Ah, Shirley Manson. Her loud mouth has been quiet of late. Her response to an interview with someone she believes to be supporting actions of sexual assault is to scream via twitter “f*** U Morrissey! f*** U”. Appropriate language in the circumstances? I would argue not.
Morrissey’s comments on this matter could not be clearer. He abhors any form of sexual violence or assault. However, he notes that people do have personal responsibility. If S. Manson, or indeed anyone else, claims that people that meet with e.g. film/record producers in hotels bedrooms have no responsibility to question such locations then I would refer to them as foolish. If these people agree to meet in such questionable places do they not understand that there may be risks? I do not condone any non-consensual sexual act and I believe that’s what Morrissey said in his interview.
Also, there are the male and female opportunists who would gladly have sex with someone in order to further their careers. To suggest that people like this do not exist is naïve in the extreme. It is appropriate that this career-pathway still exist in this day and age? No, no it’s not but it can and will be exploited by those in power and those seeking power.
Morrissey’s alleged support for Mssrs. Spacey and Weinstein was not apparent to me. I read that these men should receive judicial scrutiny not scrutiny by the media. My understanding of the article was that both men were being scapegoated. Which, of course, they are. Anyone who cannot see that is, to my mind, blind. They served merely as a distraction to all of the other dreadful news that was occurring during that period and will be trotted out when a distraction is next required. Yes! These are the only 2 alleged sexual predators in the world? Whether guilty or not both men have been tried by media. Both men worked within an industry were sexual encounters such as those described were the norm. It doesn’t make the actions of the men lawful or morally right but it did make them acceptable, not only by their peers, but by society at large.
No-one, no matter who they are, should be named in the media or anywhere else until such times as they are proven guilty. To do otherwise exemplifies just how broken the judicial system is.
Had this been a sincere investigation of alleged sexual assaults and inappropriate sexual conduct then both Mr Trump and Mr Johnson would both have been hauled before the beak for their considerable inappropriate actions and comments against women.
Societies hypocrisy in regard to sex continues. It is used as weapon when needed and for pleasure when the powerful and the power- hungry think no-one is looking.
