Taylor Swift and “Weaponization of Feminism” mentioned by Justin Baldoni’s crisis team in alleged Blake Lively “Takedown plan”

nme.com:

Taylor Swift and the “Weaponization of Feminism” within their alleged Blake Lively Takedown Plan.On Friday (December 20), Lively filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against her former costar.

As reported by TMZ, the suit claims that Baldoni exhibited behaviour that caused Lively “severe emotional distress”.Now, according to US Weekly, exhibits of an email exchange from August 6 between Baldoni and one of the crisis management experts working for him read: “We have seen the most innocuous issues turn giant due to socials or the hugest crises have no effect on social whatsoever.

You just cannot tell at this stage. But, BL does have some of the same TS fanbase so we will be taking it extremely seriously,” with “BL” referring to Lively and “TS” referring to Swift who is one of Lively’s close friends.A different “scenario planning” document from the director’s crisis management team read: “Our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want,” (as per US Weekly).The complaint also mentioned a text exchange between Baldoni and his crisis team in which he shared an X/Twitter thread that a user created about Hailey Bieber allegedly as an example of an astroturfing plan against his co-star.The text exchange showed that Baldoni had sent a screenshot of a threat that had unpacked “Hailey Bieber’s history of bullying women,” alongside a text message from him reading: “This is what we would need.”Reports of a rift between the two actors emerged in August, but now, she has made allegations of sexual harassment and starting a campaign to “destroy” her reputation.Baldoni’s.