Russell Brand

[Wassapp]

AIBU to think... 'here we go again?'

Anyone watching? I've always said 'innocent until proven guilty' but also 'there is no smoke without fire'.

Having been sexually assaulted myself, one of the stories seem so similar to mine.

What's your thoughts?

This is the most confusing post, I know. I just don't know how I feel.

But then if we left it to the courts and he's found 'innocent' nobody would ever know, would they?

I believe the women who spoke about thier personal experiences in the documentary and I hope that speaking out has helped them.

I understand why they couldn't go to the police at the time, but then the documentary offered an opportunity to speak out against RB and they took it.
In an ideal world he would be in court instead but that's not how things go.

So, is he going to be arrested and charged with anything or not?

Anyone thinking he was anything but a sex crazed, narcissistic, arrogant, spoilt, drug addled arsehole, must have been more simple than Simple Simons much simpler sister.

Depends if anyone goes to the police

Absolutely

"I hope to God it doesn't happen anymore. I would break someone's nose if they did this to me now, yet back then you just had to get on with it." @Wassapp

It happens ALL THE TIME! Both my daughters have been sexually assaulted. One, in her school uniform aged 12 and then 14, twice, by completely different men on different days, also on a crowded bus by some shit head sitting next to her playing porn on his phone and feeling himself up staring at her, and multiple times in clubs and pubs. She's also had some wanker spike her drink and beat her up, broken nose and surgery needed to repair orbital bone.
The other has been on the receiving end of vile, sexual taunts from men in passing cars since she reached puberty. She's had pervs stumble into her changing room in Primark, she's been followed along the street by some fucking smack-head telling her to suck his cock, he wants to feel her tits etc. Multiple other pervy looks, comments, being rubbed up against etc.

In none of these situations did my two feel they were able to punch back, they were fucking terrified.

I'm not sure it hasn't got worse tbh.

must have been more simple than Simple Simons much simpler sister.

So are we to take this as your description of the women featured in the documentary?

Has anyone got a link to what Katherine ryan said please.

I tend to place the responsibility for rape on the rapists myself.

Sure but a mother role is to protect her daughter. How stupid to think this could be ok.

There are some really serious accusations. Especially from the girl who was 16 years old when her Mum knew all about the relationship and dropped her off at his house etc... what kind of piece of shit mum does that?!

I thought the clip of his interview with Emily Maitlis was very telling, he was rattled and his mask slipped.

Haven't seen documentary, but one of the women in the papers (with the book 'Knickers' or something) really has no case: she interviewed him, he liked her, messaged her multiple times, they went out for dinner, then slept together few times and then he stopped calling her. Really can't see him acting 'creepy' in this scenario. Happened millions of times to countless other people, including myself.

How have they been allowed to run the program of he hasn't been charged? He was actually at my my local women's charity and visited the refuge. Pretty sick if it is true and having just watched his comedy show I am surprised they even invited him!

Men like him took advantage of the laddette era and thought they could get away with it.

I saw him interviewing Caprice the bra designer, and he even took his trousers off and went to sit in her lap.

She was giggling and pretending to be a good sport but looked horrified too.
In any other era she would have run screaming from the studio.

It’s terrible that our misogynistic culture pretends that women have made great strides when things were in reality going backwards.

Women in Victorian times didn’t have the vote but no man in a respectable public place would have dared to carry on like this.

The nineties and noughties were a nightmare for women.

He spoke about this on one of his stand ups. He was turning up off his head and in that same sketch was talking about being sexual abusive to a woman but obviously didnt say that. I remember being disgusted. Ill try and find the clip.

I'm so sorry. That's awful.

If they can tell their story on national TV, then surely they can tell it to the police.
What's the point of it otherwise.

What kind of piece of shit man rapes someone, more relevantly

He is totally creepy and horrible. However, the media allowed him to make a virtue of this. I have never liked him.,

I can’t imagine having him loads of sex, he just doesn’t have the uhmmm I want to take my clothes off for him for me, I just can’t see women getting crazy about him, he looked nothing special without the beard and when was younger.
Then I must say he did look good in Forgetting Sarah Marshal.

But Dispatches will have left out way more than was actually in it, for legal purposes. The details in the programme will be just the tip of the iceberg. And there is absolutely no way C4's lawyers will have advised to show the programme unless they were absolutely certain there's mountains of evidence. I honestly dread to think how much stuff was omitted.

Women in Victorian times didn’t have the vote but no man in a respectable public place would have dared to carry on like this.

But none of us know that .

Wtf.

That’s actually not true, lots of it was after he was abstinent