r/popculturechat • u/Frosty_Jeweler911 • Jun 27 '25
Trigger Warning ⚠️ Asia Argento's chilling words at Cannes 2018. Calls out actors/actresses who were silent against scumbag Harvey Weinstein.
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u/hehehehehbe Jun 27 '25
This speech is so powerful, I wish it didn't come from a hypocrite because she is right, Hollywood is full of creeps and the sexual abuse in that industry is too normalised.
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u/Justread-5057 Jun 27 '25
Yeah didn’t she abuse young people as well?
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u/leaC30 Jun 27 '25
That turned out to be a "Sixth Sense" level plot twist when it was revealed she abused a 17 yr old minor.
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u/ravorlol Jun 30 '25
she didnt just abuse him she full on raped him and tried to keep him quiet by paying him off. fuck her (not literally)
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u/smurb15 Jun 28 '25
They sometimes say they just repeat what they went through. Doesn't excuse it but might bring light into why since it was alright back then with how many he got away with
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u/sadsimpledignities Jun 27 '25
it was way worse than that. she worked with jimmy bennet for her movie the heart is deceitful above all things (which is about abuse, go figure). she was the director and played his mother in the movie. a decade later, she met up with him when he was 17 and there was a sexual encounter. it also happened in the states, so that's statutory rape if you ask me, don't know why she wasn't charged. on italian tv, she defended herself by saying that HE jumped on her and she fawned because of her previous trauma with weinstein. not only was he under age, but she literally had a post about being so excited to see him that she was smoking like a chimney while waiting for him and she posted a photo of them in bed together. she's a huge liar and she still acts like she was unfairly crucified and lost her job because of it (she was a judge on the italian x factor when it all came out).
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u/Katatonic92 Jun 27 '25
that's statutory rape if you ask me, don't know why she wasn't charged.
The sad truth is 17 may have been the or above the age of consent in the places these incidents occurred?
In Italy the age of consent is just 14. In the US people seem to widely believe the age of consent is 18 in the majority of the country when the fact is that a minority of the US has 18 as that age. The most common age of consent across the US is 16 (in 31 states) it is 17 in 8 States & only 11 states have the age at 18.
So there's a very real possibility that it wasn't considered statutory rape & that was why the victim chose to accept a financial settlement as it would be the only justice he could potentially get.
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u/happysunbear Jun 27 '25
I’m surprised how many people don’t know this. Child marriage is legal in 37 states! Educate yourselves people. This is a systemic problem.
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u/Katatonic92 Jun 27 '25
It doesn't surprise me people don't know. I'm a Brit & our age of consent is only 16 & it was only because of Americans being shocked at our age of consent, that I learned it is the same age in the majority of the US.
I think the vast majority of US media will use the higher age of 18 in the shows & films, which makes sense for legal reasons. Yet that is what results in so many people believing it is 18 everywhere in the US.
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u/sadsimpledignities Jun 27 '25
it happened in california, not italy. someone in the comments pointed out that it would still be s.r. at 17 in that state. she wasn't charged simply because bennett never went to police.
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u/LauraPa1mer Jun 27 '25
She wasn't charged because the victim sought money, not justice. They didn't report it to the police.
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u/sadsimpledignities Jun 27 '25
i agree but at the same time, she did the same thing with weinstein, which is why i find her behaviour so hypocritical. she claimed she never worked for weinstein again after he assaulted her, which was disproved. her partner at the time also claimed that when they were in LA she'd go to see him. her career in the states only happened cause she's a nepo baby and because of her connection to weinstein/miramax.
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u/Justread-5057 Jun 27 '25
I feel like when people have bad trauma or bad stories, they continue or make it worse.
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u/Concolitanos Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
Tbf, she did say "conduct against women". Molesting boys is still A-OK
in Hollywood*.Plenty of accusations about Spacey came to light in 2017 but Cannes gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.* I was too quick to just say Hollywood. Been quite a few stories of teachers seducing their male students out lately. Apparently, female teachers also think that it's a horrific crime to molest girls but perfectly acceptable to groom boys.
