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Armie Hammer Tweets At Female Journalist, Telling Her To Try “Medicating”

Not cool, Armie.

by Tom Clift  28 February 2018
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Actor Armie Hammer has come under fire for suggesting a female journalist with whom he has previously clashed should try “medicating”, after she tweeted criticisms of a Vanity Fair profile of actress Jennifer Lawrence.

“Anne, your glass seems chronically half empty,” Hammer tweeted in response to a thread by BuzzFeed senior culture writer Anne Helen Petersen. “Maybe try meditating? Or even medicating? #chillpillneeded.”

Petersen’s comments about the Lawrence profile, which she described as having “toothache-magnitude-painful levels of banality,” had ~absolutely nothing~ to do with Hammer. But the Call Me By Your Name star still felt the need to chime in with his two cents.

Hammer’s issue with Petersen stems from the scathing profile she wrote about him back in November titled ‘Ten Long Years of Trying To Make Armie Hammer Happen’. At the time, he tweeted that her perspective was “bitter AF” before temporarily deleting his account.

Regardless of what compelled him to weigh in this time, a number of people have taken issue with his remarks — both for the implicit sexism in suggesting that a woman needs to be medicated, and also for being incredibly childish.

Meanwhile, a number of Hammer’s fans have come to his defence, with many attacking Petersen in the process.

Asked about the furore by The Wrap, Petersen said that “trade publications reporting on exchanges like this, especially framing them as ‘slamming’ or ‘shutting down’ or using otherwise inflammatory/suggestive rhetoric, provides oxygen to fan outrage and harassment of entertainment journalists, especially female ones.”

She expanded on this point via Twitter. “Harassment of entertainment journalists is very real and generally dismissed,” she wrote. “But a threat to come to your house and kill your dog (which happened last time this all happened) is the same no matter what inspired it.”