From the various accounts of this she confronted him and he apologized.
She confronted him, he apologized, and "things didn't work out".
She was only signed to 3 episodes, though there was (as is standard) language in the contract that said she could be made permanent if things worked out. They didn't.
Eliza Dushku's case appears to be that "things didn't work out" because she confronted Weatherly for acting like a jerk.
I doubt that CBS likes writing $9.5 million dollar cheques, and I doubt Dushku would have gone out of her way to antagonize a prospective employer without cause. This article from CBS News describes it thusly:
The Times said when Dushku appeared on "Bull" last year, there were "well-developed plans" to make her a full-time cast member, but those plans allegedly ended after she came forward with allegations against the show's star.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eliza-dushku-michael-weatherly-harrassment-accusation-cbs-paid-bull-actress-9-5-million-settlement/After being written off the show, Dushku entered mediation with CBS. According to the Times, that's when a lawyer for CBS handed over outtakes from "Bull" in belief it would help their case, but it allegedly backfired. The Times reports "the outtakes were a goldmine" that actually captured some of the harassment. CBS investigators allegedly concluded the failure to recognize the harassment was a "symptom of larger problems" at the network.
They're drawing a straight line between her complaining about Weatherly's conduct and her losing what was planned to be a full time job. She lost a $9.5 million dollar job because she confronted her employer for being a creep.
I don't see it the same way. I see it as a hyper-sensitive woman going ballistic over a few jokes.
You don't see it the same way because in your experience guys don't come up to you and act like creeps.
Then a timid network, already under fire for a variety of cases, tossing some money at her to go away. In one account, for example, she describes being 'embarrassed and humiliated" when at a wrap party they had a raffle and he asked her to draw the ticket because a beautiful woman should do the draw and she was the most beautiful woman there.
Also
**** jokes and talking about spanking her and threesomes. I'm certainly not going to feel bad about confronting a co-worker if they talk about stuff like that to me, but fortunately my co-workers have more tact than that.
And your comparing this to Weinstein merely shows how far down the rabbit hole we've come. We've gone from a guy who allegedly physically assaulted women, pressured them to sleep with him, and tried to ruin their careers when they refused - to a guy who made a few jokes around her in public, and equating the two.
I mentioned Weinstein because he was able to get away with his conduct for years because people were afraid to speak out against them because it would hurt their careers.
Weatherly's conduct is obviously far less severe than Weinstein's, but her getting fired for complaining about his conduct is the same kind of leverage that Weinstein-- and lots of other creep bosses-- use to keep women quiet.
And this basically demonstrates the reality that's now emerging of men who increasingly want no women around them at work, who won't hire them, won't work with or for them, and don't even want to be in the same room with them lest they turn out to be offended by some off colour remark and immediately rush to HR and the media to cry about how she's been abused by his insensitive jokes and words. There's certainly a mid-point here where the likes of Weinstein get crushed, but where a few remarks simply have someone speak to the two parties and ensure it doesn't happen again. But a lot of women seem uninterested in moderation when condemnation is so much easier.
The CBS lawyers looked at the out-takes from the show, realized that it was a
**** disaster for their case, and gave Dushku $9.5 million. That kind of makes it seem like you're soft-peddling the extent of Weatherly's conduct.
The new attitude seems to be that when women are present men have to act like automatons at work, not joke around, not even notice women ARE women, be earnestly serious and focused on work the entire time, and make no effort to socialize. That's anathema to me. So yes, I think almost ten million for that is ridiculous.
I think there must be a happy medium between acting like an automaton at work vs telling
**** jokes and talking about threesomes and spanking somebody who you clearly don't have that kind of rapport with. I feel like most men who are not unmitigated creeps or autistic can sense that there's a difference.
-k
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