All of us, including me, are coming to a newer and deeper recognition of the pain caused by conduct in the past, and have come to a profound new respect for women and their lives.
Uhhh … fuck you, Charlie Rose.
Don’t speak for me. And don’t separate “women’s lives” from “human lives.”
You either respect other human beings, or you do not. XX or XY. And regardless of the veracity of the claims made against you, your own statement lays bare your deep-seated misogyny.
Fuck you, Charlie Rose.
I’m a woman, and I don’t think I recognized the extent of this problem (although I suppose in the world of entertainment, including news, it maybe should not come as a shock…it’s a whole subculture that has always played by a different set of rules, right or wrong). If someone’s bad behavior coming to light causes them to rethink who they are and what they do, and make meaningful changes, I’m all for it.
That being said: it sounds like there was a lot of protecting ALL these guys now being accused (Rose’s exec producer – a woman – knew of the allegations, and did/said nothing). They were the money makers for their shows. They were responsible for people’s livelihoods. They were – quite possibly and probably in error – thought of as irreplaceable. And that had a lot to do with people protecting their bad behavior, but doesn’t excuse it any more than there is an excuse for the perpetrator. Lots of people hold some responsibility in letting these things go on and continue to happen. It’s the same as the Catholic church protecting their priests instead of their kids. Sure, fuck the guys doing the crimes – but fuck the people protecting them, too.