OT: Sex scandal sweeping the world
Nov 10, 2017 15:33:20 GMT
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Post by klawrencio79 on Nov 10, 2017 15:33:20 GMT
And to take it a step further from what Manly Stanley said, dollars to donuts many of the people did actually come forward but nothing came of it. Are there instances where the alleged victim didn't come forward at all for one reason or another? Undoubtedly. But let's not kid ourselves into thinking that there weren't a significant number of people who did come forward (to the powers that be of the particular studio/company, the police, etc.) and it was swept under the rug.
I'll give you a real life example. From my previous law firm, one of the top partners, a guy who had about $10m annually in billings, was accused by a junior associate of improper conduct. It was no allegation, it actually happened. Some of us saw it happen. So what did the firm end up doing? Did the partner get fired by management? No way. They gave the junior associate some cash and then fired her. Multiply that by various orders of magnitude and it's a mere microcosm of what goes on in these huge media empires and studios. They aren't going to risk having their cash cows suffer either criminal chargers or trial by media so they simply make the problems go away by either giving hush money or just doing absolutely nothing about it knowing that golden rule will always win out. Short of there being physical evidence of a crime that is impossible to ignore, these are situations that are all too often nipped in the bud one way or another.
That isn't to say that some of these allegations are perhaps unfounded, but it's simply wrong of us to assume that so many of them are cries for attention, or that it represents more convenient timing and nothing more.
I'll give you a real life example. From my previous law firm, one of the top partners, a guy who had about $10m annually in billings, was accused by a junior associate of improper conduct. It was no allegation, it actually happened. Some of us saw it happen. So what did the firm end up doing? Did the partner get fired by management? No way. They gave the junior associate some cash and then fired her. Multiply that by various orders of magnitude and it's a mere microcosm of what goes on in these huge media empires and studios. They aren't going to risk having their cash cows suffer either criminal chargers or trial by media so they simply make the problems go away by either giving hush money or just doing absolutely nothing about it knowing that golden rule will always win out. Short of there being physical evidence of a crime that is impossible to ignore, these are situations that are all too often nipped in the bud one way or another.
That isn't to say that some of these allegations are perhaps unfounded, but it's simply wrong of us to assume that so many of them are cries for attention, or that it represents more convenient timing and nothing more.