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I haven't heard anything of the sort, but I looked into it a bit. What I found was he made some tone-deaf #metoo comments in 2018, and there was a claim he dated a 19 year old once.
And a 21 years old the year before. And Gina Carano before that. He also said this:
And calling his comments about #MeToo tone-deaf is massively downplaying them. Gal Gadot's Imagine fiasco was tone-deaf; a 35 year old man known to have dated 2 girls 10 years younger than him saying women speaking up about sexual harassment makes it difficult for men to flirt is creepy at best and a confession at worst.
I don't personally believe he's secretly a rapist but he's definitely a creepy dude.
I was curious as I hadn't heard about this, so I looked it up.
I think his comments are pretty tone deaf, but it comes across more as naive than harrassy/rapey.
It definitely sounds creepy, but he talks about how he likes the "traditional" male dating role of "perusing a woman". He doesn't go into detail, but the general idea of that is that you persist to try and win them over. The problem with that, is people missing subtle cues and not picking up on a genuine "no, fuck off", and then it becomes harassment.
Imo it sounds like he's just realising that sometimes that "strategy" might mean your being a harassing prick, and might get publicly called out, even when you didn't realise/intend to harass them, which makes him concerned about trying to do it in the future. It's pretty self centered and a shitty thing to say during the metoo movement.
The appropriate response to that realisation is to analyse your past actions, and speak with women about the issue, and listen to what they have to say.
His message reads more like a cringe young adult who needs some more "real world" experience with people, which I guess is hard when you're a famous movie star with introverted hobbies. More bad wording and ill thought out ideas then unconscious confession though imo.
I could be wrong, but usually those sort of people are more consistent and aggressive in their denial, and then people come out to say "actually... They are a creep" if it's the case.
Yep. This is exactly the opinion I have of him. I guess we just have different bars to clear before we consider someone creepy.
I would certainly consider his statements in that interview as creepy in isolation. But whether just a poorly thought out knee jerk reply to a genuine concern he might have been unintentionally harassing people, or is a telling slip up of more endemic negative behaviour patterns is much harder to parse.
Cavill seems savvy enough not to slip in public much, but as a lefty warhammer fan some of his interactions and projects give me pause. I don't follow him so I don't think I can be more specific than the vibe is off. He feels like a sex pest or a fash who just mostly keeps his nose clean.