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Ellen Page says administrator Brett Ratner outed her in advanced of “X-Men” casting and aggregation aback she was a sexually borderline 18-year-old, abrogation her activity abandoned and ashamed. In a Facebook column Friday, Page said Ratner acclimated a pre-production affair for the 2006 blur “X-Men: The Last Stand” to accomplish the animadversion she alleged “horrific.”
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According to Page, she was continuing abutting to a woman 10 years her chief aback Ratner acicular to Page and told the added woman, “You should (expletive) her to accomplish her apprehend she’s gay.”
“He ‘outed’ me with no attention for my well-being, an act we all admit as homophobic,” wrote Page. The Juno brilliant came out about in 2014.
Page, who started acting as a child, anecdotal actuality addled or assaulted as an arrears boyhood by added bodies in the industry whom she didn’t identify. She’s formed with abounding “honourable and admiring collaborators,” Page wrote, but alleged misbehaviour in the industry “ubiquitous.”
The flood of accusations by others who accept been abused represents a “long accessible reckoning,” she said.
An advocate for Ratner, who has been accused by at atomic six women of animal harassment, didn’t anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment.
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Here is Ellen Page’s complete statement...
“You should f**k her to accomplish her apprehend she’s gay.” He said this about me during a casting and aggregation “meet and greet” afore we began filming, X Men: The Last Stand. I was eighteen years old. He looked at a woman continuing abutting to me, ten years my senior, acicular to me and said: “You should fuck her to accomplish her apprehend she’s gay.” He was the film’s director, Brett Ratner.
I was a adolescent developed who had not yet appear out to myself. I knew I was gay, but did not know, so to speak. I acquainted abandoned aback this happened. I looked bottomward at my feet, didn’t say a chat and watched as no one abroad did either. This man, who had casting me in the film, started our months of filming at a assignment accident with this horrific, advisedly plea. He “outed” me with no attention for my well-being, an act we all admit as homophobic. I proceeded to watch him on set say aspersing things to women. I bethink a woman walking by the adviser as he fabricated a animadversion about her “flappy p**sy”.
We are all advantaged to appear into an acquaintance of our animal acclimatization abreast and on our own terms. I was adolescent and although already a alive amateur for so continued I had in abounding agency been insulated, growing up on blur sets instead of amidst by my peers. This public, advancing airing larboard me with continued continuing animosity of shame, one of the best annihilative after-effects of homophobia. Making addition feel abashed of who they are is a atrocious manipulation, advised to corruption and repress. I was beggared of added than freedom over my adeptness to ascertain myself. Ratner’s animadversion replayed in my apperception abounding times over the years as I encountered homophobia and coped with animosity of abhorrence and ambiguity about the industry and my approaching in it. The aberration is that I can now advance myself and use my articulation to action aback adjoin the insidious anomalous and transphobic attitude in Hollywood and beyond. Hopefully accepting the position I have, I can advice bodies who may be disturbing to be accustomed and accustomed to be who they are –to thrive. Vulnerable adolescent bodies after my advantages are so generally beneath and fabricated to feel they accept no options for active the activity they were meant to acquiescently lead.
I got into an argument with Brett at a assertive point. He was pressuring me, in advanced of abounding people, to don a bodice with “Team Ratner” on it. I said no and he insisted. I responded, “I am not on your team.” After in the day, producers of the blur came to my bivouac to say that I “couldn’t allocution like that to him.” I was actuality reprimanded, yet he was not actuality punished nor accursed for the aboveboard homophobic and calumniating behavior we all witnessed. I was an amateur that no one knew. I was eighteen and had no accoutrement to apperceive how to handle the situation.
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I accept been a able amateur back the age of ten. I’ve had the acceptable affluence to assignment with abounding atonement and admiring collaborators both abaft and in advanced of the camera. But the behavior I’m anecdotic is ubiquitous. They (abusers), appetite you to feel small, to accomplish you insecure, to accomplish you feel like you are accountable to them, or that your accomplishments are to accusation for their blackballed advances.
When I was sixteen a administrator took me to banquet (a able obligation and a actual accepted one). He fondled my leg beneath the table and said, “You accept to accomplish the move, I can’t.” I did not accomplish the move and I was advantageous to get abroad from that situation. It was a aching realization: my assurance was not affirmed at work. An developed ascendancy bulk for whom I formed advised to accomplishment me, physically. I was sexually assaulted by a anchor months later. I was asked by a administrator to beddy-bye with a man in his backward twenties and to acquaint them about it. I did not. This is aloof what happened during my sixteenth year, a jailbait in the ball industry.
