Armie Hammer

There is a probably very random part in the article about him trying to get a job as a property salesman after realizing his career as actor was over and even when he comes from a very rich family being not just broken but indebted just to be exposed and humiliated by TMZ. It reminds me to another, I guess, kinda canceled person but, in her case, she was in the complete opposite side of these kind of things. She was a Washington Post journalist and she was an accuser of another journalist. It was an ambiguous accusation, there was also an article about him with his point of view and they weren’t not just drunk but she drove him on her motorcycle and followed him to his room after he allegedly assaulted her a first time during their way there. Again, it’s impossible to know what happened but it was an ambiguous situation (also she wasn’t the first person to accused him, there was another woman in a similar ambiguous situation and just after reading that the journalist realized his still friend had abused her, too). Anyway, he was totally canceled. He didn’t “returned” after that slightly more friendly piece at all but she didn’t do much better, neither! She just totally embraced her activist and victim persona on social media. She first celebrated Kobe Bryan death on Twitter when the news was still in process and don’t get me wrong, she wasn’t lying: contrary to others, he went to trial and he admitted that he indeed raped the accuser. I as a lot of her co-workers, totally would had defended her of saying the truth on Twitter but I also think it wasn’t a very smart move because a)it was too soon for fans to proceed his death and his crime at the same time and b) he was dead so she wasn’t hurting him at all but she was hurting a family that lost not just a criminal father but also a young daughter. I just don’t understand how creating that social media storm could had helped her cause. The best option would had been IMHO to wait some time and writing something objectivity about society hypocrisy about celebrities.

Anyway, after that WP just banned her of writing about sexual abuse and she sued her own newspaper. She went to trial and lost because the judge considered she wasn’t very objective about the issue because she was a victim herself and the newspaper was right about worrying about objectivity because that’s important for good journalism. She still had some defenders between her co-workers but later, she just began attacking not just the work environment (it’s The Washington Post! They are actually hyper woke but she thought they were really bad!) but also co-workers. A friend of her who had defended her before during her scandals retweeted or liked a stupid joke (“All women are bi, you just have to determine if it’s sexual or polar”). She went ballistic against him. She was on her right of being offended but maybe the best reaction would had been to personally talking with him and explaining him why she was so offended. She didn’t do that! He exposed him on Twitter and claimed he was an example of everything that it was wrong with men and the toxic environment in their newspaper even when he was her friend he deserved to be exposed like that by her. He quickly apologized and deleted or disliked the joke (remember, it was someone else joke! I sometimes “like” by accident!) and, later, the Washington Post suspended him. It wasn’t enough, she just continued her diatribe until another male co-worker confronted her so she escalated things (with the help of a Twitter mob, of course! And another mob attacking her!) then she was confronted by a female co-worked and things escalated even more! By then, it was a horrible battle in which internal affairs of the newspaper were being exposed to everyone to see! At the end, she was fired. And TBH, even when her cause (stopping misogyny and abuse against women) was good, she totally deserved it because she was now a huge problem for her employer and co-workers. She was a toxic employee and frankly not very good in her job.

Last week, I saw that a right wing newspaper was making fun of her because, like AH, she was now working in another much humble kind of job (I think as a department store seller) and like AH, I wondered what they wanted? She, like everyone else, need a job. She wasn’t very smart as journalist and gained a lot of enemies but why just not let her live her life in anonymity now that she’s isn’t in the media anymore! But also, what we have achieve with this kind of “activism” if both “victims” and “criminals” are just humiliated and destroyed to the point of not could to build a new life (I am obviously talking about “crimes” trialed and judged only on social media. People who are convicted should be in jail)