A
myriad of women accusing well-known personalities of pedophilia, or predation;
charging that they, the victims, were either preyed upon as a child, or during
the course of their employment or interaction with said individuals beset by
unwanted and unwarranted sexual advances.
It
seems that after the debacle of the two Bill C.’s, (Clinton and Cosby) we might
get a breather. However, our esteemed president and the Access Hollywood tape
nixed any thought of a reprieve from such vexation of mind and spirit. The
latest round began with Harvey Weinstein, the American film producer, who has
been accused of a multiplicity of offenses against a multiplicity of women.
Shortly
thereafter, the former district attorney and judge, Roy Moore, was beset by
forty year old accusations of pedophilia among the children of north Alabama. And
what mind-numbing drug would ever allow us to forget Senator Al Franken, and
that infamous photo with his hands positioned on a strategic spot on a person
of the opposite gender? And, of course, the list would never be complete
without adding the eloquent and incalculable Charlie Rose.
Every
day I touch the remote button, and the boob tube lights up the darkness,
another woman, multiple women, are accusing the next film producer, the next
television host, the next movie star, the next congressman of unsolicited
carnal knowledge of the most egregious kind.
Male
and female commentators on every so-called “news network” spinning the spin,
and waxing eloquent about who did it, who they did it to, where they did it,
and who was, ultimately, responsible for ‘it.’
Some
have assigned almost equal responsibility to adult victims who were naïve enough
to participate in vocational requirements in the abusers’ homes. Others claimed
that victims and victim wannabes were “piling on” for financial gain.
I
don’t know who really did what to whom. I don’t know how many of these accusers
were legitimately wronged, or which ones have merely jumped up on the band
wagon for personal gain. I don’t know why so many victims have waited so long
to tell all. I don’t know why a torrent of claims by a torrent of people about
a torrent of abusers have suddenly been unleashed like a proverbial Noah’s
flood.
(to be continued)
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