Okay, re: the situation with an actor on Power Rangers being fired for speaking out about a cast member being harassed by a producer, here are my still furious but hopefully slightly more coherent thoughts.

(I am limiting who can reply to this because I'm not in the mood)
I am STILL MAD about this and the more people's comments I read the madder I get

I mean, I am also not shocked, because the production of Power Rangers has always been fucked up.
And I am DAMN FURIOUS that there are at least two producers I can think of who I wouldn't be shocked if they were the perpetrators.
But what I'm even angrier about are that the vast majority of comments that aren't "Not surprised" are "Why didn't SHE say anything"
And fuck you, you do not have the right to demand that the survivor handle things a certain way, especially considering how young she was at the time and that the producer was in a *position of power over her*
And I'm even more pissed at the ones blaming HER for the actor getting fired. He totally did the correct thing by speaking out about what he saw, the fact that he was fired is horrific
But instead of "why didn't [the actress] back him up" can we go with "why did the PR producers harass an actress and then fire an actor for speaking out about it?"

She does not have to talk about it publicly if she doesn't want to. Ever.
And also, holy shit, naming *THE VICTIM* but not whichever producer was harassing her????? Yeah no. He could have said [whichever producer] was harassing someone on set and I was fired for speaking out about it. Or even not named the producer, fine.
Instead he named the actress, and his comments are pretty clear that he at least partially blames her for not backing him up.

I really really REALLY hope that he cleared this with her before outing her because SHE should not have to deal with this.
I did search and I can't see if [actress] has said anything or not, or if she considers herself a survivor, but language is complicated and I apologize if there's better terminology I could have used. I didn't see anything, but its early and I might have missed it.
This whole situation is appalling, horrific, and a bunch of other things, and I hate everything, the end.
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