Zipperfish Zipperfish:
There's a strange psychology with some omen and abusive men. Women hang round, get beat up, go away, come back again. They hide it all, because of the shame. The supposed inconsistent behaviour of the women plaintiffs in this case was pretty typical of that. Not say Ghomeshi is guilty or innocent, just that I don't expect abused women--or men, or boys, for that matter--to necessarily act in a way that would appear rational to me.
Guy was always about five orders of magnitude too smarmy for me anyways.
These women weren't dependent or attached to Ghomeshi in any way. No kids, no financial dependence, no going back because they feared for their lives, the way women in abusive relationships do. All these women only came forward to file charges once the story hit the media. The judge said there may have been collusion between them. So they may have been quite happy to put up with his crap, while there was a chance he would further their career. Once he was on the out, they may have seen it as a way to get publicity by filing charges. Also I find it interesting all acted in the same way, none seemed to do what we would expect a person who has been assaulted to do.
This case is about consent. I think Ghomeshi is a sick freak, but if the women were into that, gave consent, is that a crime?
Probably the next case will be very different. This was in the workplace, there are witnesses, the victim filed a complaint with the union right away, didn't wait years nor sought him out privately. No violence involved, afaik, just sexual harrassment.
You yourself said you had no problem with "hate fucking." Don't know if someone who treats women like that can be all that down on Ghomeshi.
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