It was one of those cases that brought home just how much women are held in contempt and, when it comes to politically motivated decisions and competing rights, how women are always the bottom of the pile. He was a rich, famous, well-connected man but somehow he was the underdog, whereas Nicole Brown Simpson was, at best, an inconvenience whose death mustn't be allowed to spark a racial tinderbox or, at worst, a spoilt gold digger who probably had it coming. There were some people who were positively gleeful, not because he got off but because he had gotten away with it.
This is really pertinent right now. There is a growing movement that calls women who want violent and predatory men locked up 'carceral feminists' and casts them as the villains. Some academics have accused women who report rapes of 'crying white women's tears,' and following recent incidents of men punching random women in New York many of the victims have refused to report the crimes to the police because they have been shamed into thinking that being white or straight or middle-class cancels out the most fundamental advantage that men have over women. It feels like women in western liberal democracies are now living in a perpetual OJ Simpson trial where they are only allowed to be a victim if the politics is right.