Jerry D

I wanted to bring this up for discussion:

Here is an article on Yahoo! where Nicole Eggert, who was featured on the show Charles in Charge in the 1980’s when she was a teenager along with the star of the show, Scott Baio, is now saying that she was molested by him starting when she was 14. It’s a complicated story because she dated him briefly and these revelations are coming out 30 years after the show ended, but what I really wanted to discuss are many of the comments about her below the article, where people are calling her a “fat has-been” and saying that she “hasn’t aged well,” and that she’s jumping on the “Me Too” bandwagon to get back in the spotlight now that her career is over and her looks have faded.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-very...153125315.html

I found a lot of those comments to be misogynistic and incredibly cruel, and I hate that a lot of people are talking about her looks rather than what allegedly happened to her when she was a young teenager, much like what happened to the gymnasts at the hands of Larry Nassar. Scott Baio is vehemently denying these charges in Social Media, but personally I believe what she’s saying. I always found him to be creepy and a womanizer, and he even did a crap reality show about 10 years ago about how he was 45 at the time and still unmarried, (he’s married now though and he has a child) and on this show, under the “supervision” of his “personal life coach”, Baio visited some of his old girlfriends, including Nicole Eggert, over an eight-week period in an attempt to figure out why he couldn’t commit to one woman. I never saw that show or any show he was in because I always thought he was a no-talent actor who thought he was cute and God’s gift to women, and something about him just creeped me out.

The entire issue that really bothers me is how some people view some of the women who are coming forward now with their stories of abuse, and I also don’t like how many people (both men and women) look down on women or discount them simply because they’ve gotten older and/or heavier. I think that we’re still largely a sexist and youth and beauty obsessed society where women, and especially older women, are often marginalized.

I also feel like the whole “Me Too” movement is being marginalized because so many women are coming out with their stories and some people are just saying “blah blah blah, someone else is wanting their 15 minutes of fame by telling their abuse story.” One jerk that commented below that article said:

That really bothers me, because women who have the courage to tell how they were abused shouldn’t be mocked or marginalized.

I’d really like to see what people think about this issue. Thanks.