LOL O.K. yes lets all believe the words of the woman who is having a paranoid mental breakdown and posting AI generated videos about naricissim. She can't even spell things right and her grammar is very bad. This is delusional word salad from a woman who is experiencing mental illness and it's sad ya'll refuse to see that just because ""feminism"" even though she is hurting Michael's daughters, his partner Anna, and her own child Lily who last I checked are all women ! Kate has only ever said nice things about Michael in the past. She is having a mental breakdown and people like you are encouraging her when she needs help. Some ""feminist"" !
didn't realise i had anonymous asks on. hello.
where to start with this?
firstly, i am a feminist, though i'm not sure i've actually mentioned the word "feminism" anywhere recently so the focus on that is a little odd. secondly, i believe kate when she says she was abused. many, many women are and keep silent about it for years. having spoken positively about somebody in the past doesn't disprove that they were abusive. there are many reasons for people not disclosing the abuse they've experienced for a long time or acting as if it didn't happen. it's also common for people, especially women or those from marginalised communities, to not realise the extent of the abuse until much later due to the conditioning we all receive in a patriarchal society
i know from my own experiences that when you speak up about abuse, especially when the perpetrator is male--and a man who is held in high regard--you are often met with hostility and gaslighting which absolutely does affect your mental health. this idea that a "truly" abused woman would and should react with measured grace and no visible emotion (though lack of visible emotion is also weaponised against women btw) is misogynistic horseshit
realising the scope of systemic misogyny and the nature of the systems which uphold it, and the behemoth you are up against when you challenge it, can make you feel trapped, panicked, isolated. realising how futile it usually is to even try and push back against these systems, to protect younger women from going through the same, or to get any measure of personal justice, realising how much was taken from you? can make you feel resentful, jaded, vengeful. i'd actually say that's a pretty sane response
being overtly emotional and/or fixating heavily on the abuse and the response from others to the abuse, again, does not mean the abuse didn't occur. i haven't been keeping a close eye on kate beckinsale's online activity because... i have other things to do. so i haven't seen everything she's posted. if posting AI videos and having poor grammar are indications that one is acutely mentally unwell then i think most people using the internet are in serious trouble
we don't know any of these people on a personal level or what is going on behind the scenes so we can't comment on the "true" nature of their relationships or what they are feeling beyond what they choose to share publicly. jumping to conclusions about how these instagram posts are affecting others is pure speculation, as is doling out armchair psychiatric diagnoses
personally, what i see is a woman who has had time to reflect on what she's been through at various points in her life and who desperately wants to help other women so they don't experience that same pain
this situation is a really sad one and attacking people who are choosing to listen to a woman who says she was abused--especially when those people have talked about their own experiences as abuse victims--is a pretty shit way to respond to it
