Believing Blake Lively: #METOO’s Failure to Deconstruct the "Perfect Victim" Narrative

Believing Blake Lively: #METOO’s Failure to Deconstruct the "Perfect Victim" Narrative

Blake Lively is a mediocre actress, a nepo baby, a diva, an arguable racist and a mean girl — she is also a victim of sexual harassment. On August 29th, 2024, the monstrosity that was Justin Baldoni’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, It Ends with Us, was released in theaters. Baldoni, an actor and director, best known for his role as Rafael on Jane the Virgin, played the story’s antagonist, Ryle Kincaid, the abusive husband to …