Women are sharing their stories about sexual encounters with celebrities and are finding comfort uniting with each other to call out the power imbalances.
But not everyone agrees on the most effective way to do it. buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…
But not everyone agrees on the most effective way to do it. buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…
More stories are popping up on social media about the encounters and the complicated feelings women have about them — particularly around expectations of honesty.
Deuxmoi, a crowdsourced celebrity gossip IG account that shares unverified, crowdsourced items, has become a way for women to anonymously share their stories.
“Jenny” met actor “David” last September. They started “talking about normal life” and she said the messages quickly became sexual.
“[He] started requesting very sexual, and — now that I look back at it — very embarrassing things.”
“[He] started requesting very sexual, and — now that I look back at it — very embarrassing things.”
She said she stayed in touch with him for nearly a year, assuming that the actor was seeing other women — he was a movie star, after all — but also felt pressured into doing things she didn’t want to do. buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…
This summer, Jenny was inspired by a series of posts to connect with other women who said they’d also had encounters with David. Deuxmoi posted her DM and before long, her phone started blowing up.
“There were women in the double digits contacting me. It was constant.”
“There were women in the double digits contacting me. It was constant.”
Rebecca Ortiz, an assistant professor at Syracuse University, says that some women are comfortable sharing their stories on accounts like Deuxmoi because they are anonymous, particularly after the #MeToo movement made them realize they weren’t alone. 
However, Ortiz also said that sharing stories anonymously can lead to backlash.
“Voicing those stories in a space that isn't verified plays into that tendency we have already to question victims and survivors. But it's not the space itself doing that, it's our culture. ”
“Voicing those stories in a space that isn't verified plays into that tendency we have already to question victims and survivors. But it's not the space itself doing that, it's our culture. ”
Jenny is aware that she and the other women could be dismissed as a group of women motivated by heartache and revenge. But they wanted to highlight the real-life experiences of unequal sexual relationships. buzzfeednews.com/article/hallie…
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