The unforgiven (Nobody expects the women’s inquisition)

December 15, 2017

They’re coming after Dustin Hoffman now in what appears to be a sick frenzy of persona revenge for possibly sexual slights in the past.

Matt Damon, meanwhile, appears to want to make a distinction between some victims of this inquisition and others, a good point, if misguided, since the purpose of the charade is to make lawyers famous and rich, while shaming people.

The fact is the neo-feminists behind this series of attacks want to change the rules of engagement, in a kind of historic revisionism that often plagues misguided reformers, creating a new error of political correctness no man can possibly live up to short of self-castration, with accusations of real or imagined sexual slights spread by a blood-thirsty media which measures true by internet clicks and could care less about the validity of the charge a long as they get the headlines first.

Bill Cosby has become the model for the new Me, Too, shame by accusation women’s movement in what started out as an attempt to bring down President Donald Trump, and stop the expected move to load the Supreme Court with anti-abortion judges.

While Damon desperately tries to rescue some of the prominent liberal people accused, in truth, the movement has already backfired, creating a kind of new inquisition that tries people in the media for crimes they might or might not have committed – many of whom are prominent Democrats.

Al Franken was driven from office by a savage Democratic attack because he stood in the way of the Democrats to use Me, Too, to target the GOP, but the attacks have gone far beyond politics and appears to be taking the shape of unjustified retribution, creating a terror in which guilty are shamed along with possible innocent, even when some of the events occurred back at a time when social rules were different and we were young and foolish, not completely understanding where the line was between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behavior – especially because many of us were raised with by fathers who operated under the mandate that a man went as far as he could until the woman stopped him.

Now those who were players then, question if they will be the next target of this new inquisition, for doing something that was considered acceptable then, but not under the new social order that has since taken over the American consciousness. In some ways, the current social order strongly resembles the second half of Charles Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities,” in which you complied with the new rules or lost your hand for having lived under the old rules before the new rules applied.

We struggle to make sense of something that does not make sense, find reason in the unreasonable, and remake former heroes into villains in an unrelenting and unreasonable surge of attacks, creating a whole new class of unforgiven in a movement destined to unravel the social fabric without any clear idea of what will replace it, and with no mercy for people who might be different today from who they were back when such behavior was more acceptable or at worst, tolerated.