Look at the history of what’s happened to amateur who’ve declared animal corruption in Hollywood. Some of them are no best with us, absent to actuality corruption and suicide. Their victimizers? Still working. Adequate alike as I address this. You apperceive who they are; they’ve been discussed abaft bankrupt doors as generally as Weinstein was. If I, a being with cogent privilege, abide abashed and at such accident artlessly by adage a person’s name, what are the options for those who do not accept what I have?
Let’s bethink the catching of abandon adjoin women in our association disproportionately affects low assets women, decidedly women of color, auto and anomalous women and aboriginal women, who are silenced by their bread-and-butter affairs and abstruse apprehension of a amends arrangement that acquits the accusable in the face of cutting affirmation and continues to corruption bodies of color. I accept the agency to appoint aegis if I feel threatened. I accept the abundance and allowance to accept brainy bloom care. I accept the advantage of accepting a belvedere that enables me to address this and accept it published, while the best marginalized do not accept admission to such resources. The absoluteness is, women of color, auto and anomalous and aboriginal women accept been arch this action for decades (forever actually). Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Winona LaDuke, Miss Major, Audre Lorde, alarm hooks, to name a few. Misty Upham fought endlessly to end abandon adjoin aboriginal women, calm workers and undocumented women. Misty was begin asleep at the basal of a bluff three years ago. Her father, Charles Upham, aloof fabricated a Facebook column adage she was raped at a affair by a Miramax executive. The best marginalized accept been larboard behind. As a cis, white lesbian, I accept benefited and accept the privileges I have, because of these amazing and adventuresome individuals who accept led the way and risked their lives while accomplishing so. White supremacy continues to blackout bodies of color, while I accept the rights I accept because of these leaders. They are who we should be alert to and acquirements from.
These abusers accomplish us feel blank and afflicted by their empire. Let’s not balloon the sitting Supreme Court amends and President of the United States. One accused of animal aggravation by Anita Hill, whose affidavit was discredited. The added proudly anecdotic his own arrangement of advance to an ball reporter. How abounding men in the media – titans of industry - charge to be apparent for us to accept the force of the bearings and to appeal the axiological assurance and account that is our right?
["400px"]Bill Cosby was accepted to be predatory. The crimes were his, but abounding were complicit. Abounding added chose to attending the added way. Harvey was accepted to be predatory. The crimes were his, but abounding were complicit. Abounding added chose to attending the added way. We abide to bless filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was bedevilled of drugging and anally raping a adolescent babe and who fled sentencing. A avoiding from justice. I’ve heard the industry corruption Weinstein’s behavior and vow to affect allusive change. But let’s be truthful: the account is continued and still adequate by the cachet quo. We accept assignment to do. We cannot attending the added way.
I did a Woody Allen cine and it is the better affliction of my career. I am abashed I did this. I had yet to acquisition my articulation and was not who I am now and acquainted pressured, because “of advance you accept to say yes to this Woody Allen film.” Ultimately, however, it is my best what films I adjudge to do and I fabricated the amiss choice. I fabricated an abominable mistake.
I appetite to see these men accept to face what they accept done. I appetite them to not accept ability anymore. I appetite them to sit and anticipate about who they are after their lawyers, their millions, their adorned cars, houses aloft houses, their “playboy” cachet and swagger.
What I appetite the most, is for this to aftereffect in healing for the victims. For Hollywood to deathwatch up and alpha demography some albatross for how we all accept played a role in this. I appetite us to reflect on this ancient affair and how this ability activating of corruption leads to an astronomic bulk of suffering. Abandon adjoin women is an catching in this country and about the world. How is this avalanche of affair and corruption abstraction our society? One of the greatest risks to a abundant woman’s bloom in the United States is murder. Auto women of blush in this country accept a activity assumption of thirty-five. Why are we not acclamation this as a society? We charge bethink the after-effects of such actions. Brainy bloom issues, suicide, bistro disorders, actuality abuse, to name a few.
What are we abashed to say and why can’t we say it? Women, decidedly the best marginalized, are silenced, while able abusers can scream as audibly as they want, lie as abundant as they appetite and abide to accumulation through it all.
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This is a continued accessible reckoning. It charge be. It’s sad that“codes of conduct” accept to be activated to ensure we acquaintance axiological animal appropriateness and respect. Inclusion and representation are the answer. We’ve abstruse that the cachet quo perpetuates unfair, victimizing behavior to assure and bolster itself. Don’t acquiesce this behavior to be normalized. Don’t analyze wrongs or bent acts by their degrees of severity. Don’t acquiesce yourselves to be aloof to the choir of victims advancing forward. Don’t stop ambitious our civilian rights. I am beholden to anyone and anybody who speaks out adjoin corruption and agony they accept suffered. You are breaking the silence. You are revolution.
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