Sitting down with Peter Travers on ABC last Thursday, Matt Damon made some problematic, diminishing comments about the sexual assault and harassment allegations filed against his longtime collaborators like Harvey Weinstein and Ben Affleck.
He said specifically that all the men being accused in this massive unearthing of predatory behavior are being improperly placed in "one big bucket," that there is a "spectrum of behavior," and that "there's a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn't be conflated, right?"
Damon's former Good Will Hunting co-star Minnie Driver was quick to rip apart the actor's insensitive, minimalizing comments, and was joined on Twitter by #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano in calling foul on Damon's interview.
"God God, SERIOUSLY?" Driver wrote. "Gosh it's so interesting how men with all these opinions about women's differentiation between sexual misconduct, assault and rape reveal themselves to be utterly tone deaf and as a result, systemically part of the problem (profoundly unsurprising)."
Milano wrote: