Why won't #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano support Joe Biden's accuser?
Back when Brett Kavanaugh was nominated for a seat on the nation's highest court, Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano sat behind him, strategically positioned in front of TV cameras, and held a sign that said "I believe survivors" of sexual assault.
But it turns out Alyssa does not believe all survivors. At least, not survivors who are accusing prominent Democrats of sexual misconduct.
Speaking on a radio show called “Radio Andy,” actress Alyssa Milano explained why she has not spoken out about the sexual assault allegation that has been made against former Vice President Joe Biden, and for the woman who ferociously condemned Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, her answer on the Biden claim reeked of utter hypocrisy.
I have not publicly said anything about this; if you remember, it kind of took me a long time to publicly say anything about Harvey (Weinstein) as well, because I believe that even though we should believe women, and that is an important thing, and what that statement really means is like, for so long, the go-to has been not to believe them. So really, we have to sort of societally change that mindset to believing women. But that does not mean at the expense of not giving men their due process.
Milano: If they found more evidence … so I’m just staying quiet about it … I sent the #MeToo tweet over two years ago; I never thought that it would be something that was going to destroy innocent men, right? We don’t want that to happen either. So we have to find this balance in the “believe women” movement and also giving men their due process, realizing that we’re destroying lives if we publicly don’t go through the right steps in order to find out if an accusation is credible or not.
Here’s Milano in an op-ed from September 2018:
So let me be as clear as possible: I believe Christine Blasey Ford and I demand that our Senators vote to reject Brett Kavanaugh as the next Justice on the Supreme Court. Every person who refuses to loudly and openly reject Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is telling every generation of Americans that an alleged abuser’s career is more valuable than a survivor’s humanity. And the highest court in our land is no place for an alleged sexual offender to sit.
Only days later, Milano was one of a group of anti-Kavanaugh leftists protesting at on the door of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), which she pounded. She tweeted, “I’m in D.C. because I don’t believe any man’s misogyny should take precedent over a survivor’s humanity.”
Only a few days after that, Milano wangled a seat at the Kavanaugh hearings, where she held up a sign emblazoned, “I BELIEVE SURVIVORS NO ON KAVANAUGH.”