You Will Be Shocked To Learn Sean Penn Has Some Terrible Opinions About The #MeToo Movement
Surprise!
Actor Sean Penn has used a recent interview to criticise the #MeToo movement, and I for one am shocked, shocked I tells ya!
Penn, best known for his iconic roles like repeatedly being charged with assault and being mates with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, told US morning program Today that “the spirit of much of what has been the #MeToo movement is to divide men and women”.
“This is a movement that was largely shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious,” he said. “We don’t know what’s a fact in many of the cases.
“Salacious is as soon as you call something a movement that is really a series of many individual accusers, victims, accusations, some of which are unfounded.”
“I don’t want it to be a trend, and I’m very suspicious of a movement that gets glommed on to in great stridency and rage and without nuance,” he continued. “And even when people try to discuss it in a nuanced way, the nuance itself is attacked.
“I think it’s too black and white. In most things that are very important, it’s really good to just slow down.”
someone should divide Sean Penn’s ass with their boot https://t.co/DVZVhkFGsm
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) September 17, 2018
Penn made the remarks after he and Natasha McElhone, his co-star in the upcoming sci-fi drama The First, were asked by Today host Natalie Morales were asked whether the series, which features a large number of female characters in positions of authority, was informed by the #MeToo movement.
“I’d like to think none of it was influenced by what they call the movement of #MeToo,” said Penn.
It’s not the first time the actor has been critical of the #MeToo movement. In an interview with The Guardian back he May, he called it “not intellectually honest” and “a movement led by mania”.
You can listen to Sean Penn’s terrible opinions below, if you’re into that kind of thing.
“This is a movement that was, you know, largely shouldered by a kind of receptacle of the salacious,” Sean Penn says to @nmoralesnbc during a discussion about the #MeToo movement pic.twitter.com/O4yGtEZjpk
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 17, 2018