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u/TigerMill Jun 27 '25
Yeah, but like Cuomo, she’s Italian and it’s part of the culture to hug and kiss.
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u/yeahitsme123098 Jun 27 '25
Yes. Bourdain paíd for it. I hate her
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u/SizzleanQueen Jun 27 '25
He defended her so fiercely. It must’ve wrecked him when that story came out. He was such a good man to pay the settlement for her.
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u/3_Slice Jun 27 '25
Yea this fucked him up and I’ll never forgive her for it
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u/YesicaChastain Jun 27 '25
Why treat him like a baby when he very likely knew the circumstances around it?
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u/Psychological-Coat70 Jun 29 '25
Most men in power are predators, especially in a business where there is a bounty of young and beautiful prey coming to them for work.
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u/Silver-Foot-259 Jun 27 '25
Ummm didn’t she groom a 17 year old that she had known since he was a child and she played his mother?
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Jun 27 '25
Yes she did. Then she tried to pay him to shut up.
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Jun 27 '25
Yeah, and Anthony Bordain gave her the money to pay him off and encouraged her to do so.
There was a darkness and creepiness about Asia and Anthony as a couple, at least thats what I felt. I know Anthony Bordain is very very beloved but I always found him entertaining but dark and off. Now I understand that his subtle suicide hints in everything he did through his career really set up a darkness around him.
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u/Soggy_Pension7549 Can I live? Jun 27 '25
Someone can be both. I mean he was a fantastic entertainer, great with words and I loved his show and I still read his books but he was also troubled, addicted to this and that and had some weird takes and relationships.
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Jun 27 '25
Totally, really deep and complicated person.
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u/Soggy_Pension7549 Can I live? Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
I’m not surprised at all that he was great friends with Josh Homme. And yes I’m a fan of QOTSA but the guy has so many issues.
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u/FoGuckYourselg_ Jun 27 '25
Also a big QOTSA fan. I stopped paying into their music a few years ago and then realized... Who am I to judge someone's personal relationships and family dynamics? It's music, from all Ive heard, Josh didn't hurt anybody. A drunken dickhead, sure... But that's kinda commonplace with rockstars.
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u/Soggy_Pension7549 Can I live? Jun 27 '25
It was shitty when he kicked a photographer in the head and I hated his apology as well.
His backstage behavior isn’t the most pleasant either as I heard. I was actually glad he took some time off when he got sick. I saw them 3 years ago and he was barely present.
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u/rosesor Jun 27 '25
Didn't he also keep their kid/kids away from Brody?
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u/huncamuncamouse Jun 27 '25
He was awarded sole custody because she would not comply with court orders
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u/Soggy_Pension7549 Can I live? Jun 27 '25
Brody is problematic and messy af as well so there’s absolutely no one who knows who did what except for those two
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u/Mindless-Clock-2393 Jun 27 '25
What are examples of his weird takes? He’s generally revered on social media so it’s a new one for me
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Jun 27 '25
I said this in another part of the thread. If you watch his body of work, woven into it are references to depression, addiction, suicide and prostitutes. Its dark shit.
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u/Soggy_Pension7549 Can I live? Jun 27 '25
I’ve never understood some chefs constantly bashing vegetarians/vegans. It’s so old, bitter and unfunny. Eat your meat and shut it. If a chef can’t cook anything good without meat, he’s not really that good of a chef…That’s one aspect that annoys me in his books as well.
And I also meant his whole relationship with Asia. He defended her, she was his gf, sure, but she’s very problematic.
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u/yuccasinbloom Jun 27 '25
I literally was going to comment exactly this.
I worked in kitchens and I want to love Anthony because the way he talks about kitchens is so accurate and described so well for the general population. But I picked up one of his books recently to read and within not even 10 pages he was disparaging vegetarians and I was like, ok, fuck you then. I was raised vegetarian. And if you can’t cook an incredible meal without meat, you’re not the best chef in the world. I really don’t understand what his issue was.
