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Home Front: Culture Wars
William Shatner says some women use the #MeToo movement ‘as a weapon
2018-12-24
[Herald] The Star Trek actor, 87, suggested a portion of the complaints made against men were driven by women bearing a grudge.

The #MeToo movement has its origins in 2006 when activist Tarana Burke first coined the phrase. It went viral in 2017 following a tweet by the actress Alyssa Milano in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

It has since become an all-encompassing name for the movement against sexual harassment and discrimination.

However Shatner, immortalised for his portrayal of Captain James T Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, believes it is being exploited by women with scores to settle.

Replying to a fan on Twitter, Shatner said: "My issue is that women use me too as a weapon when they don’t get an autograph, when they don’t get their way, etc & the circus that ensues is comical and sad. aka hysterical."
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  Well said, M. Murcek.

a fair number of "hysterical outbursts" from female patients have been among the most sincere things I have ever heard.

Sincere is not the same as true or correct, Anguper Hupomosing9418. Like that witness against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, whose little adventure turned out to have happened with another boy, and anyway she started it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-12-24 23:00  

#8  James Kirk, paraphrased: "But the instinct can be fought. We're men beings with a million savage years of being blamed for the behavior of the worst among us, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're horndogs, but we're not going to grope women today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't grope today."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-12-24 17:55  

#7  
Posted by: Boss Spoper5850   2018-12-24 14:46  

#6  Lots of Hollywood "ladies"(and closted male actors) are casting couch hookers.

When the hush money or parts run out it goes from MeetYou to MeToo.

It explains why a lot of films have terrible actors.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-12-24 12:49  

#5  And on the other hand, a fair number of "hysterical outbursts" from female patients have been among the most sincere things I have ever heard.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-12-24 09:48  

#4  doesn't mean the core of the movement is false
True in a limited way. Now & then I meet a sincere person, but I meet far more hypocrites and circus performers. "Everybody lies" - Dr. House
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-12-24 09:43  

#3  There is some hysteria, but some grifters have weaponized the #MeToo movement as the latest Kavanaugh hearings show. All that happens with most movements, that doesn't mean the core of the movement is false.
Posted by: ruprecht   2018-12-24 08:39  

#2  An old white man having spent years in zero-gravity environments. What can he possibly know ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-12-24 07:05  

#1  hysterical (adj.)

1610s, "characteristic of hysteria," the nervous disease originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus; literally "of the womb," from Latin hystericus "of the womb," from Greek hysterikos "of the womb, suffering in the womb," from hystera "womb," from PIE *udtero-, variant of *udero- "abdomen, womb, stomach" (see uterus).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-12-24 06:55  

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