(This is about Britney Spears. See my comment for more context)

In 1997, Christian Slater was convicted of punching his girlfriend Michelle Jonas (and assaulting a police officer) while under the influence. Drugs may exacerbate domestic violence but they do not cause it. It is not an excuse or a root explanation for why someone may be abusive — a person who is never abusive and doesn’t have an abusive streak in them will not suddenly become abusive when under the influence.

In 2005, he was charged with third degree sexual abuse for allegedly groping a woman on the street. Charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, on the condition that he stay out of trouble for 6 months.

He somehow survived the MeToo movement completely unscathed… like his name never even came up. Even if we disregard the sexual abuse charge since it was dropped (we shouldn’t) we should not look past a domestic violence conviction!

Since his 1997 conviction, he has been nominated for and won:

Won:

2000: Slate Award
2000: Critics’ Choice Award
2006: Hollywood Film Award
2016: Golden Globe Award
2016: Critics' Choice Television Award
2016: Satellite Award
2024: Children's and Family Emmy Award

Nominated:

2007: Critics' Choice Award
2007: Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award
2016: People’s Choice Award
2016: Critics' Choice Television Award
2017: Golden Globe Award
2018: Golden Globe Award
2022: Critics' Choice Television Award

On June 10th 2025, Christian Slater was honoured with the 2,815th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He was a main character in the hugely successful Mr. Robot — one of the defining shows of the 2010s — and a main character in the highly rated Dexter: Original Sin.

The more I hear about Collin Gosselin’s upcoming book, In the Shadow of Eight, the more disturbing I find Kate’s behavior. I never watched either of the shows, but it’s pretty clear that she profited from her kids and exploited them. The abuse Collin details seems pretty well documented, based on what he said in his interview on Jay Shetty’s podcast, On Purpose: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collin-gosselin-the-real-story-behind-one-of/id1450994021?i=1000795904791

Pretty little liars, at first the teacher didn't know the " women" he hooked up with was actually a child,( even through she didn't look like an adult) but after finding out about her age and being a student in his class.

It basically turns into a romance between a child and an adult.

Shows like this are a part of why so many teen girls romanticize grooming. Shows/movies like a

This will usually happen with teenagers because teenagers are seen as the acceptable children to molest..

These shows and movies like this, the people behind them know exactly what they're doing, especially advertising it to teen girls.

The show features young adults who undergo plastic surgery with the goal of looking more like a famous person. Celebrities that participants have chosen to look more like include Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Ricky Martin and Victoria Beckham.

In 1999, actress Keri Russell made a decision that would become one of the most infamous moments in late-1990s television history: she cut off her long, signature curls. Russell starred as Felicity Porter in Felicity, The WB’s coming-of-age drama about a college student navigating relationships, independence, and adulthood in New York City. The series premiered in 1998, became a breakout hit, and helped establish Russell as a rising television star.

Then came Season 2. After Felicity experienced a painful breakup, she made an impulsive decision to dramatically cut her hair. The storyline made sense for a young woman trying to reclaim a sense of control over her life. But when audiences saw Russell’s character with a short pixie cut, the reaction was far more dramatic than anyone behind the scenes had anticipated. Viewers complained. The network received angry letters and emails. People approached Russell in public to tell her what a huge mistake she had made and how awful she now looked. The backlash became so notorious that the haircut entered television history as a cautionary tale about changing a female star’s appearance.

And then came the ratings. As Felicity’s audience declined during its second season, the haircut became a convenient explanation. Even network executives publicly suggested that the change had alienated viewers. The controversy became so influential that The WB’s entertainment president indicated that future hairstyle changes by its actors would receive greater consideration. Russell herself was blamed for a decision that had actually been suggested by the show’s creative team. Co-creator J.J. Abrams had approached her about cutting her hair to reflect Felicity’s emotional state, and Russell agreed. She later defended the decision, arguing that the ratings decline could not reasonably be explained by a haircut alone. And she had a point.

The show had also been moved from Tuesday nights to Sunday nights, a less favorable time slot, and its ratings had begun declining before the haircut even appeared onscreen. Felicity was not immediately cancelled, either. It continued for two more seasons, ultimately ending in 2002 after four seasons.
Yet the haircut became the story. For years, it was cited as one of television’s great mistakes, and Russell’s appearance became a scapegoat for a much more complicated ratings problem.

