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About a year ago I wrote a Take about the whole Blake Lively - Justin Baldoni case in which Lively accuses him of sexual harassment Blake Lively Is Getting CRUSHED By Justin Baldoni - And I’m Glad . Since then we’ve seen waves of things happen in this insane debacle, from her and hubby Ryan Reynolds suddenly running and hiding when Baldoni’s team struck back in the early days revealing the couple’s Hollywood nastiness, to her pal Taylor Swift getting caught up in the madness, to now. The final battle….that Lively has pretty much lost.
Blake Lively’s case largely squashed
Last week a federal judge utterly obliterated her hopeful case against Baldoni by dismissing 10 out of 13 of her claims, including the sexual harassment one, which was going to be her main fighting point. But now she’s left reeling, with hardly much of a case remaining, and with none of her “dragons” to help her out either.
At this point everyone is pretty much urging her to just drop it all and settle with Baldoni. As of now she has no intention to, and Baldoni has vowed to fight to the finish if she does decide to push on with this useless uphill battle at Helm’s Deep. Even rumors are going around that Ryan himself thinks they should just wind it down.
What will happen now?
I don’t know and I don’t pretend to know. I said that the first time I wrote about this. By the natural course of things, the chances that Blake Liar will win this thing are slim to none, and she will probably face getting sued by Justin. But if she were really smart then she would just put down her weapons, put her hands up, and opt to settle.
In either case, the bad news is the damage is already done now, and she has injured her image and reputation much more than she did from the start of all this, and her husband’s as well. Although it’s more likely that he will still be picked up for movies down the road, but much less for her, who will probably be living life like someone who got out of prison and has a hard time getting a job.
Let this be a message
As I said in my first Take, this should be a message for women to quit trying to say some guy is doing something to you even when he really isn’t. It’s not only disrespectful to us, but also to the women with real situations of harassment or sexual assault, who often don’t like complaining but only do it if they seriously are driven to.
I know it’s just a goofy, messy Hollywood dispute that doesn’t actually matter to the general public, but it’s a reflection of things that do happen with women and men in the general public, and women are slow to realize that we are living in times now where little by little they are being held accountable for things like these more often along with child sexual assault and sex trafficking. Although guys try to say how false claims injure men, and women get away with it, that is actually not true. There are quite a few cases of women who wrongly accused men of assault and those women faced consequences for it. Look them up on YouTube, you will see those cases.
While the mainstream news media has largely tried to ignore the Lively - Baldoni case because of “misogyny,” or only piping in on it when things seemed to look up for her, or to drop some useless feminist BS article like the one out right now from NBC News, the vast majority of outlets have already acknowledged that this is a terribly shameful campaign from Lively that is only hurting herself more than anyone else, and what she will have a very hard time coming back from.
There is hope
But even in this I’m not going to set her failure in permanent stone. Lively gave herself an immense lesson to learn and I hope she chooses to change from here. That would be the only way to recover. As I said the first time around: acknowledge how you’ve messed up and do the work to fix yourself. Improve whatever relationships you’ve injured, humble yourself, resist that female need to be adversarial with people because you're desperate for control, and maybe even ultimately ask for forgiveness from Justin Baldoni. There’s actually a lot that could go well for you from here if you take the right and honest steps.
Good luck.
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