plenty of posters screaming misogyny and claiming women alway take the blame but none can give examples of women being sacked for a males predatory behaviour.
I can. I’m not giving names because they won’t mean anything to anyone, and these women deserve their privacy.
I know an older woman who worked for a celebrity in the late 60s, along with a group of other women. When it came to light that said celebrity was a paedophile, along with other celebrities and politicians, with “parties” organised by Jimmy Savile, she went to the police - not only was she (and colleagues) laughed out of the place, she was then discredited and found it very difficult to find work again, as did her colleagues. They kept trying to pass on the info, but were ridiculed and even threatened at every turn.
After a few years they largely gave up. All were instrumental in helping piece together information about JS after he died, and in another investigation which came to a halt.
Their lives were very much affected by disclosing information, with evidence, of this celebrity and his friends. None worked in the careers they were trained in. None progressed far in any career, as they ended up keeping a very low profile out of necessity.
Whilst it’s not admirable for HW to have kept quiet if she did know something, there’s a precedence for protecting these predatory men and those who whistleblow to come out worse than the predators themselves.
I think some are naive in underestimating the power that certain men hold, and the level of protection that goes into keeping high up predators safe.
For that reason I think that PS had got to a point where he’d lost popularity, he’s made morally questionable decisions, and is being fed to the wolves. The ridiculous Queuegate is an example of this - he and HW did nothing wrong, but the media went after them like a pack of rabid dogs - why? Why now?
At this point it’s unclear whether MM has been groomed or not, or from what age - we can speculate but we don’t know.
Of course it might well turn out to be far worse than we know, but this isn’t a case of tv bosses dropping the ball, this is part of a bigger, institutional culture that will carry on as long as it can, whilst occasionally someone’s actions will out them, like PS’s, or it will be released on death, like JS (and a couple of celebrities who must be close to death by now!).
Let’s not forget the power JS held, the high places he wangled his vile creepy self into. Let’s not underestimate the depravity of powerful men.
Like some others, on the information we do have, I don’t quite understand the fury at PS (obviously it could well come out that he has done terrible things, but at this stage we don’t know), yet it’s fairly normal for very young women to publicly go out with much older men. Older famous men have got away with going out with young teenagers, and not faced any consequences at all. Current famous men have been found to be predatory and morally dubious characters, but get away with it. Unless there’s far worse to come out it does make me wonder if there’s a homophobic element to this - not excusing PS of anything, slimy fucker, but why have so many others got away with it?