"By tradition, Affleck - who won best actor for Manchester By The Sea in 2017 - would have been expected [by decades old tradition] to present the best actress award this year.
The actor, brother of Hollywood star Ben Affleck, was sued by two female crew members for alleged sexual harassment in 2010.
He denies the allegations, and the lawsuits were settled out of court.
- [Note: There were two female accusers on the same project. Casey Affleck is the brother of Ben Affleck who was also re-exposed by #MeToo as well due to his squeezing a woman's breast while he knew he was being filmed.]
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I find it incredibly ironic that Casey Affleck won an award for a movie that depicts exactly how damaging Toxic Masculinity is to men without the men who made the movie OR the men who gave this movie awards realizing that's the movie they had done.
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA is about a man that is so damaged by a tragic mistake and his inability to cry and grieve, that all he decides to live in an unfurnished closet, go to work every day and get drunk enough to express his sorrow via the violence of getting into a bar fight every night. When his brother dies and he must go home to help his nephew grieve, this man has no ability to help this boy and no ability to accept forgiveness or love from anybody.
But the main character ends the movie his macho intact. The movie almost ends with this man being a tragic hero for not being able to forgive himself, for not even being able to try to access all of his grief, forgiveness, friendship, or love.
It's incredible that the men who made this movie and the men that judged this movie as Oscar Worthy didn't actually understand what this movie says about American Toxic Masculinity.
http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-difference-between-sexual.html
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