Multitasking.
The rise of the male feminist has been one of the brighter bits of the past few years. Men who have thrown off outdated shackles and embraced no macho, anti-toxicity, living, laughing, loving. Chief amongst them, of course, is the actor and director Justin Baldoni.
The raven-haired 40-year-old has hosted a podcast about challenging rigid gender roles and just directed the film It Ends With Us which explores the themes of domestic violence and emotional abuse.
“See if you can use the same qualities that you feel make you a man to go deeper,” he declared in a now-famous TED talk on redefining masculinity, continuing, “Your strength, your bravery, your toughness: Are you brave enough to be vulnerable? Are you strong enough to be sensitive? Are you confident enough to listen to the women in your life?”
Well, his co-star Blake Lively sued him for “a litany of sexist misdeeds, including pressuring her to be fully nude in a scene, making sexual comments about her clothing, improvising sexual behavior in front of the camera, and telling her about his pornography addiction.”
He was strong enough to be sensitive and sue her right back for for making fun of his nose. People Magazine sharing, “In Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit, which he filed against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, Jan. 16, attorneys for Baldoni, 40, claimed that Lively, 37, joked that Baldoni ‘should get plastic surgery’ while filming a scene for the movie.”
While you’d be forgiven for thinking that beating a woman up in the court of public opinion and also the real court might be overly exhausting, Baldoni is brave enough to be vulnerable and is currently in Maui learning how to surf.
TMZ is reporting he is “all smiles after hitting the ocean in Maui, Hawaii, beaming and carrying a big green surfboard while on vacation with his family.” Though he apparently ditched his family for some time with the boys.
We’re told Justin joined a group of dudes,” the celebrity new source continued, “including a couple surf instructors and another companion — for a lesson at Ukumehame Beach Park Monday.
More than one surf instructor?
Very cool.
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf, as they say.
But back to you. If you were suing a woman for being mean about your appearance whilst savaging her in the press, would you have the energy to surf a big green surfboard?
Discuss.
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Im standing right here you know
I was wondering how was this eligible for surf-adjacency. Good old celebrity-gone-surfing-to-forget-about-first-world-problems .
the shallows movie…she can surf. NOT!
I only clicked on this because I thought Vaughn Dead was somehow involved in this suit. This is enough Grit for me this year. I’ll check back again in 2026. Have a good one lads!
Don’t lie Cap’n …you saw Toucan Sam was here and couldn’t help yourself.
possible a dude that orders a Taco Smell delivery…
I don’t care. I just feel from the evidence I have seen, Justin is the victim here. I can be wrong and will be the first to admit. No one here has actually rebutted my comments. They just answer with snide comments of a sexual nature. Are you not the very thing you are mocking?
Hahahahaha! Did you expect a mature conversation about Justin for some weird reason?
I guess not, my bad
Male feminist are so hot right now.
NO Justin, I’m not sharing my toot with you.
I had to defer to the lovely Mrs Gunderson for this one. I am Team Justin apparently. Stay strong surf brother!
Whoever this no mark is he is truly in the brain dead shallows 🦈
I can report live from the grounds if anyone actually cares what goes down at pipe on Monday.
Didn’t read but what a shitty selfie with that book cover… not even close to centered.
trying to hide that shnozz
sue me now? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ghsa0KIWwAA0JtA?format=jpg&name=small
That nose is built for snorting cocaine.
If only I’d had that snoz back in the 80s…
what, then Escobar would have had twice as many hippos?
You knew I’d look up Escobar’s hippos didn’t you? Now I’m on a mission to save the hippos!
Hippos love cocaine. Even a child knows that
Never, I MEAN NEVER play that game while on shrooms
Thnx for that. Never understood the attraction to that,…but I never tried it on ‘shrooms. Hmm, something that escaped ‘shroom time.
Riight? Need to get on that one!
I made do with what I have,….the ‘ol college try.
He is not suing for her mocking his nose. He is suing her for civil extortion by weaponizing a false claim of sexual harassment so she and her husband could wrest control of the movie from the rightful owners, wayfarers inc
I’d buy that if film was still in production, but who would want that failed piece of garbage now?
The nose or the horrendous film?
Chad’s mirror said it’s because of his nose so it’s because of his nose.
Is that you Justin?
No, I am not. I know Justin very tangentially. When I first read the NY Times I was kind of shocked. But even in Dec something in the Lively complaint wasn’t quite right. There was a lot of stuff that had nothing to do with sexual harassment.
An example was the complaint that he spoke to Blake’s dead father. This definitely was a red flag for me because I am a Baha’i(so is Justin). We are not mediums, we don’t talk to the dead. We believe in the physical plane and the spiritual plane. When you die, your body decomposes but soul continues in the spiritual plane. There is a subtle connection between the two planes but not the medium stuff you see on TV. No Baha’is do that. If I was in a meeting and claimed such a thing people would really look askance.
So than I started to analyze her complaint. If she mischaracterized one thing she might have mischaracterized the other. In the complaint Lively says, no more bragging about your previous sexual conquests. No Baha’i does that, it would be something would be ashamed of. If you conquer a human being emotionally that is really bad thing for a Baha’i to do because you have damaged another soul. Baha’is might have done bad things before they became Baha’is but you would never really brag about it. You would probably ask for forgiveness and try to make things right with the people you have wronged(like the 12 step program)
So then there were 2 things that were suspect. Then when I saw how they cherry picked text messages that changed the meaning completely, another red flag.
