What I've seen has been about a larger pattern of nerd culture, not just this particular case. IDK where I'm at in regards to the #MeToo movement. On the one hand, no one should be victimized, and part of taking your personal power back is raising your voice and shedding the shame and stigma of being abused. On the other hand the court of public opinion isn't about real justice.
Then on the other, other hand I'm not sure where the line between personal and professional is. Sometimes it's easy, like a convicted pedophile shouldn't be allowed to care for children. Sometimes it's not so clear. Like, Joss Whedon. Does his personal interactions with women take away from the strong female characters in his work? Does the personal life of an artist supersede their work? But politicians personal lives are fair game, because they're representing a section of the population and are indicative of how they'll do their jobs.
I'm sure sooner or later someone will take advantage of it. It's probably already happened. But the movement itself needs to happen. We need to rethink what is acceptable, and what constitutes abuse of power as part of humanity's continued evolution.
A few things...
- Chloe's career was crap before and after, her claims of her career being ruined is kind of a "he ruined my life that I didn't have" type of deal.
- If you say you have proof and that you will turn it over only when someone argues the allegations, of which she leaves anonymous to begin with, seems fishy to me. First off, you have proof and you claim sexual assault, why not file those charges? It seems clearly that this person wanted to ruin a career, whether true or not, that's messed up.
- Again, you have PROOF, why don't you lead with that with the authorities? Her entire article/confession about what was done, just seems meticulously written out as if she got a lot of help by a PR person to trash someone.
- People claim patterns, none of his exes have spoken out about it.
- Has shades of the Aziz Ansari thing, someone seeing an opportunity to ruin someone that is happy with their life. Chris is married, moved on, she cheated on him and he left her and met his wife, seems like someone trying to get back at someone.
Now if he's saying its false, if I were his lawyer, I would get in touch with her to disclose the proof because she's made it seem like it was him, if it isn't, I'd be trying to know why she would be so aloof with the fact that she was trying to name him but not name him.
Imagine going to a party, you talk to some friends and co-workers and then the next day, someone says "DegenX is claiming you made harassing comments to her in the coat room..." you're like what? I did not "Well you're fired, too bad." No proof, before an investigation, you're fired. What happens when it's found out that none of it happened, how does that person fix their life now?
That part is what is troublesome with the current landscape in all of this. A person's career, life, everything is absolutely ruined before any proof or investigation is held.