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#526

Re: New Hadestown Casting

Posted: 8/5/26 at 11:35pm

MemorableUserName said: "pmensky said: "
"Women went to him privately and said Ben Davis treated them inappropriately. That’s why this is being discussed. Turning around and insisting you can’t engage until you personally see their accounts lets you shift the entire conversation onto access instead of the seriousness of what those women reported. Calling that gatekeeping doesn’t expose anything. It just dodges what they said."

Again, we can't dodge anything when nothing has been said.

In what way did he treat them inappropriately? I don't need to see their accounts. I need to know in what way he was inappropriate to react in any way. What's being discussed isn't any allegations; it'sthat we don't know what the allegations are, because you're the only one who seems to know.

Many posters on this board treat people what I consider inappropriate ways. That doesn't mean it's assault.

From your other post: "Women went to him privately and said Ben Davis assaulted or treated them inappropriately."

Which is it? Assaulted them or treated them inappropriately? Both? Some experienced one and others experienced the other?

So far you've alleged even more than the oracle person has, and you haven't even specific about what you're alleging."

Boy, you sure did slip into the posture of a man protecting someone who hurts women, minimizing what they told you and acting like the only thing that mattered was whether you could twist the framing enough to make their experience smaller. That’s the creepiest attempt at gaslighting I’ve ever seen.

#527

Re: New Hadestown Casting

Posted: 8/6/26 at 3:00am

Look: the bottom line is that Sweaty has not accused Ben Davis of doing anything other than dating younger women and…being a sh*tty boyfriend or something? He vaguely insinuates terrible dealings, but has no receipts and no specific accusations. The posters here jumping to conclusions (i.e. that assault was involved, which SO never even said) are just bringing false credibility to a TikTok video made by a man living in his parents’ basement in New Jersey that appears to be irresponsible pseudo-journalism at best, and flat out libel at worst. SO needs to either find a way to back up these claims or hire a lawyer, because he is stepping away from “hot tea” and into much more dangerous waters here.

Updated On: 8/6/26 at 03:00 AM

#528

Re: New Hadestown Casting

Posted: 8/6/26 at 10:37am

Sweaty knows he has no story here, which is why his “revelations” are all smoke and mirrors. It’s fairly well known in the theater community that Ben Davis has dated younger women. Insinuating that consensual relationships with an age gap is on par with spousal abuse or transphobia is offensive and insulting to survivors.

He’s positioning himself lately as a kind of social justice crusader for the theater community because he believes it gives him more credibility than simply being a gossip monger. And in a way, he’s right — people who used to dismiss him outright now seem to give him more credence. But don’t think for a second he’s doing any of this for anything other than self-interest, and as he’s showing here, he’s willing to use manipulation and untruths for his own gain.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Updated On: 8/6/26 at 10:37 AM

#529

Re: New Hadestown Casting

Posted: 8/6/26 at 11:39am

pmensky said: "And calling firsthand reports “a random guy screaming into the void” is you deciding truth only exists when it arrives in a format that you personally approve."

I think one can hold, without contradiction, both that women should be believed by default when they say that they've been harmed, and that a second-hand report from this particular messenger is, by itself, not sufficient evidence to conclude that the actor in question is a predator. (Note that it's not a first-hand report, which would mean that we were hearing directly from a victim.)

#530

Re: New Hadestown Casting

Posted: 8/6/26 at 11:51am

We hear much in the community - and Davis is not one that has ever hit my ears. In fact, he's been known as a gentleman - even if perhaps dating younger (his prerogative).

It's good Davis has replaced the previous person. Good for Hadestown - listening and making move for the best.

Maybe Lincoln Center Theater will do the same and make a leadership change, in time, prior to the upcoming fall production at the Beaumont.

Updated On: 8/6/26 at 11:51 AM

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