Many men today say they’d rather be accused of murder than sexual assault. Murder, after all, normally not only results in a trial at law, but requires at least the proof of a dead body. Sexual assault allegations these days are almost invariably prosecuted in the dumb, vicious kangaroo court of social media, but without even a shred of actual evidence. A person acquitted of murder usually returns to some semblance of normal life. Unhinged Twitter harpies make sure that the stain of a sexual assault allegation ruins lives and never goes away, regardless of the truth.
The striking thing about the modern witch-trials collected under the nasty umbrella of the so-called “MeToo movement” is that almost none of them are ever actually tried in court. Of the few that do, most are thoroughly discredited at law. Yet feminist fishwives have been allowed to keep shrieking their unhinged allegations without repercussions.
Some men, at least, are fighting back.
After the latest round of 25-year-old rape allegations, Amazon promptly cancelled Woody Allen’s multi-picture deal and refused to release an already finished Rainy Day In New York. The four-time Oscar winner, who has long maintained innocence and was never charged, responded by suing the media giant for $68 million: Rainy Day in New York will now play in Deauville American Film Festival in France and is set to open in 15 other countries.
It must be remembered that none of the allegations against Allen have ever gone anywhere near being proven. It is always conveniently ignored that his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn began when she was a 22-year-old adult. Nor was she ever Allen’s “adopted daughter”, nor was he, according to Previn herself, ever “any kind of father figure”. Allen and Previn have remained married for more than 20 years. Whether you approve of a man marrying a woman a little less than half his age, the fact remains that Allen committed no crime whatsoever.
Yet his career was destroyed. Likewise, Kevin Spacey’s career was destroyed by so-far unproven allegations.
This comes just weeks after a young man, who accused another Oscar-winner, Kevin Spacey, of groping him at a restaurant, voluntarily dropped the lawsuit against the actor without prejudice. The former star of Netflix series House of Cards previously denied the allegations.
Spacey’s alleged victim claimed to have taken cellphone videos of his claimed assault – a fact investigating police tried to conceal.. Yet not only have the alleged victim’s parents admitted deleting other material from the phone, but he has invoked his 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
Whether or not we choose to believe this and other allegations against Spacey, he has consistently and vocally maintained his innocence – and the law requires that he be believed until it is proved otherwise.
Spacey’s legal gains follow a settlement with another Oscar winner, Geoffrey Rush. The Australian actor was awarded more than $2 million dollars – the largest ever for Australia – in his defamation suit against The Daily Telegraph which ran a front-page story accusing Rush of inappropriate behaviour. But unlike #MeToo confessions slamming celebs for alleged misconduct, the story of Rush’s victory did not go viral.
Nor has the acquittal on rape charges of fellow Australian actor John Jarrett. A lie may get halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on, but a sexual assault allegation slithers on in social media, even long after the truth has won. Vindictive feminist shrews will never, ever admit being wrong.
“It messes with the golden goose,” said actor Jeremy Piven…[who] became the symbol of Hollywood’s patriarchy when an adult film actress and later an Entourage extra accused the actor of groping them. Piven strenuously denied all allegations and even took – and passed – a polygraph test. But the damage to his career, which took Piven decades to build, was done […]
Targeted based on star power, this was also the case for comedians Louis CK, Aziz Ansari and others whose guilt was determined by web impressions, not evidence. Although none were criminally charged, all confronted mobs, on and offline, when attempting to get back on stage.
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Considering that the preening morons of Hollywood haven’t stopped bleating about Joe McCarthy even after 70 years, their rush to join the modern witch-hunt of “MeToo” is especially hypocritical. The very idiots who continually screech about imaginary fascism are responsible for the what is quite possibly the worst trashing of the rule of law in living memory.
