piscian said:
This is not to say he didn't do anything but it's impossible he could be this boogieman he's being made out as and yet never been caught.
Jimmy Savile, look it up. The man abused dozens of children over a period of decades, it was known about at the time by people in the media, politics, and the police yet it was repeatedly covered up and none of the allegations made within his lifetime were allowed to get anywhere near the courts. Only after the vile old shit finally died was the story allowed to come out, and frankly I doubt it would have been allowed out even then if not for the fact that parts of the BBC were involved in covering up his behaviour and a lot of the modern media and political establishment love any story that damages the BBC.
People assume celebrity makes it more likely your improprieties will be discovered, but it depends entirely on
who makes the discoveries, if the wrong people find out a celebrity is a paedo or a rapist they'll happily cover it up to protect their own reputation or that of their organisation if said celebrity was involved with them, other people will indulge in victim blaming because of their own archaic attitudes towards rape, others still will react as you have and simply refuse to believe it's true and so cover it up to protect a person they consider as having been wrongfully and maliciously accused. People also forget that a lot of this alleged behaviour happened years ago, in the days before literally almost everybody carries a high resolution camera in their pocket everywhere they go, and the balance of power between tabloid media and "household name" popular celebrities was different.
Schadrach said:
Supahewok said:
OT: What even is this. The man, thus far, is guilty of nothing. This article feels... dirty. Gross. Like taking a picture of a random dude, putting it on posters, and leaving them up everywhere saying THIS MAN COULD RAPE YOU.
There have been a couple of cases of essentially that happening on college campuses. One listed every male-sounding student name as a "potential rapist" at University of Maryland, Oberlin had a "Rapist of the Month" poster by Take Back the Night, at Brown in 1990 and Columbia this year "Rapist Lists" were written on bathroom walls.
While I don't condone this kind of behaviour...I can understand why it happens. [http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119] College rapists are almost never punished even if caught and, in a lot of places, a victim will have to go up against an administration dismissive of rape or keen to cover up the scale of the problem, plus large numbers of their fellow students who will see them as a whiny "regretful slut" or accuse them of disloyalty, on top of the normal issues with police that don't take rape seriously.
Everyone
should be innocent until proven guilty, and I have serious issues with people who just assume a man is a rapist/paedophile simply because they've been accused of it - but you can't pretend these issues exist in a vacuum, the reality is that regardless of what people
say, when the times comes a LOT of people are still dismissive of rape victims, and even in the few cases where the victim is taken seriously, does find officials willing to fight on their behalf, and there is physical evidence of the rape, even after they go through a court case in which THEY will often be put on trial moreso than the rapist, both the defence team and the media accusing them of being a drunken promiscuous slut and any number of other things, even then many rapists will walk away without being convicted.
