Lot has been going on in the world and most recetly in India relating to #MeToo campaign. Without a question this opened gates for victims to come out, share their story and get justice. But this is also giving chance for people with ill motives to hurt innocent people.
Given the “Media Circus” we live in, once you ruin a innocent person socially, he/she is ruined for life and many look fo suicide as the only option. Abuse of power is not new and its good to see people coming forward bravely to fight against it. Credit, ironically goes to Media and Social Netoworking Platforms for giving the victims to voice their horrors and demand for juitice. Hence, Justice was served quickly by crippling the abuser, even though courts drag the case for years (may be decades in India). But is the Media investigating responsibly or just looking for TRP ratings. In India, its the second without a doubt. This gets me to the line
Let a hundred guilty be acquitted, but one innocent should not be convicted
Given the abuse of power in all steps of life faced by a man/woman, be it when getting caught by traffic cop or getting a driving license or to say getting anything done, requires resorting to some form of corruption to get the job done. Sometimes its monetary and sometimes its not. When you see from this point of view things become very clear. “The person giving any form of bribe is equally guilty as the person receiving it”. Now to point an example, if i pay a bribe to a police man to escape at that time and later raise my voice and shout i am victim, i was asked to pay bribe, is it justified. Sure the policeman is guilty of abusing power and asking for bribe and so was i for giving bribe. Somelines from wiki…
In March 2018, Weinstein’s lawyer and spokesperson Benjamin Brafman said in an interview with The Times of London, “The casting couch in Hollywood was not invented by Harvey Weinstein.” … “If a woman decides that she needs to have sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career and actually does it and finds the whole thing offensive, that’s not rape.” Rhetorically addressing such a woman, Brafman said, “You made a conscious decision that you’re willing to do something that is personally offensive in order to advance your career.”
– source Wikipedia
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t support this Weinstein guy. I give zero fucks about him. The point is what i mentioned before,
“get what you need” -> “get successful/earn money/” -> “2/5/10/15 years later” -> “cry harassment”.
Now before you feminists go crazy, i am referring to situations where the case was mutually benificial, even though the case of Abuse of Power. The victim went along as long as it was profitable (very dirty word to use here) and then after some time reports, not “Abuse of Power”, but “Sexual/Mental Harassement”. Some “award-winning” female writer from India, went as far as inviting chetan bhagat, the guy who harassed her as chief guest to her book book opening (which was after she was reportedly harassed by him) and then later conveniently cried abuse when #MeToo campaign started. I don’t care about this bhagat guy or what the story is, but it may be Abuse of Power (must be punished for the same) but certainly not harassement no matter what the transaction between them was. This can be said as the classic case of mis-using a revolutionary campaign.
It may be hard to swallow to see even the victim as probable “accused”. But unless investigation is being done along these lines by Media, more innocents will be consumed by the #MeToo campaign by the time its done or worst case take the limelight away from actual victims.
Some one should think about the victims of the campaign or it is just Collateral Damage or say For the Greater Good.