Think about what that says about the television industry at the time. A female character changed her hairstyle after a breakup, and rather than simply allowing the character to evolve, viewers and executives turned the decision into a controversy. The woman playing her was left dealing with the public fallout. The message was hard to miss: even a fictional young woman’s hair could become a problem if audiences didn’t like what they saw.
To this day Keri Russell, despite having had several successful roles and a lasting Hollywood career, is still well known by many for her infamous ‘bad haircut that ended Felicity and ruined her career’.

It annoys me how he doesn’t get much hate over this

Even more messed up: Wyman's son Stephen married Mandy's mother Patsy when he was 30 and Patsy was 46. This made Bill his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law, as well as the stepgrandfather of his ex-wife.

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Sean Penn has been charged with six counts of assault and/or battery, beginning from 1985. His most recent offence was 2009. All these victims have been men… justice for male victims where?

Moving on to the infamous alleged domestic violence incident during his marriage to Madonna. I have screenshot some parts of a thoroughly in depth, amazing article from Gawker. I would recommend reading it in full as I’ve only been able to capture a slim picture of all of the evidence and coverage.

The police report was destroyed and a lot of the coverage from the time has been lost, leaving a lot of the facts up to memory, which isn’t exactly reliable. Gawker put a great deal of work into extensively finding and compiling archival evidence and accounts to put together a solid picture of what may or may not have happened.

I’ve included screenshots that paint some of the story. I must include a disclaimer that, due to the police report being destroyed, Madonna denying the event (this is extremely common in abuse and does not mean it didn’t happen), and media being lost, it cannot be confirmed nor denied whether this entire event conclusively happened.

What we can surmise from Sean Penn’s pattern of violent behaviour spanning multiple decades is that he is a violent man. He references in the Playboy article that Madonna was going to “get a very severe haircut” if she were to return to the house. J. Randy Taraborrelli’s Madonna: An Intimate Biography states that Penn threatened to cut all her hair off if she dared return to the house — corroborating this version of events. Threatening to cut her hair off is in itself domestic abuse, regardless of whether anything else took place. Penn himself admitted that the haircut threat happened; that is admitting to a form of abuse.

So, we know he is a violent man, we know he threatened to cut her hair off…

Penn is hella litigious about this, so that’s all I’m gonna say ☺️

EDIT: His male victims have been more than just paparazzi. He attacked one of Madonna’s friends who he was jealous of, a film extra, and others. Additionally, his attacks have been particularly volatile and violent. Paparazzi are scum, but his knee jerk, jail-worthy assaults represent an aggressive and violent personality beyond crashouts like Britney’s umbrella.

This clip is from Vh1’s hit reality competition show Flavor of Love in which a handful of women would compete each week for the ultimate prize of getting to become the girlfriend of Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav. In this episode, contestants were pitted against each other to win Flavor Flav’s heart through his stomach. They were asked to cook him fried chicken, and the girl with the best dish would win a solo date with Flav. Contestant Hottie had came up with the idea to make a “healthy” version of fried chicken which required no oil, no flour, and apparently no cooking. This became one of the most popular and memorable moments from the series when she popped a full chicken into the microwave and presented Flav with a completely raw dish. For obvious reasons, she did not win the solo date with Flav that week.

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I have come across this ad on youtube shorts, which reddit cannot seem to embed into a video. (https://youtube.com/shorts/qp6grJFwCmY)

Beware to bring a hazmat suit before entering the comments section of the YT short. Because it is populated by men, praising the boy actor's "game", and practically undermining male CSA victims. Due to their deprived projection of wanting to be in the boys position, or demand a "gender reversal" to prove some vapid point about double standards. Without recognizing prior perversion at hand.

And as you can expect, this is one very intentional edgy, sexist marketing of boys and a much much older girl being used as a "sex fantasy".

I swear this commercial could have been so less weirder if it didn't include the babysitter/sister?? pouncing on the boy like he managed to "turn on her switch".

In late August 2014, a large collection of private photographs belonging to celebrities began appearing across the internet. The images had not been released by the people depicted in them. They had been obtained without their consent through an iCloud security breach and were subsequently circulated across forums, image boards, social-media platforms and file-sharing sites. This incident quickly became known by the internet as “The Fappening” For those who may be unaware, to ‘fap’ means to pleasure oneself.

