In the recent months, there have been many stories about sexual harassment particularly in the pop culture industry. People like Kevin Spacey and Charlie Rose have lost their jobs and have instantly been painted with the scarlet letter by people. Now in both of those cases, the men in question confessed to wrongdoing so those accusations were founded correctly
What I'm worried about is accusations that are false or flimsy and being only reported in order to achieve a goal, whether it be money or the classic Warhol 15 minutes of fame.
These days accusations can spread like wildfire and once they are out in the ethos, unless fought in court and proven innocent, it can be very hard to to take away the label.
One major example of this happened tonight, December 4th. As I write this, 2 hours ago, a girl posted a story on Twitter about how she was raped by her best friend, another girl. The girl accused is one Melanie Martinez, a very popular singer. As of this moment, she is trending #3 in the United States and looking at some of the tweets, the people are angry and taking her music off their IPod, like that would mean much to her personally, although maybe it does.
Now I am not suggesting in any way that the girl made this story up. It could very well be true. My point is that we are so quick to judge and roast that we don't use caution. We form the angry mob too quickly at times, and in this case two hours is very quick.
Of course the other thing I want to say on the matter is that women rape too. Women sexually assault too. 9 times out of 10, men are reported to do it. But women can do it too. And it kind of bothers me as a man myself, to be shoe horned in with them. Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive. I dont know.
What do you think?
