Sean Penn and his costar find themselves in hot water this week after an interview during an interview promoting their new HULU series ‘The First.’
First, let’s address the quote that’s probably trending on twitter by now, “receptacle of the salacious.”
What the what? #ThingsIDontUnderstand
Receptacle: one that receives and contains something: CONTAINER
Salacious: arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination
I’m a visual thinker, so at this point, I’m imagining a container filled with people reading cheesy romance novels.
When asked to clarify he replied “Well, 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.”
Translation: He doesn’t believe the victims.
“Divide[ing] men and women?”
Really Sean? Women AND men can be victims of sexual assault. The Catholic church is a prime example. I could rattle off statistics of abuse in the church til I’m blue in the face, but that probably wouldn’t even come close to what the actual numbers are.
His costar, Natascha McElhone, trying to come in with the save, follows up with “I think what Sean was leading to was this bubble of actors or people in magazines that have gotten attention from it. And of course, it’s terrific, they put a spotlight on it. Now, we need to go in the places where this is happening behind closed doors and it’s not exposed and there's voices not being heard.”
Everyone is so focused on Sean’s salacious whatever that they missed this little nugget.
“[The] bubble of actors or people in magazines that have gotten attention from it.” They only got attention because they spoke out, and are giving others the strength to do the same.
You can’t know what’s going on behind closed doors unless someone speaks out, and speaking out against a high profile person or entity *cough* Catholic Church *cough* is certainly going to get some attention.
Sean Penn is desperately trying to be relevant again.
Victims and those who stand by them are receptacles of the salacious.
Fuck the Catholic Church *not actually mentioned anywhere in the interview but still relevant*
And if anyone actually knows what a receptacle of the salacious is, please @ me.