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Originally Posted by Adder
Can you understand that she feels she was victimized and as such wants to warn others?
Not necessarily directly related, a rape survivor and advocate's reaction. |
No. I cannot. Because it is not acceptable to seek to destroy a person's career for what he did. Because a person "feels" something does not mean it is objectively actionable. This is why professional journalists, rather than petulant children like Katie Way and the rest of Babe, traditionally controlled the Fourth Estate.
Look, I like the Internet's capacity to speak truth to power as much as the next guy. I love how it's destroyed all the facades we used to believe. When you aim that weapon at a Weinstein, a Trump, or even at the complicit members of the media itself, that's a good thing. When a child (and Katie Way is very much a bratty child) takes a story about how someone "felt" (quite unreasonably) what was clearly not an assault was somehow an assault, and then seeks to destroy someone, nobody is speaking truth to power.
Babe is TMZ. This is a TMZ story. And that's legal, and it's okay. But nobody's giving Harvey Levin any awards. And nobody should. He's a pariah. You can try to justify Way's actions by suggesting Grace really believed this was an event demanding action with a high likelihood of ending Ansari's career. But no one - and I mean no one - buys that bullshit. Ansari did not deserve this, and Grace is delusional if she truly thinks Ansari deserved to be #metooed for this. And no - her "feelings" don't change anything, because objectively, the facts don't justify them.
There are objective standards to this stuff. Ashley Banfield laid them out pretty coherently. Way fucked this up, but good. I'll bet half of Manhattan knows exactly who Grace is, and she'll suffer career damage from this. You know who won't? Way. She's cashing in on this. And everyone who apologizes for her, everyone offering a tortured justification for what was objectively indefensible, is filling her bank account.
You want to get in bed with a 23 year old Harvey Levin in the making? Have at it. I'm done.
