THB #351: Jonah Hill

I fell into the Jonah Hill controversy today.

If you haven’t heard about it, I admire your good fortune. Here is the Page Six version, which is where this stuff belongs, if it belongs in the public view at all. Her post(s) on this seem(s) to be gone from Instagram now.

Assuming that all she replicated in public view is true, I do not in any way condone that kind of restrictive behavior in an adult relationship.

But I am also repulsed by the leading theme around it… that Jonah Hill is now assumed to be a toxic misogynist… typical… text book… and that him telling her what his emotional boundaries are regarding her public behaviors - which again, I agree are too constrictive for my tolerance - is inherently a form of abuse.

Of course, demands on a relationship partner, serving whatever purpose, can be abusive. We all saw Sleeping With The Enemy. But abusive behavior doesn’t need to be that dramatic.

For me, the line of “abuse” has a direct correlation to the power dynamic. And I do not thi…