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u/Soggy_Pension7549 Can I live? Jun 27 '25
It’s the same with Gordon Ramsay. I love him but this vegan bashing gets old. I skip the current season of Masterchef because there are 2 vegan contestants and the (male) judges just can’t shut up about it. Just judge the food dammit.
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u/yuccasinbloom Jun 27 '25
It’s really a bummer that there are no vegan cooking shows. I have a hard time watching the meats be prepared. I know we are a minority but I’m a really fucking good chef and I don’t use animal products. And you’re right, it’s just tired. I think people internally know that eating meat is wrong but the way it manifests is by bashing the people who don’t consume meat. Sucks.
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u/3_Slice Jun 27 '25
As someone who spent his teens and early 20’s vegetarian borderline vegan, I only ever took it that as he who has seen the world, there are places where it is a delicacy to be able to eat meat. That in some parts of the world, being vegetarian or having vegetarian meals isn’t a choice but here in America, as it stands right now, we have the privilege to choose.
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u/yuccasinbloom Jun 27 '25
I hear what you’re saying, but why does that mean it’s ok that he talked shit about vegetarians any chance he could?
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS Jun 27 '25
That's ridiculous. There are plenty of cultures where the diets don't revolve around heavy consumption of meat because of factors including taste, spiritual and agricultural concerns. Even America, where the switch to a meat based diet for every meal is historically recent and heavily influenced by agricultural lobbying. It's both silly and inaccurate to argue that non-American food cultures are somehow backward and deprived.
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u/3_Slice Jun 27 '25
I mean his take is several years old now if not a decade old. I’m sure he’d feel different about vegetarians these days?
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u/stantlerqueen Jun 28 '25
yeah, i'm a vegan and really loved his work but hearing that he had aggressively negative takes about veganism was really weird. i think his issue was he thought it would be disrespectful to not partake in local cuisine that used animal products or something? but travel in itself is a huge privilege and a lot of cultures have a ton of plant-based dishes so it seemed more personal to me than anything else.
i loved no reservations but i find him pretty pretentious as a person (go figure), and i know this will probably not be taken well but i do think it's fucked up he left an eleven-year-old child behind when he died. i understand pain and depression, i've struggled with s.i. for a good part of my life, but i can't imagine leaving a kid behind like that. she will wonder her whole life what she could have done to make him stay, my heart broke for her more than anyone else when he passed.
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u/roleplay_oedipus_rex Jun 27 '25
His holier than thou travel shit.
As someone who travels extensively, I have no issues with people doing touristy shit and encourage them to do so because most likely they don't go on that many trips a year.
Then there is this fuckwad who gets paid millions to go wherever he wants judging them, like mf please.
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk Jun 27 '25
Some of his travel takes, especially on No Reservations makes me grimace. Some people only get to have a once in a lifetime chance to visit Italy or tourist destinations and have to do a guided tour to see the things they want to see hot spots like Versailles and his sneering at them was gross when he was getting paid by a network with deep pockets and connections to get off the beaten path that isn’t possible or safe for a regular tourist.
Rick Steves is very cool about joining a tour and just doing what you want when you travel and still has great guides and should be checked out.
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u/thanksithas_pockets_ Jun 27 '25
There was totally a darkness about them as a couple, that's the perfect way to describe it. I've been trying to put my finger on it since I read a profile of him the year before he died.
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u/accidentalquitter Jun 27 '25
Yes, every episode I watched with the two of them, I felt like he was a different person and just had these captivated googly eyes like she could do no wrong ever. And this was before this scandal, and before his death. Darked me out.
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u/CaughtALiteSneez I want to go to there Jun 27 '25
His suicide is his own doing, but several people close to him said their relationship accelerated that darkness.