The term itself reflected the tone of much of the online reaction. Rather than being treated primarily as a major breach of privacy, the incident was rapidly turned into an internet spectacle. Users searched for the stolen photographs, redistributed them and discussed the identities of the people pictured, while websites struggled to keep up with the sheer volume of material being reposted.

Among the most prominent victims were Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, Scarlett Johansson, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. For them, the incident was not an internet phenomenon or celebrity controversy. It was the unauthorized disclosure of intensely personal material that had been stored privately, stolen, leaked, and shared around without their consent.

The technical story behind the breach also became a subject of intense scrutiny. Investigators determined that attackers had targeted accounts and obtained private information, prompting renewed discussion about account security, phishing, password practices and the vulnerabilities of cloud-based storage. The incident ultimately became one of the most prominent examples of how compromising a relatively small number of accounts could result in private information being distributed globally within hours. But the technology was on part of the story.

The more expected aspect of this crime was the public reaction. Once the photographs began circulating, removing individual copies became extremely difficult. New versions appeared almost immediately after others were taken down, demonstrating one of the defining characteristics of the modern internet: information can be replicated far faster than it can be removed.

The victims also faced an uncomfortable reversal of responsibility. Instead of the conversation focusing exclusively on the people who had stolen and distributed the photographs, some of the public discussion centered on why the celebrities had taken the photographs in the first place or whether they should have stored them online. These victims were slut shamed, ridiculed, and sexually violated all over again every single time another individual on the internet clicked and viewed their private photographs. Taking a private photograph is not an invitation for someone else to steal it. Storing something on a cloud service does not constitute consent to its public distribution. And the fact that someone is famous does not eliminate their expectation of privacy. Jennifer Lawrence later described the incident in extraordinarily serious terms, calling the unauthorized distribution a “sex crime” and discussing the lasting impact it had on her.

Looking back more than a decade later, “The Fappening” is therefore worth remembering for reasons that go well beyond the photographs themselves. It was a major cybersecurity incident, a landmark example of the permanence and speed of online information, and a revealing moment in the history of internet culture. Most of all, it demonstrated how quickly a serious violation of personal privacy could be transformed into entertainment when thousands of strangers decided that access to something private was more important than the consent of the person who owned it. The name may have sounded like an internet joke. What happened was anything but. This was a serious crime, and a form of sexual assault.

Slide 3 is from an archival website of articles about Johnny Depp. It describes how the incident was allegedly centred around a fight — which other sources also state — and that it seemed to actually improve his image rather than hinder it.

The fourth slide shows the UN definition of domestic violence (IPV), which includes the behaviours Johnny Depp used in this altercation.

Disclaimers:

Kate Moss has never specifically accused Depp of abuse. She testified in the US trial and stated that he did not push her down the stairs on a questioned instance. She has publicly acknowledged that their relationship was tumultuous and they fought frequently, as has Depp.

Behaviours and actions described by both of them, and outsiders, line up with the definitions of domestic abuse, even if neither party specifically refer to it as such. Behaviours and actions of Depp with other partners also fits the definition of IPV. Additionally, he dated a 17 year old Winona Ryder — who also describes abusive dynamics, without naming them as such — as a 26 year old man. Victims and survivors do not have to acknowledge domestic abuse in order for it to have taken place; denial and lack of education is sadly common.

UK courts legally classed Depp as an abuser, finding that 12 instances of physical abuse had occurred. Depp appealed and two judges rejected this.

Johnny Depp’s first violent arrest was on September 11th 1989 for assaulting a security guard, which he pleaded guilty to. This pattern continued.

All of this can be substantiated.

This is something I feel like we still don’t talk about enough. We talk all the time about grown men sexualizing teenage girls, but grown women doing it to teenage boys happened too, and people would often laugh it off like it was nothing.

Justin Bieber is a good example. He was only 15 when an adult female radio host was asking him sexual questions and even asked why he wouldn’t give her the sex talk. You could literally see how uncomfortable he was.

Then there’s Finn Wolfhard. He was 14 when 27-year-old model Ali Michael posted that he should hit her up “in a few years.” He later called the situation “gross” and “weird.”

And the young Stranger Things cast dealt with adults sexualizing them while they were still teenagers too.

It’s the same thing with the whole Mary-Kate and Ashley situation. Grown men were literally counting down until they turned 18. None of this should’ve been treated as funny or flattering.

A teenage boy is still a teenage boy. Being male doesn’t make adult sexual attention toward him any less inappropriate.

Why did grown women think this was okay?