Alyssa Milano, Minnie Driver shut down Matt Damon’s sexual-harassment comments
Alyssa Milano is not here for Matt Damon’s comments on sexual harassment. The actress, who has been a vocal part of the #MeToo movement, took to Twitter on Saturday to call the actor out for his controversial statements during an interview with ABC News Thursday about the sex scandals wracking Hollywood.
In the interview, Damon says there is a “spectrum” to behavior, and that we live in a “culture of outrage.”
“All of that behavior needs to be confronted, but there is a continuum. On this end of the continuum where you have rape and child molestation or whatever, you know, that’s prison,” he said. “That’s criminal behavior and it needs to be dealt with that way. The other stuff is just kind of shameful and gross... I just think that we have to start delineating between what these behaviors are.”
Milano spoke up about Damon’s comments in a series of tweets addressed to the actor.
“We are in a ‘culture of outrage’ because the magnitude of rage is, in fact, overtly outrageous. And it is righteous,” she wrote.
“We are not outraged because someone grabbed our asses in a picture. We are outraged because we were made to feel this was normal,” she continued. “We are outraged because we have been gaslighted. We are outraged because we were silenced for so long.”
She ended the tweets, which referred to sexual misconduct and violence as a “systemic disease,” with the hashtag #MeToo.
Milano wasn’t alone in calling Damon out for his comments – his Good Will Hunting co-star Minnie Driver called him “tone deaf” on Twitter on Friday.
“Gosh it’s so *interesting how men with all these opinions about women’s differentiation between sexual misconduct, assault and rape reveal themselves to be utterly tone deaf and as a result, systemically part of the problem (*profoundly unsurprising),” she wrote.