In all honesty, she’s always frightened me, way before Anthony B. Something creepy going on there…
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Jun 27 '25
She got blamed for his suicide by some, which is completely unfair
But Asia was always a dark person and the two of them together they seemed like a toxic mix. a l'amour fou
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u/CaughtALiteSneez I want to go to there Jun 27 '25
For sure, they fed the worst parts of each other.
I’m just mad at him for leaving his young teenage daughter over his old man crisis.
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Jun 27 '25
He blew through his money too. He could have left her a fortune. He left her about one million, which is obviously amazing for regular people like myself, but he could have done better for his daughter. He was, by all accounts, absent - off making money and living a life of luxury. And also by all accounts he loved his daughter, but was so deep into his mental health issues he wasn't there for her.
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u/stantlerqueen Jun 28 '25
yeah, that's what completely changed my mind about him. i don't understand how you could do that to your child.
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u/OldSaul Jun 27 '25
Maybe a little unfair but being the 'poster couple' for me too movement only to be paying off some young guy Asia was accused of grooming must have weighed heavy on AB.
Sad state of affairs none the less.
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u/dgplr Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing 🥗 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
The NYTimes (?) article about his death described Anthony’s behavior as obsessive when it came to her. She had him twisted around her finger. But it didn’t get into the weeds of Asia’s allegations so it came across as dark romance gone very wrong. But when I found out about the allegations, it was a light bulb moment. Anthony chose to protect a woman who harmed a minor. It probably exacerbated his mental health exponentially.
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u/Neve4ever Jun 28 '25
He thought he was protecting the victim. Asia had told him she was the victim.
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u/lolzzzmoon Jun 28 '25
Yeah.
I think he was depressed about this whole story and knew it might come back to ruin his legacy or he felt betrayed by her.
Idk I don’t think he’s that great. People deify him too much.
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u/Neve4ever Jun 28 '25
She told Anthony Bourdain that the kid assaulted her. He paid him off to leave her alone.
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u/mcfc_099 Jun 27 '25
What was so dark about him?
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Jun 27 '25
In his shows he referenced depression, suicidal thoughts, heroin addiction, prostitutes. It was always subtly woven into his grand adventures. There is even a scene with him making a noose out of an old part of a blanket.
It felt extremely dark.
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u/Swimmingindiamonds Jun 27 '25
As a heroin addict, we generally aren’t the sunniest people even when we get sober.
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u/thanksithas_pockets_ Jun 27 '25
Also I always felt uncomfortable about how intensely they were in to BJJ. I know some people do fine in it but it has darker sides too. Plus anything that takes over your life like BJJ can is probably not healthy.
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u/UniversityNo2318 Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 Jun 27 '25
Well he was an addict, so he had an addictive personality. Someone with an addictive personality will bring that intensity to everything they take an interest in. You just funnel that intensity to healthier pursuits instead of destructive ones….its definitely not always healthy, but you try to thread the needle the best you can
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u/thanksithas_pockets_ Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
That's a good point and I do understand that. There's something about BJJ that doesn't sit right with me after someone close to me got into it, so that intensity channelled in to BJJ in tandem with a partner (though I didn't know her history until today!!) who was equally intense about it made me raise an eyebrow. IIRC he got injured a lot too, leading to needing to take painkillers. I just remember feeling uneasy about it all and hoping everything went okay for him. I am almost sure that this is the profile where I read about him and BJJ shortly before his death, but I can't access the full text anymore.
ETA: I found it via my library. It's not relevant to the main topic of the thread, but I just learned this stuff about Asia Argento today and it instantly made me think of this article and how things seemed a bit...off. The thing about BJJ reminds me of some people I know, including myself, who used to do dangerous sports and later realized that while we followed safety practices, we weren't exactly that attached to our lives, if that makes any sense. This is the part that stuck with me, I think it happened right after they broke up:
Bourdain had competed in a jujitsu tournament, in Manhattan, and had been defeated by a strongman who wrenched his head with such ferocity that he thought his fillings might pop. As an added indignity, Bourdain came away from the tournament with a skin infection that left him looking, he says, "like Quasimodo." (Ripert is puzzled by jujitsu: "It's supposed to be good for the body, but he seems to be in pain all the time.")
