OUT TO LUNCH
We live in strange and dangerous times. If a woman claims that a man has behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner to her in the last 40 years there is really no need to go through all the tedious and expensive process of a trial. That’s why we have social media.
The baying mob will assume the man’s guilt, irrespective of denials or evidence to the contrary, and the man will be publicly shamed and hounded by the media. His immediate family will be put in the spotlight because they must, as close relatives, have been complicit in his crime and his employer, if he has one, will be forced to fire him.
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If it later turns out that he was innocent of the charges and was simply the victim of a smear campaign then nobody will ever know because that sort of story doesn’t make the newspapers or attract clickbait. Unlike real justice, rough justice must be done and be seen to be done.
Last week Woody Allen’s unfortunately named New York publisher Hachette literally took the hatchet to his book of memoirs ‘Apropos of Nothing’ after his daughter and son with former partner of twelve years Mia Farrow made allegations of historic sexual abuse.