People Are Not Happy With Ryan Murphy’s Idea For A #MeToo-Based Show

By Aynslee Darmon. 8 May 2018 6:59 PM

Ryan Murphy says he wants to make a show about the powerful #MeToo movement that has swept the world and many people are not happy about it.

In a feature, Murphy, 52, explained to The New Yorker how his idea for a show based on the #MeToo movement would be the new “American Crime Story”, a hit series of Murphy.

Murphy added, it would follow a “Black Mirror” style, which means every episode would follow a different story, a different account of sexual harassment.

Episodes would touch on Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, including “one about an ambiguous he-said-she-said encounter.”

Murphy is pitching the series — “Consent” — to Netflix.

But Twitter is not happy with this idea:

(WARNING: COARSE LANGUAGE)

sure is fun to watch men mull #MeToo projects when women have been making art about all this shit since forever, tho

— Caroline Framke (@carolineframke) May 8, 2018

faced with revelations of widespread sexual harassment and assault in their industry, the men of hollywood ask: how can we turn our female colleagues’ pain into profits? https://t.co/4w5AFVYoDh

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— Amanda Hess (@amandahess) May 8, 2018

I love Ryan Murphy. Also, no one should be writing this without the consent of every single victim. Otherwise, you're profiting off their suffering and potentially continuing their trauma. If you're gonna call a show CONSENT, please get it. https://t.co/N0CPbu6EaK

— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) May 7, 2018

Here's a novel concept: Have women create an entire series on the subject and pay them for that work instead of letting dudes profit off of women's pain to make what will most definitely be an inferior product that doesn't do this movement justice. https://t.co/nXi4gCqhc0

— Lily Herman (@lkherman) May 8, 2018

Absolutely not.

There were so many fucking rape jokes in glee that were n e v e r called out. Artie was sexually assaulted by his baby sitter when he was 11 and it was played as a joke. Brittamny had a one liner joke that implied she was raped at camp and it was never + https://t.co/glgrGY5Q6M

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— lola saw infinity war (@scallywap) May 8, 2018

"These stories need to be told!"
Ok then let women tell them.
"But… Then… How am *I* the hero?"

— Tim "pronounce it like the peanut butter cup" Reis (@hotsosreis) May 8, 2018

Knowing Ryan Murphy’s track record and immense capacity to ignore any self-awareness, I am 90% sure Harvey Weinstein will have a musical number in the “Consent” series.

— Tulio Espinoza (@tooleeoh) May 8, 2018