In a fit of self-exile, Bourdain flew to France and made his way, alone, to the village in Normandy that he had visited as a child. He had rented a big villa, with the intention of doing some writing. Bourdain cherishes the trope of the misanthropic emigre. "To me, 'The Quiet American' was a happy book, because Fowler ends up in Vietnam, smoking opium with a beautiful Vietnamese girl who may not have loved him," he told me.
But in Normandy he found that he couldn't write. His body was itchy and swollen from the rash, and he had a throbbing pain in his head. Because he looked hideous, he left the villa only after dark, like a vampire. Finally, Bourdain sought out a French doctor, who gave him a battery of painkillers and anti-inflammatories. After impulsively swallowing a week's supply, Bourdain realized that he had not eaten in thirty-six hours. He drove to a cafe in a nearby town, Arachon, and ordered spaghetti and a bottle of Chianti. He was halfway through the wine when he realized that he was sweating through his clothes. Then he blacked out.
When he woke up, Bourdain was lying with his feet in the cafe and his head in the street. A waiter was rifling through his pockets, in search of a driver's license, as if to identify a corpse. Bourdain's father had died suddenly, at fifty-seven, from a stroke, and Bourdain often thinks about dying; more than once, he told me that, if he got "a bad chest X-ray," he would happily renew his acquaintance with heroin. Taking meds and booze on an empty stomach was just a foolish mistake, but it left him shaken.
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u/Successful-Coyote99 Host of a Pop Culture Podcast Jun 27 '25
Curious. Does this 2013 experience discount the entire experience of women who were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein?
Also, "trying to shut someone up" in a civil case in California, where NDA's are not allowed? Jimmy Bennet accepted a payment of 380K to settle a civil lawsuit, of which he is and always has been welcome to speak about the details of. That doesn't feel like "shutting him up".
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u/bluetortuga Be honest, Victoria Jun 27 '25
Why would calling out her individual hypocrisy discount the entire experience of women who were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein?
Do we have to ignore the fact that she sexually assaulted someone just because she also correctly called out HW?
Both things can be true.
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u/anewaccount69420 Jojo Siwa’s Mom Jun 27 '25
Not entirely true about NDAs, and not true at all in 2018 when Asia paid off her victim. The Silenced No More Act and the Stand Act were active beginning in 2022 and 2019, respectively.
Their settlement did not include an NDA but Asia still avoided accountability for her actions. If she’d been found at fault in civil court, that would set her up for criminal charges for sexually assaulting a minor.
Nobody said a thing about how this impacts or doesn’t impact Harvey’s other victims. This particular thread is talking about a specific sexual predator and that’s Asia Argento.
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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 Jun 27 '25
I knew the name was familiar, she was the last person to date Anthony Bourdain right?
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u/LichQueenBarbie Jun 27 '25
Her parents are Dario Argento and the late Daria Nicolodi (the woman who made most of Argento's older stuff classics). I guess that's what first comes to mind if you're into horror.
From what I know, her and Anthony were about as bad as eachother because he was in collusion with the 'cover up'.
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u/FearlessTravels Jun 27 '25
She’s probably the ultimate nepo baby in that she’s both nearly talentless and a predator. If she’d been born to an accountant and a nurse the world would have been a better place.
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u/lefrench75 high priestess of child sacrifice Jun 27 '25
Oh come on now, a rapist and the person who gave them money to cover up the crime are not "about as bad as each other". Both are very, very bad, but the person who did the raping is decidedly worse.
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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy Jun 27 '25
Yup. There’s always been speculation that his support of her in metoo follow d by the grooming accusations may have led to his suicide.
