joke from the show GusBob Dec 2017 #86
Check out the CNN interview, she does the same shit there JI7 Dec 2017 #82
If your intention was to lend credibility, I'm afraid you achieved the opposite. kcr Dec 2017 #43
Post removed Post removed Dec 2017 #44
The veracity of your story aside MrsMatt Dec 2017 #46
That's a cute story. It is NOT a rebuttal or answering of the charge in the Twitter post. TeamPooka Dec 2017 #48
This ardent feminist thinks you, Tina Dupuy, need to do a LOT of self-reflection. hlthe2b Dec 2017 #50
Exactly! blm Dec 2017 #59
"I hope your 15 minutes of fame were worth the countless harm you have wreaked." LenaBaby61 Dec 2017 #79
Wow Tina. If this is you mountain grammy Dec 2017 #53
i imagine that tina got a big payday comin questionseverything Dec 2017 #70
You just accused Stephanie Miller of making a sexually offensive joke. yardwork Dec 2017 #54
Unfair and untrue is substituting an irrelevant story. Thor_MN Dec 2017 #55
I know another person who didn't like to have his waist touched blm Dec 2017 #56
Yeah...he was a real basket case. blm Dec 2017 #58
I don't believe for a second that is why you "came forward." Tatiana Dec 2017 #57
Judging by same metrics used on Franken, nothing you say can prove your innocence. suffragette Dec 2017 #60
This is some Borowitz-level shit dude. VermontKevin Dec 2017 #61
I can judge your credibility (how's your poor abused waist?) and I think that person Demit Dec 2017 #64
Any way to verify the poster? n/t wellst0nev0ter Dec 2017 #65
He responds here tenderfoot Dec 2017 #66
Okay, thanks wellst0nev0ter Dec 2017 #67
There was little to no "pattern." spooky3 Dec 2017 #68
Please Reconsider Your Claim intuito Dec 2017 #75
Why not ask her directly...upthread? Brother Buzz Dec 2017 #78
They are replying directly to her at that post. uppityperson Dec 2017 #87
But she's not forthcoming in responding Brother Buzz Dec 2017 #88
Make a video. rainin Dec 2017 #76
Exactly. A shitty person for your part in the Al Franken affair. Owl Dec 2017 #77
Not that I expect an answer to this but, MustLoveBeagles Dec 2017 #80
None of what you say seems to address what was in the OP JI7 Dec 2017 #81
Wow hotrod0808 Dec 2017 #89
A real name. Thanks for sharing. All the best. nt fleabiscuit Dec 2017 #91
welcome to DU gopiscrap Dec 2017 #93
Really? Cary Dec 2017 #94
Interesting what reveals itself under the darkness of anonymity. nt fleabiscuit Dec 2017 #90
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