Stars Think They Can Do Anything

"I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar,
and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending
to be yourself much like I'm doing now." ~ John Ritter

I'm going public with something that happened to me in the early 1990s. Some of you won't like it and I'll be attacked for maligning the name of a beloved actor who is dead. But I want people to know that Donald Trump told a truth about celebrity privilege when he bragged:

"I'm automatically attracted to beautiful [women]—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

Some male celebs think it's okay to behave a certain way. When it happened to me, I was stunned and afraid to put the actor in his place because of who he was. I now wish I had handled it differently. I've been stalked, harassed, and sexually assaulted by men, with a few being male celebrities. Here's the story of one of them.

Hanks for the Memories

"The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; 

we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than

being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility 

both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable

that you forget to be yourself." ~ Jessica Valenti

At my therapy session today, I was expressing how I often feel unlikable -- I'll let the source of that neurosis be fodder for another day. Dr. Bob responded that no one is universally liked. Everyone can name people who don't like them. 

I replied, "Yeah, except Tom Hanks. He's probably the only person on the planet who is liked by literally everyone."