Charlyne Yi Provided Her Checklist Of Ways Seth Rogen Can Apologize To Assault Survivors
Earlier this week Seth Rogen responded to Charlyne Yi calling him out for enabling James Franco and his creepy predator ways. In an interview, Seth said he has no plans to work with James again, and he’d never cover up abuse or harassment. Charlyne responded by posting screenshots to her Instagram Stories that showed James was listed as a producer in the upcoming Hulu series Pam and Tommy (Seth is starring and producing). James’ credit was soon scrubbed from IMDb. That’s right — Big Internet Movie Database is in on it too!
The next day Charlyne posted a helpful “Checklist for SR”, that details exactly what Seth needs to apologize to survivors for. Reminder: Way back in 2018, when James was initially accused of sexual misconduct by several of his acting students, Seth told Vulture that he’d continue to work with his beloved buddy. Charlyne says that decision further damaged James’ accusers’ careers, mental health, and physical safety.
Here’s Charlyne’s Instagram checklist:
– Apologize to survivors for making their lives even more vulnerable by publicly siding with an abuser, further damaging their careers and safety
– Commit to educating self about coercion, SA (sexual assault), and how to be a proactive ally
– Promote protecting and hiring survivors
– Protect survivors
– Hire survivors
She also writes:
To spell out the severity of how violent and life-long damaging SR publicly siding with the abuser of several women and why he should apologize to them:
-two rich white male celebrities publicly teaming up sends thousands of fans to attack and threaten survivors physically and psychologically. This is not only dangerous for their mental health, but their physical being
-this can cause denial, loss of reality/intuition to protect self from future abusers, life-long health issues, attempt in suicide, suicide
-the survivors are discredited, careers damaged and blacklisted
On Charlyne’s final slide she lists “Who to apologize to,” and names six of James’ accusers: Sarah Tither-Kaplan, Violet Paley, Hilary Dusome, Natalie Chmiel, Katie Ryan, Lucy Clode, Toni Gaal (added as an edit in the caption), “& all the unnamed people who have anonymously shared, or been too afraid to.”
Here’s the post:
One of James’ accusers/ex-acting students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan, tweeted this the day Seth’s interview came out:
They never forget our names when they are harming us, but they always forget our names when they are apologizing for it.
— Sarah Tither-Kaplan (@sarahtk) May 10, 2021
Sarah and her classmate Toni Gaal accused James of sexually exploitative behavior and took legal action in 2019. They quietly reached a settlement earlier this year. James’ lawyers had previously accused the two women of hopping on the #MeToo “bandwagon” (ummm) and that they’d “ensnared an innocent man.” Boohoo, bitch.
So far there’s no response from Seth, and since he’s out there plugging his new memoir, I doubt he’ll want to draw any more attention to his fuck ups. My money’s on more fun pissing-in-bottle tales and weed anecdotes. But here’s a wild idea, Sethy-boy: why don’t you just do what Charlyne says? Don’t worry about OK-ing it with your publicist. Just do it®. Like, right this second, print out Charlyne’s checklist and stick that shit to the fridge. And don’t say you don’t have a printer; you’re a rich dude pushing forty!
Pics: Wenn.com