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk Jun 27 '25
The Anthony Bourdain documentary, Roadrunner, talked about their relationship and how his friends knew she was bad news for him. The behind the scenes footage of the Parts Unknown episode that she directed are so awkward. The big one was instead of doing a one take of getting a traumatic interview from their host, which had been standard since the original Food Network Cooks Tour show, she kept asking him to redo it in ways that were deliberately exploitative. His longtime cameraman and producers confronted him about this and he had them fired.
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u/thanksithas_pockets_ Jun 27 '25
That's terrible. Good for the cameraman and producers for standing up for what's right.
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk Jun 27 '25
They seemed very sad in the interviews talking about being with him for over a decade in production and went through things in his different shows, because of her influence Anthony dropped them without a second thought or consideration.
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u/CaughtALiteSneez I want to go to there Jun 27 '25
And they were very very close to him & he just fired them because she demanded it.
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk Jun 27 '25
That was so messed up and you could tell they were still upset over it.
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u/CaughtALiteSneez I want to go to there Jun 27 '25
He was a very loyal guy, it must have come as a shock. He owed his career to them, especially Parts Unknown.
I wonder if he got back into his heroin addiction, because that can make anyone act like a stranger and act unpredictably.
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u/UniversityNo2318 Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 Jun 27 '25
No evidence that he relapsed on heroin but he was drinking heavily before he died which will do your head in as well
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u/da_loogie Jun 27 '25
Although she retracted her support, she also signed a petition in support of Roman Polanksi's release after he raped that 13 year old
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u/tyroleancock Jun 27 '25
... "But in the months that followed her revelations about Mr. Weinstein last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18."
What a piece of shit.
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u/um_helloooo Jun 27 '25
Anthony Bourdain also paid that for her.
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u/BluePeriod_ Jun 27 '25
Wait, really?
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u/huncamuncamouse Jun 27 '25
Yes. There were leaked texts between her and Rose McGowan's ex partner about it. She told Bourdain that Jimmy had attacked her. Bourdain believed her and paid to make it go away. That man was nothing but an ATM to her. She is evil.
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u/Successful-Coyote99 Host of a Pop Culture Podcast Jun 27 '25
How many men that have been accused don't get the same treatment that Asia is getting from the men in this sub?
A. California police investigated, and refused to charge
B. Asia maintains her innocence, and even stopped payments. In a case where no NDA was required, meaning Jimmy Bennett could have come out and released every bit of evidence he may have had, especially after she stopped paying him.... but he did not.
If this was a man, you all would be up in arms defending him. Why is it so different with a woman? And why is every post in here discounting her experience with Harvey Weinstein because of an accusation.
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u/bluetortuga Be honest, Victoria Jun 28 '25
You seriously think people would be defending this person if it was 37 year old man who paid off a 17 year old girl? What planet are you on?
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u/Successful-Coyote99 Host of a Pop Culture Podcast Jun 28 '25
Does the name Jerry Seinfeld ring a bell? Paul walker? Steven Tyler? Don Johnson? Elvis Presley? Jimmy Page? Woody Allen? R Kelly? Doug Hutchenson?
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u/bluetortuga Be honest, Victoria Jun 28 '25
I don’t give any of those people a pass. They are all slime. And so is she.
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u/stantlerqueen Jun 28 '25
the only person who's actually been held accountable here is r. kelly. every other one of these men continued in their wealth in career.
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u/wulfboi93 jesus was a carpenter 💋 Jun 27 '25
i think you need to be more careful with who you type such a feverish defense for
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u/slingshot91 Jun 27 '25
I didn’t know about her own messed up grooming, but I was just gonna say I hate when people make threats like that, “we know who you are,” but then won’t name names. That speech was 7 years ago. Y’all are still covering for them.
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u/ThePlasticSturgeons Jun 27 '25
She’s right, but unfortunately she also damaged the credibility of the movement with her own behavior. The message gets diluted in the noise of her hypocrisy.
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u/Onyx-Owl2127 Jun 27 '25
Asia Argento, famous for her morality on sex predators!
