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'Sex and the City' actor Evan Handler says bar encounter showed him what a lot of women go through, adds #IBelieveHer

Evan Handler
Evan Handler (Photo: Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

Actor Evan Handler offered an important lesson on his Twitter feed Thursday, and he did it without calling out any one person.

Handler, known for his role as Charlotte’s husband Harry on Sex and the City and as Hank’s sidekick on Californication, shared a lengthy thread about his experience Wednesday night at a North Carolina bar.

He described how some of the men in the group — not the majority but roughly a third — had made him feel like “a display item.” They were more “drunk,” more “boisterous,” and more “aggressive,” than the women present, he wrote. They were so excited to see him, he recalled, that they touched him without asking.

Handler shared his experience because it made him realize what women experience, thus adopting the #IBelieveHer hashtag. In the long string of tweets, Handler also mentioned a tweet he’d written immediately after the encounter, which resulted in some nasty responses.

Handler’s tweets about his experience at the bar as well as his posts arguing against Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court come in the midst of the #MeToo movement. President Trump’s nominee is facing allegations that he sexually assaulted a classmate, Christine Blasey Ford, by holding her down on a bed and covering her mouth against her will, during a high school party in the 1980s. Ford, who’s now a professor at Palo Alto University, and her lawyer are negotiating with lawmakers about whether and under what circumstances she’ll appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

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