It happened a week ago. I found out from the press and I thought: What do I do? Is my experience of any use?
These days I have seen My stuffed reindeer (Netflix), the series written, directed and starring the comedian Richard Gadd, in which he fictionalizes the harassment he suffered from an unbalanced woman who pursued him for years. Just as Jaime Lannister justified himself by referring to the things he did for love, to Donnie Dunn, Gadd's alter ego in My stuffed reindeer, he is motivated by hatred—alert: plot spoils—. self hatred after being raped. Because the core of My stuffed reindeer comes when we discover that before being stalked by a professional stalker, Dunn was sexually assaulted on numerous occasions by a television professional, who appreciated his talent and promised him work. Dunn came back to the guy's house again and again waiting for his chance.
It was almost 20 years ago, I was a university student. I don't remember if I saw the poster or a colleague gave it to me, a team was looking for scriptwriters. Fortunately, they did not require experience, we were almost all young girls. They didn't pay either, that would happen if they sold a project. In that, my first professional experience, I learned and felt reaffirmed: the boss, a cultured guy whose judgment I valued, appreciated me. I also felt fear. The operation was opaque, the demands were excessive and the treatment by that same boss was a lottery: if you got it right, everything was fine; If not, you had to prepare. Leaving wasn't easy either, threats were frequent: if you left, don't expect to find a job on TV. The head of all that was Ramón Paso, today denounced by the prosecutor's office for alleged sexual crimes and harassment against 14 women.
I did not suffer, nor did I know of, any sexual assault. I left there quietly as soon as I could, I had already started working in television. In recent years, I have had one of those bosses who likes to say that “it is very cold out there”, but the truth is that far from where they coerce you it is hot.
They have shared similar experiences Raquel Haro and Isabel Mellen. What happened to the others? Don't know. I'm telling it in case it helps someone. Because there is a lot of life beyond. And for something she didn't know then: that the impunity of guys like the one who raped Donnie Dunn is shielded by the vulnerability of her chosen ones and her silence.
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