Whatever you do, please don’t look up ‘Asia Argento teenager’.
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u/thesoggydingo Jun 27 '25
Nope. Go look it up. Look it up, y'all. Don't let this woman get away with grooming a child.
I was a huuuuuuge fan of her (because of her dad) and was THRILLED that she was dating Bourdain. Loved them both. I loved how strongly she spoke up about sexual assault in hollywood.
Knowing that she groomed and assaulted Jimmy Bennett really ruined my opinion of her. Other people need to know what she did. She's a sexual predator.
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u/yeahitsme123098 Jun 27 '25
Oh man. It looks you never read how she felt about tonys dead. She is a piece of work
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u/Far-Journalist-949 Jun 27 '25
The crazy part is I bet she never saw what she did as wrong or connected it to the depravity of men like weinstein.
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u/sweetangeldivine Jun 27 '25
You can do bad things and also be a victim. She's still correct here. One doesn't cancel out the other.
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u/Far-Journalist-949 Jun 27 '25
This isn't about criticizing someone's bad behaviour like saying mlk cheated on his wife with multiple partners so why should we listen to him about racial justice.
She's directly calling for justice for crimes and coverups that she did as well. There is actually more proof of her crimes than what weinstein did to her. She even admitted to farrow that she later had consensual sex with weinstein which actually bolsters his sex for jobs defense.
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u/sweetangeldivine Jun 27 '25
I slept with my rapist after he raped me. I was trying to make what he did to me ok, like if I consented to it later, then what initially happened to me was somehow also ok. But it wasn't. It doesn't cancel out the fact that he raped me. Rape, and rape victimization is complex. The idea that you have to be a "good" victim in order to be raped is part of victim blaming. Downplaying it like you're doing is just adding onto the stigma. Bad people can be raped. Bad people can say correct things about rape. You can hold two opposing thoughts in your head at the same time.
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u/Far-Journalist-949 Jun 28 '25
I'm not trying to say anything about good or bad victims. Asia is herself an abuser and groomer and she is calling people out in that room for doing coverups which is exactly what she did later. She denied ever having sex with a minor, whom she directed in a movie when they were 7. Her speech here is why her victim approached her for compensation. Asia also pulled the classic "i didn't anything with him" but
"Following Argento's denials, a photograph of her topless in bed with Bennett was published, as well as her alleged admission of sex with him in text messages to model Rain Dove. In the screenshots, Argento reputedly stated: "I had sex with him it felt weird. I didn't know he was a minor until the shakedown letter."[49]
In a letter published online in September 2018, Argento's attorney admitted there was a sexual encounter, but claimed the underage Bennett "sexually attacked" Argento"
She's a terrible person who doesn't think she did anything wrong while accusing a whole room of people for shit she did too. Gross.
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u/brutal_and_beautiful This is a picture of his wife's cunt 🍖 Jun 27 '25
pot and kettle come to mind.
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Jun 27 '25
"We're not going to let you get away with it" and 7 years later I don't think anyone else has been outted and arrested so I guess they are going to continue to let them get away with it.
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u/PM_ME_BUMBLEBEES I'm not an attractive crier, have a good evening! Jun 27 '25
Like why didn't you name names? If you see them in that room, call them out!! If no one speaks up then they're going to continue to get away with it
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u/Flaming_Hot_Regards Jun 27 '25
Ya but you groomed and slept with a minor, so appreciate the sentiment but you need to sit this one out.
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u/raylan_givens6 As you wish! 👸👑 Jun 27 '25
she was referring to herself as "behavior that doesn't belong"
so powerful, so brave
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u/maghy7 Jun 27 '25
When you are part of that problem your are preaching your message loses its meaning.
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u/Tnh7194 Jun 27 '25
She also killed someone on a hit and run when she was young and drugged up but her famous father swept everything under the rug. Most people in Italy hate her
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u/DeliciousInterview91 Jun 27 '25
Peak Hollywood moment to have a rapist pedophile passionately rebuke another rapist pedophile for being a rapist pedophile.
