Apply his "reasoning" to civil rights. Was the civil rights movement an attempt to divide Americans?

Penn has been an ally to the left, his thinking on this is wrong IMO, but that doesn't make him the enemy.

And btw, not accusing him of being the "enemy"... more like a phoney if you ask me.

Many of them are idiots.

He was also Hugo Chavez's best buddy. That alone is proof of his idiocy.

The author of ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’ has shit opinions on social issues ? Yeah he fucking does. He whined about MeToo in that garbage ‘novel’ too but people forgot because they couldn’t stop laughing at its astounding ability to be both extremely pretentious yet startlingly incoherent at the same time

“I don’t want it to be a trend, and I’m very suspicious of a movement that gets glommed onto, in great stridency and rage, and without nuance. Even when people try to discuss it in a nuanced way, the nuance itself is attacked.”

Morales asked Penn if the #MeToo movement had gotten too big.

“I think it’s too black and white,” he responded. “In most things that are very important, it’s really good to just slow down.”


McElhone states

“I think what Sean was maybe alluding to is this sort of bubble of actors or people who are in magazines that have gotten a lot of attention from this,” she said. “Of course, it’s terrific that they’ve put a spotlight on it. But now, it’s we need to go to the places where this is happening behind closed doors, and it’s not exposed and those voices aren’t being heard.”

The magic of the #MeToo movement was that so many men saw women in their lives post their stories of sexual abuse - largely without a named offender. Just the stories.

That delinking from specific male personalities finally allowed men to focus on women and to support them without the knee-jerk defensive posture that almost always accompanies stories that name someone they can envision as similar to themselves.

He has a guilty conscience for the way he treated women when he was younger. Doesnt surprise me.

Penn is NOT the guy to talk about women, or relationships with women. I recall some highly volatile times in the past with Madonna, and he recently burned through a quick something-or-other with actress Charlize Theron. He obviously can’t maintain a relationship, long-or-short term.

He’s been a brilliant actor, and has curbed his ego to help during Katrina and the earthquake relief effort in Haiti.

But on the subject of women and #MeToo, he is uniquely UNQUALIFIED to offer a rational opinion.

Talk about rage issues, it’s a wonder that he hasn’t killed someone. It’s an equivalent wonder that he’s still alive. (Meaning, that someone didn’t strike back hard, in one form or another.)

I caught Penn on Colbert earlier this year when he was pushing that awful “Bob Honey” mess of a book. He was visibly shaking (hands and face), and chain-smoked through the interview. I thought then that this guy is about one or two minor setbacks away from a total nervous collapse.

Was unrecognizable after her beating. Years later she called him “the love of her life” and was more coy about the accusations but others weren’t as willing to bury it. She was hospitalized. Yet in the end she didn’t want to ruin his career. Sound familiar?

The man does the battering, the woman tries to cover for him, or drops any charges to “protect” him. The woman could die from internal bleeding, and the man just walks.

I do remember well his various altercations with photographers, yanking away their cameras, punching them out, etc. which of course only “feeds” the paparazzi, and makes them want to take more photos of his meltdowns— “if it bleeds, it leads,” etc.

All that anger in that man. He’s been thrown in jail multiple for his lack of self-control. He could do thousands of hours in the slammer or performing community service, but that reservoir of rage goes unaddressed (or so it appears).

It’s one thing to be self-loathing, but turning those impulses outward only brings literal pain to others, not to mention the lifetime emotional trauma left in its wake.

he means that men shouldn't forcibly hold down women and rape them, then, yes, he's right.

I don't think he means that, though.

Link to tweet

Nobody wants to listen to your sexist, self-serving bullshit.

And is known to be a jerk.

He can STFU

Madonna still remembers how you beta her like a drum.

I can’t stand him in movies or in real life, even if he says things I agree with. I’m not surprised he hates the #MeToo movement.