Then when he showed the text of him hiring the intimacy coordinator before filming began and her refusal to mean the coordinator. Another red flag.
Then there were issues with hearsay, like the driver said to me , I don’t want you to alone with him. Hearsay is not admissible in any court of law.
Then there was the classification of the birth scene of Jamie’s wife as pornography. Another red flag. Giving birth is not pornography.
Then I had trouble with the claim that the burst into her trailer unannounced and yet there is a text telling him to come to the trailer to rehearse the script. They were also so deferential to everything she wanted it seemed really strange to me that they would simply barge into her trailer without knocking.
Then her failure to sign the nudity waiver in May and then complaining that they didnt have a nudity waiver.
Then she and her husband parodying Justin in Deadpool. Why would you make fun of something as serious as sexual harassment?
Then no sexual harassment complaints filed with Wayfarer HR department. Everyone knows that is what an employee does when they are harassed.
Then the outtakes themselves when it clearly shows both out of character and all I saw was 2 actors improvising a scene.
I could go on but I will wait for the website
Justin is extremely lucky to have a tangential friend and advocate like you in his corner. You lay out a cogent argument for the defense of Justin and again he is lucky to have a tangential defender in his corner. Add to it the Baháʼí Faith defense and we are left to wonder why Blake would possibly file legal action against such an upstanding and obviously defensible person such as Justin? And now that we know Justin is a surfer all legal action should be immediately dismissed!
I do have on last question, do you practice tangential law for a living?
But does he show Justin his genitals too?
Truly a brilliant question! And the obvious answer is absolutely tangentially YES!
Yes, Tangenitally
ha ha, I am software developer. I can’t speak to Justin’s character. What seems to me was a creative difference between the two. At first he tried to placate her but she wanted more and more control. Then she retroactively sought to build a case of sexual harassment against him. You can do this to virtually anyone. Then you hang that over Justin’s and Jamie’s head. When they are editing the movie, you take over kick them out and fire the editing crew. Then you take over the marketing and not even let Justin and his friend attend his own premier(even his wife was an actress in the movie was relegated to the basement). Then your marketing campaign falls flat because you are promoting you alcohol brand which is kind of perverse given that alcohol is the primary fuel of spousal abuse. And you are tone deaf in your interviews, wear you florals like it was some kind of Barbie movie. Then when people start reacting negatively you change the narrative to get sympathy. You dump on guy that has virtually ceded everything but that is not enough. You want him to take the fall but he wont because it would be career ending. And so you go nuclear on him with the New Times and you loop in Twohey who broke the Harvey Weinstein story And, because of her world view, that all women are victims, she buys your story hook, line and sinker. And then everyone dumps on Justin and Jamie because NY Times is supposed to be the gold standard of journalism. For a day even I was fooled until I started examining the evidence
Harassment of any kind is done by the strong over the weak. They can harass because they have the power. Here the power is the Reynolds and the weaker party is Baldoni and Wayfarers. In that sort of relationship one would have to be insane to mess with Blake Lively, not to mention that your wife is on the set with you.
Tell the Beach Grit faithful how you feel about the decision by John John Florence to sit out the WSL tour this season? And what is your local break?
I cut deeper, don’t care about your local. Which is your favorite Surf Flick DVD!!?
Donnie may become a BG regular
Entirely possible. But if you don’t hear from me, probably your article doesnt pop up in google any more.
My prediction is that this will go to trial both the libel suit and the civil extortion one. Money is not the object but reputation. Everything will come out during the trials. I expect that Bryan Freedman will make good on his promise about the website.
What would be good to see is when the 2 intimacy coordinators began. When were they on set. What meetings did they have with the cast and who was present.
And honestly, I didnt even like the movie. I am a Bodkin fan, no sex and the only dead bodies were already deceased. I don’t like 90% of the movies produced anyway. Hollywood is such a cesspool. From my perspective it would be an act of mercy to be banned from such a place
Intimacy coordinators who surf could make for an interesting article on these pages
not on the internet it aint
Has BeachGrit merged with swellnit
?
We all have experienced the troubled work of the NYT as their slanted hit pieces have left me weeping in disgust.
Baháʼíháʼíháʼí!
the TMZ version of Baháʼí
just the fact that there is no such ting as ‘bad publicity’ and this item will never reach the heights of Depp v Heard. But keep on keepin on~
Tangentially is what beachgrit does, you might fit in here
Well, that’s legitimately part of his lawsuit.
Every self-described male femenist turns out to be the biggest creep. Worst ploy to get pussy ever created.
Or perhaps the best?
Throw in the title surf instructor and you win the creep olympics
In fairness, his nose is kinda big
Tit for Trunk
The litigiousness of the current US society is mind boggling.
Absolutely.
In spite of Chas’ asinine braying, this lawsuit has nothing whatsoever to do with Baldoni’s nose. It’s a countermeasure to Lively’s lawsuit for well documented charges of sexual harassment. Baldoni a feminist? What a joke.
The numbers are just insane. Never heard of this Baldoni guy, how is anything to do with him worth $400 mil?
This is what happens when you take away people’s right to fight duels.
Wow the forecast really is abysmal for the Filipe Pip Masters
Quit your Moana-ing.
Looked like some waves towards the end maybe…
surfline is flat-lining? all red codes are onshore?
I hope they get poorer and the lawyers get richer.