If the column inches devoted to the Hollywood sex scandal in the global news media were proportionately applied to the migrant perpetrators of the rape epidemic in Europe (one every seven minutes), The Nation would be the thickness of a telephone directory. On the one hand, the “victims” are a small number of prominent actors and actresses whose careers obviously haven’t been harmed, and may have been boosted, by the attentions of Weinstein, however unwelcome. On the other hand, we have thousands of pitiful young European girls who have been viciously abused, where any notion of “consensuality” was entirely lacking, and whose lives have been destroyed forever. The village of Edenbridge, England, has erected a 36-foot effigy of Harvey Weinstein to be burnt on Guy Fawkes Day, with no apparent opposition from the police. Under the headline “Much ado about nothing” in Sunday’s Letters page, Ye Olde Curmudgeon makes a sensible point about the uproar over George HW Bush’s patting of a girl’s bottom.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 05, 2017 18:11 UTC