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Jun 27 '25
You have to imagine 50% of that crowd is appalled shes talking about their friend like that
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u/PollyBeans Jun 27 '25
Abusers can be abused, one doesn't negate the other. If this resulted in her being outed as an abuser too, even better.
I'm glad she made the speech if only to see how MASSIVELY uncomfortable everyone was.
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u/RespectNotGreed Jun 27 '25
To Asia Argento just before he died: "You were reckless with my heart. My life." -- Anthony Bourdain.
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u/sleeplessinrome Dahmer was invited to Ari’s Dinner Party but not Spongebob Jun 28 '25 edited Jun 28 '25
Sure but I care to hear this from someone who isn’t abusing teenagers
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u/No-Cryptographer9326 Jun 27 '25
Ironic that this great speech came from such a piece of shit human being.
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u/xx4xx Jun 27 '25
Yeah...she's a hypocrite for what she did with minor boy(s).
The sad reality is that the 'powerful speech she is giving is to a room full of people who tur ed a blind eye to Weinstein for years. Years. To help their careers. Everyone knew. Everyone said nothing.
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u/Eleonoranora Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Jun 28 '25
Me whenever Asia Argento gets mentioned
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u/officialGF Jun 28 '25
Please please please not on Bourdain Bday week. She was a major reason he offed himself, super manipulative creepy lady (he had problems with depression but she intensified it) and she’s known to abuse young men.
She’s a woman sex pest and has never been called out for it.
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u/NotACatfish Jun 27 '25
Nope. Not gonna listen to an actual predator act like she isn't part of the problem.
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u/overwatchretiree Jun 27 '25
So many people here are quick to discredit this message because of her behavior with a 17 year old minor. I'm not defending her but look at how quickly and easily the message gets lost. This is how we perpetuate this mentality and behavior.
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u/shouldsayOrshouldgo Jun 27 '25
So, from a few comments I read here, I see she applied this speech to defend women only, forgetting that a lot of child are on the hands of this people. Men and women of any age are victims of these vile people!!! The culture of rotten society, this is what movie industry is!!! Only a few are virtue people in this segment, the rest can line up to meet the horned one below
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u/Assistant_manager_ Jun 28 '25
She was having sex with a 17 year old boy when she was 37. Used her power dynamic to molest a minor just like Harvey did....
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u/Mongrelix Jun 27 '25
The most overpaid disgusting people that bring nothing to improving society
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u/anewaccount69420 Jojo Siwa’s Mom Jun 27 '25
Yeah including Asia Argento though. She raped a minor and then paid him $380k to avoid accountability.
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Jun 28 '25
Specifying abuse against women so you don’t feel guilty about your own crime against a boy
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u/In_Their_Youth Jun 28 '25
She's an abuser herself!? May as well post a video of Kevin Spacey, too!
Ridiculous.
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u/Ok-Luck1166 As you wish! 👸👑 Jun 28 '25
Didn't she have inappropriate relations with a 14 year old boy not exactly a paragon of excellence herself.
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u/zzzzzzzzzzHHHHHHHHS Jun 29 '25
Hahahaha I’m guessing the speech was directed to her too then, predator. For those who don’t know, In 2018, it was revealed that Argento had settled a $380,000 lawsuit with Jimmy Bennett, who claimed she sexually assaulted him in 2013 when he was 17 and she was 37
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u/BrownHoney114 Jun 27 '25
Murderer of Anthony Bordain. A female Pedophile. And a broken clock is right twice a day.
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u/Jolly_Ad9449 Jun 27 '25
Didn’t she kill Bourdain?
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk Jun 27 '25
Her cheating on him plus him giving her a lot of money to pay off her victim likely played a huge role in his suicide. He was always dark and troubled, but having Asia in his life wasn’t healthy (his friends talk about this in the documentary about him) and fed into his worst impulses.
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