Brand will rightly be dropped like a stone, but the uncomfortable truth is a whole industry - indeed a whole culture - laughed this all off as edgy and transgressive, all the funnier for provoking the (often religious) prudes and bores. And still they lecture us.
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Also the limits of 'consent' as a control mechanism. A predatory, manipulative man can destroy lives and insist all was consensual. And others can turn a blind eye because hey, it is consensual. A tragedy, yes, but consensual. Like that poor girl's mother, or that taxi driver.
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Not good enough - consent is far too low and too legalistic a bar for regulating male sociosexuality, and the proving of it too fraught to ensure victims are ever served justice in the courtroom. This doesn't benefit women, nor (ultimately) men.
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But then we have decided only the illegal is the forbidden and all else is just unfortunate. And creeps like this can continue with their BBC and Channel 4 and Hollywood chums.
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And all the tradchads giving it the 'INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY' as if that's all this boils down to. Ffs.
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@michael_merrick
Trouble is he’s not been on any mainstream stuff for ages. He does stuff online & people will continue to be taken in
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