Ray9
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Try not to let your faith in show business, the political establishment, the media and our modern culture waver as the “Weinstein Effect” winds its way through society like dysentery in a third world country. Abused victims are parading out of the historical woodwork like locusts marching through a field of wheat and not even a seed is spared. Beginning in October a new paradigm of “national reckoning” regarding sexual abuse has become all the rage since Harvey Weinstein, a film producer, has been accused of abusing just about every female in Hollywood.
National reckoning seems like a serious issue and some wonder where it was when Juanita Broaddrick accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 when he was Arkansas Attorney General. You see national reckoning today is recognition that some abused women are too afraid to confront their powerful abusers. Evidently the concept of a national reckoning of sexual abuse in 1978 would have been ahead of its time so any females suffering abuse were expected to just shut up and many did. If they didn’t they were essentially ignored.
No one argues that there was and is a problem but today’s complex world presents a picture that’s clouded with the fog of all kinds of special interests so no one is getting a clear view of anything. Roy Moore, a former Alabama state judge and a contestant for the vacated senate seat of Jeff Sessions is a case in point. Moore is accused of inappropriate sexual contact with several underage girls when he was in his 30’s. One of his accusers, Beverly Nelson, has a high school yearbook signed by Moore naming the restaurant where he allegedly tried to rape her. Moore has repeatedly stated that he has never been to that restaurant.
A question not asked is why would a woman so traumatized by an abusive event keep Moore’s signature for forty years in a cherished possession like a high school yearbook? Seems like an awfully convenient piece of damning evidence for some reporter to find after all these years. But Moore could be guilty as hell. Who knows?
This is all like a weird Shakespearean play where none of the actors are believable or sympathetic. Everyone has an axe to grind and the play is not to entertain or enlighten us but to make fools of us-especially the women.
National reckoning seems like a serious issue and some wonder where it was when Juanita Broaddrick accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 when he was Arkansas Attorney General. You see national reckoning today is recognition that some abused women are too afraid to confront their powerful abusers. Evidently the concept of a national reckoning of sexual abuse in 1978 would have been ahead of its time so any females suffering abuse were expected to just shut up and many did. If they didn’t they were essentially ignored.
No one argues that there was and is a problem but today’s complex world presents a picture that’s clouded with the fog of all kinds of special interests so no one is getting a clear view of anything. Roy Moore, a former Alabama state judge and a contestant for the vacated senate seat of Jeff Sessions is a case in point. Moore is accused of inappropriate sexual contact with several underage girls when he was in his 30’s. One of his accusers, Beverly Nelson, has a high school yearbook signed by Moore naming the restaurant where he allegedly tried to rape her. Moore has repeatedly stated that he has never been to that restaurant.
A question not asked is why would a woman so traumatized by an abusive event keep Moore’s signature for forty years in a cherished possession like a high school yearbook? Seems like an awfully convenient piece of damning evidence for some reporter to find after all these years. But Moore could be guilty as hell. Who knows?
This is all like a weird Shakespearean play where none of the actors are believable or sympathetic. Everyone has an axe to grind and the play is not to entertain or enlighten us but to make fools of us-especially the women.