Molly Ringwald worries about ‘unsustainable’ cancel culture making people ‘roll their eyes’
Julia Johnson
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Actress Molly Ringwald, best known for hit 1980s films such as The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, is calling out cancel culture.
The star said that holding people accountable has turned into unfairly canceling some, and, according to her, this just makes the rest of society not take movements such as #MeToo seriously.
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“I don’t think a Harvey Weinstein situation could exist now,” she said in a recent interview. “But, again, a lot of people have gotten swept up in ‘cancellation’, and I worry about that.”
“It’s unsustainable, in a way. Some people have been unfairly cancelled and they don’t belong in the same category as somebody like Harvey Weinstein,” Ringwald explained.
She told The Guardian, “It’s like bullying in schools. They say: ‘We have a zero-tolerance policy.’ After that, it still exists, but it goes a little bit underground.”
“It’s a bit harder to get caught. It gets harder to say: ‘Is this bullying or not?’ It’s a bit like that with #MeToo,” she continued.
Ultimately, she said, “what it ends up doing is make people roll their eyes.”
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“That’s my worry. I do want things to change, for real. Workplaces should be places where everyone can feel safe — not just in Hollywood, but everywhere. Particularly Americans. We can never do things incrementally; we’re so binary, so all or nothing,” the actress added.
“We’re basically a bunch of puritans,” Ringwald said.